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Re: Cast Iron

Post by amartin » Mon Jun 18, 2012 9:39 pm

Having read that article, lard's going to be my go to cooking fat from now on.

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Re: Cast Iron

Post by NASH » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:43 pm

Jayme wrote:Hemp oil it is not! That's just what Rick calls it in the documentary. He's got a pretty wild story though.

I was just looking at a bottle in the SS and yeah the 330F confused me. How do you season pans with it? Once it's dry on the pan will it burn above 330?

Indeed I was just looking at a bottle in Super Store
You season as directed in the original article you posted, the two oils are fairly similar with flax seed smoke point @ 225 F. For seasoning you want to take it past that to polymerize it. I do mine in the ceramic cooker because the fumes are nasty, and carcinogenic :o So yeah, do it outside unless you have a really good stove exhaust vented to outside, this way you'll poison the people outside instead of yourself :headbang:

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Re: Cast Iron

Post by NASH » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:50 pm

BTW Rick Simpson is a homeboy from Amherst :cheers2:

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Re: Cast Iron

Post by Jayme » Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:00 pm

Hmm I should be able to do my smaller pans in the egg but not the larger ones - have to figure something out for that. Seems I zoned out on the whole polymerization part. Thanks!
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