My uncle swore by oven seasoning and I called it lazy, then I tried it on a skillet I'd been fighting with for 3 months | Cast Iron Comrades - The Community Guide
Remember those old cast iron pans hanging in grandma's kitchen that looked like they were coated in black glass? I spent a whole weekend scrubbing one down to bare metal because some guy online said the buildup was gross. Took forever and my arms were dead. Then my mom saw it and just shook her head, said I ruined 40 years of seasoning in one afternoon. She was right too. The pan never cooked the same after that, eggs stuck every single time. Sometimes the "lazy" way is just the way that's been working since before we were born.