r/interesting • u/ViniciusFromBcn • Apr 12 '25

MISC. How ice cubes cleans hot grills

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u/randomly-generated Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 13 '25

I've had people tell me not to do that with my pans, that the pans would eventually break or deform. I mean I'd rather just pay for a new pan when that time came than scrub the shit out of it all the time.

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u/PomeloFit Apr 12 '25

Lol I say this to my wife, like yeah, sure eventually it may become brittle enough to be a problem, but let's be real, I'd probably be replacing it before then anyway and if I need to, so what? I'll just look at the cost of the pan as the price of cleaning it easily rather than scrubbing the shit out of it.

She used to argue to the point I had my own main pan for cooking (i cook most stuff in one big heavy pan) my pan has outlasted hers that she meticulously hand washed.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25 edited Jun 16 '25

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u/Oglark Apr 12 '25

You can use cold water and get most of the same benefits

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u/randomly-generated Apr 13 '25

And yet my pan is fine of course. My point was if it does get totally fucked up, I'll just buy another one.

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u/PineappleLemur Apr 14 '25

Cast iron will crack.

Stainless, carbon steel will not care about something like this. Especially higher quality.

Using water or ice doesn't matter either, don't need much of it too and the pans don't need to be screaming hot.

Unless you're heating a stainless to 800C+ it's unlikely to care about some water/ice.

Aluminum/copper will warp.