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I’ll be over here giving my cast iron skillet a good scrubbing with some steel wool to get all the black stuff off.
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I find sandblasting to be very effective for the task.
One of my first jobs as a teenager was at a restaurant.
I was the janitor.
One day I ‘cleaned’ the cook’s egg flipping pan.
I thought he was going to have a heart attack.....................
I use a wire brush on an electrical angle grinder. Come out like new!