Q: I have a cast-iron skillet that I have been using for a few years. It has brown, rust-colored stains that don’t come off, no matter what I do. I’ve tried kosher salt and a small chain, soap, a ...
That said, even unbranded cast-iron cookware can be desirable, since most brands in the first half of the 20th century followed the same manufacturing processes. Rust in and of itself is easy to ...
The boxes arrive with Griswolds, Wagners, Lodges and other vintage queens of cast-iron cooking, now worse for wear. Some are rusted over, or too encrusted for anyone to make out their branding.