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Cast iron cookware and vegans
Feb. 2nd, 2019 08:52 amSo reading about cast iron apparently it can be an issue for some vegans. The thing is, most cookware, when you are done with it you clean it down to the bare surface, whether it's steel or teflon or whatever, get everything out down to that layer.
Cast iron you don't. That would actually be bad and make food stick way more and leave it more vulnerable to rusting. You clean it, but gently and try to preserve the oil seasoning.
That seasoning layer is the problem, because fats from meat will get incorporated into it and traces might leech into your food. Very little, but still. An extremely strict vegan wouldn't want to eat food prepared in a pan with this issue. Hell, even with nonstick and stainless steel pans, people cooking for vegans and non vegans will sometimes have separate sets of cookware to avoid any chance of this.
I know some people who keep a kosher diet run parallel sets of cookware, I imagine this could be an issue for many diet plans. I just hadn't thought of the applicability to veganism before today.
Cast iron you don't. That would actually be bad and make food stick way more and leave it more vulnerable to rusting. You clean it, but gently and try to preserve the oil seasoning.
That seasoning layer is the problem, because fats from meat will get incorporated into it and traces might leech into your food. Very little, but still. An extremely strict vegan wouldn't want to eat food prepared in a pan with this issue. Hell, even with nonstick and stainless steel pans, people cooking for vegans and non vegans will sometimes have separate sets of cookware to avoid any chance of this.
I know some people who keep a kosher diet run parallel sets of cookware, I imagine this could be an issue for many diet plans. I just hadn't thought of the applicability to veganism before today.
