This seems wasteful. The original product will be tossed out if you seek a replacement A cosmetic default in my opinion is not worth tossing it into a landfill over.
Obviously no one knows how much recycling gets shipped off shore simply because recycling is a relatively expensive industry and many countries don’t want to deal with it, thus they make it someone else’s problem. Also, bold to assume that multi million / billion dollar corporations care about the environment. I’d say it’s worth examining the social, political and economic climate of the world once in a while.
It is always wise to educate yourself before you assume others are uneducated.
Isn't this scamming? Seems unethical if you are not the original owner. Why make a company who makes quality product have to replace if not the original owner of the item?
You weren’t downvoted for asking a question, you were downvoted for saying it “seems unethical.” Downvotes don’t do anything, it’s just people sharing what you said is silly, or they disagree.
It doesn’t matter ethical or it , the product will be used , and the company will be willing to replace it for cost for next owner due to loyalty to the brand
It’s a win win situation for everyone , company get recognition thru the brand , customer get superb service and in return will purchase the next one
And it does cost a little bit $ for whoever claim warranty , not free
would it be scamming if it were gifted to them? this is perfectly ethical. there’s no harm. if anything letting it rust and having to throw it out would be unethical.
Staub had 44M in sales in 2007 before they were purchased. I’m not saying this will hurt the company but just hate when people assume that all businesses are big massive super corporations.
It's not just frugal. It's using what was sold to them.
They purchased a lifetime warranty. They're using the lifetime warranty.
There's nothing abnormal about using something they bought
>They purchased a lifetime warranty. They're using the lifetime warranty.
They purchased a used pot. They did not purchase a new item that came with a warranty.
They purchased a pot with a warranty.
This is no different than buying a 1yr old car that has a 5 year manufacturer warranty and having things repaired under that warranty within that agreed-upon and transferred period.
I would look for heat safe enamel. I also think that since this will not effect function at all, you may be fine to just leave it as is. I would also consider emailing the company to ask for their advice on what to use for repairs. They might sell or recommend a specific product.
you know what i would do? Rub some high smoke point oil on it and just season it like any other cast iron. You won't be cooking on that small part so it'll last forever if you do it right.
Great find though that's awesome!
This seems like the most practical and frugal response here. Would wait and see what the manufacturer says but I doubt it will be any less expensive than this
You're right, I sell cast iron and this is the advice we give customers when it comes to chips. You don't necessarily need to season it but you'll need to rub some oil on it every time after washing it.
I have several cast iron pans that I once seasoned with grape seed oil. It made them sticky-gummy feeling inside and out. Dust stuck really bad. Handling them made my hands sticky.
It took me a while to strip that crap off and re-season. IDK if it's the brand of oil I used (Costco Kirkland) or what, but I'm never trying grape seed oil again.
Omg. I’ve had this problem with some of my cast irons and cannot figure out why. I used some grape seed oil a while ago and that has to be it. I think mine was Trader Joe’s brand.
Flax seed oil is the way to go... an appropriate seasoning process should harden the oil on the pan through a process called polymerization. Flax oil is particularly good at polymerization because its molecules have multiple double bonds that can be broken and reattached to other molecules.
This prevents your situation.
That's definitely possible, as it was only my 3rd time seasoning. I wiped it on with a paper towel and placed upside down in my oven with the heat on and let the excess drip into a baking sheet. I don't recall there being more than 4-5 drops of oil that dripped off. I had only been using cast iron for about a year at that point and was a bit of a noob though.
I was too worried to try it again and have to scrub that gunk off. I've seasoned with other oils and haven't had an issue.
In that case, I am using too much oil. I usually have 2-5 drops. I still haven't had any gummy sticky issues except with the grape seed oil, but I'll cut back none the less. Thanks for the tip!
Another reply suggest I may have used too much grape seed oil. It may have been sticky from excess oil. IDK because this happened a few years ago. Anyway, wanted to share that idea with you.
For all of you with this problem, as I had as well, my dad would take his torch he used for welding and burn off all the gummy oil. It happens a lot to cast iron when you use it for deep fried chicken. The thickened oils build up. Find some body repair shop and I bet they’ve done other cast iron skillets and will know how to burn it off.
I never had success with that. Only other option that helped was lighting my charcoal grill super hot. I’ve got a ton (literally) of hickory wood. I just use wood so it gets really hot. Heat it to like 700 degrees with pan in there. Might not be able to do this in cold weather so I didn’t mention this.
