Storing Cast Iron cookware.
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Just please don’t coat it with WD-40! OMG…. In fact I would just get it warm on the stovetop and coat it with some vegetable oil and wipe it dry. Then put it in the cupboard… Maybe check on it once in a while?
I’m sure other will have better opinions.
I’m sure other will have better opinions.
Neon Vernon
Single-Sixer
I've got a bunch. The enamel Dutch oven lives in a pantry cabinet, 2 frying pans reside in the oven unless it's in use. A couple more frying pans in the camp box, and the legged type Dutch ovens are on a shelf in the garage.
I've always coated them with Crisco after use, never had an issue. If they've been sitting for a while I'll rinse the old coating off with scalding water and recoat before use.
I've always coated them with Crisco after use, never had an issue. If they've been sitting for a while I'll rinse the old coating off with scalding water and recoat before use.
Got to admit that lard or left over bacon grease are my go to's, but butter in the pan has fried more eggs than I care to recall. But I mean years when talking about storage. Doubt my children or their children will ever use them, but their are folks out there that will appreciate cast iron. JMHO YMMV.
Edit A Taste of History is one of my favorites. Check it out cast iron users. Doubt not Don't.
Edit A Taste of History is one of my favorites. Check it out cast iron users. Doubt not Don't.
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Store them upside down or covered. To prevent a drop of water or condensation or dead mouse from sitting on the cooking surface.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
I keep all of my cast iron in the cupboard under my cooktop. Right side up and no special treatment. No worries about water or mice.
xTopGun
Buckeye
I have some extra cupboard space, where you at, I'll stop by and pick them up and store them for you . . . . . 
We have a wall rack system and store ours there, just hanging. when we use one, pull it off the rack, do a quick wipe down with a paper towel and use it. Never had a problem.
Not too dissimilar. I store mine in the the bottom of the oven (some had storage areas there or it's the broiler area) just like mom and grandma. No rust. And as to critters, well, as both mom and grandma said, cleanliness is next to Godliness.
coachk64
Single-Sixer
Most of mine sits on a shelf in my basement. As long as they are properly seasoned I've never had an issue with that. And I just use common kitchen vegetable oil for seasoning.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
That's a big part of the problem with kids today. Instead of doing what you want and making the kids learn and adapt, you are changing your life for them.
We were told "don't touch" and touch lead to negative consequences such as getting burned or getting spanked.
xTopGun
Buckeye
most kids with at least half a brain will only touch once . . . .
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Cold it might fall on his foot or he might evoke your anger.
A while back a customer told me that she was switching her gas range for electric because she didn't want her grandkids to be able to reach the controls. I asked, "Why is it we didn't play with the stove?" She replied, "Because we would have gotten our asses beat!" I then said, "That sounds like a solution." To which she answered, "Oh no, I could never strike a child."
That's the root of many of today's problems in a nutshell.
A while back a customer told me that she was switching her gas range for electric because she didn't want her grandkids to be able to reach the controls. I asked, "Why is it we didn't play with the stove?" She replied, "Because we would have gotten our asses beat!" I then said, "That sounds like a solution." To which she answered, "Oh no, I could never strike a child."
That's the root of many of today's problems in a nutshell.
Yaworski, I often disagree with your thoughts. But on this one you are dead right.
The Days of spare the rod and spoil the child are over. Nowadays it's considered child abuse. Y'all will need to become way more creative in your parenting skills. Back when I was a child the worst that could be done was to keep you inside. Nowadays your lucky to get the children out of the house with dynamite 
. The World of video games and internet have changed Society in ways that I can't see as helpful. YMMV.
. The World of video games and internet have changed Society in ways that I can't see as helpful. YMMV.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Not I, my kids are in their 30s.
Today, people pay total strangers to rear their children and don't want to seen as authoritarians for the few minutes a day they get to spend with their children. Kids sense this and run amok.
Children are at birth no better than wild animals with regards to social skills. If they are not taught they will go rogue. The actions of today's youth have proven that the last 30 years of parenting haven't been successful. And less successful with each new generation.
Most of the progressive child rearing ideas started with Benjamin Spock. But what's interesting is that isn't the way he raised his own children. His grandchildren turned out so screwed up one committed suicide by jumping off a building in Boston.
Most of the progressive child rearing ideas started with Benjamin Spock. But what's interesting is that isn't the way he raised his own children. His grandchildren turned out so screwed up one committed suicide by jumping off a building in Boston.
Kids of the well to due have been raised by nannies and sent to boarding/finishing schools for ages. It's not a new concept, it has just gotten out of the reach of the middle class.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Old school nannies weren't woke purveyors of DEI concepts.
reuben_j_cogburn
Buckeye
not a bad idea to put a towel underneath, if you are storing them on shelf.... they can weep a bit.. mine do anyhow, but then my seasoning techniques are not all that refined....
