I photographed this iron skillet with a penny so you can see how wee it is. Very. Also, however, its rust is even darker than a dirty copper penny. That is because Correct Skillet Care has not been followed. This can get you banned from Southern kitchens. You don’t want that, so I’m posting Correct Skillet Care below.
You’re welcome.
Have you cleaned it yet..?
Nope!
A friend from community college and later on into university had a cast iron skillet. He was staying in an apartment complex well known to be party zone central, with room apartments and common kitchens and living areas. It wasn’t on campus, but it might as well had been. I needed a Proper Apartment setting, as I needed to control my distractions.
Anyway one of his room neighbors ran his cast iron skillet through the dishwasher. I told he should have been my roommate in my apartment, as I know better.
Yikes. Yes, no dishwashers! No Brillo pads (or similar). My mother had ONE skillet for cornbread and nothing else, and woe be to anyone who misused it.