So here is the pan I posted about a couple days ago. I put the pan in the oven and ran the self-cleaning cycle. When it came out I cleaned off the ash and I could actually tell that some of the texture around the edge was the metal and not food. The rest of the gunk was gone.

I put a very thin layer of canola oil on it and baked it at 450 for an hour. It looks beautiful now. I’m going to do a couple more seasoning cycles and then try to maintain it.

Thanks everyone for the advice!

  • @chonglibloodsportEnglish
    4•12 days ago

    My oven no longer works properly after the last self clean. The preheat cycle doesn’t stop at the designated temp — it just keeps getting hotter and hotter until it shuts down with an error.

    I think self clean is quite bad for the electronics in the oven. Electrolytic capacitors are an example of one type of component that gets damaged over time by heat: the electrolytes dry out and the capacitor fails.