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Originally Posted by ironbender
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Slight tangent:

When you oil your CI, do you wipe the outside/bottom of the pan?
Initially, I do, but after that just the interior.
Do you have a gas range? It seems the blue flame erodes the bottom seasoning, then they can get some rust.
Somehow, I've never gotten any rust after close to fifteen years of cooking with cast iron.

Here's the bottom.

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Any oil that I might have.. It was my grandfather’s Macey’s.. 1912/14 He was a telegrapher for the RR..


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Bacon grease. I never wash with soap and water, I just run some hot water over it and wipe it down.

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Bacon grease. I never wash with soap and water, I just run some hot water over it and wipe it down.

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When my cast iron gets horribly caked up on the outside, and it eventually will, I build a big hardwood fire and toss my cast iron in.
Once the gunk has burned off, I brush it with a fine wire brush.
Then it gets a liberal coat of olive oil (EVOO) inside and out, and goes into the oven at 350• for about an hour.
Cool them and use them.

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Originally Posted by MartinStrummer
When my cast iron gets horribly caked up on the outside, and it eventually will, I build a big hardwood fire and toss my cast iron in.
Once the gunk has burned off, I brush it with a fine wire brush.
Then it gets a liberal coat of olive oil (EVOO) inside and out, and goes into the oven at 350• for about an hour.
Cool them and use them.

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Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by ironbender
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by ironbender
Slight tangent:

When you oil your CI, do you wipe the outside/bottom of the pan?
Initially, I do, but after that just the interior.
Do you have a gas range? It seems the blue flame erodes the bottom seasoning, then they can get some rust.
Somehow, I've never gotten any rust after close to fifteen years of cooking with cast iron.

Here's the bottom.

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Looks cut by the oxidizing flame.

Losing the makers marks, if that matters to you.

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This pan gets the most use. Several times per day.
It’ll get an oil wipe before the morning eggs.

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Originally Posted by wabigoon
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Electric range?

A gas range can be lit when power is out.


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Originally Posted by ironbender
Looks cut by the oxidizing flame.

Losing the makers marks, if that matters to you.
I plan to be buried with it, so it doesn't matter. grin

Truth be told, though, if I were to burn off all the carbon buildup by putting it in the oven on the clean mode, the bottom would likely look new afterwards.


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Originally Posted by ironbender
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Electric range?

A gas range can be lit when power is out.
Yep, that's been handy for me many times. Just turn it on and use the grill lighter.


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It would take a lot of moving the torch (assuming wabi was trying to spell acetylene) to not induce thermal stress in the CI.

I think he was joshing.


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Originally Posted by ironbender
This pan gets the most use. Several times per day.
It’ll get an oil wipe before the morning eggs.

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That’s pretty neat. You can cook four different things at one time! whistle



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That’s the pan I found in an old camp in the Kenai mountains. Dismounted from my horse and felt something oddly flat under my foot. It’s great for fried eggs or pancakes.


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Originally Posted by ironbender
That’s the pan I found in an old camp in the Kenai mountains. Dismounted from my horse and felt something oddly flat under my foot. It’s great for fried eggs or pancakes.
That was a good find, I bet someone was heartbroken over losing that one.



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