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My grandma caught me using Dawn on her cast iron skillet...
I used to just dump Dawn on everything and scrub away without thinking. A few weeks ago at her place in Austin, I grabbed that bottle of the blue stuff and started cleaning her old Griswold pan. She yanked it right out of my hand and told me I was ruining 40 years of seasoning... now I only use hot water and a stiff brush on cast iron. Anyone else get schooled by a relative about this?
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phoenix_carter6d ago
Wait, 40 years?! That's insane. I can barely keep a plant alive for a year.
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paige4276d ago
My own grandmother yelled at me for putting a warm cast iron pan under cold water once. She said it would crack the metal and that her mother had taught her that trick in the 1940s. I felt like such a dummy watching the steam hiss up and realizing I nearly ruined something that old. You're not alone, that generation takes their pans real seriously.
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