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Wish it had worked out lol


micolithe
@micolithe

As someone that loves cooking & uses their cast irons alot I have some tips I've picked up over the years:

  1. It's cast iron it doesn't care
  2. It's cast iron it doesn't care
  3. Flax Oil (the refrigerate after opening kind is best for this i think?), for me at least, is the best oil to use for putting on some seasoning.
  4. It's cast iron it doesn't care
  5. Do not leave in the sink - wash it and dry it and get it outta there asap
  6. It's cast iron it doesn't care
  7. Wash it with soap & water. "oh it'll strip the seasoning" you know what else strips the seasoning? Getting a hard sear on a burger or a steak. Making hotdogs. Day to day use of the cast iron pan. You are going to need to add a layer of seasoning sometimes and you just have to learn to live with it.
  8. I'm the baby gotta love me
  9. That shit with the kosher salt, vegetable oil, and a paper towel? Don't bother. Soap. A scouring pad.

lexyeevee
@lexyeevee

i've found it much more effective to just season the food instead of the pan


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in reply to @micolithe's post:

If you leave a bunch of soap in there and don't wash it out it'll make everything taste like soap, and if you then dump oil into your soapy pan it'll bond to the soap rather than polymerizing into seasoning, but this is more an issue of someone's gross dishwashing habits than of soap being pan poison. Every wood utensil is way more porous than cast iron and nobody worries about them touching soap.