How To Season a Cast Iron Skillet

How To Season a Cast Iron Skillet in 7 Easy Steps
Here's how to season and care for your cast iron skillet. It's not as hard as you might think!

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How To Season a Cast Iron Skillet in 7 Easy Steps

Take off all the packaging and labels, duh.
Wash the skillet. Use a plastic scrubbie or brush and clean all the surfaces of the skillet with hot water. Don't use a wire brush or anything that might scrape the surface.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Put some shortening, cooking oil, coconut butter, or lard in the skillet. (If you're using a solid, heat it up in the skillet to melt it before spreading.) Then smear a thin layer of your chosen substance all over your skillet, inside and out. Get nasty with it. Wipe off any excess pools or puddles.
Put the skillet in the oven upside down so that as the skillet heats up, any excess lube will drain away from the cooking surface. If you want to save yourself some trouble, put a cookie sheet on the lower rack so you don't have to clean your oven after this.
Cook Your Skillet! Don't freak out if it starts to smoke. This means the oil or grease is filling up the pores in the cast iron and making it nice and smooth. Let it cook for an hour. Then turn off the oven and leave it in there for an hour.
Carefully remove the skillet. Use oven mitts because it's still gonna be hot. Put it on a heat resistant surface. Let it cool more.

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[joycloud]

If you have a cast iron skillet you have neglected and it's rusted all to hell, you can put it in a self cleaning oven for a cleaning cycle and it'll come out brand new! Re-season, and you're good to go!

[hilahcooking]

@joycloud Thanks for the tip! :)

[redz2841]

THANK YOU!!! thanks to you my cast iron now works proper like!! I had to reseason and now my eggs fly on to my plate!! my family watched too and thought you were down right funny!! thank you !!

[hilahcooking]

@redz2841 Wonderful! :)

[balloonboyCA]

Gwyneth Paltrow's sexy evil twin.

[gereikat]

Do the handle again

[210482fmj]

i tried this method but it left a gel like coating of oil on the pan and not the desired smooth like surface. One thing i have found is that high tempreture tends to burn oil and make it sticky if left for long periods in the oven. I think this may be the wrong method. CHinese cooks always season a apn by heating it super hot and then adding oil and wiping it out but never bake the oil onto the pan. THis will just burn it

[BayAreaSun]

Couldn't stop laughing at the HANDLE JOB!

[skeezysquirrel]

This is acutally a well known process to care for you Iron skillet. It's called "curing", like to cure, your Iron skillet. Always coat iron with oil to keep it from rusting. The heat bonds oil to the iron...

[36nontoxic]

@hilahcooking Thank You!

You ROCK!!!

but Alton Brown is still mine

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