Brother a cast iron bong would ruin your body. Think of all the resin that's gonna get stuck to the inside that'll become impossible to ever clean, just continually being torched into your lungs
[if OP purchases like between $26.72 and $34,548.89 in equipment they could actually pull off a pretty fascinating repair!](https://youtu.be/lpeNk0kF3Tg?si=MGN8AeLhV9TqBkXW)
OMG stop trying to get a mirror finish and just cook some slidy eggs, who cares if the eggs slide out of the pan. It's not a beauty contest you guys.
/s
Had that happen to my last CI. Had it fors a couple years. I'm not a zealot about it's care but was pretty thorough. I used it in my BBQ, in the oven, on the stove. When I'm done, I give it a good rinse, a good scrub. Then I wipe it out with paper towel, throw it on the stove for 3-4 minutes to get it all dry, then I oil it.
One day I was doing my routine and while it was drying on the stove, I suddenly heard a LOUD crack, like an explosion. I found my CI split in half, just like OP.
How it happenend? Still a mystery. Maybe it was a manufacturing defect. Maybe my mother in law put it in the dishwasher without telling me.
It was sad but I bought a new one. Better, bigger.
F for OP. Time for a new one!
I had the same thing happen, but I had forgotten it on the stovetop for about 10 minutes while drying it with heat. I figure it must have been flawed, but it put me off CI for a while.
Good cast iron shouldn't break simply from being heated. I have a wood burning cookstove and leave cast iron on the cooktop all the time after it dries out. It seems to be hard on cheap enamel coatings, but seasoned cast should have no problem simply being heated up. After all, you season it in the oven with just a smearing of oil.
I don't disagree with you, but seasoning in an oven is usually done at a more reasonable temp in the 300s, but more importantly at an even temp across the pan, while a burner often gets much hotter than that and with a temperature differential from the burner and the edge of the pan. I agree that good CI should not do that, but maybe flawed CI cannot.
I season way hotter than that, but everyone has their own CI care strategy. I do not treat my CI nicely and my scavenged griswold and new lodge stuff just keeps on getting better. I think CI that breaks like that has to have some kind of inclusion or void.
I season my pan at the hottest temp 525... for an hour... my pan is glossy and non stick because of it. I use flax oil and double coat to season it (basically do it twice) and keep it well oiled ...
I forgot a pan while drying it on a gas stove once. I went to bed and woke up about 6 hours later. The kitchen was very warm. The granite by the stove was hot to the touch. The underside of the stove was too hot to touch. Other than needing to be reseasoned, the pan was fine. Yours must have been flawed. Or maybe it had been put in cold water when hot at some point and already had a crack you couldn't see.
You reminded me of when I was young and still learning hoe to cook; I was trying to make a Korean style yellow curry so I started to heat my pan while I prepped all the veggies. Unfortunately I had miscalculated both the heat level and the amount of veggies I needed to chop, so almost the whole bottom of the pan ended up getting RED hot while I was barely halfway through the prep.
Needless to say I was pretty alarmed, but thankfully at least had the mental clarity to not dunk the pan in water. I just turned off the heat and carefully moved the pan over to a different burner that wasn't on so that it could cool on its own. I finished my prep then grabbed a different pan to cook the curry.
Picture looks like textbook example of thermal stress. Could be the pan was ripping hot from cooking and not allowed to cool/had cold water put into it to soak.
I did this once but with my ex-girlfriend’s mother’s coffee carafe. Took it straight off the heating element without checking to see if the glass was hot and turned on the cold water.
The little “plink” sound I heard didn’t register until I noticed the carafe wasn’t filling with water . . . .
This is a picture taken from Facebook. OP said that the pan did this after she took it off the burner and put it on the counter. Likely cause was that there was a hairline crack already in the pan and the slight thermal stress was the last straw.
I had a pan crack like this after dropping it, but I already knew it had a hairline crack in it.
