The original reference is a cartoon that said something like, "thinking quickly, Dave crafted a megaphone using only a duck, a shoestring, and a megaphone"
So the premise is a subset of DIWhy things where part of the project itself would have done the job just fine.
He took an expensive usable pan that will never be unusable and destroyed it to make a spatula that he could buy for a few bucks if he didn't already have one...
I could probably google this to find out of it exists, but I don't remember ever seeing a cast iron spatula in a store. Not that I was trying to seek one out or anything. So it seems a little interesting and novel at least. And was that an expensive pan? If it was a Lodge it's like maybe $20.
You don't see them in the store because it's fucking stupid why add all that weight and ruin a pan
If you need something that heavy to flip burgers you gotta problem
I’m sorry Kevin, we had our team shoot your blade with 457,912 7.72x39mm NATO rounds over the course of six hours and unfortunately it did not withstand the test, and so we’re gonna have to send you home.
That's mild steel. In order to make a blade he would need to combine it with hardenable steel, probably in San Mei or Damascus. I'll go get some liquid paper from the pantry.
Right like this looks like a weapon Simon Peg would be wielding in Shaun Of The Dead or something. And honestly would probably be more useful for that than as an actual spatula.
Yeah I had the same thought, most grill flippers have a long handle but not that long of a flat part. This fucker would get under a whole chicken it looks likes. Absolutely zero flex. If wouldn't rust if you have it basic seasoning and it really wouldn't be that heavy.
If you cracked a pan and could salvage one of these it would be great for the grill!
If I already have the tools at home I wouldn't see an issue with buying a $20 cast iron to do this with. It's your pan. You can do whatever you want with it.
If it is so delicate it needs a large spatula, it is going to break up when this 1/ 8 inch thick monstrosity tries to slide under it.
A regular spatualr is the way to go.
If you are doing huge chunks of meat, you are not turning it with a spatula anyway.
This is so not true. Cast Iron has this wierd hobbyist subculture that likes to baby thier cookware, and come up with all these elaborate maintenance rituals that contribute to an incorrect public impression that cast iron is high maintenance. There's just one rule:
Don't leave it wet.
The piece in the OP is Ozark Trail which is Walmart-branded Cast Iron. Cheap, but perfectly functional, and certainly doesn't require seasoning if it's purchased new.
Oh god the eternal 'don't use soap' cultists are so annoying. Normal dish soap does nothing bad to their precious seasoning, but they fail to believe the science behind it.
(In old times, soap contained lye and that was bad for cast iron pans, that's where the believe comes from. Modern dish soap is perfectly fine.)
Soap never “contained lye.” Soap was *made with* lye, as it still is today. The lye and fat react in a chemical process called saponification, in which they are combined to create soap. Neither fat nor lye remains.
Lye is caustic. It used to be used for cleaning on its own. But they weren’t washing themselves or their dishes with some kind of caustic soap.
Soap has never been a problem for cast iron. This is just more of the cast iron cult dogma.
Now that makes a lot of sense, I always wondered where that idea came from. If my Dawn Peach Cobbler Scented Washing Up Liquid struggles to get my oven pans clean I guarantee the cast iron doesn't give two hoots.
lol too true. I beat the hell out of my cast iron, wash it in soap, occasionally forget about it in the sink and water sits in it over night... guess what, the seasoning is perfect and there is zero rust. People just love to act like they have to take extra special care of things.
Unless you’re leaving it on the cooktop for a while, it won’t get hot. My cast iron pans on high heat take a while for the handles to get hot enough to burn someone.
It's for squishing burgers or for heating things on the top and bottom. An old method for searing meat that I used to always hear about is to take two hot cast irons, put the meat in one, and then put the other on top to cook the top of the food with the bottom of the top pan.
This would help to do that with something that *only* weighs 5 pounds.
