Preparing Iron Skillet(Dosa tawa) For the first time

So reading all the Benifits of iron casting vesseles and dosa tawas....went and bouth my iron dosa tawa from the traditional iron makers here in chennai..When i bought my first iron dosa tawa for the first use i went all the way through all the website but dint find nothing useful,

Then came Each girls fairy ..their mother

here is wat i did for my dosa tawa which now makes a super crisp dosa without any stickings

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U Need:

Lemon Salt - 1 Cup
Rock Salt - 1 cup
Iron Scrubber - 1
warm water
Liquid soap - Preferably Lemon base
rice portiage - 1 cup
oil - 3-4 tbsp
dosa batter - 1 small cup enough for one dosa

• First Wash ur tawa with soap throughly with liquid soap 
• then pour the rice portiage on the tawa till it can hold and leave over night
• the next day morning throw away the portiage and scrape the tawa with the scrubber and lemon salt and wash
• repeat the lemon salt wash atleas for three or four times
• then again pour the rice poriage and keep it aside for the whole day
• now on the next day completly wash the dosa tawa and put the rock salt on it
• scrub with the srubber niecly so that all the rust that are remaining will fall off
• wash once
• now put the dosa tawa on the flame apply oil
• now pour the dosa batter on in and cook the dosa
• once the dosa is cooked take it away from the tawa and throw it away
• it should not be consumed
• now apply 3 tbsp of oil in the dosa tawa and apply it all over the tawa
• now the dosa tawa is ready for the use
• even before using it for dosa u can season it using musturd seeds and onions for best results