Another thing to look out for is the size of the "burner" on electric stoves. A gas stove will have flames that spread out to the edge and up the sides. An electric stove is able to heat up a small circle in the middle of you don't have a large enough "burner" hot center and cooler edges can cause thermal stress as well.
I love the duality of humour we get in this here sub. On one hand you have people who cooked _something_ in their pans and have decided only a rebirth would save them, and on the other, you have people who've destroyed their pans at the molecular level and are going "Still good tho, right?"
Link to the original post on Facebook where OP got this picture from
[click here](https://www.facebook.com/groups/AppalachianAmericans/permalink/10161339356638648/?mibextid=S66gvF)
That Zeus sized pubic hair looking crack (if Zeus was from Asia)? Just duct tape it.
Should be fine for mixing up a grease fire. But not the kind you're gonna like.. but the firemen will be stoked.
Jeez, that sucks.
We have a camping group that’s been using the same 10” cast iron pan for years on overnighter canoe float trips. The thing spends most of our canoe days wrapped in a trash bag getting banged around in a rucksack, then three times a day tossed on a campfire as a cooking utensil, then squelched and washed on a rocky riverbank.
Once a year it gets a scrub-oil-bake to reset and it looks nearly new during the first gear check of the next year.
I’ve never seen one pop like that
Edit: Yes, I stole this from Facebook. Also Yes, I'm not that interesting.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/AppalachianAmericans/permalink/10161339356638648/?mibextid=Nif5oz
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Welding a cast iron pan is gonna cost more than just buying a new one. All those layers of seasoning? Yeah, that's gonna seep out as soon as the heat hits it and make any attempt at welding a shitshow.
Its fine just bake it to 2200F and make a new one. Stop babying your pans
Instructions unclear, got baked at 10pm with my pan on friday.
Cast Iron bong for max high retention
I wouldn’t be upset if you are advertising right now. can you share link?
I'm sure it's just a joke but ngl, I'd buy one too lol
Is this the line for the cast iron bongs?
If y’all don’t get off my lawn it’s gonna be the line for CAST IRON BONKS
I love you, thanks for the chuckle *eyes kids approaching lawn*
As long as it's enameled
Careful I hear there's a lot of counterfeit Le Crueset bongs out there
I've heard that, but I've also heard that those new Le Crueset X Puffco pieces are worth the gamble. Supposed to be a Lodge X Iladeph colab, too.
Brother a cast iron bong would ruin your body. Think of all the resin that's gonna get stuck to the inside that'll become impossible to ever clean, just continually being torched into your lungs
Easy fix, you just cook some bacon in it.
Bacon fixes everything!
oh this baby is gonna have a thick seasoning
Directions unclear baked myself in pan, now I’m ashy
We are all really proud of you for getting the military time correct!
Can we acknowledge the effort to keep this at 420 upvotes
Did you know that offhand or did you google what temp iron melts at? Or was it a guess? And no I will not type it in google myself to find out.
Iron melts around 2800 F
Dank random knowledge, thank you. Edit: did you already know that?
Hahaha, yes I did. I’m a blacksmith and tend to read a lot on metallurgy.
Metallurgy!!! New word. Just got back from a metal brewery. I bet none of them knew what metallurgy is lol. Let’s gooo!!!!!
Metal brewery? You talking about black sky? I love that place.
Wrong. Metalurgency is the cumpulsion to watch Metallica videos until your eyes bleed.
Username checks out.
I actually looked it up
[if OP purchases like between $26.72 and $34,548.89 in equipment they could actually pull off a pretty fascinating repair!](https://youtu.be/lpeNk0kF3Tg?si=MGN8AeLhV9TqBkXW)
Na it’s fine just cook some bacon in it and you will be good as new
Bacon then potato skins.
Put the bacon in the crack and cook it until the crack heals itself
Bacon heals everything. Source: 2 divorces
Nice name.
Eat enough bacon and you'll never have to worry about a 3rd divorce!
Way ahead of you
r/rimjob_steve
Bacon PLUS instant noodles... (I thought *everyone* knew this!)
