welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen I get sent a lot of stuff and I
don't usually do unboxings on the channel because if I don't know what it
is I don't want to open it up and give a sideways endorsement to something that
might not be any good because a lot of stuff that I get sent is kind of
gimmicky there's a lot of Kitsch and gimmicks out there but this I know what
this is I know what this is they told me they were going to send it and I'm kind
of excited because I've used their products in the past it is from solidteknics
and it is their newest wrought iron frying pan. iron love seasoning conditioner well
we'll get to that it is their newest wrought iron frying pan it is called the quench and
I'm excited because it's it represents a new direction in wrought iron pans it
represents a new direction in wrought iron pans and the way that they are
seasoned so look at that now I don't really want to get into too much of a
argument or a shouting match about cast iron versus wrought iron I've got a lot
of cast iron pants a lot of cast iron pans
I use them all the time I've got cast iron pans that were my great-great
grandmother's cast iron pans beautifully seasoned easy to use I love them
but they do have drawbacks and a couple of those drawbacks are that even on an
induction cooktop or the gas cooktop inside the house they don't heat up
evenly and they don't heat up quickly takes a long time to get them up to
temperature once you're up the temperature the thermal mass they hang
out hang on to that heat almost forever what I found with these wrought iron or
low carbon mild steel pans from solid technics is that they heat up evenly and
they heat up quickly and they're still enough weight to this that when you put
something into fried it doesn't lose temperature at all
now this newest pan they're calling the quench
and here's the things right so they they make the pan they do their secret
process and they make this pan they heat it up and then they quench it which
means as it's still red hot they dip it into a quick dunk of a red hot pan in a
non-gmo rice bran oil which creates this strong black seasoning layer and you
know just touching this pan it's it is nicely seasoned like it it looks like
you could cook with this right out of the box which is where this little bag
comes in and this is their iron love seasoning conditioner a blend of organic
non-gmo beeswax coconut oil and avocado oil so a little bit weird it has no
smell what are that little heart now the idea is that that we go through a very
quick stovetop seasoning process so let's get to it let's see what happens
okay so here's the idea we bring this up to sort of medium heat and this will go
up to heat fairly quickly on this induction cooktop okay so I think this
is hot enough because it's just starting to smoke and in the little explanation
video they sent as soon as this hit the pan it started to smoke like that now
sounds like that's all you put in and then you just take a cloth you wipe it
until it's dry
and then you pull it off the heat and off the heat you let it cool down and
then you do this a few more times and it's fully seasoned so I'm gonna let
this cool down and then I'm going to season it three or four more times and
then we'll fry something up and see what happens now I used the little iron love
heart that they sent I used all of it so I did this probably five or six times
and I've got a really nice smooth finish on the inside of this pan now here's the
deal as I was using it my mind starts working
and sometimes I'm not the swiftest person in the kitchen and I finally
remembered where I used beeswax oil combination in the past and that's what
these this is a candle a mold and so a candle a is a type of French pastry this
is a copper mold that's tinned on the inside and you heat these up and you mix
together beeswax with some butter and then you paint the inside with the
beeswax and the butter and it makes it nonstick so you can get the pastry out
and so I thought well there's precedent this is something that gets used so I
did a little bit of research well you know I was doing the other stuff and I
realized that there are companies out there that premix beeswax with different
types of oil and then they sell you the pucks that you then used to season your
cast-iron frying pans so it occurred to me that that's something we could make
ourselves and save a bunch of money and then use the types of oils that we want
to use and not be beholden to what we're being sold so I made one just as a test
turned out really well so in a future episode I'm going to show you how to
turn beeswax and oil into a seasoning puck and we're gonna season a couple of
brand-new cast-iron frying pans and see how it works out so I've got this pan on
sort of medium-low and we're gonna fry an egg and see how well it works now my
fat of choice for frying eggs is bacon fat so I'm just gonna get a good scoop
and goes the bacon fat I probably use too much but I like a really nice greasy
fried egg okay take that last little bit out and in
with the egg sprinkle a little pepper over top I like a little bit of pepper
on mine and a little bit of salt okay to me that's pretty much no stick I mean
it's not sliding around in the bottom of the pan because I didn't put a lot of
oil but it's not stuck to the bottom of the pan there's no egg stuck to the pan
so I think this is probably a really good substitute for a no stick pan you
know within reason I think this works really well there's
not really anything stuck on the bottom of that pan that won't come right off so
I'm going to treat this wrought iron pan just like I treat all of my cast iron it
will go into the sink hot water soap and get a light wash I don't scrub it I
don't use like scrubbing pad or anything like that because it is pretty much
nonstick this will just wipe out gets dried completely put on the stovetop and
the first few times I use it I probably will put a skim of oil and bring it back
up the temperature and let it cool down again using this puck that I've made and
then store it so I think if you're looking for a cast iron pan if you're
just starting out and you're looking for something new to add to your cooking
arsenal you really should consider these wrought iron pans I think they're pretty
good value for money in the long term you're gonna buy it once you're never
gonna buy it again so thanks for stopping by see you again soon
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