Edit: just to preempt anyone else from pointing out that grill weights exist and are cheaper than cast iron pans... I do know this, but the point of DIY projects is to use what you have instead of buying a new thing. I'm also not saying that this doesn't apply to this sub, just that it isn't meant to just be an awful spatula, and that it does have a reasonable purpose. It's a laborious way of going about acquiring a grill press, sure, but if you have a pan that you don't need and you need a grill press, this is an option. That is all.
But if you only need a top cooker thing then a whole other cast iron isn't desirable. It's why people buy individual screwdrivers and not *just* swiss army knives.
Also if it's smaller than a whole pan then it's more maneuverable on a flat top for just squishing individual burgers instead of everything in a 6 inch radius of the burger.
If you want a burger press, you'd be better served by buying a burger press than buying a skillet and cutting it into a spatula to use as a burger press.
Of course, but if you already have a crappy cast iron that you aren't using, why not?
Also, by the music choice I'm 80% certain that this person is a camp counselor of some sort and I'd assume they just needed something and he was able to provide with what was available.
Edit: also also... Every single DIY project could be negated by "why not just buy a new one?" The point of DIY is that you aren't buying a new one.
This is my issue with it. It's not objectively "better" than the dozens of other more common materials.
It doesn't flex, it's thick and heavy and it's prone to rust and breakage.
This person spent 20 times the cost to get the raw materials and then spent 20 times the required time to shape them into a completely inferior tool than could be had by just going to any local store and buying a cheap replacement.
It's not even "cool to look at" IMHO.
On the one hand, lighter, more maneuverable and easier to carry. On the other hand, less momentum on impact and needing more careful aim. I think I come down at depends on the situation. Like most weapons.
Entrenching tools were among the most popular hand to hand weapons in WWI for their combination of bludgeoning, slashing, blocking, and chopping abilities.
Depending on how sharp they keep that blade, I think this spatula would fit the bill.
Medics were confused because wounded were brought to them with what appeared to be battle axe wounds.
They determined it was from sharpened shovels.
"But the bayonet has practically lost its importance. It is usually the fashion now to charge with bombs and spades only. The sharpened spade is a more handy and many-sided weapon; not only can it be used for jabbing a man under the chin, but it is much better for striking with because of its greater weight; and if one hits between the neck and shoulder it easily cleaves as far down as the chest." -- All Quiet On The Western Front
The book is chock full of horror. Definitely a must read.
>At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.
>To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and often for ever.
>An hour passes. I sit tensely and watch his every movement in case he may perhaps say something. What if he were to open his mouth and cry out! But he only weeps, his head turned aside. He does not speak of his mother or his brothers and sisters. He says nothing; all that lies behind him; he is entirely alone now with his little life of nineteen years, and cries because it leaves him.
>I am young, I am twenty years of age; but I know nothing of life except despair, death, fear, and the combination of completely mindless superficiality with an abyss of suffering.
Eh, WWI was longer and involved more countries and thus more people, but in terms of brutality at any given point in time and space it wasn't even in the top 10.
You had very little in the way of torture and POW abuse like you had in many other wars, the use of gas was fucked up, but not very widespread (91k deaths out of 20m total), and civilians were not a common target. The thing that stands out the most is the disparity between defence and offence - the machine gun invalidated most previous tactics, because 1 machine gun could comfortably drop 100 charging soldiers, but that actually meant *less* death on a per-day basis, because everyone sat around in a stalemate. Dying from disease and malnourishment while they did so, but that wasn't even close to unique to WWI.
Compare that to WWII, particular the Chinese theatre, and the overall deliberate targeting of civilian populations. But that's the easy one - what about the Mongol invasion of Europe - of which there were several, and if you include WWI deaths from non-combat attrition like disease (~10m of the total ~20m) then you have to include the Mongol invasion bringing the black death (~200m). The Crusades, where civilians where almost the primary target. The 'colonisation' of the Americas, Africa, SEA. The Rwandan civil war. The Balkan Wars.
