Cantara's Cast Iron argument

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Been having a skillet fight over at my house the
past couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Well, listen, I know you. You like to cook. You
watch these talented chefs on TV, and you like to
emulate that.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's not even— it' s not that. It's really not that.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I handle cleanup, like, after dinner. Sarah's working from home
or doing homework with North, so I do the cleanup, right? Right, right, right.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
So I've been coming home.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
But can't Tara is— The skillet guy in this radio program.
He's always been the skillet guy. He's been pro-skillet since
day one.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
So, I can't argue with that.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I'm pro-skillet.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
So, something happened to this regular frying pan. My wife
makes one egg a day to go with her sweet
potatoes and cottage cheese, whatever.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Okay, so the regular frying pan.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I don't know what happened to that. It was like
medium size. It was perfect, right? I don't know what
happened to that.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Was it nonstick? I don't know. Probably, but not the
kind that's going to give you cancer. You know what
I mean?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, of course.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
So she's been using the skillet for one egg. Now,
the skillet requires a lot to clean. You really shouldn't
soak it.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
You don't want to use soap with it.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
For me, the skillet's like once a week, maybe the
weekend or something.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Our skillet is in regular rotation. Wow. It's kept well.
It's seasoned. It's all these things, right? Right.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
But to come home and like... Every time I have
to work off one egg. I've been saying things, you
know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, it gets annoying, I bet.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
She bought one.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
She bought a frying pan for her egg, but it
came in and it was too small. So now she's
back on the skillet again. So we had another skillet
fight yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
You need to just stop and get what you want
her to cook it in and bring it home to
her today somehow.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
In order to do that, you know I have to
ask her to put money in my account.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I forgot about that.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Or to click.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
That doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Wow. God.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Jesus. So what happened? What happened is I'm here on
the radio. Yeah. Hoping my wife's listening because I've got
this guy here.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I want you to hear, Sarah.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Brendan Ayer is his comedian's name.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Pay attention, please.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
This is great.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
I just got a cast iron skillet. I'm in way
over my head.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
If I had known the amount of responsibility that comes
with owning, that's my full-time job now is taking care
of a cast iron skit. I should have known when
I went to check out and the lady was like, nah,
do you know you have to season this before you
cook in it? Instead of saying, what in the world
are you talking about? I just said, yeah, of course
I know that. And then I went home and Googled it,

(02:31):
and what it is, if you don't have a cast
iron skillet, when you buy a cast iron skillet, you
have to take it home, and then you have to
finish making the cast iron skillet. It's not done. When
they sell it, they go about 70% of the way there,
and they just give up. They go, they'll probably figure
it out. So I Googled it, and Google said I
gotta rub oil into it, and then bake it. Bake

(02:53):
it for an hour. And then Google said, take it out,
check if it's seasoned. Didn't say what it was going
to look like if it was seasoned. And then it said,
if not, repeat up to 10 times. So I cooked
a cast iron skillet for 10 hours. That's more than
I've cooked anything in my entire life. I cooked nothing

(03:14):
for 10 hours. And I was like, all right, this
has got to be seasoned now. I'm doing it.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
This is great.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
And then I was talking to my ma on the
phone a couple weeks later. I was like, ma, I
got a cast iron skillet. And then she goes, I
hope you're not washing it with soap.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
What else would I be washing a pant?

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Why do these things have so many rules?

Speaker 1 (03:35):
What are they?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
What are they, gremlins?

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Like, ah, don't get your.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Cast iron wet.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
After midnight, it'll turn into a crock pot. My mom said,
you can't wash that with soap. You can use water
and a little salt if you want and scrub it down.
Then you put it on the stove to evaporate. So
now I'm cooking nothing again. I'm back to square one.

(04:02):
And then I said that on the show and this
lady goes, your mom doesn't know what she's talking about.
She said the best way to wash a cast iron skillet,
cut a potato in half Rub it down with a,
oh yeah, I wash my pan with a potato.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
That's great.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
How about I fix my bicycle with a sandwich? What
are you talking about? So now it's just next to
my bed in case there's an intruder. Someone's going to
break into my house and I'm going to be like,
and he's going to be like, hey man, that didn't
feel seasoned correctly.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Like that.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Are you doing the potato thing? Try the potato thing