chaparrito
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Not guns, cast iron cookware.
Prelude: I know very well how to care for, season and restore cast iron cookware. I own quite literally a ton of it, most very old.
Now then, one piece I have is a 30s-40s vintage Griswold 10" griddle that I believe is nickel plated. It's entirely black with cooked on carbon except the handle, which shows the nickel intact.
I want to restore it to its original finish, in other words, remove all the carbon.
My normal routine with uncoated cast iron is a 3 hour trip through my self cleaning oven followed by a scrubbing out and 3 coat trip back through the oven with flax oil.
I know from the way my nickel plated oven racks are discolored by the self-clean temperatures that that's probably not a plan for this griddle.
Thinking of either a long soak in pure 10% cleaning vinegar, or maybe rigging up an electrolysis tank with water, washing soda and a battery charger, but I don't know jack about nickel other than it's sort of fragile.
Your thoughts? Thanks!
Forgot to mention, the underside of the piece is raw iron, not coated. The plating ends at the bottom edge of the pan's border.
Prelude: I know very well how to care for, season and restore cast iron cookware. I own quite literally a ton of it, most very old.
Now then, one piece I have is a 30s-40s vintage Griswold 10" griddle that I believe is nickel plated. It's entirely black with cooked on carbon except the handle, which shows the nickel intact.
I want to restore it to its original finish, in other words, remove all the carbon.
My normal routine with uncoated cast iron is a 3 hour trip through my self cleaning oven followed by a scrubbing out and 3 coat trip back through the oven with flax oil.
I know from the way my nickel plated oven racks are discolored by the self-clean temperatures that that's probably not a plan for this griddle.
Thinking of either a long soak in pure 10% cleaning vinegar, or maybe rigging up an electrolysis tank with water, washing soda and a battery charger, but I don't know jack about nickel other than it's sort of fragile.
Your thoughts? Thanks!
Forgot to mention, the underside of the piece is raw iron, not coated. The plating ends at the bottom edge of the pan's border.
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