I needed to season a piece and decided to give this some love too. It has been used on a griller over hot coals, and the back of it looked like it didn’t like taking that radiative heat head on.
So I’m on my 4th layer if seasoning it with avocado oil. 450 degrees, 2h, then let it cool overnight with the oven. The back is looking much better, but the cooking surface just began flaking (see picture). I’ve brushed it with a plastic bristle brush. Pretty sure the light spots are the metal underneath.
What went wrong? And how to fix this, do I just keep on seasoning?
From the pic it looks like you lost a few speckles, is it just that or did you have any big chunks come out?
If you just lost some little bits here and there you can either give it one or two seasoning runs or just let it fix itself through usage if you use it regularly. When you cook with it and get done, clean it well with dish soap, then towel dry and put it back on an medium heat to dry. Once it gets warm add a small amount of oil and use a lint free cloth to wipe it all around and wipe it really well so it looks kinda wet/dry. Let it get hot until it just barely starts to smoke then remove from the heat and wipe it really well with the cloth to remove the oil that kind of ‘sweated’ after it got hot. Just let it cool and use it again the next time you cook. Do this for as many uses as you want until it seems to have a solid seasoning again.
I use paper towels instead of a lint free cloth and it works fine, but lint free is the right way to do it. This approach basically adds a semi polymerized layer that will finish itself over time as you use it and as long as you wipe out all of the excess after applying and then again after heating each layer will be very thin.
Just speckles, yes. Thank you!