How to care for a cast iron frying pan
How to care for a cast iron frying pan
Cast-iron frying pans, saucepans and scallopsinvariably enjoy great success. Housewives for cooking useful food for the whole family often choose this kind of dishes. If you properly take care of a cast-iron frying pan, it will last for many years with a guarantee.
You will need
- - Cast-iron pan;
- - butter;
- - sponge for washing dishes.
Instructions
1
Wash the cast iron pan before the firstuse hot water and wipe dry. At the bottom, pour salt in a layer of one centimeter and burn on the stove for an hour. Then clean the salt, and grease the surface of the frying pan with vegetable oil.
2
Wash the pan after eating and spreadclean surface with vegetable oil or fat. It is especially important to do so, if cooking took place with a lot of liquid. Boiling water or broth, formed during cooking, reduces the useful properties of the working surface. Care of the dishes will help to preserve its frying ability and prolong the period of impeccable service of the frying pan. To do this, oil the working surface and put the frying pan on a weak fire. The oil should, as it were, "boil" to the cast iron.
3
Wash the pan with hot water, using a softkitchen sponge or sponge. Immediately after washing, wipe the dishes to dryness or dry it on the stove. If there is a slight contamination of the working surface, you can use non-aggressive detergents in liquid form. If burnt up food remains can not be cleaned this way, use soda. In a dishwasher, it is very undesirable to wash cast-iron frying pans - this destroys the non-stick layer.
4
When using a frying pan made of cast iron, you do notit will often be necessary to wash off the burnt remains of food from it. The dishes are heated slowly, the thermal conductivity of the metal is very small. The value of cast iron products is that the heat will be evenly distributed when heated and will persist for a long time. Frying pan made of cast iron is perfect for preparing such dishes, which require a long heat treatment. It will not fade, it will not be scratched, it will last a very long time.
