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I am going to launch DP into the SUN for this.

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Yesitsbess · 03/10/2021 20:42

Ten years. TEN YEARS of careful seasoning of my cast iron pan and he has "cleaned it". With wire wool.

After I pay Elon Musk to devise a trebuchet large enough to launch him directly into the Sun, does anyone have any advice as to whether this is even vaguely salvageable?

I am going to launch DP into the SUN for this.
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YesitsBess · 18/10/2021 19:59

Ouch. OUCH!

My inner seamstress has just mentally done him a mischief...

At least mine didn't bin the evidence @Tinpotspectator

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WhereDoesThisToiletGo · 18/10/2021 08:24

Those of you who have to hide your fabric scissors, be grateful you are not married to my friend's DP.
She couldn't understand why her sewing machine (which cost a couple of thousand quid) was snarling up all the threads.
Until he "remembered" trying to use it to repair a leather strap on his canvas work bag.
The only reason he still posseses his testicles, is because he found and paid for a repairman

Tinpotspectator · 17/10/2021 00:01

Mine burnt my John Lewis steel steamer and binned it without telling me, so there was no opportunity to clean it up, which is usually possible. It cost £108 to replace, and the two steamer baskets that went with it continue to reproach me from the cupboard.

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YesitsBess · 15/10/2021 20:55

@MNHQ oh! Thankyou for that!

I may have it printed and unfurl it at him whenever he ventures towards the pans Grin

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Deathraystare · 15/10/2021 14:30

Ten years. TEN YEARS of careful seasoning of my cast iron pan and he has "cleaned it". With wire wool.

Aha! So he will never have to clean anything again as you won't let him (you may have already killed him!).

Clever man! Result!

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HebeMumsnet · 15/10/2021 13:05

We're going to move this thread to Classics now, where it can remain for posterity and the OP's DH can contemplate it and think about what he has done.

Redscarfjamjar · 10/10/2021 09:52

Hahahahaaaaaa! Love that!

SteveTP · 10/10/2021 09:06

There is an easy 3-step solution to both problems (the pan and DP). The first step requires lots of salt - a tub of Saxa or similar supermarket own brand equivalent and some Maldon sea salt crystals. Layer the cheap salt in the ruined pan and apply hot heat until it goes brown/black and leave to cool. When cool, remove salt using a dry cloth and place in bin, on pesky slugs or use to clear slippery ice. Repeat this until the tub of salt is gone.

Then heat a knob of unsalted butter in the pan and while it heats to foam take fresh sweetbreads from DP with a sharp knife - well, maybe just one as you have to leave the threat of the second ... As the butter foam dies down place the thinly sliced seetbreads in the pan caramelising first one side, then the other.

Apply a pinch of the Maldon salt and serve with a few fava beans and a nice Chianti to your, by now quivering DP, whilst explaining the benefits of a fine patina on a frying pan.

Future urges to clean the frying pan will be nipped in his remaining bud.

VoluptuaSneezelips · 06/10/2021 07:41

[quote Yesitsbess]@NeverDropYourMoonCup

He cut his hair with my fabric scissors.

My. Fabric. Scissors.

Shall we just both launch him into the sun?[/quote]
My other half learnt very very quickly about MY sewing scissors and my fabric scissors via the medium of mime - i mimed cutting his knob off with them. :D He now has his own which he is equally protective about since learning to hand & machine sew.
Took him bloody years to learn about seasoning pans though and the irony is that im now not allowed to touch the wok - the proper one as he calls it that was my late mothers wok.

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Yesitsbess · 05/10/2021 21:30

@calvados

That’s nothing. My husband soaked my inheritance silverware in a sink filled with caustic soda as he believed it would give it a thorough clean. It now resembles something a blacksmith would put on a horses hoof!
I nearly fainted reading that.

How do you even get...around that?

I appreciate that I say this as a woman who has allowed her fabric scissors to be commandeered by an idiot.

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Diverami · 05/10/2021 11:06

Rub it with oil and put it in the oven or on the hot plate. Do not throw it away.

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Yesitsbess · 05/10/2021 10:17

@Mamanyt I was going to ask if it had a name! How lovely.

I'm off to work and then I'm going to assess the state of big pan...

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DebHagland · 05/10/2021 09:05

I am still mourning the loss of the most wonderful frying pan that my mum threw out when I was a teenager because it was "scruffy and burnt", it made the best paper thin crepes ever and never stuck.

sashh · 05/10/2021 04:30

[quote Yesitsbess]@Amitskitshaw the pans predate him.

I read him the responses in the car today and we both laughed a lot. He has asked, in detail, how he can fix the pan and look after it so am now worried he may take over as the pan nerd of the family. I'm keeping baby pan in my handbag just in case.[/quote]
I'm glad you are looking after baby pan but please don't ignore big pan, big pan needs love and care too.

Mamanyt · 05/10/2021 00:44

[quote Yesitsbess]@Mamanyt I may have done a slightly romantic sigh there reading about your sourdough starter.[/quote]
AWWWWWWWWWWW! Her name, BTW, is Matilda. Once you've lived with something for that long, and you realize how alive it is, you tend to name it. I talk to her every time I feed her (you feed sourdough starter weekly....it gets to almost be a family pet!).

calvados · 05/10/2021 00:38

That’s nothing. My husband soaked my inheritance silverware in a sink filled with caustic soda as he believed it would give it a thorough clean. It now resembles something a blacksmith would put on a horses hoof!

Nightfeedwatcher · 04/10/2021 22:59

I’ve been reading this getting more worried that I used to scrape my mums pans to death trying to clean them…but after seeing a picture of a cast iron pan it turns out hers were actually just gross haha

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Yesitsbess · 04/10/2021 22:52

@NotMyCat

My ex once used metal utensils on my non stick pan. And then half a 500ml bottle of my limited edition ££ shower gel as "it smelled nice" Yeah, that's why I don't use 250ml to shower, I mean who needs that much?!
This would also be a declaration of war. I once watched a couple friend of mine become quite animated about the metal scrapey things in the very expensive Teflon pan.
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Yesitsbess · 04/10/2021 21:52

I wouldn't want to advise on allergies, that's above my nerd level. But hopefully someone can give you safe and sensible guidance

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Yesitsbess · 04/10/2021 21:52

@Amitskitshaw the pans predate him.

I read him the responses in the car today and we both laughed a lot. He has asked, in detail, how he can fix the pan and look after it so am now worried he may take over as the pan nerd of the family. I'm keeping baby pan in my handbag just in case.

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Kerikerikeri · 04/10/2021 21:45

Are they clean?

Could I use them to cook for DD with allergies, if I had cooked using allergens last time I used the pan?

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Yesitsbess · 04/10/2021 21:34

@MrsPepperpot79

Mine put my beautiful, rosewood handled, sabatier boning knife in the dishwasher. He now looks nervous every time I sharpen it!
As well he should. I hope you maintain eye contact whilst sharpening.
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minou123 · 04/10/2021 21:33

This might sound a bit weird, but personally, I've been waiting for @Wroxie to get her pan pics out.

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Yesitsbess · 04/10/2021 21:33

@Georgyporky

Got room for another stupid DH in the trebuchet? Marble & wooden stuff in the dishwasher as well as a cast-iron griddle pan ?
Heavens to Betsy! That's some next-level kitchen shenanigans right there.
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Amitskitshaw · 04/10/2021 21:26

Had he not washed up before? In 10 yes? At least he didn’t put your Le Crueset behind a tree in the garden where would remain until found 12 months later!!!! All because he couldn’t be arsed to destroy it with wire wool.

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