By miss_strauss - 25/01/2016 18:21 - United States - Conroe
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OP here. I had cooked a dinner in a sort of celebration of our first night living together, and he offered to do the dishes afterwards. I happily agreed and asked him to leave the skillet for me because it requires extra TLC. When I woke up and found it this morning, I went to work making sure there wasn't too much damage done, and he was horrified when realized what he did. I couldn't be mad at him, because he was only trying to help. Also, for those wondering about why I've kept a skillet for this long. I'm only 23, but it was my grandmothers and then my dad inherited it when she passed away. He passed it on to me when I went to college and got my own apartment. Cast iron, if maintained and loved properly, can be the best tool of a good kitchen and can last forever. It's really not strange to small town southerners to have cast iron pans that are older than them:P
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My dad did that to my grandma (his mother in law) because he had no idea. He just assumed it was dirty and he's a bit OCD so he didn't just soak it, but scrubbed it off entirely.
It would have been fine if it was cleaned and re-seasoned right away (It's a myth that soap destroys your cast iron.) but letting it soak is bad, because it can lead to rusting, and even then, even rusted, it can be recovered. It's just a pain to do. Your Skillet should be fine, although it sucks its such a long hand-me-down!
It's kind of like using metal utensils on non-stick cookware. Cast iron skillets need to be seasoned to last, and iron will rust when soaked in water. It will also remove the oils that season the skillet
Word to the wise. Correct him, but if he's willing to do dishes, be careful how you do it or he may not be so willing.
Just scrub off the rust with a steel wool pad. and re-season it.
your bitching that your boyfriend did the dishes and complaining that he doesnt know how to read minds...its your fault for not warning him
She states in the follow up that she asked him to leave the skillet for her because it requires special TLC.
And it's not about "reading minds," it's about how to take care of a cast iron skillet.
I find this FML really funny, not in a haha way, but in a coincidental way because I just got my first Cast Iron skillet and spent hours last night researching how to season and properly take care of it. Might I ask, what do you season yours with?
I use conola oil at 500 degrees.
Lard or bacon grease. Or tallow, if that's easier to get in your area.
Oh my God. I would be pissed. I'm a guy and even I know you don't soak cast iron, let alone put soap in it
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You can wash a cast iron skillet with soap, but soaking it will ruin it, obviously. You have to be sure to rinse it very well, and also to put it on the stove to dry instead of air drying.
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Guys can do the dishes and other chores too. It's not surprising. My husband cleans way more then I do and I don't thank him all the time, neither does he when I do laundry and other chores. OP sorry about your skillet but atleast it's fixable.
Sounds like your boyfriend isn't seasoned with cast iron cookware.
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Hmmmm I don't think many people would know what's wrong with that. Lol I honestly don't. But now I know not to do that.
Blasphemy, he needs an exorcism to drive out the devil that compelled him to commit this heinous act against your cooking implement.