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Am I the only one who sees people at the flea market scrubbing their pans with soap and looking horrified when I tell them it's fine?
I watched a guy in St. Louis last weekend strip a perfectly good layer of seasoning from a vintage Wagner because he was told to never, ever let soap touch it, which is a myth that keeps good pans from getting truly clean.
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beth_baker691mo ago
My grandma taught me to use a little dish soap on my cast iron years ago. It never hurt the seasoning and gets the grease off way better. That old rule just makes a mess.
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ivan821mo agoMost Upvoted
Yeah, @beth_baker69, that old soap myth needs to die.
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harper_gibson21mo ago
Ugh, does it make you want to cry seeing that happen? I feel the same way, and @ivan82 is totally right that the myth needs to go. My heart breaks a little every time I hear someone say they only use salt and a rag, because that just seems so gross to me. A drop of modern dish soap with no lye in it is perfectly safe and gets your pan actually clean. How did this bad advice stick around for so long?
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