works of wanderlust

Tag: cast iron seasoning

  • 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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