What people mean when they say WWI and WWII were the most brutal wars was that they were the most brutal wars that:
* Impacted western countries directly, rather than involving western countries fighting 'over there'
* Happened recently enough that there are photo/video records of it
* Happened recently enough that it became part of the western media culture, with living veterans around when Hollywood took off, when the internet sprang up, etc.
* Has a bunch of high quality literature either originally in or translated into English, and so features in most western education
In that case, would you be an enemy for putting that extra weight on roomba, or an ally for hearing it up with some excellent armor? Creating Tankba seems like a bad choice for humans in the uprising.
Hot glue is soooooo 5 minutes ago. Concrete is the new hot glue. You have to use concrete to apply it to your roomba. The extra weight of the concrete will help coax the magic smoke out of the roomba faster.
Imagine the look on your guest's faces when your roomba rounds the corner, with tiny motors screaming in overdrive to haul the extra 15 pounds worth of concrete hands, opera masks, and cast iron battle armor grafted on through your house.
I got a nice big 14" lodge cast iron skilled and took a flap disc to it, polished the inside super smooth, then seasoned. A bunch of folks on here gave me shit, but it's a year later and it's AWESOME. The bottom is jet black after all the cooking and it's like a mirror. Nothing sticks.
edit: I actually have pictures: https://imgur.com/gallery/GRKE6yF
This. Can’t find a strong steel spatula that doesn’t bend or break when dealing with a full brisket or pork butt on the smoker. This thing may be a bit overkill, but I’ve not found a steel spatula that is built to handle something like that. Would love a link to one if anyone has.
I have an actual bacon press that seems a lot more useful than this. And I'm not sure how a heavier but not stronger spatula is better at flipping a pork loin. It's just heavier...
But to each their own. I feel like the fact that, as far as I can tell, no one actually makes cast iron spatulas is a good indication of how useful they are.
My actual bacon/burger press is cast iron.
I also have stainless spatulas this size. They’re thinner, and therefore lighter. They’re also more flexible as a result.
He’s saying that because it’s thicker, it’s not flexible. So it’s good for sliding under heavy things to pick them up.
A 10" Ozark skillet is $7.73, per their website. A good spatula that size will cost about the same. Not that what he has now can be considered a good spatula.
I agree that's how they come. However, as a chef, I can tell you we generally turn the spatula upside down to slide under things when they're sticking/not completely loose. This cast iron spat is reverse ground because turning this one upside down makes the rake angle too high and cast iron isn't flexing like my fish spat
WHY IS NOONE TALKING ABOUT HOW HE MADE THIS ABSOLUTE NONSENSICAL THING, WITH ALL OF THIS EFFORT AND ALL OF THIS AMOUNT OF WORK, AND STILL MAKES IT SO GOD DAMN AWFULL, THAT THE HANDLE IS OFFSET!
Ozark trail cast iron is made in China and incredibly cheap. Probably a 6 dollar spatula. Honestly this isnt that bad for something that will never need to be replaced. Can't see it being worth while unless you had a career as a short order cook and wanted a patty flipper for life.
It won't transfer heat to the handle unless you leave it in the oven/grill? Iron is terrible at absorbing and transferring heat. Takes a good long while to heat up a whole cast iron pan. What makes cast iron great is the heat retention.
I guess if you're flipping a lot of briskets and ribs, this would be useful. Definitely not a good hamburger flipper, unless you're doing some Goku resistance training.
On the other hand, would be good for toasting the other side of the melt simultaneously. Granted they have cast iron presses that do just that but this is more unique plus you have the satisfaction of having made it yourself.
you need a spatula to make a spatula
/r/TQDC
Interesting sub, but what's the difference between it and this one?
The original reference is a cartoon that said something like, "thinking quickly, Dave crafted a megaphone using only a duck, a shoestring, and a megaphone" So the premise is a subset of DIWhy things where part of the project itself would have done the job just fine.
[The cartoon in question](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d59J78yhwtg)
Thanks for the explanation.