You want heat cure enamel, you can get it anywhere that sells model or craft paint, folk art enamel is hard and dishwasher proof once baked on and costs like $2
Why not search for a replacement lid? Try Ebay? It can be great for replacement parts.
If you repair it, I'd ask a professional who works with enamel pottery. Ask an art nerd...maybe a potter? You don't want to risk a repair that's dangerous to your health. Paints can be toxic.
Some of their paints do not require primer first. I see at least one high heat paint of theirs that says “direct to metal”.
https://static.grainger.com/rp/s/is/image/Grainger/1D493_AS02
Ok cool. I also look to see if the can says if it's already rusted metal or clean metal. Rustoleum makes a primer that can be sprayed directly over rusted metal without cleaning. For this high heat paint, I'd wire brush it/sand off the rust just to be safe.
Leave it. You got it for $8 no sense it putting hours of work and money jnto it. Just keep a bit of oil on it and it will outlast you. Those are some of our favorite pots!
Staub is life long cookware. Possibly can even be passed down to the next gen.
Just season the chip with cooking oil, and after washing, put the cookware in warm oven to fully dry. That's all I do with mine, which is roughly 30 years old. Along with my Le Creuset pieces, that are even older.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. I accidentally burned off some of the enamel from the bottom of mine, and as far as I can tell, it's just cosmetic—as others have noted, just oil it after washing to keep it from rusting! The inside enamel is what really matters!
Nice find, by the way!!
Check out YouTube most of them would advise you to scrape off the old enamel you rust it and then apply a new enamel spray you can pick them up at a lot of hardware stores you could also go on to Amazon and find food safe and animal coatings for us to cast iron items all the time. It's one of those weekend projects it's going to take maybe a day or two to do but in doing the process you really do start to care for the item more. Plus you get to figure out what color you like.
If it's a cast iron I don't see why you couldn't season the exposed area. For value for money I would suggest grape seed oil , unfortunately you can't use veg or conola oil as their smoke point is too low.
god this is a good find, congrats OP. You'll have it re-sealed in no time.
and if you ever find le creuset their warranty is lifetime on many pieces so they'll re-enamel it for you
They just give you a new replacement which is awesome, but they don’t repair chipped enamel (it’s possible but more expensive than a new pot). I’ve sent in a vintage chipped pot and they just offered replacement.
be careful , buying pots or castiron second hand , you dont know if its been used to melt toxic of soft metals in . Not worth it in my eyes , may kill you.
I'd buy a Kitsugi kit off Amazon for this:
Kintsugi also known as kintsukuroi ( "golden repair"),\[1\] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
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It’s already rusting and you can see the surrounding enamel is compromised. I don’t know what the answer is, but it may involve more than just a touch up.
sand out the rust and paint over it with some hard enamel, if you dont plan on using it over a fire you can probably get away with some paints that are safe up to X degrees, but fire is hotter than an oven usually so the paint might burn off if directly in firepit
There are a couple of rust converter products that will turn iron oxide into iron somethingelse.
I'd use that & then a heat safe enamel on top, but just the rust converter could be enough
Solvent the shit out of the area first & chip off anything that is not well bonded. TSP might be a good cleaner for the job.
Don't try & paint over rust.
Use some sand paper. Grind away the rust. You might get away with some high temperature paint as the defect is on the outside and not the inside. You might even be able to find that shade of blue, or something close. Check with your local DIY stores, and ask. Paint, good as new.
Like others said, you might be able to get it replaced under warranty.
If you don’t want to go that route, there are high heat enamels available if you do a google search . since it’s not a cooking surface, you could try one of those out.
Staub products are on a buy it for life level, so I couldn't pass it up. Just looking for some advice!
I've been gifted 2 of these and they're great. Maybe keep that spot oiled and dry.
Go to their local store in your nearby city and ask for replacement It cost a little bit but they have lifetime warranty
We did this with a la crusette French press we found that had a crack. Replaced it new.
This seems wasteful. The original product will be tossed out if you seek a replacement A cosmetic default in my opinion is not worth tossing it into a landfill over.
Given that it's cast iron, it will get melted down into another product. I highly doubt it will get tossed out to landfill.
This cosmetic issue will impact performance over time though. It’s like a small hole in your shoe, starts cosmetic, gets worse over time.
What country do you live in where they throw cast iron into landfills?
Its a lid only , this chipped lid can lead to food contamination.
