Response to how to season an iron skillet????

The official directions are to coat the cast iron inside and out with a thin coating of shortening and baking it in the oven for an hour. I personally have had much better luck when I follow up that technique by frying something in deep fat in the skillet for the next several times that I use it. I fry potatoes, Indian fry bread, hushpuppies, fish, etc. The cast iron you get now seems harder to season than the pieces I got when I first started keeping house in the late '70's. You might be able to get some nice cast iron pieces in garage sales. People here sell their cast iron often, I guess because it isn't microwaveable.

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