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[–] 42 points 11 months ago* (14 children)

Yall this is not a seasoned pan.

This is a fucking filthy pan that’s had its filth carbonized and polymerized to the pan. I assure you there is “powdery carbon bits” to scrape off that pan.

Season your pans on their own, then you can wash the gunk off after each use.

Best bet: unless you don’t value your time, replace it.

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  • [–] 45 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    This is what every pan in 90% of commercial kitchens look like, because aint nobody paying someone to sit thete and scrub them. They get run through the sanitizing dishwasher and then they're 'clean enough' and any other bits get burnt off/into the pan surface. So people saying this pan is clean arent really wrong, especially since the carbonized bits are almost definitely inert and non bacterial.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I have heard of seasoning a cast iron skillet but never a baking sheet.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    I season some of mine.

    It makes a difference. Now I have sheets just for baking things that I want to brown more, and sheets for things I don't want more browning.

    Just like cast, the seasoned baking sheets are nearly non-stick (especially if seasoned using Flax seed oil). Great for air frying potatoes in the convection oven, or bacon, etc.

    Things like cookies get the un-seasoned sheets.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    I hope you don't season non-stick pans. ... or really use them, for what it's worth.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Where did I say I seasoned non-stick?

    And I do use non-stick pans for certain things.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Nowhere, otherwise I wouldn't have qualified my statement with, "I hope".

    Remember that online discourse is not equivalent to PMs. Other people might attempt to season pans not even realizing it's a bad idea for many types of coatings.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Be an artisan and clean it well. Your time is only wasted if you dance the capitalist watusi, where somehow, time is money. If you don't want to clean it, that's acceptable as well.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Dude I fucking love scrubbing pots and pans that need it.

    I polished a busted cast iron pan watching ELF the other day before throwing it in for a fresh seasoning. Of the 6 I picked up it was the only one that tested lead free … test your secondhand cast iron friends

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Its clean. Just put some foil down if it bothers you

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Parchment paper is cheaper and far easier to work with.

    Foil is for messy things that would leak under the paper.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Barkeeps best friend does amazing on jobs like this.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago

    Steel wool hurts? Where are you sticking it?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Sand-blaster

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Who broke into my house to take a picture of my pan

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Baking soda and vinegar, try not to volcano yourself.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Barkeepers friend would make short work of this

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Oven cleaner?

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