Thread: Cast Iron Seasoning

Acidic foods like tomato based sauces will strip the black ‘seasoning’. Don’t get hung up on the seasoning though either as there is a learning curve, just use and abuse it.
You can’t really mess it up. Grape, and I think flax seed are popular oils to use. There are almost as many YouTube tutorials seasoning cast iron as there are are on barrel cleaning.
Not to recommend it, but even chucked our pan in the log burner over red hot coals once. Burnt off all the crusty crap off that builds up the base and sides, came out like brand new ready to start from scratch again.

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