Cooking on the Campfire

Tom Trostel wrote:
The point of seasoning is to seal the cast iron surface with carbon. If the pores in the cast iron are "open", would it not rust every time it gets water on it?

Seal with hardened oil, me son, not carbon. Put brain in gear please. What is soap or soap products supposed to do, but break down oil and grease. Water alone don' do none o' dat, dat is unlessens youse let it soak in a water tub with an electrolysis rig.

'K

:W