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Many of the best cast-iron skillets already come pre-seasoned, but part of the care process is keeping it seasoned after you use it. The good news is you only need a few steps to keep it in great ...
6. After an hour, turn the oven off, but don't remove the pan; let it sit in the oven until cool.
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 ...
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.
Before the introduction of the kitchen stove in the mid-19th century, a commonly used cast-iron cooking pan called a 'spider' had a handle and three legs used to stand up in the coals and ashes of the fire. Cooking pots and pans with legless, flat bottoms were designed when cooking stoves became popular; this period of the late 19th century saw ...
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 ...
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.
How To Care For An Old Cast-Iron Skillet So now you have a glossy, smooth, seasoned skillet, repaired and re-seasoned for a whole new life—together you're ready for a new chapter!