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CAST IRON SKILLET

seasoning in 6 steps and everyday care — after the official Lodge instructions

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

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Formats
A4 · A3 · A2
What you get
Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject
food · everyone · memo · kitchen

Every step, temperature and permission is from the official Lodge Cast Iron pages “How to Season” and “How to Clean” (lodgecastiron.com), checked 2026-08-13. 230–260 °C is computed from 450–500 °F. The skillet silhouette is schematic.

SOAP IS FINE. IT IS NOT A COATING, IT IS BAKED-ON OIL

The hardiest cast iron myth is “never use soap”. Lodge, America’s oldest cast iron foundry, says it plainly: modern dish soap is no longer strong enough to strip seasoning. Because seasoning is not a factory coating — it is oil that heat has polymerised into a slick, hardened film.

Hence the real rule of care: every time you cook with oil or fat, you add the pan one more layer. The best maintenance a skillet can get is simply being cooked in.

On the sheet

  • Every step, temperature and permission is from the official Lodge Cast Iron pages “How to Season” and “How to Clean” (lodgecastiron.com), checked 2026-08-13. 230–260 °C is computed from 450–500 °F. The skillet silhouette is schematic.
  • Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
  • Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

  • Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
  • All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
  • White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
  • Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
  • No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 7 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

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