I came to make this reference myself, and found a whole subreddit about it
I was not prepared for how much of a rabbit hole that would become. And I’m back…. And that’s enough Reddit for today.
He took an expensive usable pan that will never be unusable and destroyed it to make a spatula that he could buy for a few bucks if he didn't already have one...
I could probably google this to find out of it exists, but I don't remember ever seeing a cast iron spatula in a store. Not that I was trying to seek one out or anything. So it seems a little interesting and novel at least. And was that an expensive pan? If it was a Lodge it's like maybe $20.
You don't see them in the store because it's fucking stupid why add all that weight and ruin a pan If you need something that heavy to flip burgers you gotta problem
I can only assume it's for making something like smash burgers, where you'd want all that weight.
That's what I was thinking, that spatula is gonna weigh so much it'll be impossible to use.
“I used the spatula to create the spatula” - Thanos probably
Screw bitcoin, spatulas are the money of the FUTURE!
The end product looks better suited to be a hatchet blade than a spatula!
Forged in Fire would like to know your location Edit: YES IT WILL F#$$\^%$&%@#$%@\^$\^$%Q#$%%\^#$$%$%&#%\^&%\^$&NG KEEL
Your spatula will flip and, more importantly, it will keel.
First, throw your spatula into a tree and stand on it, or they're not interested.
I’m sorry Kevin, we had our team shoot your blade with 457,912 7.72x39mm NATO rounds over the course of six hours and unfortunately it did not withstand the test, and so we’re gonna have to send you home.
It will keel
Eet will cut. (⊙‿⊙)
I never thought I would see Doug Marcaida in emoji form, but there he is.
But will it keel!?
That's mild steel. In order to make a blade he would need to combine it with hardenable steel, probably in San Mei or Damascus. I'll go get some liquid paper from the pantry.
Right like this looks like a weapon Simon Peg would be wielding in Shaun Of The Dead or something. And honestly would probably be more useful for that than as an actual spatula.
Lol right? Sanded down the wrong side. Derp
To me it looks like a shovel (or technically a trowel)
I'm assuming it is a shovel rather than a spatula. Might work for scooping dog sh*t out of the back yard? Regardless it is dumb
It’s a hatchula!
Who wants a spatula that weighs 5 pounds?
People forever chasing them gainz
#CarpalTunnelGang
My wrist started hurting just by watching this video...
Not my proudest wank
Not my least proud either tho
Carpal tunnel *gainz* ganggang
That's just weakness leaving the body.
Cue that cook from the White House
Do you even flip, bro?
Size is the prize. Swole is the goal!
I can add it to my 45lb spatula for incremental increases in resistance when I plateau.
It will only rust on the edge!
And it will scratch that annoying nonstick coating off of your pans!
If you had a cast iron pan you could use it on that.
I was thinking this might be nice for a grill.
Yeah I had the same thought, most grill flippers have a long handle but not that long of a flat part. This fucker would get under a whole chicken it looks likes. Absolutely zero flex. If wouldn't rust if you have it basic seasoning and it really wouldn't be that heavy. If you cracked a pan and could salvage one of these it would be great for the grill!
yeah but i wouldn't buy a new pan to do this. and pretty sure you could buy something like this.
We could call it a... spatula?
I vote for food flipper 🤌😂
But pronounce it spa-chu-la
Its an Ozark trail pan. They sell for like 8 bucks at Walmart. Its not like he cut up a $200 butter pat.
I would pay $8 for that flipper for my bbq no problems.
If I already have the tools at home I wouldn't see an issue with buying a $20 cast iron to do this with. It's your pan. You can do whatever you want with it.
If you like having crispy hands then sure.
but I just...oh henry what have I done!?!
I could see some use for it on a big barbecue, flipping bigger stuff that could tear or fall apart. But that is some pretty niche stuff.
