Cast Iron pan seasoning Question
I have a new in box Lodge skillet that was sent from Lodge as a replacement to one I previously bought and had problems with. I had done exactly as the Lodge instructions said .. never used soap ...
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We know the Lodge Folks.Fine People. new cast iron is not the same quality as the old stuff, which they tried to make with as fine or small a pore as possible.Seperating the iron and filling the pores with lard or other shortening is the only way I know of. Grand Ma cleaned the skillets with a kitchen towel and a hand full of salt, or sand. When Mm go the pans they had a thick crust on the outside and the insides were black and slick, with ages of burned in grease etc. They got hot many times on the wood cook stove and in the oven. how many times she had to scrub them as described I don't know. When Mama got her first self cleaning stove she used it on the skillets and all that burned off.Great Grand Ma 1857-1933 used those skillets and that crust truly was antique.
The skillets I know never performed the same.Wife has some Cross? Pans and they don't stick.
Heat the skillets not real hot with oil or lard rubbed in both inside and out.
Let them col after there is no fat t swish around wipe out and repeat. I don't know how many times, until the inside looks and feels slick in the corners or edges too. If it sticks clean but not wash and reseason again.
I see some godposts on the subject like Wonderlost too.
There is more than one way to skin a cat and I have no idea how Grand Ma did it was the best but I do think lard is the better idea. Bacon grease I'm wondering about though,even though everyone has used it has some salt in it.
The skillets I know never performed the same.Wife has some Cross? Pans and they don't stick.
Heat the skillets not real hot with oil or lard rubbed in both inside and out.
Let them col after there is no fat t swish around wipe out and repeat. I don't know how many times, until the inside looks and feels slick in the corners or edges too. If it sticks clean but not wash and reseason again.
I see some godposts on the subject like Wonderlost too.
There is more than one way to skin a cat and I have no idea how Grand Ma did it was the best but I do think lard is the better idea. Bacon grease I'm wondering about though,even though everyone has used it has some salt in it.
