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(Many cast iron aficionados say soap is a no-no and insist pans should be rubbed down only with salt after cooking.) The best oil to season your cast iron, according to Ross, is Crisco.
Unless you purchased a cast-iron skillet that’s labeled pre-seasoned, you need to do it before you use it for the first time. That’s a must. The following directions are for new, raw pans that ...
To season a cast-iron skillet in the oven, wipe the interior and exterior of the pan with a thin layer of oil and bake it at a high temperature (somewhere between 450 and 500 F) for about one hour ...
Cast iron skillets, before seasoning (left) and after several years of use (right) A commercial waffle iron showing its seasoned cooking surface (the dark brown surface coating) Seasoning is the process of coating the surface of cookware with fat which is heated in order to produce a corrosion resistant layer of polymerized fat.
An American cast-iron Dutch oven, 1896. In Asia, particularly China, India, Korea and Japan, there is a long history of cooking with cast-iron vessels. The first mention of a cast-iron kettle in English appeared in 679 or 680, though this wasn't the first use of metal vessels for cooking.
Most often you can clean a cast-iron pan by simply wiping it down with a dry paper towel or cotton dishcloth. If the pan is well seasoned, bits of burnt, stuck-on food will come right off.
From the early 1900s through the 1970s, Birmingham Stove & Range foundry produced a line of cast-iron pans that are described as "unmarked" as they had no manufacturer logo or other identifying mark. These "unmarked" cast-iron skillets and pans from Birmingham Stove & Range are widely available and used on a daily basis, even in the present day.
It's easy to do, so there's no reason to put it off any longer.