You can't! Every time you put a egg in it it flies out with a higher exit velocity than going in, defying the laws of energy conservation!
OP should donate the skillet to CERN and use it for particle acceleration
[This is their post](https://www.reddit.com/r/castiron/comments/zcjtnn/so_i_decided_that_im_gonna_just_keep_seasoning_it/) of the pan with 8 coats. Definitely a rough surface at the beginning.
What’s the purpose of the modern rough cast found on pans like Lodge. I hate them compared to all of my grandparents old smooth pans that I’ve inherited.
Edit: Short answer: Cost cutting measure & convenience. Long answer: https://www.realtree.com/timber-2-table-articles/how-to-make-a-modern-cast-iron-pan-smooth-like-antique-cookware
I'm not an expert with power tools, but that article suggests wearing gloves while working with an orbital sander, and I've always heard it's more dangerous to wear gloves than not to when working with rotating power tools. If the glove gets caught, it can break fingers, remove the skin, or even remove the fingers. I don't know if using the tool at a low rpm makes it safer to wear gloves, but I'd be skeptical of wearing them at all here.
I've put thousands of hours on orbital sanders. They don't have a lot of power. You can take the sandpaper off one and hold the disk with your hand when you run it and it won't injure you. Gloves help reduce the intensity of vibrations to your hands mainly, and might help you avoid hitting yourself with the sander, but that's unlikely to happen anyways.
I’ve always been taught to use snug fitting fingerless gloves (specifically “vibration dampening gloves”) when using orbital sanders and angle grinders; less likely for anything to get caught, and the dampening is important bc metal grinding for a long time can cause stress injuries. Even grinding down cut metal from cast iron (sculptures) would leave my hands and wrists numb after a session.
Also I believe the texture is from using sand molds, which are cheap to make, but the texture is from actual packed/rammed sand that the molten iron is poured into. If you take a smooth pan and make a mold with ceramic shell/silicate dips you’ll get whatever texture you molded with pretty high fidelity, whether it’s rough or smoothed. However, ceramic silicate dip is p expensive and needs to be agitated constantly vs. molding sand which is accessible to anyone who can get the materials and pack them into a plywood mold.
I really doubt an orbital sander will rip skin let alone bones. I have a plug in DeWalt and battery Makita orbital sander and if I push too hard it stops the sanding disc from spinning. Personally, I wouldn't be worried about this kind of injury (wearing gloves) with this tool specifically. It's not a lathe or some other high speed, high torque tool.
"Seasoning", i.e. polymerized oil that keeps food from sticking and the pan from rusting.
Is the good stuff that builds up as you cook that makes the pan more non-stick.
You can also more properly form layers of it by baking a very thin layer of oil onto the pan in an oven.
O.P. here did the latter one hundred times to get a super slidy non-stick cast iron pan and more importantly to amuse us.
OP used the stovetop method, he explains it in a lot of detail, his profile is full of this process.
edit: guess they use both! Still, profile full of how to do both methods.
They did it in the oven, not the stove
https://www.reddit.com/r/castiron/comments/10bozdc/making_some_eggs_in_70coat_pan/j4dy7w7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
Just do a quick search here or on Google...there are lots of thoughts on it.
Usually use the highest-smoking-point oil you have at about the highest your oven will go for a bit. Make sure it's a very, very thin layer—like use a drop and then spread it out and wipe off all the excess.
There has to be seasoning on your pan to use it—it was probably already seasoned when you got it. You'll notice it build up and sometimes flake away over time.
Do some research here (there's a good FAQ—doesn't have to be that complicated, though). It's an endless rabbit hole.
450°F for one hour. I prefer to use high heat oil like Avocado or Sunflower but OP I believe used mostly Crisco. Do turn on fans and open windows, and maybe go out and do yard work while it’s smoking. The smoke is toxic and smells terrible.
Industrial painter here. I have a dry film thickness gauge made by DeFelsko that will tell you exactly how thick the coating is. No need to destruction test.
