/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I bet you thought i forgot about you /ck/, didnt ya?
Well I'm back! I had to break from my cast iron pan for the holidays, as things always get busy around that time. However, I am Back onto this project and will soon finish it and post an info-graphic on how to season a cast iron pan with flaxseed oil.

While I doubt this will help your common argument of lard vs. flaxseed oil vs. (random oil billy-bob swears by), perhaps you will find it helpful whenever someone asks so that you can easily post a lot of information. Who knows, maybe someone will even listen!

tl;dr This is the second half of an old thread about seasoning a cast iron pan.

Hello /ck/, I'm from /k/.

I come to you asking advice. I have found a cast iron skillet in my parents garage that they found in my grandparents garage and they are dead so I dunno where the hell it was before that. Pic related, it is the magnificent cooking device that I have procured, in front of my hungry and blurry fish. I plan to take this camping so my friends and I can cook whatever we kill and not have to make soup of it.

Anyhow, this skillet is covered in some squishy black substance that shows no sign of making my food more tasty, and I need to fix that. I know that I should never use soap on cast iron.. right?should I just get a clean wire brush and go to town?

Also, i want to season this thing up real tasty. I mean like, if skillets could cook milkshakes, this skillets milkshakes would bring all the boys to the yard. Does /ck/ have any spicy delicous idea for what to slather all over this thing and cook in?

Last but not least, I'm sure y'all noticed the rust in the center of the skillet. Is there any way to prevent this from happening in the future? Frequent use perhaps?

Any help is always appreciated, so thanks in advance,