Monday, March 2, 2026

Still the "go to" for seasoning cast iron

 


20 comments:

  1. Can you imagine using that as a selling point of any foodstuff? You might as well say, 'it'll push a turd'.

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  2. Lard or tallow worked long before that abomination.

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    1. Name comes from Crystallized Cottonseed Oil.

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    1. Poison? I grew up on Crisco and I'm 80. No a covid shot either. Media is filled with lies.

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    2. George Burns made it to 100, smoking cigars and drinking whiskey every day. Don't mean it's healthy!

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  4. "Crisco is a brand of shortening (introduced in June 1911 by Procter & Gamble). It was the first to be made entirely of vegetable oil (originally cottonseed oil)." A question: . . . why is it bad for you?

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    1. The oil is fine. Problem is that it's been hydrogenated. Not a good thing. Great for making pie crusts, though.

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    2. Explanation here: https://x.com/SamaHoole/status/2019431364982931869?s=20

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    3. Thanks for the link to the x post. I had not heard of that account before so I asked Grok if the claims were accurate. Grok said basically, yes.
      https://x.com/i/grok/share/893fc1b0bd7643d3b4ca90daba640a4f
      I’ve recently been stripping all my cast iron in an electrolysis tank and reseasoning with beef tallow I rendered. Very happy with it so far.

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    4. I guess an electrolysis tank gets everything, but I find putting the cast iron in the oven and setting it on 'clean' pretty much gets all of the seasoning out, too, allowing me to re-season freshly with whatever I want.

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  5. Man made. If it's fake, it's a mistake.

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  6. A few years ago, I got the recipe for his mom's chocolate chip cookies from the late, great Gerard Van Der Leun at American Digest. The recipe calls for Crisco and that's just what you do when the recipe is called "The Holy Cookie".

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  7. Industrial lubricant repurposed for human consumption (cottonseed oil).

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  8. Useless , unless your bicycle chain needs lube. Burns like gasoline if ya' need to start a fire. Flax seed oil, too expensive, or bacon grease on my cast iron.

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  9. Just never use Crisco as a sexual lubricant--that stuff is shortening!
    --Tennessee Budd

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  10. My mom used to bake pies, cakes and cookies from scratch in the 1960s and early 70s. She gave it up after the Crisco reformulation - they never tasted as good after that.

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