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  • How long does it take to season a cast iron pan?

    Probably one of the most well-known bits of cast iron lore is that the more that you use your pan the better it will get. This rule of thumb is referring to the seasoning, the thin, black layers of polymerized oil that have been converted to this state by heat and have adhered to the

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  • Can I use a cast iron pot or pan to boil water?

    One of the adages of cast iron cooking is that to improve your cast iron cookware, just use it. What is not necessarily clear in that basic advice is that to make any cast iron seasoning better, stronger, and more resilient, the use of your cast iron should follow a couple basic principles about how

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  • Can I use a self-cleaning oven to strip a cast iron pan?

    Can I use a self-cleaning oven to strip a cast iron pan?

    The short answer is yes. The more complex answer is … maybe. A self-cleaning oven is the closest most of us have to a blast furnace inside of our homes. And as many people will tell you while there are multiple ways to strip old seasoning from cast iron, the high heat of an oven’s

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  • Cast Iron Care Checklist

    Kinda surprising actually that I haven’t written on this topic yet, but here goes… If you’ve been thinking about investing in a cast iron cookware collection, your new pans and griddles need a small collection of tools to live their best life with you. As with many hobbies, there are expensive and cheap versions of

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  • Why I Cook on Cast Iron (Part One)

    Do you remember the first time you got the perfect sear? I do. We had come into a couple thousand dollars as a small inheritance. The decision had been made years prior that any windfalls like that would be rolled back into our house. It was simple: money from a family legacy transformed into value

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