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bhousel on Jan 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Minimum Viable Kitchen

Wow, you +1 for teaching me something new. I've been using stupid vegetable oil on a cloth all these years to season my cast iron, and it's the biggest pain in the ass. I never even thought to use shortening.

ubercore on Jan 10, 2013 [–]

I think I just read about it on a blog, and I'm pretty new to cast iron myself. But from what I understand, any fat should work.

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