To season a cast-iron skillet in the oven, wipe the interior and exterior of the pan with a thin layer of oil and bake it at a high temperature (somewhere between 450 and 500 F) for about one hour ...

The craftsmen at Borough Furnace in Syracuse, N.Y., are making cast-iron cookware the old-fashioned way—sturdy, naturally nonstick, completely by hand—with a forward-looking commitment to ...