Took me 4 garage sales to realize I was washing vintage cast iron wrong
Picked up a beat up #8 skillet for $5 in Dayton and scrubbed it with soap like my regular pans for weeks, wonderin why the seasoning kept flaking off. Saw a guy at the next sale gently scraping rust with a chainmail scrubber and no soap, so I looked it up and felt like an idiot. Anyone else ruin something cheap before figuring out the proper care trick?