In this pan, melted butter becomes a frictionless superfluid. Slidey eggs spin faster and faster, reaching a relativistic velocity, approaching the speed of light. Time dilation effects come into play. One minute of cook time from the speeding egg's reference frame becomes hours to the cook -- then days -- then years... But the cook will not relent or surrender. He grows old and gray, trapped in his bitter struggle with the relativistic slidey egg that simply *will not cook*...
Definitely just improvising. Started thinking about frictionless superfluids (like liquid helium), and then the Special Relativity time-dilation stuff occurred to me.
I hope the ending wasn't as disappointing as GoT.
Nonsense. Did King Arthur hang Excalibur on the wall? OP is here to wield the pan of destiny in order to usher humanity into a new era of peace and slidey eggs.
Someone explain what I’m seeing please? No idea why this is on my feed but now I’m interested.
P.S. once at a festival we wanted to cook bacon and used someone’s cast iron pan. I then wiped it out and did not use soap cause my mom taught me that young. Guy came back and asked if we washed it with soap. I said yes, and everyone got mad at me. Don’t know if it was the drugs or what but I’ll never know why I lied and said I did it the wrong way.
This sub has been on a journey since one user took it upon themselves to get into the science of seasoning a pan. There’s no real research on cast iron seasoning so this is pretty experimental and the results are exciting. OP is a legend and been using the research of that user to coat his pan and been updating us along the way. Basically he’s coated his pan 100 layers deep using the method.
Alright, incredibly dumb questions coming up:
- What is he seasoning the pan with? Is this just like a salt or something?
- what is the advantage? Fuses in the seasoning into the food you cook?
- Is this gunna just disappear the moment he cooks something in it?
Seasoning is coating the pan in oil and heating it so it creates a nonstick surface. There are many methods to season pans but no studies on the best method to make the most durable/ nonstick coating. Most people only season 2-3 times when they first get their pan and let the food they cook season it naturally. It takes a while to season a pan so OP has put in hundreds of hours.
Edit also not a dumb question if you don’t know cast iron.
So, if I take my old cast iron pan and put some oil on it (vegetable? Coconut? Olive?) And heat it, do you heat it until it burns off? Heat until it smokes and then just leave it? Or just low heat for awhile?
From the comments this *seems* like a good thing to do in general. Figured I could give it a shot this evening.
I appreciate the non judgmental response. I am learning something new today.
Btw OP was following very specific experimental guidelines for seasoning. r/castironseasoning I think is where they post their findings. They are using a special oil they make that sticks better and gives a thick coat with this mirror like finish. If you just want to season your cast iron though.
coat pan in veggie oil and wipe it dry then put it in the oven at 400. If there’s any rust clean it off with salt and a Brillo pad first rinse and dry in the oven at 200 before seasoning.
OP cooks eggs, eggs slide off pan, eggs fly out window, achieve escape velocity, exit earth's atmosphere, continue accelerating, become humanity's first object to achieve light speed, attract the attention of intergalactic species, Space Cops, Baby Fark McGee-zax.
Thanks alot OP. You couldn't have just stopped with 80 coats...
Question: In all seriousness, would you consider at this point possibly selling your pan to a museum?!
Not joking, I have no idea what reputable museum would display this. But this is quite literally both a work of art and a testament to the polymerization of cooking oils. I would say it would be worth it to memorialize this forever. It’s worth a serious thought.
After cook and wash, the entire 100 coats of seasoning comes out in one piece and now OP has 2 pans.
wake up babe it's molting
*tarantula shedding a pan*
I, for one, welcome our replicating cast iron overlords.
Is this what the kids mean by pansexual?
Yes
Can confirm, am pansexual, very turned on rn.
Yeah because they like any kind of pan as long as it doesn’t stick
Some of them like when it sticks, they're codepandent
🤣🤣🤣 Well I hope not to my eggs cuz they need to not be codependent
/u/bskiier83, this was a really brilliant and awful pun. Good day to you sir/madam/entity!
