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I am more inclined to address what you do in-between uses. How do you clean it after use?
I only use water and a brush, while still hot/warm, with hot water, then air dry. The seasoning accumulated over time.

 

Same. I treated mine like lace the first couple of years, just cold/lukewarm water and no soap, then dry it completely, then rub a thin film of oil on to store it.
Now that it's built up a good seasoning I use hot water, a little soap when needed, and just dry it off. I don't bother with oiling it afterwards any more, but that's mostly because I use most of my cast iron just about every day, so rust really never gets a chance to start. The dutch oven gets used less frequently, and that gets a coat of oil between uses, but I only use that a few times a month.

 

Pics are after cooking burgers and wiped out with paper towel. 1 pic with flash, 1 without.

 

I only use hot water and a brush, wipe dry and then oil.

 

i pretty much do what Curt does. if it is particularly nasty, like i just cooked some sweeten bacon, i will pour in some hot water and let the pan simmer a bit..then brush it out, put it back on heat to dry and wipe a drip of oil around. i try to wipe it clean like i am trying to get all the oil out.

 

My new favorite cast iron pan.

 

Any of y'all use the chain mail cast iron scrubbers? Ive used one for a while, and they do a really good job.... mostly. I think if you burn something to the pan it won't get that off entirely. I noticed my flea market rescue Wagner wasn't as non stick as it was, so I scrubbed it hard a couple weeks ago with a green scotch pad and got all kinds of black crust off. Seems good as new now.

Anyway, here's the breakfast aftermath - pancakes and bacon.


After Hot pan+ hot water + chain mail




After a little oil




Love this pan.

 

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I have a similar pan from Griswold. It’s my most used pan, mainly because of “tortillas”. I just leave it on my stove top. Total multi-tasker. I bake small roast with it, potstickers kick ass on it, etc. this one got a bit crusty so I baked it for an hour in my grill as hot as I could. I tapped it, and carbon dust fell off. I then wet sanded it with paper until it looks shiny and silver. It was a bitch to season. It was so smooth, the season was slow and incremental. Ice age slow.

I have a bigger one, even slicker. It’s un-marked, but i was told it’s older. It’s not crusty, and I’ll never sand down a pan again.

 

My egg cast iron isnt smooth looking but its seasoned good to cook eggs

 

That’s bad ass!

 

First Dutch baby I've done! Went well for breakfast this morning with maple butter.

 

They are nearly black, so no I don't think so. I know what you mean tho.

 

Bacon has sugar. Sugar sticks.

 

https://youtu.be/E326JLEcjn8 two of mine make appearances here

 

Dunno if it will turn out or not but i had one loaf pan for banana bread and had some leftover so i heated my small cast iron pan and put the leftover in that.

 

Almost done, i added pineapple to it...

 

I’ve been trying to use this as much as possible this spring/summer.

 

Dinner last night at camp.



The neighbors were less than impressed.