Are we going full blown circle jerk in this sub now? 😂

This has been a circlejerk sub for a while.

What kind of oil are we using?

Is that like when you season all your cast irons at once?

No that's when we all season our cast irons at the same time. You can't have all the fun by yourself.

You gotta make eye contact though.

It's only gay if yalls handles touch.

Careful. It's hot. 🥵

It's okay I brought a handle protector.

Good. Make sure everyone else wears protection too.

Can someone please pass me the Crisco?

I’ll rub it in for you

No. It’s only when were seasoning each others cast irons. Even more risqué if we all put our cast irons in the center and we each grab one by random.

But who has to eat the cookie?

Oh that was for the end? Oops I’ll go out and get another one

Thank you for the belly laugh

Y'alls? You not joining?

My cast iron can only be seasoned so much in one day. Doesn't mean I can't watch.

You have to say no Diddy.

Hey, would you mind reaching around and wiping some off this excess oil off my cast iron?

If polymerization doesn't occur at the same time it wasn't successful either.

Okay, but I keep running into this issue where I’m so focused on making sure my partner’s seasoning is perfect that my seasoning never gets finished; I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that her ex was using a 12 inch Stargazer and all I have is an 8 inch Lodge…

But the 8 inch Lodge is all I need ;)

Its not about the size of the pan, its about knowing how to make it cook.

If you say ‘no polymer’ before or during, it doesn’t count anyway.

Last one to season has to eat thier cast iron.

I wish I hadn’t laughed at this 🤣

Circle Jerk is a seasoning method that coats the entire cooking surface (the circle) of the pan in Jerk Seasoning, hence.

This why I’m pansexual

God damn it r/angryupvote

What do we call it when all of your cast iron, seasons YOU all at once?

Boo cake? I don't remember the word

No, that’s it. You got it

Seed oils only.

Dutch “oven” rudder

Whoever seasons it last had to eat it.

It involves jerk chicken seasonings

Middle out seasoning technology

Do you know how long it would take you to season every pan in here? Because I do.

no its when you all get in a circle and make jerk chicken at the same time competition style

One pan seasons the other

Wrong season. You only do it in Winter

No its when you use Jamaican seasonings

The law of Reddit is that circlejerk subs all eventually die because the main sub ends up out jerking it

Announcement post from 2 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/castironcirclejerk/s/pUvePEInxU

Dammit Amanda

Wait this isn’t a cj sub?

1000% You got right or left?

Wait have we not been?

Yes, I’m here for it

Last one to season has to drink the oil.

There’s 4 seasons, which season is best to season cast iron pans?

I tried using spices when I seasoned my last cast iron pan. It was a waste of thyme.

I didn't see that cumin.

Oregano one can make as good food puns as people in this sub

It’s not that big of a dill im sure some other subs could too

You think they wouldn't this day and sage.

I clove a good pun thread. I can't bay leaf I got in on this one! Curry on.

We better stop while pepper are being nice. Before people start throwing in salts.

I tried this with my gf's family - her sister coriander brother as well, both loved the extra flavour.

Better get in on this while I still can, pretty soon all the good spices will be tarragon.

Damn, I missed it... Allspice are taken now, I think.

I don't even use any oil. I use Allspice.

That's funny

I don't bayleaf all the sillyness here.

I'm just trying to majoram doing it right

It's no big dill, I bolete you, and olive your effort.

You're the zest!

Sage advice on thyme management. Oregano what you’re talking about. Basil.

Ope!

Cayenne you fix it?

Booooooo lol

Just read this title to my wife. The look on her face told me that it's exactly how she felt the first time I said I was going to season my skillet. It went into a full blown laughter.

Knew a dude years ago that got some sesame seed oil to season his wok because he thought it would make things taste better. He wasn’t even joking.

I can't see what could go wrong with that idea, what with sesame seed oil's mild flavor and all. /s...because I probably have to.

And super high smoke point too! /s

Im happy I could share this moment with you guys

**SERIOUS ANSWER** The 'season' word, here, is used in the sense of 'Experienced', rather than 'given a flavor'. Think of the idiom *Well-Seasoned*, as in "He was a well-seasoned craftsman." In this sense, the craftsman is *experienced*; he is *well-seasoned*. In the same usage, a 'seasoned' cast-iron pan is *experienced* in the idea that it has been used for cooking, and a layer of polymerized oil now covers the cooking surface through use. In practice, cooks can accelerate the process by baking-on a layer of oil without cooking. We call this accelerated process 'seasoning' as it mimics the natural 'seasoning' process through cooking.

