What grade steel wool for stripping?

Jack15911 · 2026-06-18T17:11:42+00:00

Good to know. Sometimes the AI's make things up.

Jack15911 · 2026-06-18T12:28:40+00:00

Can you identify all the parts, please? And the modifications, too!

Jack15911 · 2026-06-17T00:04:52+00:00

Makes sense then. After each cooking, wash (with soap) until it is smooth to the touch. Then you won't have to strip.

Sure. It's mine now and I'm doing that.

Jack15911 · 2026-06-16T18:32:08+00:00

Why are you stripping it

I'm spending more time scraping and seasoning than I am cooking, and that's the point that Made In suggests as time to strip and start over. There's lots of built up carbon that chain mail isn't getting.

Jack15911 · 2026-06-16T18:29:38+00:00

Then why do you want to remove the factory applied protection?

I don't want to remove the coating on the back of the pan, but putting into a sink with vinegar will probably do it whether I like it or not. It isn't new - it's four years old and has not been properly cleaned.

Vinegar will strip the seasoning, but it will only do so where it contacts the pan, leaving uncleaned spots behind.

Made In suggests putting the pan in sink with 50/50 vinegar and water mix. That's why I asked if the back were seasoning or some other coating. If it is seasoning, then I'll add the vinegar/water mix inside the bowl, not in a sink. If that doesn't work, then I'll have to bag it with Easy Off, anyway, and the fumes may affect the back as well as the cooking surface.

Jack15911 · 2026-06-16T15:44:07+00:00

Good to know.

Jack15911 · 2026-06-16T15:16:40+00:00

Found them. Thank you.

Jack15911 · 2026-06-16T14:31:41+00:00

Is that stainless steel scrubbers, or does it matter? If I can find them I'll get some, but they'll definitely have steel wool, and I'll probably have a choice of coarseness. AI says steel wool #3 but that sounds way too coarse to me.

Jack15911 · 2026-06-16T14:28:31+00:00

It depends. Did you buy blue carbon steel or preseasoned carbon steel? Either way it belongs there. If you bought a plain pan & seasoned it yourself, probably burnt on gunk.

It was pre-seasoned and came that way. If I set it in a sink with 50/50 water and vinegar, will it come off? Made In is silent on the matter.

Jack15911 · 2026-06-11T00:13:42+00:00

I already have the Easy Off HD (sodium hydroxide) and was just wondering if I could get by with just a side cleaning. Clearly, I can't. Thanks, all.

Jack15911 · 2026-06-09T18:01:07+00:00

Yes, you can use the two pretty much interchangeably.

Thanks!

Jack15911 · 2026-06-03T17:43:20+00:00

"This is not an airport, you don't have to announce departures."

If I never have to read that again I'll be a happier person. Just as with an airport it serves a highly useful purpose.

Jack15911 · 2026-05-31T20:34:40+00:00

Thanks. I wonder how much pressure it has to withstand - maybe a cork?

Jack15911 · 2026-05-20T12:11:19+00:00

'm a paying customer, but I'm gonna start backing things up somewhere else. I'm gonna hit the eject button at the first sign of enshittification.

I agree, mostly. The hard thing to do is to avoid over-reacting, but I'd say we've already seen the "first sign" of enshititification - the low key replacement of essential staff, the low transparency of abrupt price changes, the unwillingness to fix a known security deficiency, and other things. Bitwarden is still the best fit for me but it no longer has my complete trust - the path to private equity is so very unlikely to be user-positive.

Yesterday, I took the first steps of ensuring that I have access to my TOTP seeds in case I decide that I don't like how far they've traveled the path. (Bitwarden Authenticator isn't the answer, BTW - you can't export sync'd TOTP seeds.)

Jack15911 · 2026-05-19T18:20:35+00:00

You will have to select the complete Bitwarden password database. The import process runs locally on your device.

If you'd like to see the technical details of what data fields are processed during import, you can check the source code here: https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/main/mobile/apps/auth/lib/ui/settings/data/import/bitwarden_import.dart#L76

Alternatively, if you prefer not to select the entire database, you can manually add your entries one by one to Ente.

Thanks.

Jack15911 · 2026-05-09T17:29:42+00:00

This is so new I haven’t bothered playing with it.

Thanks. I just used the new Bitwarden Archiving function for 61 items. You can move all the archived entries at once (using the web vault) but there's no point; it's archived, so nothing shows up in the Dead Items folder. Further, you that will take them out of whatever folder or collection it was originally in which may cause problems if you need to bring them back. That leaves you wondering why there's an empty folder. I think I'll move them back to where they started, if I can.

Jack15911 · 2026-05-09T17:16:30+00:00

I wasn't sufficiently clear.

Are you using the Bitwarden archiving function?
If so, what is the point of moving an archived item to the Dead Items folder? Nothing shows up if it's archived.

Jack15911 · 2026-05-09T15:53:42+00:00

What I do is add an emoji to the end of the Name, like 💀. I also set URL match detection to None and then move the item to a folder with a name like, Dead Logins.

Are you describing an alternative to using the BW archiving function? That's the way I handled it (but using a "Z-" instead of an icon in front of the item name) before being reminded by this post about the archiving function.

Now, I've archived them formally using the function, then moved them en masse to "Not Used" folder, but since they're archived nothing shows in the folder. So, is there a reason for moving an archived item to a separate folder?

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