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How to Care for Enameled Cast Iron

Enameled cast iron is glass fused to iron, and nearly every care rule follows from that. What the manufacturers actually say, including the three places the popular advice has it backwards.

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What Seasoning Actually Is, and What It Does to a Pan

Seasoning is a real chemical film, not leftover grease. But the polymer story everyone repeats is the leading hypothesis rather than settled fact, and the most-cited advice traces back to one blog post from 2010.

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