The correct way to start a new pot is as follows.
Take the wok as an example. Method 1: Clean the new wok first, remove impurities and floating ash on the surface, and dry it both inside and outside. Usually, we should also dry the bottom of the wok after cooking and cleaning, otherwise the bottom of the wok will become bumpy after a long time, and it will not be wiped off after scrubbing. After the pot is dried, we will fire again, and the fire will burn the pot until the whole pot is evenly discolored. At first, there will be some smoke, and slowly, as the color in the pot turns black and blue, there will be no smoke.
The step of burning the pot with large fire is to burn off the rust-proof oil film on the surface of the pot and some impurities attached to the surface of the pot. After burning, turn off the fire and immediately pour it into cold water for internal and external cleaning. The alternating between hot and cold is also to better remove impurities. Then pour out the cold water and prepare a steel ball to brush the pan, then squeeze in the detergent to further clean the surface repeatedly. After wiping, directly dry the water in the pan with a rag, and then continue to add detergent to brush the pan repeatedly. After brushing as before, wipe it with a rag and continue to add detergent to brush it for three times.
after washing for three times, let's go back to the stove, put in a piece of pork fat after turning on a small fire, first wipe the whole pot with pork fat, turn off the fire when there is smoke in the pot, let the pot cool naturally, then pour in warm water, and then wash the pot with a rag. After washing, pour out dirty water and wipe the pot again, then continue to turn on a small fire and wipe the pot with pork fat, repeating the same steps as before for 3-5 times. After washing, the whole pot has been basically opened.
When you pour the water out of the pot, you will find that there are only a few small drops of water hanging in the pot. Then we brush the pot with a layer of oil again. After turning off the fire, let the pot stand for one day, so that the surface of the iron pot can fully absorb the oil, and we can use it the next day. First, fry an egg to see if it will stick to the pan. When the oil is hot, beat in the egg and turn it over when it is a little burnt. You see that it doesn't stick to the pan at all, which is exactly the same as frying eggs in a non-stick pan. If you think the smell of your new iron pot is still quite strong at this time, you can fry some vegetables to remove the smell, throw them out after frying, wash them and oil them again.
method 2: clean the new pot inside and out, put it on the stove and dry it on low heat, put half a pot of water and pour in white vinegar. Boil with medium heat, mainly to disinfect the pot completely. Turn off the fire after the water boils, pour out the water and clean it with hot water. Let it cool naturally, put the small and medium-sized fire pot on the stove again to dry, and turn the pot to heat it evenly.
pour in vegetable oil, evenly spread the inner wall of the pot with a brush for several times, turn off the fire and let it cool naturally. Pour the vegetable oil again, and repeat the above steps, mainly to let the oil penetrate into the pot layer to play a maintenance role. After pouring off the oil, clean it with kitchen paper, leave it overnight and use it the next day.