FeatherConstrictor

TLDR: How can I get rid of a stubborn soapy fragrance on my pan that flavors the food cooked in it, and how can I avoid this happening again in the future?

Admittedly, this isn't the only item that tastes like soap if it's been washed with it; one of my plastic bottles will taste horrendously of soap if I use our dish soap on it. I'm not sure if it's the brand of dish soap or what's going on, but I've noticed over the past couple months that the cast iron pan is getting the same flavor. It's a small pan for eggs and this morning I was physically unable to eat them because I kept gagging, the smell/taste of soap on the pan was that strong. It's not the first time this happens and it's horrendous. Sometimes I can smell it as it heats up so I have to rinse it a ton and that can help but doesnt always fix it completely.

It gets rinsed really well right after washing. I'm also not the only one that cleans the pan but I think it's an issue with the dish soap, not the cleaning method. For now I've rinsed it a bunch of times in the hopes that the flavor won't be there next time I use it and won't be washing with soap.

Any suggestions for a dish soap that won't impart fragrances onto cast iron (or reusable plastic water bottles)?

Or any other tips for how to get rid of this scent on the pan and prevent it in the future. I'm happy to just clean with water and vinegar or something else, but I can't take another bite of soapy eggs 😭

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/30024899

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This is my progress on the Pierre Shawl (ravelry link). I'm posting this to say goodbye to it and gain the strength to unravel the many many hours of work it took me to get here. I got all the way to section 8 of 10 on this, and it is by far the largest and most involved piece I've ever attempted to knit.

I started this knit around 3 or 4 years ago as a gift for my (now ex) mother-in-law. After a couple weeks' worth of hard work, I had to put it on hold and never really picked it back up, mainly due to my dissatisfaction with the colors I picked not making as smooth a gradient as I wanted. Now that I no longer have ties to the person I originally knit it for, and because I neither wear shawls nor things in these colors, it is a bit useless to keep the project indefinitely on hold.

The yarn is some of the nicest in my collection (Berocco DK vintage) and these are also the only pair of circulars I own at the moment. I know it makes more sense to bite the bullet and unravel it all so I can make use of the materials elsewhere, but I'm struggling to do so because I'm so proud of what I created and know I'll never see it finished. So I figured I'd share it here! I'm particularly proud of how even my stitches are, especially at the end of the project!

This project taught me a lot about what I'm able to learn and do as a knitter and I'm looking forward to taking the skills I learned from this project to make new things now that I've picked up knitting again (I tend to go on long hiatuses from my fiber arts hobbies and I'm back on a crocheting and knitting kick).

TL;DR at the bottom.

I am going through the legal elements of a divorce but have been separated for a few months now. I loved my ex husband, but before marrying I made it clear I didn't want kids and didn't want him to wait or hope for me to change my mind. He agreed and told me he would be happy with me even if I never wanted kids.

Just under a year ago he sat me down and told me he had been realizing more and more that he changed his mind and thinks he does want kids. I asked how long this had been happening, he said about a year. I already knew where this was headed, but thought I owed it to us to at least try. Months of therapy and thinking and talking and waiting for him to come to the same conclusion I had brought up to him and accepted pretty early on and we finally decided mutually that we would have to divorce. I didn't want him to stay with me and risk having any resentment towards me and feel unfulfilled, and I dont want kids. I don't know if I'll want them in the future, I don't think I will, but he wanted them ASAP so it was irrelevant anyways.

At least the separation/divorce has been amicable, but it was (and sometimes still is) incredible difficult emotionally. I'm grateful that his family didn't guilt me when they learned of the reason for the divorce, though the reason he gave for me being childfree was medical reasons which is only kind of true. Still, at least I didn't get any flak for it from anybody.

The guy I'm talking to now is vehemently childfree and it's great being able to freely make faces about or feel annoyed by children, not want to go to baby showers or baby birthday parties, and all other things that I used to feel alone in with my ex husband (and made me wonder for a while if he was truly childfree like me). Not to say you have to dislike children to be childfree, but I would often get a weird look about my attitude and discomfort around children.

I was never active on the subreddit but I'm making more of an effort to be active in the communities on Lemmy, so I guess hi everyone! How are you? Anybody here with a similar story?

TL;DR My husband changed his mind and I didn't so now I'm a young divorcée introducing myself and my story being childfree :)