I was hoping someone could give me some instruction on how to reseason my cast iron pan. Last night I had a big brainy idea. I thought since I had to clean my oven anyways I would kill 2 birds with one stone and I stuck in my cast iran pan in the oven. . LOL. That was a bad move. When I took out the pan all the stuff had flaked off and the pan had to more coating. So today I slathered the pan with vacatable shortening and left it in the oven at 300 for about 3 hours. When It was cooled off I repeated the procedure because the pan was only brown, not black. This time it was darker but I noticed that there was a really sticky, gummy coating on the inside. I did scrub out the sticky stuff. Now this time I would like to do it right. Any suggestions??

lovelesspa

Try this, only wash in hot water, try washing it again with oil or shortening. Place in oven upside down, (put a piece of foil under it for the drippings), and the oven shouold be 300-350 degrees, only keep ioven on for 1 hour, then turn oven off, and keep it in there from a couple of hours to overnite, depending on how severe the damage. There may be a film on it but this will come off after several uses. In the future, remember to use only hot water to clean, dry it on your stove top burner to quick dry, it dries it quickly and this prevents rusting. but be careful it'll be hot. Don't over scrub when cleaning, that removes the healthy coating its developed. If it rusts, put a thin layer of oil/shortening, rescrub and reseason. hope this helps, cast iron is the best cookware to cook with.

br549

When seasoning cast iron you need to first wash and scrub the pot with steel wool til the inside is clean.Then get some lard ithas to be lard from pork fat veggie oil or shorting will
not work it will break down into a sticky mess.After you clean the pan you will to build a
frire out side.You will need to use oakwood or hickory and make a rack over the the fire
to hold the pan swab the pan with with lard and place over the fire.let the lard heat till it starts smoking if you can find a long handle BBQ mop and swab more lard til it smokes then drag the of the fire and let cool then wash it out.And please please dont get burned!!
If you do this nothing will stick to the pan.But if you do this in the oven it fill your house
with smoke and may start a fire in your oven.But thats the way my Grandma always did it.