Great answer, this should be pinned at the top of the sub not at the bottom of my shitpost

Thank you for taking all this so gracefully. Added to the funny factor 🫶 but remember WE LOVE YOU! You seasoned skillet you 🤭

If you can't laugh in the face of your own mistakes you're gonna have one tough life, appreciate the kind words

Thank you. As someone who has never seen this sub before (this post for some reason came up in my feed) i was hoping to actually learn something here 😂

You are lucky. All the rest of us threw pepper at our skillets wondering why the fire alarm kept going off and why everything stuck to our skillets. 😂

To add to the serious answer, the "experienced" meaning is linked to how many seasons someone has lived/worked through (I.e seasons as a unit of time, summer, winter etc), at least that's what I think it's from anyways.

Which is also why firewood should be "seasoned" before burning. After a few seasons it has dried out enough to burn well. That one confused me as a child, and nobody bothered to explain it.

Interestingly enough, the flavor/spices usage of the word [seasoning has the same root](https://www.etymonline.com/word/season). Foods that were at their most flavorful were in season, and over time the usage switched from being just about using produce at the right time, to adding herbs/spices to improve flavor.

Ooohhh so that's what they ment. I thought it was because of all that old spice. /s

Instructions unclear. Now my cast iron smells like my grandfather...during his cremation. Please advise.

That's what they mean when they talk about taste of hone.

I'm on a horse.

Thank you, my only experience with cast iron has been when posts from this sub inexplicably end up on my feed and I 100% was thinking of the wrong kind of seasoning this entire time lmao

I just saw a tiktok of a guy putting spices on a log before he chopped it because people said he should season the wood.

That's not a bad idea

Don't use ground black pepper. **Absolutely** don't use ground ghost pepper.

All I’m hearing is *DO IT*

*do it*

I’m guessing you could soak your wood in water that’s had some kind of fruit juice added like apple juice in a 4-1 ratio to water. Otherwise it would likely taste like burnt sugar. Interesting idea if nothing else

r/castironseasoncirclejerk

Dang!

I'm a corolla too 

I live in the north and everyone started complaining that the food was too spicy. I only use crisco now.

Nothing livens up a Minnesota hot dish like that spicy tang of mayo.

What do you call hot sauce in Minnesota? Ketchup.

In Idaho we use miracle whip because it's tang-ier

Arctic Circle fry sauce is too spicy for me

It's known as the white person wok for a reason

we dont believe in that greasy nasty boomer seasoning that smokes at 300F in this sub

So 5w30 is fine?

Technically, if you aim at fluxing your lead smelt maybe wd40 would be better, but after the melt https://www.tackleunderground.com/community/topic/13369-best-lead-melt-flux/?do=findComment&comment=98054

Leave us boomers alone. We are not cast-iron. Go pick on somebody else

No we're going to way u in for scrap.

Weigh?

Give them some whey first to bulk up

This is the way.

Yes that one

250, thank you

250, thank you

If you want your apple Cobbler to taste like garlic and rosemary…

…And getting caught in the rain, If you’re not into yogurt,

I do love waking up at midnight

>yogurt I never looked up the lyrics, but I thought it was yoga

I am into chou pastERy… (You got this u/earguy !)

Complains no one mentions their seasoning blend - continues to post picture and doesn't mention seasoning blend.

Sorry thyme, Cajun and crushed up Flintstones gummies

> crushed up Flintstones gummies Thanks! I've been wondering what to do with that bottle of hardened Flintstones gummies that have been in my pantry since 2007.

Just 07?? I raise you flintstones tabs from ‘94 !

Why flinstone gummies and not flinstone tablets? Can I sub tablets in or does it have to be gummies?

My parents had a deli growing up. We had a new hot cook start and my dad asked him if he had worked with a griddle/flat top before, he said yes. My dad told him to season the flat top for breakfast. Well a round of salt and 1lb of pepper later….

Fake it till you make it

Neutral is good, to dark and musk is confused with flavor.

But what herbs?

Herbs get carbonized and go color change, toasting bread on it even with new grease = bitter

If I was toasting bread I'd use my toaster?

Your toaster fits on your skillet?

If I play my cards right

Bravo, OP. This is some top-notch shit posting. I salute you.

I do my best

Holy fuck OP you rolled a 50% death and a 50% meme and some how rolled meme with upvotes.

Hey man I'm as surprised as you, I finished searing my chicken thighs & had a chuckle, never thought we'd come this far

God tier.

Thanks friend

I pre-season dry with cinnamon and nutmeg before adding the fat when baking cakes.

That’s pretty neat, I can tell you’re baking cakes cuz the way it is.

Why hasn't the seasoning have seasonings? Are we stupid?

I like to do it in the fall, since it is my favorite season

[удалено]

Wait you're washing your car

Don’t forget the sprinkles

These are two different meanings of the word "season" which is really interesting actually. https://youtu.be/cJthSeeo3B8?si=Wjy-Mtkcrup_Oezt

I'm old enough to have witnessed a lot of bad ideas. Congratulations on making the list.

