Trying out Cast Iron

I’ve heard a lot of cast iron cooking. In fact – I do have my own le crueset griddle that I use to grill my food. Its great, but I never knew that cast iron will require seasoning! Now that I have realised this I need to season it.

Today I went to Ace Hardware and bought a Lodge Cast Iron skillet.

In fact it’s a combination of a deep dish skillet and shallow skillet. The shallow skillet can act as a cover (I think). As this is not yet seasoned, I will need to season it.

This is not food seasoning where we use salt and pepper (and what ever spices), the seasoning is about opening the pores and inserting oil so that it creates a layer of oil that will provide the non-stick effect.

I have no idea how this will end up to be – but I will provide updates on seasoning process, and how it ends to be 🙂 Cooks Illustrated suggested that we do the seasoning process 5 times… I don’t think I can wait that LONG!

 

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