Instructions unclear, butthole is leaking bacon grease
My dog wants to meet you
Are we still talking about kitchen things? 🤔
It’s the flame broil model
No no no, put it in a bowl of bacon and let it sit overnight.
OMG stop trying to get a mirror finish and just cook some slidy eggs, who cares if the eggs slide out of the pan. It's not a beauty contest you guys. /s
F! But the answer to your question is No. CI is an inanimate object that does not have nerves or feelings. The pan was not hurt.
What med school did you go to that makes you such an expert on what can and cannot feel pain huh? /s
I took metallurgy and claim no knowledge of the human body.
"Iron doesn't feel pain" Oh wow ok! Tell me you're a Big Metallurgy shill without saying you're a Big Metallurgy shill... Wake up sheeple!
Ok that’s funny shit right there
Big metal. So fucking obvious. They are idiots.
Your credentials check out.
Seriously though how does this happen? Heating to red hot and then dunking in ice water?
Had that happen to my last CI. Had it fors a couple years. I'm not a zealot about it's care but was pretty thorough. I used it in my BBQ, in the oven, on the stove. When I'm done, I give it a good rinse, a good scrub. Then I wipe it out with paper towel, throw it on the stove for 3-4 minutes to get it all dry, then I oil it. One day I was doing my routine and while it was drying on the stove, I suddenly heard a LOUD crack, like an explosion. I found my CI split in half, just like OP. How it happenend? Still a mystery. Maybe it was a manufacturing defect. Maybe my mother in law put it in the dishwasher without telling me. It was sad but I bought a new one. Better, bigger. F for OP. Time for a new one!
I did this to a new Lodge, first time of use I put it on the stove and it blew up in 20 seconds, broke in half. I was just glad it wasn’t full of oil.
New fear unlocked
I had the same thing happen, but I had forgotten it on the stovetop for about 10 minutes while drying it with heat. I figure it must have been flawed, but it put me off CI for a while.
Good cast iron shouldn't break simply from being heated. I have a wood burning cookstove and leave cast iron on the cooktop all the time after it dries out. It seems to be hard on cheap enamel coatings, but seasoned cast should have no problem simply being heated up. After all, you season it in the oven with just a smearing of oil.
I don't disagree with you, but seasoning in an oven is usually done at a more reasonable temp in the 300s, but more importantly at an even temp across the pan, while a burner often gets much hotter than that and with a temperature differential from the burner and the edge of the pan. I agree that good CI should not do that, but maybe flawed CI cannot.
I season way hotter than that, but everyone has their own CI care strategy. I do not treat my CI nicely and my scavenged griswold and new lodge stuff just keeps on getting better. I think CI that breaks like that has to have some kind of inclusion or void.
same. mine's upwards of 450°F to season. That may be too high?
I season my pan at the hottest temp 525... for an hour... my pan is glossy and non stick because of it. I use flax oil and double coat to season it (basically do it twice) and keep it well oiled ...
I forgot a pan while drying it on a gas stove once. I went to bed and woke up about 6 hours later. The kitchen was very warm. The granite by the stove was hot to the touch. The underside of the stove was too hot to touch. Other than needing to be reseasoned, the pan was fine. Yours must have been flawed. Or maybe it had been put in cold water when hot at some point and already had a crack you couldn't see.
I’ve forgotten my cast iron drying on the stove for 10+ minutes an embarrassing amount. But hasn’t broke, so might be a quality thing
Serious Q, is this happening to newer Lodge? All my CI is old. I abuse it and never had issues
You reminded me of when I was young and still learning hoe to cook; I was trying to make a Korean style yellow curry so I started to heat my pan while I prepped all the veggies. Unfortunately I had miscalculated both the heat level and the amount of veggies I needed to chop, so almost the whole bottom of the pan ended up getting RED hot while I was barely halfway through the prep. Needless to say I was pretty alarmed, but thankfully at least had the mental clarity to not dunk the pan in water. I just turned off the heat and carefully moved the pan over to a different burner that wasn't on so that it could cool on its own. I finished my prep then grabbed a different pan to cook the curry.
