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Same method I use on the big griddle. Heat it up, water, scrub/scrape and wipe clean, then toss a couple cheap burgers on and use the grease from them to do the final clean and reoil the surface.

Use a similar method with the iron pots/pans. But I use peanut oil and toss them in the BBQ to carbonize the oil.

Most people don't seem to understand that you want the oil to smoke, the carbon that fills the pores in the iron is what gives you the nice black glazed non-stick surface. Properly seasoned you can just dry the iron and it doesn't rust.

My mother "washed" her cast iron skillet as far back as I can remember with no noticeable effects on the taste of her cooking. I suspect that the secret was that she "washed" it with a "dish rag" and soap and water, not with a steel brush.

But what is #2 Way Oil?

You FORCED her? Really? How? And if you did then I imagine you are either celibate now or with someone with no self esteem. Eric

I supposed I should have said "I shamed her into eating it." Dayum, the literalists are out in force this month...

Does the smell of peanut oil always seem off to you too? I don't mind peanuts or peanut butter, but the smell of peanut oil or even slightly old peanut butter bugs me. Nobody else I've come across yet even know what I'm talking about when I bring this up.

I think it's because I live near several Chinese restaurants, and the smell reminds me of gastric distress.

Seriously, I just don't like the smell of hot peanut oil. Like you, I'm fine with the smell of peanuts and peanut butter.

As the oil ages it starts to oxidize and become rancid. You are probably very sensitive to peanut oilthat is starting to turn rancid. I have a problem with raw fish that has sat around too long. My wife, who has a much better sense of smell, isn't put off by some fish that smells really bad to me. So I think that I am just way more sensitive to that one smell than she is. Eric