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I got a Wagner at a thrift store and it was covered in a burnt on crust that I couldn’t even chip off with a hammer. My mom told me her grandfather used to just throw it in a bonfire and let it all burn off. After watching a video where a guy got rid of the same crust in an oven on self clean mode, I decided to go the bonfire route. I don’t have a self cleaning oven. The iron did start glowing red after a while, but once it cooled, no sign of the crust. I was amazed and now that pan acts better than most non-stick I’ve ever used.

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panicnow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I put a pan in my oven on self-cleaning cycle. The weight of the pan and the heat made the rack the pan was on droop permanently.

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- bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  flip it upside down and repeat.
  
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litchralee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When doing research for this restoration, I did come across a suggestion about using the self cleaning feature on my oven. But some other comments suggested that self cleaning might put a lot of strain on the oven’s components, for a task which could also be achieved chemically.

So to see how my oven might behave, I set it to the highest temperature (550 F; 290 C) for 20 minutes. What happened was that the crud in the oven started smoking so badly that I had to cut the experiment short. Apparently I need to also clean my oven but I didn’t want to start a second project just to finish the first one. I’m lazy lol

So in my case, a hot oven was also a no-go. But a bonfire would have been awesome to do. For science, of course.

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- psion1369@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It was awesome. Granted the iron started glowing a soft red, so I had to remove it, but the whole process was as simple as get fire roaring, place iron, take oout of fire after some time.
  
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