This is a follow up to my earlier post What Is The Best Fry Pan For Cooking. The answer was Cast Iron and Carbon Steel pans for many dishes but the biggest issue that many people have is how to clean them and keep the seasoning that makes them a non-stick pan. My favorite TV chef, Michael Symon, recently posted a short video on how he cleans his cast iron pans, which is what he primarily uses for his cooking. The same process is ideal for carbon steel. Here is the link for that video – pic.twitter.com/vILXViMwXn.
Chef Symon is a great competitor and won status as an Iron Chef as well as many other food competitions. But his favorite show is Symon’s Dinner’s – Cooking Out where he and his wife cook a meal in their back yard. It is all about the recipes and processes that he uses and I really enjoy the educational cooking shows over the reality cooking shows that are all about ridiculous challenges.
Not all of us keep large boxes of salt handy to pour into a pan to clean it but the fact that the salt is a very effective antibiotic and at the same time the process improves the seasoning on the pan make it something to consider. For those watching their salt, this is just for cleaning and does not add any salt to the dishes that you cook after using this process to clean the pan.
I found it interesting but have not tried it yet. Let me know what you think. My apology that youtube has a short commercial at the start of the video that you cannot skip over, but it is very short.
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