Do you reuse cooking pans after cooking in them or wash after every use?

[Anonymous]

Something like pancakes that were well greased in a frying pan that left no mess or residue, do you wash after every use or do you reuse it the next day for something like hamburger or that would use some greasing?

[Anonymous]

I clean those every time. The pot I use to boil pasta? I almost never clean.

[Anonymous]

Yuck, OP. Of course I wash it every time.

[Anonymous]

Wash every time except the special cast iron one which you should not add soap

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I clean those every time. The pot I use to boil pasta? I almost never clean.

Your pasta leaves the pot coated in starch. Why wouldn’t you wash it?

[Anonymous]

You people are lazy boots.

[Anonymous]

I wash every time — unless I cook bacon or sausage. Then I use the greased pan to flavor the next thing I cook. I leave space in the fridge for the pan.

[Anonymous]

Honestly can’t believe this is even a question

[Anonymous]

I sometimes wipe out a pot if I’m reusing it during the same meal. But at the end of meal prep of course everything gets washed.

[Anonymous]

Ew

[Anonymous]

Well that is gross. I will re-use a pan immediately for the same meal when it makes sense - like sautéing mushrooms and onions and then taking them out, adding more oil and putting in the chicken. Or cooking eggs after making bacon and wiping off most of the excess grease. But like cooking and then putting the pan back in the cabinet? Never.

[Anonymous]

Every pot, wash after use. Gross.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I’ll re use them if there’s very little visible stuff stuck to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well that is gross. I will re-use a pan immediately for the same meal when it makes sense - like sautéing mushrooms and onions and then taking them out, adding more oil and putting in the chicken. Or cooking eggs after making bacon and wiping off most of the excess grease. But like cooking and then putting the pan back in the cabinet? Never.

This is the only acceptable answer. Anything else is disgusting. As my mother would say, were you raised in a barn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wash every time except the special cast iron one which you should not add soap

That is not true. That advice was from when soap had lye in it.