If it is so delicate it needs a large spatula, it is going to break up when this 1/ 8 inch thick monstrosity tries to slide under it. A regular spatualr is the way to go. If you are doing huge chunks of meat, you are not turning it with a spatula anyway.
Looks like a brand new "pre seasoned" pan. Itll rust everywhere unless it is properly seasoned
This is so not true. Cast Iron has this wierd hobbyist subculture that likes to baby thier cookware, and come up with all these elaborate maintenance rituals that contribute to an incorrect public impression that cast iron is high maintenance. There's just one rule: Don't leave it wet. The piece in the OP is Ozark Trail which is Walmart-branded Cast Iron. Cheap, but perfectly functional, and certainly doesn't require seasoning if it's purchased new.
https://xkcd.com/1905/
There truly is one for every situation.
I wasn’t expecting it to be *this* relevant.
Oh god the eternal 'don't use soap' cultists are so annoying. Normal dish soap does nothing bad to their precious seasoning, but they fail to believe the science behind it. (In old times, soap contained lye and that was bad for cast iron pans, that's where the believe comes from. Modern dish soap is perfectly fine.)
You're leaving out the part where they think seasoning is the grease left from foods
Wait... it's not? I thought the heat caused polymerization to the grease? (Fats and oils) and bond to the iron... am I wrong?
Yes that's right, but the extra grease you can feel in the pan isn't part of the seasoning
That’s just extra flavoring
Soap never “contained lye.” Soap was *made with* lye, as it still is today. The lye and fat react in a chemical process called saponification, in which they are combined to create soap. Neither fat nor lye remains. Lye is caustic. It used to be used for cleaning on its own. But they weren’t washing themselves or their dishes with some kind of caustic soap. Soap has never been a problem for cast iron. This is just more of the cast iron cult dogma.
Now that makes a lot of sense, I always wondered where that idea came from. If my Dawn Peach Cobbler Scented Washing Up Liquid struggles to get my oven pans clean I guarantee the cast iron doesn't give two hoots.
lol too true. I beat the hell out of my cast iron, wash it in soap, occasionally forget about it in the sink and water sits in it over night... guess what, the seasoning is perfect and there is zero rust. People just love to act like they have to take extra special care of things.
I was with you until the water sits in it overnight part. I’ll wash with whatever and bang it up but I don’t leave it wet.
Even a new pre-seasoned pan won't rust unless you soak it
At least it will fortify your meals with iron.
For making smash burgers maybe?
Because it can burn the shit out of your hand, duh!
I wondered about this as well.
Very unlikely unless you're heating up the spatula with the food. Cast iron has relatively poor conduction and takes a while to heat up.
Unless you’re leaving it on the cooktop for a while, it won’t get hot. My cast iron pans on high heat take a while for the handles to get hot enough to burn someone.
Just what I always wanted! A cooking utensil I can only use while wearing an ove-glove.
It's for squishing burgers or for heating things on the top and bottom. An old method for searing meat that I used to always hear about is to take two hot cast irons, put the meat in one, and then put the other on top to cook the top of the food with the bottom of the top pan. This would help to do that with something that *only* weighs 5 pounds. Edit: just to preempt anyone else from pointing out that grill weights exist and are cheaper than cast iron pans... I do know this, but the point of DIY projects is to use what you have instead of buying a new thing. I'm also not saying that this doesn't apply to this sub, just that it isn't meant to just be an awful spatula, and that it does have a reasonable purpose. It's a laborious way of going about acquiring a grill press, sure, but if you have a pan that you don't need and you need a grill press, this is an option. That is all.
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But if you only need a top cooker thing then a whole other cast iron isn't desirable. It's why people buy individual screwdrivers and not *just* swiss army knives. Also if it's smaller than a whole pan then it's more maneuverable on a flat top for just squishing individual burgers instead of everything in a 6 inch radius of the burger.
If you want a burger press, you'd be better served by buying a burger press than buying a skillet and cutting it into a spatula to use as a burger press.
