sanded out my new lodge 12†skillet now on to seasoning 🤓
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Beautiful job, Brother!
Please, tell me more, as to th hows...
I so wanna do this (sandin) to some/most/alla my Lodges; they'd jus be happier to cook in.
Personally, I'd rather they still sold unseasoned pans, an lemme take it from there...early "pre-seasoned" Lodges were a sticky, tacky disaster, in my experience, an were immediately stripped bare!
They've gotten better, but I kinda hate payin fer a process that I gotta put a lot of sweat n elbow grease into removin...seems kinda counter-productive, an economically wasteful, from my personal viewpoint.
I jus seasoned up some new Lodges, few days back (posted in CI)...
Against my better judgement, I did so, over their factory seasonin, as an experiment.
We'll see how that goes, an I'll be certain to post my findins.
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Used my 4†grinder with a 80 grit layered grinding pad tell most moderate pitting was gone then 100 grit orbital sander and then 180 about 45 minutes of work plenty good for me going to give it a good 5 costs of seasoning all my other skillets Griss walls And SK total non stick this lodge is going to be a great one🤓
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Many years ago -- in an attempt to clean out my kitchen that I did not fully think through -- I mistakenly put my few cast iron pans in the garage. For over a year. Through a hurricane. (Oops.)
I nearly threw them out, but after some serious googling/youtube watching, to my astonishment, I was able to restore them. It took some serious steel-wool scrubbing and a few trips through the oven's self-clean cycle, but I got that rust off. In fact, my most used piece of cookware is my 12" lodge. I can easily cook a fried egg in that thing and it doesn't stick at all!
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Nice. Looking forward to seeing your finished product.Comment
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Any downside to sanding cast iron until very smooth? SpinakerComment
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On mine there were some pits pretty deep so I had to sand a lot to get down to those. I think you want a step rougher than glass-smooth or it will be harder to season. Mine is a little too smooth. I’ve actually considered roughing it up a bit.
My 15yr old 12†lodge is smoothed from use which I think is actually a better surface.
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Sweet man. Looking forward to seeing the steps.Comment
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AttjackNo luck findin his post, but Spinaker ~recently showed a Lodge he had sanded down all smooth, I believe it was a gift for somebody else, iirc.
Aha! Found Spinaker's sanded Lodge skillet
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Post 111 is my sanded logic
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Thanks Brother! Polarbear777 I seen that one, as well, searchin fer Spinaker's sanded Lodge, an should have included it fer additional reference...no slight intended.
Beautiful Job, bettin it cooks as sweet as it looks!
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Sanding a new lodge nets you the same performance as modern fancy ones at less than 1/5 the cost.
Took many many coarse sanding pads and an hour or so to do mine. And be prepared for the dust etc.Comment
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O my gosh got my skillet smoking hot reverse seared a rib roast last night perfection non stick. This morning hash browns 2 sausage patties one bratt I Chicken thiegh six eggs cheese and no stick I do believe we have a winnerAttached FilesComment
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Excellent!!!! Gonna have to try this myself.
Congrats on a successful mod. 👍Comment
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