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Monday Night Acoustic Session: Michael Chapdelaine - Portrait De Femme

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ObserverArt2/11/2014 6:33:54 am PST

re: #204 Justanotherhuman

BTW, that sacred rule about not washing cast iron ever? Wrong. I wash mine all the time.

Once a pan or pot is seasoned right, you can lightly wash it, just don’t soak it very long. A well-seasoned pan will not stick but act like a non-stick one, although you can still burn stuff which might stick.

I mean, do you really want nasty built up grease on your pans? I don’t.

I have two 9” cast iron skillets. Can’t live without them. And like you, I wash them. But never submerged, I like to clean them when they are a little warm, a squirt of dish soap and I use a little soft scrubber pad. As soon as they dry, I pour a little canola/vegetable oil in them and take a paper towel and buff the oil into the surface until the surface is dry and has a nice sheen. Ready to go for then next time. It’s sort of like oiling a baseball glove. I’ve had them for well over 40 years. Bought them at a general store in Ohio’s Amish country. I wish I would have bought a larger one at the same time.