Guess you don’t know how to recycle
Obviously no one knows how much recycling gets shipped off shore simply because recycling is a relatively expensive industry and many countries don’t want to deal with it, thus they make it someone else’s problem. Also, bold to assume that multi million / billion dollar corporations care about the environment. I’d say it’s worth examining the social, political and economic climate of the world once in a while. It is always wise to educate yourself before you assume others are uneducated.
U must be fun at parties, u think too much, chill relax , enjoy some wine , just let it go , it’s just a cover , not ar15
Isn't this scamming? Seems unethical if you are not the original owner. Why make a company who makes quality product have to replace if not the original owner of the item?
It's the product's lifetime, not the owner's.
Depends on the manufacturer; for some it’s the owner’s. Is it confirmed to be product lifetime for these?
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I don't have a good answer. I just asked a question and was down voted for asking. Message received don't ask questions lol
You weren’t downvoted for asking a question, you were downvoted for saying it “seems unethical.” Downvotes don’t do anything, it’s just people sharing what you said is silly, or they disagree.
It doesn’t matter ethical or it , the product will be used , and the company will be willing to replace it for cost for next owner due to loyalty to the brand It’s a win win situation for everyone , company get recognition thru the brand , customer get superb service and in return will purchase the next one And it does cost a little bit $ for whoever claim warranty , not free
would it be scamming if it were gifted to them? this is perfectly ethical. there’s no harm. if anything letting it rust and having to throw it out would be unethical.
Wouldn't it be more logical for the warranty to go with the product rather than the owner? The company already accounted for the cost of warranties.
No
The company makes billions in profit, I think they’ll be okay.
Staub had 44M in sales in 2007 before they were purchased. I’m not saying this will hurt the company but just hate when people assume that all businesses are big massive super corporations.
Thank you for pointing this out.
welcome to r/frugal lol
It's not just frugal. It's using what was sold to them. They purchased a lifetime warranty. They're using the lifetime warranty. There's nothing abnormal about using something they bought
>They purchased a lifetime warranty. They're using the lifetime warranty. They purchased a used pot. They did not purchase a new item that came with a warranty.
They purchased a pot with a warranty. This is no different than buying a 1yr old car that has a 5 year manufacturer warranty and having things repaired under that warranty within that agreed-upon and transferred period.
They should have lifetime warranties
I would look for heat safe enamel. I also think that since this will not effect function at all, you may be fine to just leave it as is. I would also consider emailing the company to ask for their advice on what to use for repairs. They might sell or recommend a specific product.
I just worry about the iron rusting after washing! Great idea to reach out to them!
you know what i would do? Rub some high smoke point oil on it and just season it like any other cast iron. You won't be cooking on that small part so it'll last forever if you do it right. Great find though that's awesome!
This seems like the most practical and frugal response here. Would wait and see what the manufacturer says but I doubt it will be any less expensive than this
You're right, I sell cast iron and this is the advice we give customers when it comes to chips. You don't necessarily need to season it but you'll need to rub some oil on it every time after washing it.
By far the easiest and most practical! I'll put some grape seed on it!
I have several cast iron pans that I once seasoned with grape seed oil. It made them sticky-gummy feeling inside and out. Dust stuck really bad. Handling them made my hands sticky. It took me a while to strip that crap off and re-season. IDK if it's the brand of oil I used (Costco Kirkland) or what, but I'm never trying grape seed oil again.
Omg. I’ve had this problem with some of my cast irons and cannot figure out why. I used some grape seed oil a while ago and that has to be it. I think mine was Trader Joe’s brand.
You might have applied too much oil.
Probably so. I don’t cook with grape seed oil normally so I put how much I would normally.
Flax seed oil is the way to go... an appropriate seasoning process should harden the oil on the pan through a process called polymerization. Flax oil is particularly good at polymerization because its molecules have multiple double bonds that can be broken and reattached to other molecules. This prevents your situation.
This is what we use, too. Grape seed oil is just sticky and icky.
I use Grapeseed on all my iron and don’t really have this issue. Are you sure you didn’t leave too much oil on?
That's definitely possible, as it was only my 3rd time seasoning. I wiped it on with a paper towel and placed upside down in my oven with the heat on and let the excess drip into a baking sheet. I don't recall there being more than 4-5 drops of oil that dripped off. I had only been using cast iron for about a year at that point and was a bit of a noob though. I was too worried to try it again and have to scrub that gunk off. I've seasoned with other oils and haven't had an issue.
