I can’t wait to see her face. She honestly deserves it after all she’s done.
Watched a video years ago of someone doing this before re-seasoning and baking the pan in the oven.
The end result was actually pretty fabulous.
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My Grandma’s 90 year old cast iron looks like that and I have no idea how to season it.
Most surefire way I know is preheat your oven to 450, put a tiny but of canola, rapeseed, or another neutral oil on it, wipe off as much as you can with a paper towel and toss it in the oven for half an hour, the nrepeat 3 or 4 times. When I say remove as much oil as much as you can, I mean the towel should come away juat about dry. Then to cook with it, let it get hot first, add some form of fat, butter, oil, bacon grease, etc. and then add your food. Waiting for it to get hot first is the key.
Waiting for it to get hot first is the key.
Exception: bacon
Rapeseed the pc term is struggle snuggle seed oil
Rapeseed oil has rebranded as Trumpseed oil.
Seconding Pissman’s advice. The only other tip that I know of is to encrust it with salt as well as oil, but that seems to be expensive and unnecessary. Honestly just cooking several pounds of bacon in it will do the same thing.
we do the salt to help clean, not with original seasoning
Electroplate it with chrome and nickel.
I think I see where you’re going with this and I love it. Adding some nice badges as a finishing touch:
She will be disappointed
