Season pan salvageable?

[BUDFORCE]

Hi all,

I have a couple of other pans, woks actually, a carbon steel Asian one, cheap and thin I use on a gas burner, and a heavy cast iron one

Both I have managed to get really good surfaces on and are a dream to cook on.

This pan was a gift de buyer mineral b I believe, would have been expensive.

I cannot get a good season on it. The pan is heading towards 2 years old, always rubbed and heated oil, not cleaned with detergent etc, but all that seems to happen is the oil burns patches on, that flake off.

My only thought is when I first got it I may have tried to force a season on it, I put it on a gas burner outside for an hour or so putting oil on it, but probably a slightly deeper layer of oil than I should.

The pictures below I have had to resort to giving it a bit of a scrub with a sponge scour, because the pan was getting borderline unusable. Is this salvageable? Any suggestions, scrub down with metal scour maybe and try again?

 

[BUDFORCE]

Never any need to bin these pans - they can be "reset" very easily. Either in a pyrolytic oven, or use one of those heavy duty oven cleaners with the bags.

Silly Q - but did you definitely get all the wax off when it was new? It comes with a thin covering, but have heard people having real issues seasoning if they didn't get it all off.

Other than that, I've found these pretty easy to season really - I normally add some flax / whatever oil, super thin, upside down in a hot oven for an hour, then let cool in the oven. Do this a few times and then build as normal. Some will say you don't even need to bother with that.

Thanks I'll give it a go.

I'll update this thread in due course.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Call me a heathen if you will.... Wire brush on the end of a drill not make faster work of it?

Well heathen or not it's exactly what I had to resort to.

I tried soaking in vinegar, then something called vanquish, which is a commercial grade oven cleaner.... nothing.

So basically took a brass wire brush drill head to it:

To the touch it's relatively smooth, but before I try to re-season I'm am going to take some wet and dry paper to it to try and really get the surface smooth.

Just waiting for that to turn up in the post.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Well, my wet and dry paper turned up wasn't quite what I had intended, problem with buying stuff like that online, was a lot rougher then I had anticipated but still gave it a bit of a go.

I have not dared cook on it yet, but I've given it 4 rounds of very light seasoning and 24 hours to rest in between as one youtube channel suggested and I think it should be getting there.

I might give it another few rounds of seasoning then try and cook an egg.