How to season Cast Iron skillets

Slather with fat and bake in oven for several hours or throw it on the grill. Oven works great but stinks the house up pretty bad. I do small enough pots and pans in my green egg

The oven method is always solid but it does stink up the house for a while.

My grandpa always told me he would use a blow torch to get the pot red hot and throw in a pound of lard. You can ruin it if you heat it up too much though.

Cook cornbread in them

Best way to do this is to rub it own with hog lard and put it in a fire, preferably in an outdoor fireplace. The oven method isnt worth a shite. The other method that works good is use an outdoor burner, and put the hog lard in it and just let it cook. The reason the fire method is better is because it seasons the outside too.

Purchasing a cast iron pot any other place other than a pawn shop is simply retarded.

If is lodge brand it’s already seasoned. If not sorry for the poors

Four pages and I can’t believe no one mentioned the very best method to season cast iron; use flaxseed oil. There’s science behind the method which through polymerization effectively bonds the oil to the surface creating a permanent non-stick surface. While it took awhile, I did this with all my cast iron pots and pans and it’s a game changer.
Very best seasoning for cast iron