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You’re supposed to wash it with soap and water after every use like any other cookware.
If someone says you shouldnt, that person’s pan is disgusting.
And you absolutely do not need to rub oil on it after your dry it unless you live in a tropical rain forest I guess. The maintenance that people conjured up for these pans is asinine.
I use one of my pans almost daily, and a second one every once in a awhile. No rust and they are both as nonstick as can be, because I don’t treat them like some kind of delicate flower.
I cook on cast iron everyday, and wash my cast iron with soap and water everyday. Don’t be nasty. Not washing your pans with soap and water is like those dudes who won’t wash their own ass. It’s just gross and doesn’t remotely make any sense.
No amount of soap and water will remove the seasoning from a pan. Anybody who doesn’t understand that should take the darkest years old baking sheet and try to make it shiny aluminum again with just soap and water. Conversely, anything that does wash off with soap and water was never “seasoning” so the pan is definitely better off without it.
If you have a really bad cast iron pan, spray it with Easy Off, put in a paper bag and put it outside for about eight hours. Wash then season it anew.
With salt and a chainmail “cloth”.
But really, us cast iron enthusiasts, we use soap and water. Pans just don’t go in the dish washer or sit wet. They get rinsed, scrubbed slapped on the stove burner to rapid dry and then maybe a spritz of oil and then done.
Shame on everyone for not posting the [relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/1905/).
We clean ours with soap and water, a thorough drying, and then leaving it on stove at medium-low for about half an hour.
I scrub it with water and steel wool or chain scrubber or similar to get rid of any larger food particles and then I heat on the stove to sterilize it.
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