• AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    I was super precious about all my cast iron for a long time. Then I had a thought watching this “cowboy” YouTuber wash his cast iron with some specialty thing.

    “This fucking guy is like pretending to be out on the pasture or whatever. In the actual 1800s, this shit was probably just wiped out, or they used lye soap or something ridiculous! Why the fuck am I being so fucking careful?!?”

    Now I do not care, like I’ve had my shit get rusty, crusty, “overheated”, the reality is that it’s a big ass chunk of metal! Short of deformation or intentional or extreme neglect (leaving it in the rain uncovered for 40 years) you will not destroy it.

    If it gets too “sticky”, you oil it up and heat it, and bingo, it’s fine again.

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      3 months ago

      Ok. But should you never put citrus in your garbage disposal because it summons the pipe demon, or are you supposed to put citrus in your garbage disposal because it repels the pipe demon?

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        3 months ago

        You guys need to lay off the pipe demon. He’s just doing his job like the rest of us.

        But he does prefer oranges over lemons.