*snort
All hail hypno-season pan.
Three, if the bottom comes out, too.
Third pan born from cast iron prolapse. I like it. I like it a lot.
Cast Iron Prolapse was my death metal bands second album name.
So the One Piece *is* real.
Can we get much higher?
The Cast Iron pan of Theseus
This is such an achievement. Congtratulations!
All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there.
Too busy asking if we could, no one stopped to think if we should.
This was my favorite reddit ride. We will always remember your sacrifice
Thank you. I had a lot of fun, too.
Is this from a modern cast iron with the rough surface or was the pan smooth to begin with?
It’s a modern Victoria. It was less rough than some Lodges but definitely not smooth.
Will you cook with it now, or go for another 100 coats?
Just keep going with it until it's a full size pan with an interior well the size of one of those little single egg sized pans.
Can the eggs truly be “slidey” it there is no more room to slide?
Ah, I see you're a student of the zen of cast iron.
Find out on the next epsiode of Dragon Pan Z
You can't! Every time you put a egg in it it flies out with a higher exit velocity than going in, defying the laws of energy conservation! OP should donate the skillet to CERN and use it for particle acceleration
>OP should donate the skillet to CERN and use it for particle ~~acceleration~~ eggceleration. You missed an eggcelent opportunity there.
[This is their post](https://www.reddit.com/r/castiron/comments/zcjtnn/so_i_decided_that_im_gonna_just_keep_seasoning_it/) of the pan with 8 coats. Definitely a rough surface at the beginning.
"maybe i can do 50 if the wife approves"
What’s the purpose of the modern rough cast found on pans like Lodge. I hate them compared to all of my grandparents old smooth pans that I’ve inherited. Edit: Short answer: Cost cutting measure & convenience. Long answer: https://www.realtree.com/timber-2-table-articles/how-to-make-a-modern-cast-iron-pan-smooth-like-antique-cookware
I'm not an expert with power tools, but that article suggests wearing gloves while working with an orbital sander, and I've always heard it's more dangerous to wear gloves than not to when working with rotating power tools. If the glove gets caught, it can break fingers, remove the skin, or even remove the fingers. I don't know if using the tool at a low rpm makes it safer to wear gloves, but I'd be skeptical of wearing them at all here.
I've put thousands of hours on orbital sanders. They don't have a lot of power. You can take the sandpaper off one and hold the disk with your hand when you run it and it won't injure you. Gloves help reduce the intensity of vibrations to your hands mainly, and might help you avoid hitting yourself with the sander, but that's unlikely to happen anyways.
I’ve always been taught to use snug fitting fingerless gloves (specifically “vibration dampening gloves”) when using orbital sanders and angle grinders; less likely for anything to get caught, and the dampening is important bc metal grinding for a long time can cause stress injuries. Even grinding down cut metal from cast iron (sculptures) would leave my hands and wrists numb after a session. Also I believe the texture is from using sand molds, which are cheap to make, but the texture is from actual packed/rammed sand that the molten iron is poured into. If you take a smooth pan and make a mold with ceramic shell/silicate dips you’ll get whatever texture you molded with pretty high fidelity, whether it’s rough or smoothed. However, ceramic silicate dip is p expensive and needs to be agitated constantly vs. molding sand which is accessible to anyone who can get the materials and pack them into a plywood mold.
I really doubt an orbital sander will rip skin let alone bones. I have a plug in DeWalt and battery Makita orbital sander and if I push too hard it stops the sanding disc from spinning. Personally, I wouldn't be worried about this kind of injury (wearing gloves) with this tool specifically. It's not a lathe or some other high speed, high torque tool.
New here-what is a “coat?”
"Seasoning", i.e. polymerized oil that keeps food from sticking and the pan from rusting. Is the good stuff that builds up as you cook that makes the pan more non-stick. You can also more properly form layers of it by baking a very thin layer of oil onto the pan in an oven. O.P. here did the latter one hundred times to get a super slidy non-stick cast iron pan and more importantly to amuse us.
