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AMA about cast iron and carbon steel pans

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you ever use salt as an abrasive? what's your favorite lipid?

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Yes. Sometimes when you have oil in your pan and your pan gets too hot, your oil will partially but not completely polymerize (which is the processes that seasons the pan, aka partial seasoning)

To remove that, you need to warm up oil and salt to dissolve and abrade the stuck oil