OT: plastic on cast iron griddle

ChokeOnSmoke · January 2011

I was preparing to make home-made tortillas on my cast iron griddle. I went to put a bag of plastic cups away (over the stove) and dropped them on the very hot griddle!
There is now a very thin (hard to see, but not hard to smell) layer of plastic on the surface now.

Any idea how I can salvage my new cast iron griddle?!!!

Thanks for suggestions.

2Fategghead · January 2011

Any chance you can freeze it and peel off the layer of plastic? :ermm:

stike · January 2011

burn the shizznit out of it and reseason

Rascal · January 2011

Coarse sandpaper and season it again.

Spring Chicken · January 2011

Or you can Google it...

Here are 19,400 ways to do it off a burner.

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Mr. & Mrs Potatohead · January 2011

I'm in the camp with stike....

Cast is porous, even the polished cast, so I really feel that the absolute best thing you could do is burn it with a really hot fire. Let the griddle heat up and cool down slowly or it may warp or even crack....Don't stick it into a 1000 F. fire, but put it on while the fire is climbing and leave it there while the fire goes out too.
This will burn off / out the plastic for sure and then give it a good seasoning. It will be way dry and ugly.
I would use lard here, just because it will be require a "deep" seasoning after such a hot burn out.
I think (my 2 cents worth, anyway) lard is the best for seasoning a new or re-conditioned cast.

ChokeOnSmoke · January 2011

Thanks for the responses, guys.

I ended up scrubbing it with steel wool and then put it in the oven on the "oven clean" cycle. (My plan was to blast it with heat in the egg, but it was below zero all weekend and I wasn't in the mood to stand outside if I wasn't cooking something!). It appears to be completely free of the thin coat of plastic that was once there. Now I just need to re-season it, as it has an almost brownish color to it now.

2Fategghead · January 2011

Glad you got it cleaned off.

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