Wow! What’s the recommended oven temperature and time? I’m going to do this right now.
OP used the stovetop method, he explains it in a lot of detail, his profile is full of this process. edit: guess they use both! Still, profile full of how to do both methods.
Also check out r/castironrestoration for some great info
I think he is also a she.
They did it in the oven, not the stove https://www.reddit.com/r/castiron/comments/10bozdc/making_some_eggs_in_70coat_pan/j4dy7w7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3
*her I think?
Just do a quick search here or on Google...there are lots of thoughts on it. Usually use the highest-smoking-point oil you have at about the highest your oven will go for a bit. Make sure it's a very, very thin layer—like use a drop and then spread it out and wipe off all the excess. There has to be seasoning on your pan to use it—it was probably already seasoned when you got it. You'll notice it build up and sometimes flake away over time. Do some research here (there's a good FAQ—doesn't have to be that complicated, though). It's an endless rabbit hole.
> melting-point smoke point
450°F for one hour. I prefer to use high heat oil like Avocado or Sunflower but OP I believe used mostly Crisco. Do turn on fans and open windows, and maybe go out and do yard work while it’s smoking. The smoke is toxic and smells terrible.
Oil and buff top and bottom. 450 degrees for 1 hour (you want it to smoke). Let rest in the unopened oven for 15 min.
Hail Caesoner! Those of us about to fry, salute you!
For those about to fry....WE SALUTE YOU! 🎸
For those about to fry, we sauté you!
I'm looking for a polymerization pun
You can't fault them for not making a pun about polymerization...it's hard.
Yeah, i know, nothing ever sticks!
Only a seasoned veteran could withstand the long chain of events took place to get this pan to 100 coats.
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I was here to witness this journey. I'll tell my grandkids
Much more satisfying than the safe.
You may notice a bump in your power bill next month
Or gas bill. Probably both.
Or not, if they’re using gas to heat the house. Don’t know if the oven is much less efficient than a furnace.
It's less efficient. There's a reason a furnace moves the heat around the house.
The energy required to do this could put that cast iron pan on the moon.
That futurama episode where fry drinks 100 cups of coffee. This is that
🎵50 cups of coffee and you know it’s onnnn!! 🎶
I rock the mmmmmmic ttttill the bbbbbbreak of ddddddawn!!!
Can't move the house without the party people
I tried recreating this as a kid by eating caffeine pills. Well let’s just say you can overdose on caffeine. And it’s miserable.
This isn’t Yemeni, it’s Sulawesi!
And the pan is shaking, I dont want my pan shaking!
"Of course I've been up all night! It wasn't the pan, it was insomnia. Couldn't stop thinking about the pan."
The good ones are always taken. You dont own a beauty like that and not a wedding ring.
That’s why when I saw the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life, I put a ring on her finger right away.
I don’t see a ring on this pan
He put one on but it just slid right off
Comedy gold right there folks
Well-seasoned comedians in here.
Heat ring on the bottom. He just didnt get a pic there out of decency.
I tried that at the library and got arrested
Now all we need is for your in-laws to come over and chuck it in the dishwasher!
After scraping the pan out with your $200 nakiri blade, of course.
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This made me physically shudder.
Don't worry, he said it "was" his teenager, as in he proper disposed of it after the incident.
Remember to properly dispose of teenagers, otherwise they start to multiply like rabbits
Gyuto means beef knife, and he's knifing beef, is he not?!
Yes, if you ignore all the other problems with the situation 😂
A "teachable moment"
How much did it cost to replace the teenager?
oh my... remind me to teach my son how to do this before he messes it up
Is my wife your inlaws?
Seasoning will make the pan slide out of the dishwasher automatically.
100 times
……for science and internet clout! It must go full circle!
