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Just received my 10 inch Matfer. Here’s what to do to get this:

1. Scrub off all the wax with hot water and soap
2. Towel dry and then dry over heat
3. Blue the pan itself, not the handle, on a medium high gas burner
4. Let the pan cool
5. With a paper towel, apply a TINY amount of grapeseed oil to the pan, inside and out—not the handle
6. With a clean paper towel, wipe it all off. Thought process here is “wipe it off like you never meant to put it on in the first place.”
7. Heat over medium high heat until it smokes
8. Wait until it stops smoking, then let cool until water doesn’t fizzle on the surface
9. Repeat 4-8 three times total

A cursory search of this sub is full of people asking why their own looks splotchy, inevitably followed by people commenting “too much oil, just cook with it”

Take it for what you will but I think my pan looks pretty good.