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My grandma's cast iron skillet went from family treasure to charred disaster in 30 seconds
I was over at my mom's place last Sunday helping her clean out the kitchen, and she handed me this old cast iron skillet that's been in the family since the 1960s. I got distracted talking to my uncle about his truck and left it on high heat for way too long while preheating. Fifteen minutes later the smoke alarm was screaming and the seasoning had turned into this flaky black crust that looked like a burnt pancake. I spent two hours scrubbing it with salt and oil just to get it back to bare metal, and now I have to reseason it from scratch. My mom was not thrilled, but at least she laughed about it after I promised to buy her a new bottle of flaxseed oil. Has anyone else accidentally wrecked an heirloom pan and managed to bring it back to life?
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eva_adams682d ago
Why would you waste time fixing it when a new one costs twenty bucks?
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victorhill7d ago
Wrecked my dad's old fishing rod trying to pull a snag out of a tree branch and ended up snapping it clean in two. I felt like such an idiot standing there holding the two pieces. Took me a whole weekend to epoxy it back together and wrap it with thread, but you know what, it actually casts better now than it did before because I fixed up the guides while I was at it. Your skillet story takes the cake though, at least I didn't set off the smoke alarm in front of my whole family. Funny how these heirloom things seem to bring out the worst in us when we try to use them. You'll get that seasoning right again, just take your time with it and don't rush like I did with the rod.
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