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Flaxseed oil is garbage, just use animal fat like your (great great) grandparents did. Cast iron was perfected when people cooked with lard and tallow, not vege
by dbt00 4y ago
Flaxseed oil is garbage, just use animal fat like your (great great) grandparents did. Cast iron was perfected when people cooked with lard and tallow, not vegetable oils, which are a 20th century invention.
Vegetable oil works ok too, but honestly use that trimmed fat from a beef roast or something, render it to liquid, and then season it the same way you did with vegetable oil and see how it compares.
- mrob 4y ago>vegetable oils, which are a 20th century invention Sesame oil is a vegetable oil (made from seeds, and primarily polyunsaturated), and it was first cultivated for oil production more than 5000 years ago.
- dbt00 4y agoTrue, and olive oil also dates back that far. The soybean, corn and canola/rapeseed represent the majority of cooking oils used today. They're fairly modern inventions.
- legulere 4y ago> vegetable oils, which are a 20th century invention. I highly doubt that, my local open air museum has an oil mill from 1860 that was producing linseed oil: https://freilandmuseum.de/besuchen/orientieren-im-museum/baugruppe-west/oelmuehle-von-der-flederichsmuehle https://freilandmuseum.de/besuchen/orientieren-im-museum/bau... Also you have thousands of years of history using olive oil. On the other hand the use of animal products is way higher than it used to be.