Scraping scraping scraping.

It's fine to wash them with modern dish soaps. The reason people say not to is because dish soaps used to have lye in them, which would destroy the seasoning. Just make sure you wipe the water off instead of letting it air dry or it can rust.

It's actually fine to use soap and water, otherwise it is in fact, filthy and nasty. Don't believe the indoctrinated

MinuteFood on youtube did a video just yesterday talking about the science of cast iron, and why they're not dirty like many people seem to think.

https://youtu.be/w0R1jVN3LaY?si=HguOYRn19Hn6HyP6

Minute Food did a video on this recently.

Bruh.

Just burn it on the highest flame after every use. The grime will be all disinfected by the heat. You can stop when you smell the specific odor of burning rubber and see black fumes, this means your burnt oil coating is denaturating.

They don't need the hell scrubbed out of them like stainless steel and they don't cause cancer like Teflon. They also sear meats way better than any other pans.

Then as others have already said, it's fine to gand wash them if you'd like. You just don't grind/scrub off the carbonized oil layers.

I don't get the joke. I just tried Google and it had nothing for seasoning cast iron with chain or gear oil. Is this a thing?

Nope. I often use dish soap and a soft scrub pad on my cast iron just like my Grandmother and mother did with those same cast iron pans and dutch oven. A decent seasoning on cast iron is probably more durable than non-stick coatings. Just keep it out of the dishwasher. The high temp hot water and caustic dishwasher detergents WILL damage your seasoning. But, then you just need to re-season to fix it all better again.

My lazy way to keep my cast iron and plain high carbon steel wok properly seasoned is to clean with hot water and mild dish soap then return to the stove top heat on high until hot, then shut the burner off and hit the insides with a light quick spray of cooking oil. Or I just use some plain vegetable oil and wipe on a thin coating with a paper towel. and leave it cool.

Nah this is more reduce a tomato sauce territory.

Modern dish soap is not acidic or a base so it's quite harmless to the patina, but it's also superfluous because you generally don't want to degrease the thing which is the only thing that soap is good for. Boiling some plain water in it cleans off anything that you want to get rid off. If you're terrified of bugs when not using soap for some reason get yourself a bonfire and heat your pan as hot as you want for as long as you want nothing will survive that. Just make sure to not melt it.

It's the goal of the original picture, people can't help but give cast iron advice.

You can use various different food oils, the important part is that it can leave a (food safe) polymerized coat that binds to the surface, protecting it from rusting as well as making it non-stick

I don't know what causes the difference, I just compared the first nutrition breakdown of rendered pork fat I could find to a recent USDA publication. I'm under the impression that we mostly grow different breeds of pork, on bigger farms, using a more consistent food blend, so pretty much everything has changed in that time.

Don't know of the given info about the pans is correct. But animals nowadays are defintly way more "optimized" than they used to be. Both genetically and the stuff they eat.

Be careful with linseed oil as it spontaneously combusts! My friend used it on something and left the rag in the garage, and it literally burnt their house down.

Linseed has an awfully low smoke point though, wouldn't seasoning built with it burn off when trying to cook at higher temperatures?

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I learned from a chef that an oven would work better due to the even heat applied all over but in a pinch or if you don't want to do all that, the stove top could be fine.

I don't use soap, I just use a bit of hot water with the kitchen faucet sprayer and I have a flat metal spatula to scrape off any stuck on bits... wipe with paper towel and that's it.

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I think they meant the guy that seasoned his pan like 200(?) times before cooking in it on Reddit. That thing was SHINY when he was done

I didn't go that crazy, but I did use an orbital sander on a cheap Lodge cast iron pan, and it's much more non-stick now.

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My oven uses some weird "eco-friendly" self-cleaning process that involves pouring water into it and steaming the dirt off, which doesn't sound like it would be good for the pan. Got any alternatives? I found a Griswold at the thrift store a few years back and I'd like to be able to restore it without damaging it.