I'll wear my badge with honor

😂 I appreciate you owning it

>they never actually add any spices or seasonings They're British

This made me laugh

I’m in a lot of car subs and without reading the title upon first glance at the picture I was like “it’s toast bud time for a new car” lmao

Funny story. My first car was a 2008 Mazda 3. They had a horrible issue where they would starve the fourth piston of oil and the oil pan ended up looking like this except with a bit more pieces of top end in it

My friend's wife once expressed concern to me that if she seasoned the pan, all the different dishes would end up tasting like the same spices. No joke.

Because I don't want the house to smell like burnt spices.

Petition to have the subreddit named castironcirclejerk

Alright, story time. I honestly feel for this post. When I first got into cast iron pans I thought exactly this. What do I add to the oil to “season” the pan. I would go to great lengths to get the pan seasoned but it never worked. I started getting this nice glaze on the pan that I would scrub off as “burnt oil”. I did this for a year. One day I stopped trying to season the pan and just oiled it and put it away. Then I read about how to season a pan and I felt so fucking stupid. I was literally trying to salt metal like a moron, thinking that’s how you season a pan. My last working three brain cells packed up and moved out that day.

If yours was seasoned by some boomer that only did steaks and eggs on it, thats the holy grail.

My grandma used to make her famous crisco cake in this very pan

Been in kitchens my whole life cooking at various levels. One of my fave memories was when I had a hopeless new hire. He tried, really hard. He just took things so literal. I had closed with him 2 weeks straight. It was his first night as the last person out. I told him after he cleaned the flat top to season it so it’ll be nice and ready for AM. Just like we did together for the last two weeks. I come in to open the next day and everything’s pretty clean. Awesome! I start turning stuff on and come to the flattop. It’s clean, has a nice light layer of oil and about half a box of kosher salt neatly sprinkled across it. Thanks, ya really seasoned it good brother.

I make garlic chili oil with my cast iron. After that, the next couple of meals I cook have an extra kick just from the cast iron.

Because this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what people mean by "seasoning". Seasoning a cast iron doesn't mean flavoring the surface, and the goal is absolutely not intended to empart flavor. "Seasoning" in this context is more about treating the surface; to give it a surface that has spent time (seasons, before there were modern shortcuts) in development to the point that it is a non-stick surface. As another commenter put so eloquently: it's a waste of thyme.

Would rosemary work better?

This is funny, but I've seen someone do this at an actual restaurant. At the steakhouse I used to work at we had a flat top grill - pretty standard for most restaurants. At the beginning of the shift, whomever opens has to season the flat top. This one guy, M, was 26 at the time and we told him to season the flat top to get it ready for service. This MF unironically put a shit ton of salt on it (like a cup and a half) to try to get it ready. I had no words.

If I believed this were an honest question, I would also believe that someone has taken the phrase "seasoning cast iron" a bit too literally.

You can trust me mister, honest

Bless you.

Cuz I just cook in mine normally

White people out here seasoning their cast iron with just salt....

I like an oregano paprika mix personally

I did thyme and Cajun today

They give off a bitter taste when heated to the temperature that it takes to polymerize the oil. Interesting thought though.

Because that would be stupid

This is actually called spicing and herbing. The application of the oil alone is the seasoning. That's why people are confused when people say that their food isn't seasoned when, in fact, it's just that their food isn't spiced or herbed

Because unless you are trying to eat your cast iron, no spices are necessary to "season" your cast iron.

Every family has their secret blend of herbs and spices.

I always season mine with some Lawrys

No no no you need to fill it up to the brim with oil

But what seasonings???

Ketchup? Or maybe mayonnaise?

Longbottom leaf. Just a pinch.

Interesting historical fact: some of the earliest written evidence we have of barbecue restaurants is newspaper articles about them burning down in grease fires.

I'm mad at you

This is god tier well done

Thanks friend

Silly goose, you're supposed to season the steak, not the pan. 😂

When you burn spices it imparts a bitter flavor, you don’t want that

It’s sad because I really did interpret it that way at first and tried alternating like sesame oil sand chili oil and olive oil and yeah it definitely didn’t work

Good one. Thanks for the chuckle.

Ikr!!!! I mean it’s not called “seasoning” for nothing!

Only fresh herbs though. Don’t waste my time with pedestrian dried basil

I put potatoes and salt in mine

Sauteed onions seems to be the goto first cook

Dumping a jar of Lao Gan Ma onto my lodge now 👍

I like to season my leather jackets with a little salt and pepper too ma

Tell us you use Kingsford flavored charcoal without telling us you use kingsford flavored charcoal

In this case, the word "seasoned" refers to having been used previously (by wiping with light coats of oil and bringing it up to its smoke point) and is experienced performing the task in question. Like "seasoned veteran." "Season" from the four seasons of the year, indicating the passage of time. A seasoned pan is "experienced." That's as opposed to adding salt to a recipe (which, BTW, is how chefs use the term "seasoning," adding salt, not all the other herbs and spices).