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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

My main issue is with calling cast iron "non stick" when things most definitely stick.

The trick of pre-heating it to unreasonable temperatures before adding the ingredients isn't a property of cast iron, it works on all materials, but it can quickly go wrong and make everything stick. Which is a shame, because teflon is poison and we do really need alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Teflon itself isn't poison. The entire point of teflon is that it's so chemically unreactive that nothing can even bind to it on a molecular level.

The problem with Teflon is that manufacturing it uses a lot of actually toxic chemicals incidental to making the Teflon bind to the metal of a pan and because it's so non-reactive and very brittle, general use and any disposal of it will result in Teflon molecules just floating around in the environment unable to be broken down by anything.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It is non-stick if the seasoning is right, but often it's not smooth enough off the shelf.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)

Eh, not really. You can "season" it and if you add eggs with no oil they'll stick. Of course we forget now, but this is exactly why teflon became so popular so fast, even though cast iron has existed for ages.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Eggs with no oil will stick in a "non-stick" pan, too.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Not the ones I own. I should know, back when I was counting calories not using oil when simply frying an egg was an easy trick to monitor and predict the fat intake.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

When you're cutting out vegetable oils to lose weight, you're doing it wrong.
Your body needs them.

What it doesn't need is animal fat, and what you can safely reduce to lose weight are simple carbohydrates.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

You don't need vegetable oils, you need lipids in general. I'll agree with you that making that source of lipids be vegetable oil is overall healthier than animal fat, though.

But I never said I never ingested oils - I said I was precisely monitoring calories, which in turn could mean deciding not to use oil when eating eggs. I could choose to ingest fats in more tasty or practical ways. Weight gain or loss is a matter of building a caloric deficit or surplus. If you're going to do that by reducing carbohydrates that's your choice, go for for it, but do keep in mind some people need to carefully monitor fat intake even if you do not consider weight objectives at all.

I'm just explaining that a pan that forces you to use oil to not stick can't be honestly called "non-stick" because actual non-stick materials won't require the oil. Otherwise, every pan is non-stick so long as you use enough oil. Don't get me wrong: Teflon is poison, it's bad, we should look for alternatives. But using a lot of oil everywhere to prevent sticking on cast iron means cast iron is not a viable solution to the same degree that teflon was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A bit of olive oil in a mister doesn't add enough calories to matter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That's just an abuse of olive oil. Olive oil is a finishing oil when you want the flavor. Use a neutral oil like avocado.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I like evoo. 🤷‍♀️ I like avocado too, and I live in a food and transportation desert, so there's also that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

They key with cast iron is using enough fat, which is generally more than you'd use with other cookware. High heat just burns the fat and/or the food, ruining your meal and making cleanup more difficult.

What cast iron is really good at in terms of heat is retaining it. There's enough mass that you have to preheat the pan for longer, but once it's hot, it stays at a pretty stable temperature when you add your ingredients. It doesn't get hot spots as severly, either, especially if preheated for a good long time at a relatively low heat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

A tiny bit of water unsticks them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yeah cast iron, even with a good seasoning, will never match a Teflon coating. It's pretty good, but you will need to cook some bacon in the pan before the eggs to make them not stick.