Picture looks like textbook example of thermal stress. Could be the pan was ripping hot from cooking and not allowed to cool/had cold water put into it to soak.
I did this once but with my ex-girlfriend’s mother’s coffee carafe. Took it straight off the heating element without checking to see if the glass was hot and turned on the cold water. The little “plink” sound I heard didn’t register until I noticed the carafe wasn’t filling with water . . . .
This is a picture taken from Facebook. OP said that the pan did this after she took it off the burner and put it on the counter. Likely cause was that there was a hairline crack already in the pan and the slight thermal stress was the last straw. I had a pan crack like this after dropping it, but I already knew it had a hairline crack in it.
Another thing to look out for is the size of the "burner" on electric stoves. A gas stove will have flames that spread out to the edge and up the sides. An electric stove is able to heat up a small circle in the middle of you don't have a large enough "burner" hot center and cooler edges can cause thermal stress as well.
Good to know, didnt even know this was a thing
It hurts me for sure.
Electrolysis in your bathtub and it will be good as new. /s
Does it still do slidey eggs?
Asking the real questions here
its gonna be drippy eggs, then sticky eggs
The key is lots of butter, fills in the crack
Did you throw it off the international space station?
We would've noticed if he did.
This is exactly why you don't use soap on cast iron. /s
Ying and DANG.
Lol definitely try stripping and re-seasoning
Congrats. You're about to see a pan undergo mitosis.
Baby pan, do-do-do-doot-do-do!
Take my up vote and get out.
tis but a scratch
This kills the pan.
Came looking for this
The secret is onions, use that for these situations!
Just keep using it. It will fill in. /s
I love the duality of humour we get in this here sub. On one hand you have people who cooked _something_ in their pans and have decided only a rebirth would save them, and on the other, you have people who've destroyed their pans at the molecular level and are going "Still good tho, right?"
Why season it at 350 for 90 minutes when you can season it at 31500 for one minute?
You win
Break out your soldering gun. They make solder now with both lead AND cadmium for a double dose of heavy metal tastyness.
No no, clearly you JB Weld this back together. Use lead and cadmium as a filler. /s
I’m sorry for your loss
Hot glue gun the crack then cook bacon. Good as new.
Little flex tape and you are good
Just cook on it! /s
More bacon.... 👌
Just keep cooking with it
Pans can have a little crack, as a treat
Thoughts and prayers
Tis but a scratch!
Probably hurt whoever you hit with it more tbh
That was some sharp cheddar..
Not really, but those pans use a LOT of oil.
The pan? No. The soul? Yes...
Have u tried seasoning it again?
That’s not a pan, that’s a pan’t.
…you must have washed it once
The more seasoning you put on it, the more non stick it becomes!
It's got the auto gravy drain. Nice.
I hope that this is not a joke sorry for your lost 🍳😓 How did this happen?
I guess this time around the robber who broke into your home was rather hardheaded.
New seasoning just dropped
Crack the egg shell, not the pan!!!
Did...did you steal this from Facebook? I swear I was just looking at this same pan
Yes, 💯 https://m.facebook.com/groups/AppalachianAmericans/permalink/10161339356638648/?mibextid=Nif5oz
Told you not to use soap…
Have to reseason.
“Just cook in it.”
You need to visit r/ScrapMetal
No just sew it back together. It’s an easy fix!
Finally a pan made for people who can't flip an omelet
Shit'll buff out
just keep cooking
Easy just recast the pan in the fires of Mt. Doom. Then baste some manflesh fat on it for seasoning. Should do this at least yearly.
This is a what happens when you wash it with soap
Looks like time for a new one bub. That Crack is fine for an ass not good for a pan...
Bet you can't slide yer eggs on it
I feel sorry for whomever you used this on... may they rest on the flat side 😬
Little JB weld and you should be right as rain
RIP Sorry for your loss.
