Quote Originally Posted by Half Sense View Post
Cast iron, bitches!

I got my wife some new pans with the latest miracle non-stick surface. These will replace the 2-year-old pans with the previous miracle non-stick surface, which has started chipping off into our food. Meanwhile, I cook my eggs on a lovely old #4 Griswold cast iron skillet that is older than me and is good for a few hundred more years of daily use. My wife has no interest in cast iron, since it doesn't come in pastels, but she does love a steak seared in cast iron.
can't u 'season' cast iron, whereafter it's surface is easy to clean as teflon?

IIRC it involves oiling the pan, then super heating it on the stove for () time -- does something re the porousness (or not?) of the surface