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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • So if lye is what does the cleaning, why is it listed among like twenty ingredients, many of which are “cleaning agents” and “solvents,” but it’s function is listed as “pH adjuster?”

    All Recipes “Decades ago, soaps were made with lye and vinegar, and they were too harsh for use on cast iron pans. They would indeed strip away oil and could remove seasoning. But today’s soaps, especially ones that are made with eco-friendly solutions, are often too mild to remove seasoning.”

    Lodge “Fact: Soap isn’t necessary, but you can use mild dish soap to clean cast iron. The seasoning on Lodge cast iron is fairly resilient and can withstand a little bit of soap, water, and a good scrub with a brush.”

    Wikipedia Experts advise against placing a seasoned pan in a conventional dishwasher.[17][18] While some food writers advise against all use of detergent for seasoned pans, tests by America’s Test Kitchen found that small amounts of soap do not damage the seasoning.[19]

    So in short: Yes there is lye in soap, no it isn’t enough to affect cast iron, yes it’s okay to use some soap to clean a cast iron pan.













  • And when the company stops wanting to pay the webservice hosting costs, you have to pay the plumber to come back and throw your useless toilet in the trash.

    Worked for a company that made a kitchen appliance that had zero buttons. Needed an app. If you unplugged it without shutting it down in the app, it’d send you an alert notification. The app took at least three taps to fucking turn it off.

    And the company was paying something like $1MM/yr to AWS to keep this thing running.