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I took my cast iron camping and it got left under the kitchen pop-up during a rainstorm, so it's a bit rusty. I need to figure out how to strip and reseason it (and my pie irons ๐ค). Need to figure out how to season without using an oven (gives migraines) or a gas grill (don't have one)
Edit: oven is electric, no issues when using the oven for anything else, so it's probably not the oven or ventilation.
Wait, how does an oven give migraines? Legitimately curious
Edit: I forgot Americans have inferior electricity and often use gas ovens at home lol
He needs a CO detector...
Does cast iron give off CO when you do that? If not, explain why we don't have issues any other time we use the oven.
Not OP but mine is natural gas and definitely produces trace amounts of noticeable gases when run. It gives me a very mild headache
Electric, and it's the smell the oil gives off during the process.
Yeah I forgot those were a thing. We run slightly more voltage here so high power electric appliances are the default, even gas stoves are becoming rarer, ovens are basically all electric for home use.
They probably don't have an exhaust vent in their kitchen
That's not it, we have no issues any other time cooking, just when doing cast iron.
But cast iron is iron. It doesn't smoke.
Oil makes smoke. You can use oil on steel, that is not an issue for you?
No, but I'm also not bringing oil to its smoke point when I'm doing normal cooking.
So the problem is oil smoke... Seems like ventilation would help with that
In most parts of the US, the typical range is all electric running on 240v. Gas is not the norm. Outlets are typically 120v, but appliances are connected to specialized high voltage outlets or hardwired.
Actually, it's the smell that the oil/fat gives off as it cooks in the oven that does it. No issues whatsoever when doing normal operations, so it's not the oven or the ventilation.
Ah, I thought the oven in general does it for you. Yeah, that makes sense, I hear migraines can be triggered by a lot of things if you're prone to getting them.
The oven or grill is just for heat. You could just as easily use a charcoal grill, or even a hole in the ground with a fire in it as long as you don't get it too hot too fast.