[SMARTY]

I forgot my cast iron skillet on the burner and now it's blistered. Do I have to get rid of it??

[logi_cal869]

If it’s not warped/cracked,

https://www.southernliving.com/food/kitchen-assistant/how-to-reseason-cast-iron-skillet

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Tell us more. Is it plain cast iron or enameled?

[sasquatch]

Yes, it’s the law.

[EBH]

If the pan has cooled and the blistering is peeling, you should be able to work the whole pan down using a lye soak or sandpaper and then re-season the pan.

If the pan blistered and cracked/chipped...toss it.

[Larry Lucido]

[Libloather]

Did you get hit in the head with it? May want to tend to that first.

[Sacajaweau]

i’m old....too heavy for me.

[texas booster]

Cast iron cookware is pretty durable - until it gets a chip or a crack.

Try contacting Lodge. They make most of the popular cast iron cookware sold in the US.

Lodge Cookware Help Center

Cast iron lasts a long rime but is not indestructible.

[skr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5UjluBvErQ

Video about dealing with flaking seasoning. Kind of fun since the host is a cowboy. He uses table salt to abrade the peeling. He seems to have some good tips about seasoning, too.

[GingisK]

Do not use your cast iron as a cooking timer.

[Yogafist]

Reddit has a pretty good sub for cast iron. You can post photos of the damage and there are some pretty good guys who will most likely give you some good advice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/castiron/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

[Yardstick]

You might check if it got warped by setting it on a flat surface.

[GOPJ]

If your stove has a ‘clean oven’ setting, leave one rack in the oven, put your cast iron pan on that rack - set cycle to clean for the usual three hours or whatever your stove uses - then when cool take the pan out and re-season it.

[V K Lee]

Cowboy Kent Rawlins might be of help for your particular dilemma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yVIvcFWoRc

[Rio]

Real cast iron? Just re-season it.
Cast iron with enamel over it? I have no idea.

[spokeshave]

I forgot my cast iron skillet on the burner and now it's blistered. Do I have to get rid of it??

Use it for target practice.

If you are using one of these you may even put a hole in it

[Gil4]

bookmark for later

[Vendome]

Put a railroad spike in it ...

[Eva]

They are cheap, buy a new one. It isn’t worth the time and effort to restore the old one. It will take a while to get the new one fully seasoned, but you would have re-season the old one anyway.

[umbagi]

When I left home in 1965 for my first apartment, I bought a Corning electric percolator and two cast iron skillets (9” for eggs, a big one for everything else, especially cornbread).

In 1978, after a stretch in Vietnam and two wives, I still had them and used them almost daily. Wife #3 (the Keeper, a true gift from a merciful and gracious God) moved in. Third weekend she was there, we drove to Dallas to visit friends. When we returned, I discovered that she had put them in the dishwasher before we left. You know, so everything would be clean when we got back!

We spent several days, maybe a week, doing what my mother and grandmother recommended, and yes, we’re still using them both today.

That said, today I’d just buy two new skillets!!