{"id":6127,"date":"2015-09-24T19:21:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T19:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chesmar.com\/?p=6127"},"modified":"2015-09-24T19:21:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T19:21:29","slug":"mythbusting-can-clean-cast-iron-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/24\/mythbusting-can-clean-cast-iron-soap\/","title":{"rendered":"Chesmar Homes Mythbusting: Can You Clean a Cast Iron with Soap?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you learned anything from your granny\u2019s granny\u2019s granny, it\u2019s that a cast iron skillet is meant to be seasoned, used, and never, ever, washed with soap. You\u2019ll ruin the seasoning, you\u2019ll rust the pan, you\u2019ll throw away all the years and years and embedded flavor in that seasoning.<\/p>\n

So you can\u2019t wash your cast iron skillet with soap.<\/p>\n

Except\u00a0you can<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing: Your granny\u2019s granny\u2019s granny isn\u2019t wrong, necessarily. Using soap on a cast iron skillet\u00a0will\u00a0<\/em>ruin the seasoning. The misconception is that this is a big problem. It isn\u2019t. You can just re-season the pan and resume cooking food\u00a0just as delicious<\/a>\u00a0as before. When you season a pan, you are merely creating a bond between the oil and the metal, resulting in an oily seal on the surface. Soap will eat into it, but so will a lot of other things \u2014 acid from tomatoes, lemons or other fruits,\u00a0alcohol,<\/a>\u00a0starches. It\u2019s a good idea to clean and re-season your pan every once in a while, and it doesn\u2019t particularly matter how you do it.<\/p>\n

Many people prefer to clean their cast iron skillets with rock salt and a sponge, and that\u2019s a perfectly acceptable way to do it. But if you\u2019d rather just hit it with some Dawn, you don\u2019t have to feel bad, as long as you season it again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    If you learned anything from your granny\u2019s granny\u2019s granny, it\u2019s that a cast iron skillet is meant to be seasoned, used, and never, ever, washed with soap. You\u2019ll ruin the seasoning, you\u2019ll rust the pan, you\u2019ll throw away all the years and years and embedded flavor in that seasoning. So you can\u2019t wash your cast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesmar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}