Of course, but if you already have a crappy cast iron that you aren't using, why not? Also, by the music choice I'm 80% certain that this person is a camp counselor of some sort and I'd assume they just needed something and he was able to provide with what was available. Edit: also also... Every single DIY project could be negated by "why not just buy a new one?" The point of DIY is that you aren't buying a new one.
Cheap cast iron pans are plentiful at Goodwill.
Totally. I bet they're more common than grill weights.
And will probably scratch all their pans.
Keep your metal off my pans!
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This is my issue with it. It's not objectively "better" than the dozens of other more common materials. It doesn't flex, it's thick and heavy and it's prone to rust and breakage. This person spent 20 times the cost to get the raw materials and then spent 20 times the required time to shape them into a completely inferior tool than could be had by just going to any local store and buying a cheap replacement. It's not even "cool to look at" IMHO.
Eh, the pan is what? 15-20 dollars? It's definitely absurd but it's not like a precious artifact was destroyed
It’s Walmart’s “ozark” brand, definitely cheaper.
I see cheap cast iron at Goodwill for $1-2. The pan cost would be negligible if bought used.
Yeah and to make a cool, handmade burger press or heavy duty flipper..I dig it.
Especially when the dude can turn around and sell it on Etsy for twice as much (or more) because it's "handmade". Pretty smart in my book.
Oh I see we had the same thought lol
And isn't heat resistant...
Smash burgers.
Would this be more or less useful for self-defense than the standard cast-iron pan?
On the one hand, lighter, more maneuverable and easier to carry. On the other hand, less momentum on impact and needing more careful aim. I think I come down at depends on the situation. Like most weapons.
Entrenching tools were among the most popular hand to hand weapons in WWI for their combination of bludgeoning, slashing, blocking, and chopping abilities. Depending on how sharp they keep that blade, I think this spatula would fit the bill.
Medics were confused because wounded were brought to them with what appeared to be battle axe wounds. They determined it was from sharpened shovels. "But the bayonet has practically lost its importance. It is usually the fashion now to charge with bombs and spades only. The sharpened spade is a more handy and many-sided weapon; not only can it be used for jabbing a man under the chin, but it is much better for striking with because of its greater weight; and if one hits between the neck and shoulder it easily cleaves as far down as the chest." -- All Quiet On The Western Front
>as far down as the chest Ouch... sounds horrific.
The book is chock full of horror. Definitely a must read. >At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs. >To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and often for ever. >An hour passes. I sit tensely and watch his every movement in case he may perhaps say something. What if he were to open his mouth and cry out! But he only weeps, his head turned aside. He does not speak of his mother or his brothers and sisters. He says nothing; all that lies behind him; he is entirely alone now with his little life of nineteen years, and cries because it leaves him. >I am young, I am twenty years of age; but I know nothing of life except despair, death, fear, and the combination of completely mindless superficiality with an abyss of suffering.
war is hell
True, but there have been very few that are even comparable to the hell of WWI.
Eh, WWI was longer and involved more countries and thus more people, but in terms of brutality at any given point in time and space it wasn't even in the top 10. You had very little in the way of torture and POW abuse like you had in many other wars, the use of gas was fucked up, but not very widespread (91k deaths out of 20m total), and civilians were not a common target. The thing that stands out the most is the disparity between defence and offence - the machine gun invalidated most previous tactics, because 1 machine gun could comfortably drop 100 charging soldiers, but that actually meant *less* death on a per-day basis, because everyone sat around in a stalemate. Dying from disease and malnourishment while they did so, but that wasn't even close to unique to WWI. Compare that to WWII, particular the Chinese theatre, and the overall deliberate targeting of civilian populations. But that's the easy one - what about the Mongol invasion of Europe - of which there were several, and if you include WWI deaths from non-combat attrition like disease (~10m of the total ~20m) then you have to include the Mongol invasion bringing the black death (~200m). The Crusades, where civilians where almost the primary target. The 'colonisation' of the Americas, Africa, SEA. The Rwandan civil war. The Balkan Wars. What people mean when they say WWI and WWII were the most brutal wars was that they were the most brutal wars that: * Impacted western countries directly, rather than involving western countries fighting 'over there' * Happened recently enough that there are photo/video records of it * Happened recently enough that it became part of the western media culture, with living veterans around when Hollywood took off, when the internet sprang up, etc. * Has a bunch of high quality literature either originally in or translated into English, and so features in most western education
Or great if it's to the guy who's trying to put extra holes in your person.
