My husband \u2013 like many others \u2013 is obsessed with the \u2018seasoning\u2019, cleaning and pH levels of these hefty, hulking pans. Must I tolerate it? <\/p>\n
I need some guidance on a tiny source of friction in my home life. It\u00a0is this: I live with a pan man and his man pans.<\/p>\n
You know the kind I mean: rugged, elemental pans that you need to bench 160kg to lift; apocalypse-proof pans. Cast-iron and carbon-steel cookware isn\u2019t exclusively a male preserve \u2013 female cookery writers and chefs are enthusiastic; I have heard it described as \u201ctradwife adjacent\u201d<\/a> \u2013 but if the Marlboro Man cooked his horse, he would do so in these. Paradoxically, man pans are as delicate as they are tough: they need to be \u201cseasoned\u201d (an arcane ritual), massaged with oils, protected from humidity and low-pH substances. They invite boring fanaticism (if podcasts made pans, it would be these), becoming a shorthand for a certain kind of man; in one Instagram skit<\/a>, a pan fanatic castigates his bored housemates for wrecking his skillet\u2019s seasoning, reeling off the pH of blueberries (\u201c2.2\u201d), jackfruit (\u201c4.1\u201d) and Lucky Charms (\u201cYou\u2019d never guess it: 1\u201d).<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My husband \u2013 like many others \u2013 is obsessed with the \u2018seasoning\u2019, cleaning and pH levels of these hefty, hulking pans. Must I tolerate it? I need some guidance on a tiny source of friction in my home life. It\u00a0is this: I live with a pan man and his man pans. You know the kind … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}