Blitzkrieg Boop

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.

What exactly is your argument here? I use Dawn; it doesn’t appear to affect my cast iron pan. Many people online use it to clean their cast iron with no ill effects.

I mean, they use the stuff to clean off ducks after oil spills. I suspect whatever concentration it has is not high enough to have any caustic effects.

So clearly it does take “much.”

Steel is like 98% iron. Sorry for the mistake.

From what I can see, it’s used to balance the pH. So I assume a small amount.

I wash mine with Dawn soap and hand dry it,

Yeah, I think the big hangup for a lot of people is that detergents used to contain lye which would react with the steel. No longer the case. Folks will seriously refuse to clean their pans which is gross AF.

Maybe it’s trying to motivate me to become a writer.

Last night, we tried to use chatGPT to identify a book that my wife remembers from her childhood.

It didn’t find the book, but instead gave us a title for a theoretical book that could be written that would match her description.

Two Towers ”The Hot One”

Have you never seen Viggo open a doors?

y’know, it used to be that you paid money for things and there wasn’t even an ad option.

Yeah, it’s a tough call to make. It’s like those car donation things. Like 90% of your car’s value goes to the company managing the sale, but that’s still 10% to the charity that they wouldn’t have anyway. Unless you want to deal with selling your own car, and giving the charity the money, it still does some good.

I suspect a $1M salary isn’t too insane for a CEO if they bring tangible value to the company. Also, with a lack of shareholders to answer to like in a publicly traded company, their motivations probably align with the cause they’re supporting. It’s not like they’re going to sell off a shitload of assets to bump stock price and escape with a golden parachute.

For when hot dogs are too gay

Yeah Starbucks literally partnered with the Orion homeless youth shelter in Seattle to train teens to be baristas.

Due to instability during their upbringing, for some of these kids just being able to show up at a certain location at a certain time is a job skill they’re lacking. Yet there’s a little half-Starbucks on site where they can learn that and more.

/r/youdonthop

I remember learning that before the invention of the locomotive, people thought that 30mph was some kind of barrier that the human body could not survive.

Don’t let this guy watch Kangaroo Jack.

More surface area per volume on a hobbit.

But the hair is more disheveled after first breakfast.

Ok but something that’s really bothered me about A Quiet Place (besides the writing being god awful).

When she’s giving birth in the bathtub, the lights start flickering. They provide no explanation for why the lights are flickering. It’s legit just a scary movie trope in-action.

He melts down to just his bill which floats next to the ring and mutters “you’re despicable.”