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My grandma's lye trick for stripping cast iron
My grandma always told me to use a bath of lye and water to strip old seasoning, not the self-cleaning oven method. I ignored her for years until I tried it last spring on a rusty #8 skillet I found at a flea market. That lye bath worked WONDERS in 3 days with no warping, has anyone else gone back to old school methods like that?
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ivan_fisher9937m ago
Oh man, @finley_lopez98 totally nailed it with the plastic tub idea. Lye's the real deal.
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finley_lopez981d ago
I finally gave up on oven cleaning after it warped a nice Griswold pan, and my grandpa's cold lye method stripped it perfectly in a weekend with zero damage. Have you ever tried using a plastic tub to keep the solution contained?
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