high dollar cast iron

[Stein]

I never need more than our normal kitchen sink brush we use on everything.  If it's bad, I put some water and back on the stove for a minute or two and it breaks it up.

[Oh Mah]

I never need more than our normal kitchen sink brush we use on everything.  If it's bad, I put some water and back on the stove for a minute or two and it breaks it up.

  never had a cast that didn't clean up with boiling water and a wooden spoon.

[Pathfinder101]

Wow. Missed this thread.  I didn't even know you could spend $200 on a cast iron pan. 
I have three that are well seasoned, and one that my wife threw in the dishwasher about 5 years ago  .  Still trying to get that one back to where it was...

[92xj]

Santa delivered a new piece
Out of the box, heated, added some duck fat that I rendered last week and dropped the pancake batter.  Egg came next.  Both didn't stick and flipped great. 

[msg]

Scrambled eggs on cast iron. i have several pieces and some are smoother than others. The eggs only stick in my experience if cooked  to low and slow. I wait until the oo is just starting to smoke. Pour in the eggs, you should hear it sizzling and see them bubbling at a good pace. Keep them moving with a metal spatula and they will be done in short order and slide out perfectly. Three eggs will be done in amount of time it takes a piece of toast or less depending on the diameter of your skillet. My usual egg pan is a #8 Browning. For more eggs I will use a 10" Lodge. The pan needs to stay hot !

[Special T]

Santa delivered a new piece
Out of the box, heated, added some duck fat that I rendered last week and dropped the pancake batter.  Egg came next.  Both didn't stick and flipped great. 

Nice! What brandnis that? The cooking surface looks machined.

[92xj]

Smithey out of South Carolina.   And yep It’s machined glass smooth.  Saved me my sanding steps.   

[Mudman]

We use a tiny bit of butter on iron.  Cook it up few seconds then the eggs or something else.  No sticky ever.   To re-season old pan I built hot bed of coals in woodstove and inserted pan until almost orange.  Removed (4 pot holders) oiled it cooled it n did it few more times.  Amazing.  We have 3 on the stove and use em almost always.

[Boss .300 winmag]

Oh that's real nice. We have a steel puffy scrubber but it is to aggressive on one of my pans.

What i like about the chain mail is that it is dish washer safe and it will rinse the food out of it compared to a steel sos styled pad.  I have puchased the mail for all my loved ones that use cast iron.

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I got one for Christmas, it works awesome, and dishwasher safe is an added bonus.👍

[Special T]

I'm reviving this thread because I took on a couple of projects. A friend had these cheap Chinese cast iron skillets in his camper and hated them.  He said I could do what ever I wanted with them. So I sanded them down. I going to tell him to give them a try after my work, and if he doesn't like them they will likely go in my brother's camper trailer. I have found that you do not need to sand all the imperfections out to make cheap cast good. I used a 7" sanding flapper wheel on a grinder for the big work then a 2" air powered angle grander with a sanding pad to get the sides and corners.

[phildobaggins]

Thanks for reviving this thread. I am really excited to sand down my Lodge pans and try them out now!!!!

[Special T]

A friend's cabin got flooded and nobody looked under the stove so I told him I would refurbish his Dutch oven and skillet. I should have taken before pics because they were really rusted. The skillet turned out to be a Wagner after I wire wheeled the hell out of it, whased with hit water and cooked in the oven. The Dutch is unknown to me as well as the lid. I have not found many resources on vintage lids. What is interesting is the lid works on both the Dutch and the Wagner skillet. The Dutch has no heat rings or any markings other than the 8Y the lid had 8 with 2 underlines. Any help identifying would be great.

[Special T]

Pictures of the stamping on the Dutch and lid.

[Special T]

Bottom of dutch

[highside74]

I love cast iron revival