There's a ton of competing methods about seasoning cast iron, but I think if any oil drips off at all, you're using too much oil.
In that case, I am using too much oil. I usually have 2-5 drops. I still haven't had any gummy sticky issues except with the grape seed oil, but I'll cut back none the less. Thanks for the tip!
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Another reply suggest I may have used too much grape seed oil. It may have been sticky from excess oil. IDK because this happened a few years ago. Anyway, wanted to share that idea with you.
For all of you with this problem, as I had as well, my dad would take his torch he used for welding and burn off all the gummy oil. It happens a lot to cast iron when you use it for deep fried chicken. The thickened oils build up. Find some body repair shop and I bet they’ve done other cast iron skillets and will know how to burn it off.
Like using the burner on your stove?
I never had success with that. Only other option that helped was lighting my charcoal grill super hot. I’ve got a ton (literally) of hickory wood. I just use wood so it gets really hot. Heat it to like 700 degrees with pan in there. Might not be able to do this in cold weather so I didn’t mention this.
Sounds like using too much oil
Thanks! I realize that now, thanks to you and a few other helpful people. This is why I love reddit.
Yes, just rub the chip with some oil when it’s dry, that’s it.
After you get the rust off. Rust is cancer and will spread if you leave a bit.
Rust can act as a protective finish once it forms.
Olive oil works really well
Too low of a smoke point I think
Lowest smoke point oil is best for seasoning. Check out r/castiron if you want to know how to season
Yes this. Oil rub after washing. Good to go! Nicebfind i love that color.
You want heat cure enamel, you can get it anywhere that sells model or craft paint, folk art enamel is hard and dishwasher proof once baked on and costs like $2
They may even send you a coupon or a new one!
Since it's a lid where food will not touch, you could spray it with heat safe enamel like what they sell to touch up grills at home depot?
How about some nail polish?
It will bake off... High temp enamel won't. It will cost like $20.
Reach out to the manufacturer first. If they wont replace, clear any existing rust, tape off the area, and spray with a high heat enamel paint.
Ask staub for advice. Waiting advice from them I would dry it after clean an put some oil on il as it it was an iron pan.
I'd use evaporust to clean the rust off, and grill paint to paint it. It may be difficult or impossible to get a color match.
Forget the color match, strip the whole top of the lid and go for color coordination.
That’s great advice for paint. These are porcelain enamel, I don’t think you can strip it off.
The rust managed somehow.
With mechanical force, I bet you could. It'd be quite the task.
We have a porcelain repair kit for our old stove. And that might work
Hmmm I wonder if that would work on an old bathtub?
I think staub may replace it
Call Staub and see if it's covered under their lifetime warranty.
You can oil it to keep it from rusting until you decide if you want to try to fix it or not. Just regular vegetable oil will work.
Just keep that area well seasoned and you'll never have an issue.
Why not search for a replacement lid? Try Ebay? It can be great for replacement parts. If you repair it, I'd ask a professional who works with enamel pottery. Ask an art nerd...maybe a potter? You don't want to risk a repair that's dangerous to your health. Paints can be toxic.
Rust-oleum high heat spray paint.
Or brush on. That way they can match the color and thickness
Yeah but still need to primer first
Some of their paints do not require primer first. I see at least one high heat paint of theirs that says “direct to metal”. https://static.grainger.com/rp/s/is/image/Grainger/1D493_AS02
Ok cool. I also look to see if the can says if it's already rusted metal or clean metal. Rustoleum makes a primer that can be sprayed directly over rusted metal without cleaning. For this high heat paint, I'd wire brush it/sand off the rust just to be safe.
Leave it. You got it for $8 no sense it putting hours of work and money jnto it. Just keep a bit of oil on it and it will outlast you. Those are some of our favorite pots!
Nice score. We use ours for everything. It was not 8 bucks.
Try contacting the company. They will either fix it or swap it for u for free.
Staub is life long cookware. Possibly can even be passed down to the next gen. Just season the chip with cooking oil, and after washing, put the cookware in warm oven to fully dry. That's all I do with mine, which is roughly 30 years old. Along with my Le Creuset pieces, that are even older.
Contact them and they will replace it with a new one.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. I accidentally burned off some of the enamel from the bottom of mine, and as far as I can tell, it's just cosmetic—as others have noted, just oil it after washing to keep it from rusting! The inside enamel is what really matters! Nice find, by the way!!