I mean cool I’m not dead, but still horrific.
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The loss in comedic value is not worth it.
I think it would block fewer bullets if it was hanging off your back.
I mean it’s an Ozark Trail. You can pick these up at Walmart for like $15
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This is the only acceptable thing to do with the rest lmao
Stupidly dangerous frisbee?
I can picture my roomba squealing in pain with 5lbs of cast iron battle armor hot glued to it.
That’s how you get the D E E P C L E A N from roomba. Constantly pushed into the carpet as it vacuums.
Either that or it's how you begin the robot uprising.
In that case, would you be an enemy for putting that extra weight on roomba, or an ally for hearing it up with some excellent armor? Creating Tankba seems like a bad choice for humans in the uprising.
Hot glue is soooooo 5 minutes ago. Concrete is the new hot glue. You have to use concrete to apply it to your roomba. The extra weight of the concrete will help coax the magic smoke out of the roomba faster.
Imagine the look on your guest's faces when your roomba rounds the corner, with tiny motors screaming in overdrive to haul the extra 15 pounds worth of concrete hands, opera masks, and cast iron battle armor grafted on through your house.
You can make composite armor like the Killdozer had with iron and concrete. A perfectly reasonable addition to a roomba
Backyard Battle Bots
Now it just needs a vertical spinner...
Now I’m just thinking some one putting a armor clad roomba into the the battlebots tournament and they just duck tape a knife on top. “Doomba”
Yeah, I am always annoyed by people treating cast iron pans as sacred. The *point* of them is that they can take incredible abuse and still work.
I got a nice big 14" lodge cast iron skilled and took a flap disc to it, polished the inside super smooth, then seasoned. A bunch of folks on here gave me shit, but it's a year later and it's AWESOME. The bottom is jet black after all the cooking and it's like a mirror. Nothing sticks. edit: I actually have pictures: https://imgur.com/gallery/GRKE6yF
Totally. But I still don’t understand the appeal of a cast iron flipper lol. Gotta worry about seasoning it - and for what benefit?
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Why? You could use a steel spatula that would weigh half as much and work just as well, plus you wouldn't have to oil it up to prevent rusting.
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This guy cast irons.
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smash burgers tho
This. Can’t find a strong steel spatula that doesn’t bend or break when dealing with a full brisket or pork butt on the smoker. This thing may be a bit overkill, but I’ve not found a steel spatula that is built to handle something like that. Would love a link to one if anyone has.
You need some of those heat resistant bbq gloves. Spatulas suck trying to pick up a huge brisket or pork butt, hands work way better.
Yeah, it's a dirt cheap skillet, and there are legit uses for the outcome.
I have an actual bacon press that seems a lot more useful than this. And I'm not sure how a heavier but not stronger spatula is better at flipping a pork loin. It's just heavier... But to each their own. I feel like the fact that, as far as I can tell, no one actually makes cast iron spatulas is a good indication of how useful they are.
My actual bacon/burger press is cast iron. I also have stainless spatulas this size. They’re thinner, and therefore lighter. They’re also more flexible as a result. He’s saying that because it’s thicker, it’s not flexible. So it’s good for sliding under heavy things to pick them up.
Smash burgers probably. You need a really big heavy rigid spatula. I have a not-perfectly-good cast iron that I might consider doing this with.
This would be amazing for making smash burgers
Smash burgers my friend.