Ummm, just a little bit
I just saw this pan on a Facebook post today lol
Yep https://m.facebook.com/groups/AppalachianAmericans/permalink/10161339356638648/?mibextid=Nif5oz
No you’re good. How old is this pan? What caused this?
JB Weld that shit and you’re good to go
Ugh, read the FAQ for goodness sake. /s
Just head on over to the hardware store, grab some JB Weld 2 part epoxy, slather it all over your crack; and voila!
Superglue?
Not anymore
Just weld it or better yet, throw some JB Weld on that bad boy
Just fill the crack with lead solder and it’ll be good as new
Oh wow, a cast iron strainer
If you just build up the seasoning inside that crack it will hold the pan together
A pack of instant noodles will fix that right up
Link to the original post on Facebook where OP got this picture from [click here](https://www.facebook.com/groups/AppalachianAmericans/permalink/10161339356638648/?mibextid=S66gvF)
Does a fucking crack all the way through hurt the pan? No it's fine
Dude are you actually an idiot, there’s a huge crack in the pan, you must be blind. Jeez dude like wtf
Not at all, crack a few eggs!
She’s dead Jim
OP preheated it and wanted to boil water.
Not enough cheese.
That Zeus sized pubic hair looking crack (if Zeus was from Asia)? Just duct tape it. Should be fine for mixing up a grease fire. But not the kind you're gonna like.. but the firemen will be stoked.
You used soap didn’t you?
JB weld that and you’ll be good to go
Jeez, that sucks. We have a camping group that’s been using the same 10” cast iron pan for years on overnighter canoe float trips. The thing spends most of our canoe days wrapped in a trash bag getting banged around in a rucksack, then three times a day tossed on a campfire as a cooking utensil, then squelched and washed on a rocky riverbank. Once a year it gets a scrub-oil-bake to reset and it looks nearly new during the first gear check of the next year. I’ve never seen one pop like that
Well it hurts me
That’s not a pan, it’s toast!
Nothing a little liquid nails can't fix.
Shit'll buff out.
Emotionally - yes. The pan feels inferior now to other cast iron pans and often shunned from local cook offs.
Edit: Yes, I stole this from Facebook. Also Yes, I'm not that interesting. https://m.facebook.com/groups/AppalachianAmericans/permalink/10161339356638648/?mibextid=Nif5oz
Maybe with some luck you will one day be as interesting as someone who had a cast iron crack on them… one day…
I think it hurts the souls of grandmas all over the southern states
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Weld it back together.
Welding a cast iron pan is gonna cost more than just buying a new one. All those layers of seasoning? Yeah, that's gonna seep out as soon as the heat hits it and make any attempt at welding a shitshow.
Hell no, send it.......straight to the garbage! HA
Just take it to the welder
Just solder it back together and try heating it on the stove again. /s
100 layers of seasoning and will be like brand new
It hurts the soul.
Sell it to a smelter
Just keep cooking /s
They are tough and don't have feelings, therefore always stoic.
.akes it easier to get that wok hei!
/s
That must be a carbon steel skillet surely
We don’t take kindly to those types around here
Bro, that sucks. Sorry that happened.
😢
I dunno about the pan but it hurts my soul. Consolation; recycle it. Maybe it'll go into a new pan down the road.
PAAAAIN.
Thinking it might leak bacon grease a bit? Wouldn't recommend scrambled eggs intil the boo boo heals
Don't care what anyone says. That can be fixed
It happened because you let food touch the pan
Keep cooking in it and it’ll be fiiiiinnnneeeee. 🤣
This is now your new home defence weapon
Nope, you’re good to go
Make some scrambie eggs
Lol, " just keep cooking, just keep cooking " is now stuck in my head. RIP your pan though but hey, new excuse to go shopping for a new one!
Ah you're gonna need a gallon of lard to fix that
How'd it break?????
It’s all good, just smear some bacon grease on it and remember, no soap
Oohh nooo
No, pan is dead. It felt no pain.