works of wanderlust

Tag: cast iron seasoning

  • Strip this Pan, Part Four

    In short, and to conclude this short series of posts, the effort to strip and re-season the twenty-inch reversible grill was a modest success. In the end, it was a combination of elbow grease and chemical oven cleaner that seemed to net me the best result of the multiple methods I tried. I found that

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  • Strip this Pan, Part Three

    Time being limited and linear, it’s taken me over a month to get around to tackling the twenty-inch reversible grill reseasoning project. For reference, check out parts one and two wherein I presented my options to deal with the pitting that was destroying the five-year-old seasoned surface of my Saturday morning pancake flattop and tried

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  • Strip This Pan, Part Two

    I know that with a name like “the cast iron guy” you might expect that I’m some kind of guru in cast iron when in reality it as much about a philosophy of life that is expressed in the form and function of cast iron as much as a so-called cast iron expertise. I write

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  • Strip This Pan, Part One

    My big ol’ twenty inch reversible grill has developed some pitting over the summer and I’ve been contemplating the pros and cons of various methods to strip a pan down to bare metal and start the seasoning process from scratch. 1. A self-cleaning oven on clean mode heats up the pan hot enough to incinerate

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  • The Hot Pan of Endless Convenience

    This is not the first time I’ve brought up my mushroom grilling wonder pan on this blog, and it is unlikely to be the last. A summer of backyard grilling and open-flame cooking has done nothing short of cementing my resolve celebrate a years-long (if accidental) effort to season a chunk of generic cast iron

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