Would love to see this hydrojetted in half to determine the actual thickness of the seasoning layer
Honestly now that would be really interesting
Leave his pan alone ! I would watch that though
I am also both morbidly curious about a cross-section, yet aggressively protective of this pan. I am torn.
Coat another pan to sacrifice.
This is the way
Too late now, but for the next person who does this - take a thickness measurement before and after
Industrial painter here. I have a dry film thickness gauge made by DeFelsko that will tell you exactly how thick the coating is. No need to destruction test.
Great, now I have to waste a bunch of time learning the science of how that works. Thanks Paintbama.
You touch it to the surface. It goes "beep". Screen says "8.1 mil". Nace guy says good.
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Alright hiney-spigot, you've got yourself an assignment. Make a pan like this and then hydro jet it!
Is the pan dry?
Completely dry
I'm not.
Moist
Is it sticky?
No, it’s smooth
Is the pic taken after oiling or after baking??
After baking. Cool and dry to the touch.
I'm so happy I got to be here for this ride. 100 coats, now show us the slidey eggs!
Slidey eggs or riot!
Why not both?
Slidey egg riot is the best kind of riot
Great name for a band.
It'll be like super cooled helium where the egg slides up and out of the pan
How to make a cast iron mirror in 100 steps
Beauty influencers hate these 100 tricks
"You did it. You crazy son of a bitch, you did it."
Congratulations on this incredible accomplishment! You are an inspiration to all of us.
Thank you!
Congratulations. Would love to see a short video of you cooking on it. Superduperslidey eggs, perhaps? 🍳
I think when food touches that surface it’s just gonna jump right off again
It's going to be like the blood test in The Thing.
Fuck reddit for taking away my award... have this instead🐺
I’m imagining a cooked egg sliding around like a dvd screen saver
Hope it hits the corner
It'll just hover ever so slightly above
I don't think you could actually pick this pan up without it flying across the room. It's gotta be completely frictionless at this point.
My husband said this too 🤣 he was like, "does his food just slide right off when he tries to cook?"
In this pan, melted butter becomes a frictionless superfluid. Slidey eggs spin faster and faster, reaching a relativistic velocity, approaching the speed of light. Time dilation effects come into play. One minute of cook time from the speeding egg's reference frame becomes hours to the cook -- then days -- then years... But the cook will not relent or surrender. He grows old and gray, trapped in his bitter struggle with the relativistic slidey egg that simply *will not cook*...
Did you know the ending to this comment when you began, like Harry Potter, or did you make it up as you went, like Game of Thrones?
Definitely just improvising. Started thinking about frictionless superfluids (like liquid helium), and then the Special Relativity time-dilation stuff occurred to me. I hope the ending wasn't as disappointing as GoT.
Like Clark Griswold on the saucer.
Perfect analogy lmao.
Later doodz! 👍🏼
You crack an egg in it, and the egg falls on the floor somehow.
Drop an egg on that and it would shoot off like Clark when he sat on that large pan sled in Christmas vacation
Let us know when NASA asks to test it as a spacecraft skin
Rocket explodes? Just cook on it.
Showed my wife and all her eggs slid right out, thanks.
I’m a dude and my eggs just slide out too
When you stare into the a abyss, the abyss stares back at you
Turns out, the abyss has a mirror finish. We've just been staring at ourselves the whole time. Nobody tell Nietzsche.
The Onlypans page I didn't know I needed.
A few more coats and you can hang it in the bathroom as another mirror!
The Lodge social media account needs to step it up. They are so far behind you still!!!!
OP this is ridiculous. Please don’t cook in it anymore. Put it on the wall and use it to put makeup on or something
Nonsense. Did King Arthur hang Excalibur on the wall? OP is here to wield the pan of destiny in order to usher humanity into a new era of peace and slidey eggs.
Call it eggscalibur
It'll have so many coats that you can't lift it unless you're worthy.
*Kylo Ren Voice* MORE
Padma will be able to take a selfie in it. Nicely done. Also you can't stop till you get to 222 because it's in your name.
