Caring for a cast-iron frying pan

For sure, each of us at least once in my life saw grandmothers in the kitchen cast-iron frying pans. We looked at them, but never thought about how our grandmothers take care of those cumbersome and heavy pans, and in fact such dishes have served them regularly for more than a dozen years. In order to arrange the proper care of a cast-iron frying pan, you need to know some points about which we will try to tell in this article.

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Processing of a new frying pan

Once you have bought a new dish from this metal, the care of a cast-iron frying pan immediately begins. Fortunately, it is not burdensome.

Wash, dry your new frying pan

Use warm soapy water, and a brush, in order to completely clean the frying pan. This will help you remove any chemicals or some other residue in the pan so that they can not get into the food that you are cooking.

Make sure that the frying pan is thoroughly dried.

Preheat oven to 170-200 C

Completely new cast iron frying pan fry with oil and glow the oil until it evaporates completely on a cast iron surface. This will help create a non-stick coating that can protect your frying pan from corrosion, and form an ideal surface for cooking a variety of foods - from pancakes and scrambled eggs to various delicacies.

Important! After you have washed and burned the frying pan for the first time, do not use the brush again, because it will remove the very precious non-stick layer you want to keep.

Cover the frying pan with a layer of fat

You can use fat, olive or vegetable oil:

1. Take a paper towel in order to distribute the fat in your frying pan over its entire surface.
2. Try not to miss the slightest stain when you grease the pan with grease. In case you miss a place, it will not be able to get a protective coating, so it will be corroded.
3. Put the frying pan in the oven.
4. Bake the frying pan for 2 hours to ensure that the protection layer is fully formed.
5. After 2 hours, remove it from the oven, and then install it on a sufficiently warm, safe surface so that it cools down.

Important! Fat will be roasted in a frying pan, thereby, connecting with iron to become a layer of protection. Do not worry, you will not feel any smell or taste when the process is completed.

Repeat the process

If desired, you can repeat the above procedure to make sure that the protective coating does not come off the surface of the frying pan walls when you prepare your dishes in a frying pan. When you finish this initial treatment, the oil that you will use during cooking will contain the frying pan in fine form.

Important! Whenever you prepare food, the non-stick properties of the surface pan will begin to improve.

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What to do when there is a deposit?

During the use of kitchen utensils, the formation of contaminants is inevitable. Caring for a cast iron frying pan implies their removal. But the ways can be different, including without your direct involvement.

Household appliances

All kinds of modern devices help housewives to properly care and clean the utensils from the deposit.

Most models of ovens, as well as dishwashers, have this special self-cleaning function. They are able to eliminate even severe pollution. To do this, you just put the frying pan in the oven and turn on the self-cleaning function.

Chemicals

To eliminate strong carbon deposits:

1. Special agent is applied to the dishes, after that it is tightly wrapped with polyethylene.
2. After 8-10 hours the film is removed.
3. Dishes after this manipulation must be thoroughly washed with running water.

Nagar from the frying pan will disappear instantly and without a trace.

Important! To eliminate a thick layer of coke from the dishes, you can use any cleaning products, even to eliminate the obstruction of sewerage and cleaning the ovens.

Wear protective gloves, then for a short while, place a contaminated pan in a similar facility. After this, thoroughly wash off the remaining coating from the surface of the dishes.

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What do I do if there is an allergy to household chemicals?

Although we already have become accustomed to an integral part of our life - diverse chemistry, the organism of some people does not perceive it and exerts its "discontent" with an allergy. If you have such features or just want to establish a healthier life, take note of the following ways how to care for a cast-iron frying pan.

Method 1

In those days when food was cooked on open fire in ovens, care was simple. In order to prevent the formation of carbon deposits, the housewives simply left the cast-iron utensils in a hot oven. And already in the morning the dishes were poured with strong boiling water. After that, they had to clean it a little from the already fallen off deposit.

Method 2

Here is another grandmother's way to look after a cast iron frying pan if there is a large layer of carbon:

1. Take a large basin and draw in it water, one or two tubes of PVA glue, laundry soap and soda.
2. Place the pellets together with water and grinded laundry soap on a stove.
3. Add a bundle of soda ash.
4. Place the frying pan in the boiling water, and cook it for 2 hours.

Important! You just do not like the smell, so open the window or just turn the hood on to maximum power.

1. Pour the water out of the container, and then cool the frying pan.
2. With a soft carbon deposit, remove with a metal brush and thoroughly clean the frying pan.

Important! At the end of this procedure, you must again burn the frying pan, as described at the beginning of the article. Otherwise, food will burn.

Method 3

You can get rid of the dense carbon on a cast-iron frying pan even in nature - just throw it into an already extinct fire. After this procedure, the deposit itself falls off.

However, in this case, be prepared for the spread of a strong child - so move away from the hearth.

Important! Do not miss the moment when you will have to get a frying pan without letting it deform to it. So much heat utensils can not withstand.

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Proper care for cast-iron dishes

To look after dishes that are made of cast iron, it is necessary to regularly. After each application of the frying pan you need to do it. This will take only a few minutes:

1. Remove all the garbage inside, if it is - you can then pour the container inside the water and boil it.
2. Next - we carry the utensils in the sink and remove the remnants of dirt, grease, sponge and detergent.
3. Be sure to at the end of a good wipe the vessel, because it is not permissible to keep it damp.

Now you know how to make a cast-iron frying pan a real possession of your family, and having organized the proper care of the dishes, you can transfer it to the next generation, telling how to properly care for such utensils.