My cast iron frying pan (and dutch oven) were in dire need of a good scour (to remove some rust) and a re-seasoning. They haven’t been treated as nicely as I would have wanted to treat them recently, and was not taken care of during our move to CA. So I wanted to strip off as much of the current seasoning that was already there and basically, start from scratch.
Solution?
Throw them in a self cleaning over and run them through a cleaning cycle.
The pot/pan came out with most of the seasoning carbonized and flaking off. A thorough scrubbing with a brillo pad and Ajax cleaner cleaned up everything else. Bits of rust and carbon flakes.
After that I needed to re-season the pots. My new method is much better than my old one.
My new seasoning method
P.S. I also find this works much better in a gas oven than an electric one. I haven’t really figured out why yet.