Technological progress has greatly facilitated life, including cooking. Now no fires, stoves, washing dishes on the river and other difficulties for you. However, some elements of the past have remained in modern kitchens. These include cast iron utensils. Why is it worth buying now, and what are its disadvantages?
What's good about a cast iron skillet?
This is not the kind of thing in which you can easily and easily get a fried crust on meat or fish. This pan is designed for stewing and baking. It is on a cast-iron product that you can really bake pancakes, especially if we are talking not about thin and openwork, but about traditional in Russian cuisine - thick and airy pancakes.It is suitable for cooking pilaf, stewing cabbage or other vegetables, caviar and more.
The bottom line is that the cast-iron pan is thick-walled. It warms up for a long time, but at the same time evenly holds the heat. It is due to the injection of heat in it that it turns out that the food is baked from the inside and does not dry out, does not burn from the outside. Such a product is absolutely indispensable for housewives who want to cook original omelettes or dough dishes in a pan.
Modern tableware and its varieties
Cast iron does not burn, because the food in it is cooked not due to the crust, but due to the injection of heat over the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe pan. There are other products that also have protection against such a nuisance. Let's analyze the types of modern utensils:
- Traditional crockery that can be easily found in any kitchen. With its deft use and a certain skill, one can hope that food will not burn on it;
- With an enamel coating that protects against burning, but is very fragile in structure;
- With non-stick coating - a special composition that prevents burning, but it is also often very fragile and peels off over time.
Traditional dishes have thousands of shapes, but they are still less beautiful than enameled or specially coated ones. It is quickly saturated with fat and the effect of novelty is lost. However, such pans and pots can be safely called eternal.
Cons of cast iron utensils
Externally, cast iron pans are not the prettiest, so when planning a kitchen design, you should not think that they will look good in a conspicuous place.However, they are quite practical and it is really worth considering buying them, given the following disadvantages of cast iron. This piece of equipment is very heavy. It will not be easy to toss a pancake and turn it over to the other side.
Also, cast iron is quite caustic, so it’s not worth trying to destroy it intensively, for example, by beating a frying pan forgotten on the fire from soot. Also, cast iron is not advised to be washed, so, ideally, you should have two pans, one for fish, the other for everything else. In practice, this metal can be washed with soapy water, but before the next cooking, the pan must be well oiled and ignited. So the food won't burn.
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