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Clean it, don’t clean it, oil it, salt it, water it, “season it”, season it by not cleaning it so your french toast gets all that good hamburger flavor from the night before…
I’ve read so many different ways to treat cast iron that at this point I’m convinced that it’s all just superstition.
Don’t let water touch it or it will bring you 7 years of bad luck
Darn. I was hoping they’d reproduce when you get them wet. Time to try feeding it after midnight.
If a black cat crosses its path food will stick to it for the next seven years.
For those who don’t know, you can wash cast iron with modern detergents, and as long as you dry it properly you won’t have any problems.
It used to be that dish detergents contained lye that would strip the seasoning off of cast iron cookware.
Yep, which is why of you ever want to strip and re-season cast iron, you use a lye bath with some electrolysis magic. Do that once and you’ll see why back in the lye soap days, you
wantweren’t supposed to wash them.PSA be careful buying lye. It has other uses than soap making, including stripping of carcasses to the bone, and then turning the fat into soap. If you order enough you might get a visit from your friendly government agent.
Corrected as to what it does.
lye (sodium hydroxide) has all sorts of uses and for cleaning your pan you don’t need it dry. Just buy a cleaning agent containing it.
It is one of the most used chemical products and i strongly doubt that anyone having normal uses for it will ever get a government visit.