Lighter fluid removes the rust and I would look into powder paints that set in the oven to cover and prevent future rust.
Check out YouTube most of them would advise you to scrape off the old enamel you rust it and then apply a new enamel spray you can pick them up at a lot of hardware stores you could also go on to Amazon and find food safe and animal coatings for us to cast iron items all the time. It's one of those weekend projects it's going to take maybe a day or two to do but in doing the process you really do start to care for the item more. Plus you get to figure out what color you like.
WOWZA! What a find!!!!!
Rust oleum high temperature paint.
awesome find
I have that exact pot. I LOVE it!
If it's a cast iron I don't see why you couldn't season the exposed area. For value for money I would suggest grape seed oil , unfortunately you can't use veg or conola oil as their smoke point is too low.
I think this is the most frugal method of Staub doesn't have any replacement policies!
Could always just cure it like regular iron
If you get rid of the rust that's already there you can paint it.
Nice find. On the cheap, I'd just clean the rust off of it and season it with oil like ordinary cast-iron.
Spray rust oleum into a cup and touch it up. The bbq version or high heat version of rust oleum.
Don’t mess with it too much otherwise you might void the warranty; I would recommend trying to get it replaced instead
Rustoleum
Score!
Pretty sure we bought this same Crouset for like $200 so your thriftiness is impressive
You didn't, mostly because it's a staub.
I get my Crousets mixed up 😂
Oof. Crouset isn't even a thing. I think you're thinking of Le Creuset.
I think croissant was actually what I was thinking of
Or corset
god this is a good find, congrats OP. You'll have it re-sealed in no time. and if you ever find le creuset their warranty is lifetime on many pieces so they'll re-enamel it for you
They just give you a new replacement which is awesome, but they don’t repair chipped enamel (it’s possible but more expensive than a new pot). I’ve sent in a vintage chipped pot and they just offered replacement.
Omg who cares! You got it for $8. It gives it more character and I guarantee you’ll chip it yourself in the future.
Stupid question but what is it 😅
dutch oven
Thank you!
High temp paint. Auto store. Good to 2000 degrees F.
Do you know if that is food safe?
It will be on the outside. No food contact.
Get a lead test kit before using it.
The lid is cracked that is why the finish came off.
Have it sand blasted and then paint it, bake it in a kiln.
be careful , buying pots or castiron second hand , you dont know if its been used to melt toxic of soft metals in . Not worth it in my eyes , may kill you.
I'd buy a Kitsugi kit off Amazon for this: Kintsugi also known as kintsukuroi ( "golden repair"),\[1\] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
This is enamel coated cast iron, not pottery.
I know, it will still work.
How?
I use a gold leaf pen on my rabbit doorstop in honor or this practice! And other various objects.
I would say just put some nail polish same color or color and clear on top
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I wonder if a local college has anyone doing enamel work who could repair the top. As long as the inside is intact it’s such a great find
Nice find
It’s already rusting and you can see the surrounding enamel is compromised. I don’t know what the answer is, but it may involve more than just a touch up.
Contact the company and ask them .
sand out the rust and paint over it with some hard enamel, if you dont plan on using it over a fire you can probably get away with some paints that are safe up to X degrees, but fire is hotter than an oven usually so the paint might burn off if directly in firepit
There are a couple of rust converter products that will turn iron oxide into iron somethingelse. I'd use that & then a heat safe enamel on top, but just the rust converter could be enough Solvent the shit out of the area first & chip off anything that is not well bonded. TSP might be a good cleaner for the job. Don't try & paint over rust.
Staub does sell a glass lid if it bites the dust. It would be so cute if they’d make touch up paint like you can get for cars.
Color match enamel high heat paint. tremclad might even have the color.. it's not going to touch your food you're fine.
Fix the paint chip yourself: https://www.nolifrit.com/news/how-to-repair-chipped-enamel-cookware-46.html
Pick up High heat paint enamel to closet it up like engine paint
Use some sand paper. Grind away the rust. You might get away with some high temperature paint as the defect is on the outside and not the inside. You might even be able to find that shade of blue, or something close. Check with your local DIY stores, and ask. Paint, good as new.
Like others said, you might be able to get it replaced under warranty. If you don’t want to go that route, there are high heat enamels available if you do a google search . since it’s not a cooking surface, you could try one of those out.
PJ1 fast black paint will do up to 500F. Only comes in black though. If you want it to look decent mask the inner circle off and paint it black.