Who loves their cast iron cookware?

[medic92]

If you do, let me give you a little tip:

Do NOT store your favorite perfectly seasoned iron skillet in the oven where your wife can forget it's there and use the oven's self-cleaning feature.

Back to square one.

 

[Tophmaster]

Ouch! Sorry brother nothing like having to start over on that seasoning. On a separate note there are not many better ways to ruin the oven than using the self cleaning feature...

 

[PatAttack]

16Adams loves his cast iron!!!

 

[Ham14]

Yeah, I do lots of cooking on mine. Was blessed to have been givin a pan that was my great grandmothers.

 

[TedW]

I have a little collection and they have to be babied. Fortunately, I'm happy to oblige...

 

[tb80]

I feel, to a degree, your pain. I came home the other day and the cast iron had been scrubbed with soap and left on a drying rack still wet.

And for the record, it was not my wife or me that did that. Apparently the cleaning lady took too much initiative.

 

[gtr]

At my house everybody knows you don't let the dogs out and don't fark with my cast iron.

 

[Jrogers84]

Love cast iron. Literally the only thing in this world I collect. I have spent a few years learning the history and identification of most stuff. I have stacks and stack and a 55 gallon e-tank set up in my garage. I love bbq but my true addiction lies in cast iron.

 

[medic92]

Ouch! Sorry brother nothing like having to start over on that seasoning. On a separate note there are not many better ways to ruin the oven than using the self cleaning feature...

Yeah, she was unaware of the dangers of the self-cleaning feature.

 

[medic92]

I feel, to a degree, your pain. I came home the other day and the cast iron had been scrubbed with soap and left on a drying rack still wet.

And for the record, it was not my wife or me that did that. Apparently the cleaning lady took too much initiative.

I bought a 10 1/2 inch skillet from a woman several months ago that scrubbed it with a metal scratch pad to get "all the black stuff" off it before she sold it to me.

 

[Sol00]

Do over for sure.

 

[jimithing78]

Well it sucks but it's not the worst thing that could have happened. My wife made some scrambled eggs in one of my cast iron pans the other day and left it to soak in the sink full of water when she was done. Luckily it was just one of the lodge pans and not a griswold. I took the opportunity and hit it with an angle grinder to smooth down some of the rough finish that comes on lodges.

 

[CakeM1x]

:doh:

 

[Jrogers84]

I bought a 10 1/2 inch skillet from a woman several months ago that scrubbed it with a metal scratch pad to get "all the black stuff" off it before she sold it to me.

As a rul of thumb I do not trust anyone elses seasoning anyways. She would of just saved me a step! :clap:

 

[TedW]

I have stacks and stack and a 55 gallon e-tank set up in my garage.

Plastic tank, I assume? That's a good idea. I have all the parts for an e-tank, but I was going to use a 30 gallon plastic garbage can. I bought all kinds of graphite rods and plates. The battery charger, etc.

 

[Jrogers84]

Plastic tank, I assume? That's a good idea. I have all the parts for an e-tank, but I was going to use a 30 gallon plastic garbage can. I bought all kinds of graphite rods and plates. The battery charger, etc.

Yessir. Using an old rain catcher. I use SS as mu anode because I ran into a fair amount of scrap I want to use.

 

[Yellowhair42]

The only thing I use my oven for is to store all my cast iron, but I don't have a wife.

 

[tonyjohnson619]

My m9ther in law thought she was helping when she scrubbed my 12 inch skillet after dinner one night

 

[IXL]

If you do, let me give you a little tip:

Do NOT store your favorite perfectly seasoned iron skillet in the oven where your wife can forget it's there and use the oven's self-cleaning feature.

Back to square one.

So, you're getting a new wife?

 

[chet8888]

What is the preferred method of seasoning? I bought my wife a Lodge grill pan on one side/flat skillet on the other. I followed Cooks Illustrated's method of using flax seed oil with about 5 coats- -and it is better than when I bought it "pre-seasoned", but food still sticks to the ridges on the grill side. It is frustrating.