On 12/3/2018 12:36 AM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> I had a friend back in Ohio, a reasonably good cook, who askaed to
> borrow my 10" cast iron skillet. This skillet had been handed down
> from my great great gramdmother. My friend did not own any cast iron
> nor had ever cooked with it.
>
> My friend baked a pan of cornbread in the skillet and burned it
> terribly, to the point that she resorted to scraping it with a heavy
> duty putty knife. When that didin't work she soaked it with a
> copious amount of Dawn dishwashing detergent and water overnight.
> There was still residue in the pan and she then put it through a
> cycle in her dishwasher.
>
> Needless to say the pan was totally covered in rust that I could't
> remove in any normal way. I took it to a metal worker who sandblsted
> it right down to the bare iron. Then I began seasoning the skillet,
> but it took the better part of a year to build up enough coating to
> render in virtuaolly non-stick.
>
> I've since learned that many people are very careless in the kitchen
> and I will not loan cookware or kitchen apliances to anyone ever
> again.

What did the pan ever do to her!?? She tried every way to kill it.
I can only imagine the look on your face when you saw the condition
when she handed it back.

I really don't like borrowing things because it's a responsibility to
get it back in the same condition and sometimes things happen.

nancy