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Cast Iron

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A community for cast iron cookware. Recipes, care, restoration, identification, etc.

Rules: Be helpful when you can, be respectful always, and keep cooking bacon.

More rules may come as the community grows, but for now, I'll remove spam or anything obviously mean-spirited, and leave it at that.

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Thrifted Griswald is contaminated with lead :( (sh.itjust.works)
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Sigh. Always test cast iron of unknown history. Any wall mounting tips lol?

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Have you tried to break a cast iron pan with a "hammer"?

At a minimum it'll take a sledge, and that will still take a bit of effort.

Besides, it's just no longer useful for food. Still fine as decoration, door stop, anchor - whatever you can think up.

A big painted "Not food safe" on the back would be a good reminder.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Yes, I have, and the first time was by accident because I figured "it's metal, metal is hard to break"

After reading some of this thread, I have decided if someone wants to gift me cast iron and it's bad, from now on I'm gonna use some of my metalworking tools to engrave a pattern into it.

A big NOT FOR FOOD engraved on the back would be a good addition just in case someone decides it's decorational engraving and still usable. Maybe even a little periodic table square for lead engraved on it somewhere as well.