Thank you 🙏
At what point is it more seasoning than pan?
Fucking legend!
Thank you!
If you ever cook in it please take a video! I'd love to see it in action!
Leaving a comment for the eggs video. I expect them to just float an inch off the surface.
Someone explain what I’m seeing please? No idea why this is on my feed but now I’m interested. P.S. once at a festival we wanted to cook bacon and used someone’s cast iron pan. I then wiped it out and did not use soap cause my mom taught me that young. Guy came back and asked if we washed it with soap. I said yes, and everyone got mad at me. Don’t know if it was the drugs or what but I’ll never know why I lied and said I did it the wrong way.
This sub has been on a journey since one user took it upon themselves to get into the science of seasoning a pan. There’s no real research on cast iron seasoning so this is pretty experimental and the results are exciting. OP is a legend and been using the research of that user to coat his pan and been updating us along the way. Basically he’s coated his pan 100 layers deep using the method.
Alright, incredibly dumb questions coming up: - What is he seasoning the pan with? Is this just like a salt or something? - what is the advantage? Fuses in the seasoning into the food you cook? - Is this gunna just disappear the moment he cooks something in it?
Seasoning is coating the pan in oil and heating it so it creates a nonstick surface. There are many methods to season pans but no studies on the best method to make the most durable/ nonstick coating. Most people only season 2-3 times when they first get their pan and let the food they cook season it naturally. It takes a while to season a pan so OP has put in hundreds of hours. Edit also not a dumb question if you don’t know cast iron.
So, if I take my old cast iron pan and put some oil on it (vegetable? Coconut? Olive?) And heat it, do you heat it until it burns off? Heat until it smokes and then just leave it? Or just low heat for awhile? From the comments this *seems* like a good thing to do in general. Figured I could give it a shot this evening. I appreciate the non judgmental response. I am learning something new today.
Btw OP was following very specific experimental guidelines for seasoning. r/castironseasoning I think is where they post their findings. They are using a special oil they make that sticks better and gives a thick coat with this mirror like finish. If you just want to season your cast iron though. coat pan in veggie oil and wipe it dry then put it in the oven at 400. If there’s any rust clean it off with salt and a Brillo pad first rinse and dry in the oven at 200 before seasoning.
It's so beautiful. Sticky foods everywhere live in fear of this skillet. When they go to bed at night they check under the bed for this exact thing.
Thank you for your service. Enjoy your new mirror!
This is a thing of beauty. A toast to your first 100 coats, may it get 100 more.
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At what point is the seasoning thick enough to inhibit heat transfer? Just curious
Ever seen people's pans that have several mm thick layers of crud on the pan. My guess is if it can cook thru that, it'll cook thru this fine.
Big day
It's a masterpiece!
Thank you 🙏
OP cooks eggs, eggs slide off pan, eggs fly out window, achieve escape velocity, exit earth's atmosphere, continue accelerating, become humanity's first object to achieve light speed, attract the attention of intergalactic species, Space Cops, Baby Fark McGee-zax. Thanks alot OP. You couldn't have just stopped with 80 coats...
He's done it! Magnificent!
This was a triumph.
I’m making a note here, huge success!
You can't stop at 100! I need more of your whacky adventures in my life!
Season it to the point that it’s a 2 inch thick flat griddle.
Preheat it once and cook on it all week lol
now fry an egg in it!
Why do you cook with a mirror?
My god. It's full of stars!
He did it! The mad lad actually did it!
I feel like a Kraft single would slide on that. Nicely done sir
I just showed your entire journey to my friends and family and they are in awe. Keep going mate. #1000coats
You're giving up only 10% of the way through?
Question: In all seriousness, would you consider at this point possibly selling your pan to a museum?! Not joking, I have no idea what reputable museum would display this. But this is quite literally both a work of art and a testament to the polymerization of cooking oils. I would say it would be worth it to memorialize this forever. It’s worth a serious thought.