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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Best practice for what oils to use for seasoning, and how to best apply them and get them to form even layers is up in the air.

Best practices are not up in the air. Best practices are to use a thin layer of high smoke point oil like rapeseed oil, baked above it's smoke point for like 20m. Repeat to create a thicker layer.

What you are describing is min/maxing, and getting more specific from there. Yes, eventually researchers may discover even better oils or treatment plans for cast iron, but right now, best practices are known, reliable, not a mystery, and not hard to follow.

[–] UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If there is min/maxing to be done then by definition our current practices are not best. They may be (and generally are) good and functional practices but until the research is done we don't know what best practices are or when to apply them.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

If there is min/maxing to be done then by definition our current practices are not best.

No.

Best practices explicitly and always refers to currently best available current practices.

On top of that, in the context of a discussion with an explicit goal, best practices would explicitly refer to how to the best practices for achieving that goal, not some other nebulous context of "best" practices.