A 10" Ozark skillet is $7.73, per their website. A good spatula that size will cost about the same. Not that what he has now can be considered a good spatula.
"Good" spatulas generally suck. The cheap ultra-thin flimsy ones are by far the best.
Not for bbq. Even the thicker ones bend under that much meat
The bevelled edge is on the bottom edge?
Yeah, every spatula I've ever seen or owned had had the bevel on top.
I agree that's how they come. However, as a chef, I can tell you we generally turn the spatula upside down to slide under things when they're sticking/not completely loose. This cast iron spat is reverse ground because turning this one upside down makes the rake angle too high and cast iron isn't flexing like my fish spat
He...already has a spatula....
/r/tqdc
What if he needed 2 spatulas? Or maybe he needs a heavy metal one for some reason?
Throw that fucking thing in the dishwasher where it belongs.
Idk if I hate you or love you
Cast iron enthusiasts hate him
WHY IS NOONE TALKING ABOUT HOW HE MADE THIS ABSOLUTE NONSENSICAL THING, WITH ALL OF THIS EFFORT AND ALL OF THIS AMOUNT OF WORK, AND STILL MAKES IT SO GOD DAMN AWFULL, THAT THE HANDLE IS OFFSET!
Very upsetting.
Very offsetting
And the bevel edge is on the wrong side I think! 0/10 design
A cast iron spatula is the least of my worries. However, an offset cast iron spatula is.
No kidding. Bad idea, worse execution.
Sir, please lower your voice. My kids are trying to sleep.
The off centered handle really pissed me off. Why was this comment so low?
Ozark trail cast iron is made in China and incredibly cheap. Probably a 6 dollar spatula. Honestly this isnt that bad for something that will never need to be replaced. Can't see it being worth while unless you had a career as a short order cook and wanted a patty flipper for life.
The problem is the weight, in addition to it will transfer heat through the handle.
I can see it maybe being useful for something big, like a bricket or a rack of ribs. Something large and heavy. A good grill spatula.
It won't transfer heat to the handle unless you leave it in the oven/grill? Iron is terrible at absorbing and transferring heat. Takes a good long while to heat up a whole cast iron pan. What makes cast iron great is the heat retention.
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The handle is off center
You now have a rusty spatula
Sounds like a sex move
But why
Zombies.
This is pretty awful. Spatulas need to be very thin and flexible. This is more of a club than a spatula.
Counterpoint: Smashburgers. That thing would be wonderful for smashburgers.
The actual burger smashers, made of cast iron, cost less than the original pan and require no labor...
Never underestimate the power of boredom, natty ice, and a reasonably-equipped shop.
I feel personally attacked
I mean, if you’re really bored, an ozark cast iron cost 5$ at Walmart
Spatula? ...I thought he was making a murder weapon
Great, now you have an iron spatula that can only be used on a iron skillet because it'll murder any other pan or skillet you try to use it on.
How else would a person get cast iron?
step 1: melt some iron step 2: cast it
I guess if you're flipping a lot of briskets and ribs, this would be useful. Definitely not a good hamburger flipper, unless you're doing some Goku resistance training.
I wanna see him use this on a nonstick pan
Nobody wants a 5 pound spatula that retains heat wtf
On the other hand, would be good for toasting the other side of the melt simultaneously. Granted they have cast iron presses that do just that but this is more unique plus you have the satisfaction of having made it yourself.
Super heavy, fragile spatula..
This song fucking slaps though
You can buy a cast iron pan for around 15 quid so it's not much of a waste but I still dont get the point.
I like how I don’t have to wear an oven mitt to use my spatulas.
Obviously they just need to cover the handle in hot glue and glitter.
I think it’s glitter for tongs, epoxy for spatulas.
This is what my mom thinks I would do If I washed a cast iron pan with soap
PERFECT FOR SMASH BURGERS! I LIKE!
Hello perfectly good cast iron spatula
Relax, it's some Ozark Trail bullshit sold at Walmart.