Serious question, why did nobody tell me I was seasoning my cast iron wrong for 8 years?

Saw a comment from a guy who said he just cooks bacon in his pan and never oils it, and I realized I'd been spending way too much time with flaxseed oil and oven cycles for nothing.

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the_hayden22d ago

Eight years? Man, that hurts. I went three years with the flaxseed method myself, oven on for hours, kitchen smelling like a weird science project, and the seasoning still flaked off after a month. Finally just started cooking burgers and cornbread in mine and it fixed everything. Feel your pain though, all that wasted effort when the answer was just cooking normal food.

the_nina22d ago

That flaxseed kitchen smell reminds me of the time I tried seasoning a pan with bacon grease and set off every smoke alarm in the house.