I ruined the finish on a cast iron last year by burning some steak pretty badly. I spent a couple hours total mechanically stripping the char. I read this artic

I ruined the finish on a cast iron last year by burning some steak pretty badly. I spent a couple hours total mechanically stripping the char. I read this article. I bought the flax oil. I kept putting off actually doing it. Why? It's gonna smoke. I have a small one bedroom apartment. It's gonna take an hour of baking and two hours of cooling for each coat. It's gonna need at least six coats. Just the time investment seemed insane on a one-pan scale: 18 hours of oven use, plus applying the coats, plus a risk of starting over if something she thinks is obvious wasn't mentioned (this happens to me quite a lot, since "Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail"...). A pre-seasoned replacement cast iron pan is like $50. I bought a dutch oven cast iron set and donated the old pan to whomever picked it up in the waste room of my building, with a note on it.