Mike Nolan
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Glad to hear your project is finally getting going. We had a contractor in to do some drywall repairs, that was 2 weeks ago and we're still finding drywall dust everywhere.
We had a stir fry tonight.
I've often made individual sized pot pies with laminated dough for the top (and no bottom crust), but when I make larger ones I lean towards using a hot water crust, which comes out remarkably flaky.
Lye is commonly used as a drain cleaner, so dumping it down the drain is one option.
I'm making a pot roast tonight, and it smells wonderful.
I was watching a video on reconditioning cast iron pans with the sound off during last night's Pas 12 championship game, it looked like she was recommending using steel wool or even a wire brush for a drill in extreme cases. I think she started by baking the pan in a hot oven for several hours. I'm not sure that helps if the pan has a lot of caked on grease and food, though.
There are dozens of videos out there on how to do it, with what appears to be a wide range of methods. I suspect they all work fairly well.
If it was me, I'd probably start by using something like Carbon-Off to take off the grease and crud, so I knew exactly how much rust I had to deal with, then use my stainless steel scrubber to take off the rust and smooth the surface as needed. (I prefer those to steel wool, because they don't rust, last a lot longer, and don't leave shards of steel in my fingers. I've never tried the chain mail scrubbers, I'm not sure I've ever seen one in the stores.)
Be sure to test to make sure the oven cleaner doesn't do nasty things to the garbage bag first, like dissolve it.
As to the gooey stuff on your pan, I virtually guarantee Carbon-off would get rid of it.
I always pre-cook my apple pie filling, though that doesn't seem to cut much time off how long the pie has to bake. Blind baking the crust probably would, though.
I agree with Len, start with the less invasive techniques and work up as needed. Carbon-off is what restaurants use to clean pans that have had food baked on, here's a video showing what it can do:Carbon-Off video
I don't know that it would do much about the rust.
As to the oven temperature for re-seasoning the pan, it should be below the smoke point for the oil you use, unless you enjoy having the smoke detector go off.
It really depends on how much rust there is. Rubbing it with salt will usually take off both rust and caked on grease, though it might take a lot of rubbing, but if there's so much rust that the surface of the pan is pitted, then IMHO you need to use something like steel wool to smooth the surface out a bit.
There are commercial cleaners like carbon-off, which you can probably get at a restaurant supply store or on Amazon, that will remove caked-on food and grease, but these are very caustic, so use them properly. I've used this to clean the stainless steel backsplash on my range, it worked when NOTHING else would!
Either way, you probably want to reseason it by putting on a light coat of oil and baking it in the oven for several hours.
November 29, 2018 at 10:59 pm in reply to: What are you cooking the week of November 25, 2018? #14200We had steak with mushrooms and a baked potato.
November 29, 2018 at 11:07 am in reply to: What are you cooking the week of November 25, 2018? #14198Nothing fancy at this point, just pouring tempered chocolate into silicone molds. Last night's batch also bloomed, I'm not sure why, but I'm re-melting the pieces and will try again this afternoon.
I need to get the tempering process down before I go further. We made 10-15 pound batches in a half sized hotel pan in school, at home I make smaller batches, more like 2-3 pounds at a time.
I've got several molds to make filled chocolates with, and that's mostly what we did at Chocolate School, but that's a 3 step process: Make the shells by filling the molds then dumping out the excess chocolate, filling the shells with some kind of filling (ganache, opera cream, etc) after they set, and then putting a little more chocolate in to form the bottom.
November 28, 2018 at 9:06 pm in reply to: What are you cooking the week of November 25, 2018? #14193We had fish for supper (orange roughy for my wife, salmon for me) with broccoli.
I've been making Christmas chocolates the last two days, I made some dark chocolate ones last night but the chocolate wasn't tempered right and 2/3 of them bloomed too much to use. I made a batch of milk chocolate ones this morning that came out nice and reprocessed the dark chocolate this evening, hopefully I got the tempering right this time.
Just some simple molded pieces: trees, santas, ornaments, teddy bears, snowflakes, stars, etc. We made up an Advent calendar for our granddaughter filled with some of them, and my wife is taking some to her office tomorrow.
November 27, 2018 at 8:23 pm in reply to: What are you cooking the week of November 25, 2018? #14187I made stuffed red peppers, this time I added a half can of black beans to the filling, we both thought that was an improvement.
I think the growers have been resisting origin labeling as too expensive, but the FDA played hardball ordering all romaine off shelves nationwide just ahead of Thanksgiving, and it appears the industry decided the cost was better than no sales at all.
IBM has been promoting block chain technology for tracking perishables, expect them to make a big push with large scale producers.
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