cleaning cast iron.

[Mike D Texas]

YouTube cowboy Kent

This is the way.


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[brancher147]

All we use is cast iron. I just use a chain mail scrubby then air dry. If they need oil then I heat them to dry then add oil and spread around with a paper towel. Pretty simple.

 

[Jpsmith1]

You’re not wrong - it would be a shame to damage a good antique pan. One of the things we love about old pans is how nice and smooth they were finished at the factory. For anyone who didn’t know that more effort used to be put into the final finish, this old pan with the seasoning stripped off shows how smooth they used to be. They feel so good in the hand, I’m ruined and have to spend an hour smoothing off any new lodge pan that follows me home.

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I understand that the original smoothing was done with low speed stones not modern high speed machinery. Labor was much cheaper then.

I have no issue with modern Lodge other than weight, and I can still slide an egg out of one.

 

[Bluefish]

Dawn.

No lye in modern dawn, least not my bottle

I stopped using dawn. Used to be a great soap and then they changed the formula and the new one stinks. I have been on a quest for a replacement soap for the last year or so. I think I finally found one, seventh generation.