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[–] 3 pts

You slather lard on it and bake for an hour or 2 @ 350 . You can't actually ever fuck up cast iron .

[–] [deleted] 2 pts

Sure you can, leave it with me before I knew what seasoning was. I had that fucker shiny like new iron when I got through, used a bunch of my uncles steel wool pads and even got the handle. My good deed was thorough indeed and wrong I found out loudly later. His venison pan I was informed with much emotion.

[–] 1 pt

Don't slather. Thin coat.

But yeah, unless you drop it and shatter it, you can't fuck it up so bad it can't be recovered. Even when it seems like a solid piece of rust, there's still plenty of iron under that rust. Evaporust it, electrolysis de-rust it, sandblast it, or just sand away the rust, and it's ready to reseason.

Also, instead of smoking up your kitchen, do it on your propane grill or a propane cajun burner outside.

[–] 0 pt

I was a chef for a while - nice place - healthcode meant we had to run 6" diameter cast irons we used through the dish machine everytime they went to a table. We would coat them in lard , let them sit overnight and then keep them warm in a broiler until they were needed . You could fry an egg in any one of them . Dish pit wasnt scrubbing them with wool but do with that what you want .

[–] 1 pt

Yeah, soap doesn't seem to be the problem. Washing with soap doesn't hurt the cure. Scrubbing with an abrasive does. Kenji Alt-Lopez did some experiments confirming it.