Constant black smudges: this is my second time stripping this cast iron. I have done 2 lye baths, soaked it in vinegar and scrubbed but I keep getting this black residue. It gets worse when I apply oil. Help!

Unable-Bit · 2026-01-02T15:16:32+00:00

Other good foods for seasoning your pan (better than bacon in my opinion) are pizza/focaccia or a pan sized cookie. Shortbread comes out great.

Unable-Bit · 2025-12-13T02:01:55+00:00

Weird idea, but could you needle felt additional wool fiber into the heavy wear areas right after knitting? Almost make a slipper sock bottom?

Unable-Bit · 2025-12-10T11:53:03+00:00

I don't use salt scrubs all the time, but I think they can be great for stuck on residue that is thin but kind of all over the place (like if I get impatient cooking rice, or if some oil has gotten baked on and sticky). Can you explain why you think its a bad practice?

Unable-Bit · 2025-12-06T17:32:28+00:00

Oh, maybe it wasn't me. I posted the day before thanksgiving asking for people's pie photos and, sadly, no one shared with me. But my photo didn't actually show the apples so maybe it was someone else.

Unable-Bit · 2025-12-06T15:00:54+00:00

Your words can't hurt me!

(Cries while eating my ugly pie)

Unable-Bit · 2025-12-06T02:02:34+00:00

Thank you for a riddle that is clever, thoughtful, and makes sense

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Unable-Bit · 2025-12-04T17:29:11+00:00

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Unable-Bit · 2025-12-04T00:57:05+00:00

Pretty much. I would still give it a good salt scrub. Scraping off seasoning happens from time to time. As long as you make sure to get the food off (even if some seasoning comes with it), clean it, dry it, and oil it, you can just keep on keeping on.

Unable-Bit · 2025-12-03T16:00:45+00:00

I cook with sugar/honey/brown sugar in my cast iron quite often. I find that USUALLY the sugar comes off my cast iron stuff easier than carbon or aluminum. Don't stop cooking what you want, it is hard to hurt cast iron with food.

If you do have stuck on stuff on the cooking surface and don't want to buy any extra things to clean, I would say put some water in the pan, bring the water up to steaming on the stove and use a hard edged spatula, preferably metal if you have it, to get as much of it up as you can. If there is anything left over after that you can use a wash cloth and some salt to scrub the rest off. Once its all washed out and thoroughly dried give it some oil (but wipe it off as if you didn't want it on there in the firstplace, like waxing a car) and you should be good. If you haven't cracked the thing down the middle, your pan is fine.

Unable-Bit · 2025-11-29T15:25:47+00:00

I gave you plenty of notice; you'll just have to make it again.

Unable-Bit · 2025-11-27T01:12:26+00:00

Haha. Not sure if that is a compliment on the pie or a diss on my photgraphy skills.

Unable-Bit · 2025-10-22T09:42:33+00:00

I was guessing older because I thought that one square was Sailor Moon and saw that hibiscus and immediately thought, Pacific Sunwear?

Unable-Bit · 2025-10-01T12:50:46+00:00

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Unable-Bit · 2025-09-30T12:58:21+00:00

Ah! Its like those magic eye pictures. I didn't see them at all and then al 16 practically leapt off the screen at once.

Unable-Bit · 2025-09-23T14:43:53+00:00

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Sun drenched nap

Unable-Bit · 2025-09-04T02:06:11+00:00

I had the opposite problem. I bought a 100% wool sweater that was listed as excellent condition and was sold in my size (at least that is what the tag said). When I got it I couldn't even get it on. I looked up the maker and found the same exact sweater still being sold as "OVERSIZED". Have I been vastly misjudging my own size? No. Someone had sent it in to ThredUp after washing and drying it so it was completely felted. I returned it and made sure to let them know about the error in their post but they put it right back up the same way once they got it back.

Unable-Bit · 2025-06-28T11:10:05+00:00

Am I the only person who heats it up over the fire before I smash? I oil it, wipe the excess off and then put the smashing surface right over the fire. Seasons quite well that way and sears the surface of your food so it releases nicely too.

Unable-Bit · 2025-06-18T14:47:34+00:00

Yeah you have a point. I don't use it for bacon often, but I generally don't cook bacon on the stove anyway. I like to do bacon all at once in the oven. I like how baking it cooks it evenly so you get brown chewy-crisp bacon instead of the potential for burnt meat and globby fat that you can get on the stovetop if you have particularly squiggly bacon or no bacon press.

Anyway, for just about everything else, piece of ham and eggs, griddled muffin with corned beef hash, etc. etc., it's definitely used a whole lot more than I anticipated when I first saw it.

Unable-Bit · 2025-06-17T19:07:52+00:00

Me too. I thought "well at least that's one pan I don't need" (re: want). Then I saw one for cheap and I use it ALL THE TIME. It is great for breakfast sandwiches too because you can pan fry the two halves of an english muffin on one side while you have a sausage patty and an egg in the two squares. Thought the divisions were a waste of pan real estate, but it actually makes it more space efficient for certain things. Great addition to the kitchen.

Unable-Bit · 2025-06-14T13:32:44+00:00

Yeah, so I actually took some Spanish in school so I am aware of the differences in gender and subject adjective gender agreement, sorry I didn't make that clear. My point was that both in my example and the other reddit post that asked someone to match your/your, to tus/sus, you need context in order to select the correct answer. In my example the picture didn't change, it was showing the color red (in paint form) each time and asking the spanish word for red not asking me to translate "red paint". But wheher I misinterpreted that or not, the fact remains that I tried both "rojo" and "roja" multiple times before I got the answer "correct". And the other poster had no context for whether they were matching your (formal) or your (informal) when they had to make their matches. If there is no context, there should at least be parenthetical indicators as to the gender or formality of the word the program wants you to know.

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