Cast iron got rancid

[Haufbbq]

Left my cast iron seasoned with crisco, now pan smells rancid. Any suggestions appreciated.

 

[Westx]

http://blackirondude.blogspot.com/2008/12/cleaning-your-cast-iron-cookware.html?m=1

 

[aks801]

Maybe just burn it off. Put the skillet in a warm oven for 20 minutes or so and let it just sweat that stuff off. Then take it out, pour in just a touch of vegetable oil and swab it around.

 

[HunkyDory]

Get it good and hot, like 400 degrees for at least a half hour till it stops smoking out the bad crisco then scrub it out with salt and fresh vegetable oil I use canola. After it cools you can throw in a silica dessicant packet if you want for storage. I don't use water on my dutch ovens or frying pans but some people do and that is fine. Just be sure to get it hot enough to get rid of the water after washing it. Once you build up a layer of carbon on the cooking surface you've got a fine cooking tool that only gets better with time.

 

[IamMadMan]

Yes, crisco does go rancid over time....

When you season the pan you should take the greased pan to the smoke point of the oil, and remove any excess oil and let slowly cool in the oven/grill. The heat rearranges the fat molecules and forms a hard polymer on the surface. Polymerized fat is hard, glassy, and slick. The black color (as opposed to deep brown) comes from burnt material (carbon) bound up in the polymerized fat when you bake the pan above the oil’s smoke point.

I also use a monounsaturated oil because they doesn’t go rancid. You don’t need to refrigerate flax seed oil which is a monounsaturated fat and doesn't go rancid.

 

[m-fine]

There is a fine line between seasoned and dirty. You don't want to soak it with soap and scrub it if you don't have to, but you do need to keep them clean, and if it is properly seasoned, (light) washing with soap and water from time to time will not take the seasoning off. If it comes off that easily, it was dirt not seasoning.

A THIN coat of oil should be enough to protect it. I apply to a hot pan to make sure any water is boiled off and the oil is thin.

 

[SirPorkaLot]

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Left my cast iron seasoned with crisco, now pan smells rancid. Any suggestions appreciated.

Heat it up and put a layer of coarse (kosher type) sea salt in the pan and use the salt to scrub the pan.

The salt will act as an abrasive and remove the top layer of seasoning without damaging the pan.

 

[Smoke Dawg]

Just re-season. This flax seed method works real good

http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/

 

[WareZdaBeef]

Came to say, wipe clean, pre heat to 400-450F and scrub with kosher salt and a ball of aluminum foil.

 

[cfrazier77]

Put it in your oven on the self cleaning cycle. If will remove it all to bare iron.

 

[Jaredhulon323]

Burn it. Place in fire until red hot, add fill with lard, olace into fire, wait for grease fire to burn out wipe clean with paper towels, and then add a thin layer of mineral oil. Just remember to rinse with water before cooking in it. Mineral oil will not gum up. I use this method for all of my cast iron cookware

 

[1MoreFord]

If your cast iron is getting a rancid odor you aren't using it often enough.:wink:

 

[Haufbbq]

If your cast iron is getting a rancid odor you aren't using it often enough.:wink:

Indeed, the ci in my camper workin great....the one at home got lonely. Hoping for a fish fry this weekend (walleye)...blackened I'm thinking, if they're biting.

 

[SmokinJohn]

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Heat it up and put a layer of coarse (kosher type) sea salt in the pan and use the salt to scrub the pan.

The salt will act as an abrasive and remove the top layer of seasoning without damaging the pan.

What he said...just wear fireproof gloves....