Cast Iron

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A community for cast iron cookware. Recipes, care, restoration, identification, etc.

Rules: Be helpful when you can, be respectful always, and keep cooking bacon.

More rules may come as the community grows, but for now, I'll remove spam or anything obviously mean-spirited, and leave it at that.

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Do I need to start over or can this be salvaged? (mander.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by ShadowAndFlame@mander.xyz to c/castiron@lemmy.world

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Also this might be off topic for this community as this is a carbon steel pan (Merten & Storck).

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[–] Nick@mander.xyz 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I'd just keep cooking with it. I wish someone had told me that when I was getting started with carbon steel. In my experience, keeping the seasoning visually even across the pan is much harder on carbon steel than cast iron. I was restarting constantly because it would look splotchy, but eventually gave up on that. As long as it performs fine and there's no rust, there's nothing to worry about. Eventually it'll all even out.

[–] Dabundis@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

This sentiment is worth spreading. Cast iron pans were around long before anyone knew what a polymer was. You can get a -good- seasoning coat from just regular use. Active seasoning can give you a -better- one, but pans have lasted decades and generations on just the seasoning gained from cooking.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'd melt it down and recast it.

Usually with cast iron if I damage the seasoning at all this is my workflow.

[–] steakmeoutt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No you don’t.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Yes I do.

[–] Syd@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait really? I thought sandblasting was extreme.

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 1 points 7 months ago

That's...no one recasts cast iron. That's so expensive and time consuming for such a cheap material.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is that actually cast iron? Never seen a pan like that called so.

[–] chasingtheflow@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It’s carbon steel, but the seasoning process is the same.