Damaged Frying Pan Restoration
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/ @ajrestoration I got this damaged frying pan at a local cancer charity store and thought it would make for a fun little experiment.
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Some history on the frying pan.
A frying pan, frypan, or skillet is a flat-bottomed pan used for frying, searing, and browning foods. It is typically 20 to 30 cm (8 to 12 in) in diameter with relatively low sides that flare outwards, a long handle, and no lid. Larger pans may have a small grab handle opposite the main handle. A pan of similar dimensions, but with less flared, more vertical sides, and often with a lid, is called a sauté pan. While a sauté pan can be used as a frying pan, it is designed for lower heat cooking methods, namely sautéing.
Copper frying pans were used in ancient Mesopotamia. Frying pans were also known in ancient Greece where they were called tagēnon (Greek: τάγηνον) and Rome, where they were called patella or Cartago. The word pan derives from the Old English Panna. Before the introduction of the kitchen stove in the mid-19th century, a commonly used cast-iron cooking pan called a 'spider' had a handle and three legs used to stand up in the coals and ashes of the fire. Cooking pots and pans with legless, flat bottoms were designed when cooking stoves became popular; this period of the late 19th century saw the introduction of the flat cast-iron skillet.
Traditionally, frying pans were made of cast iron, carbon steel, or copper lined with tin, for their different qualities and properties. Copper pans are highly thermally conductive, making them useful for evenly sautéing. However, they are also highly reactive with most foods, so today a large number of copper pans are sold with a tin lining which can be replaced when it wears out. Cast iron pans are used because although they do not conduct heat very evenly, they do retain it quite well, making them useful for searing meats and vegetables. Carbon steel cookware is used because over time it can develop a highly nonstick patina of polymerized oil called seasoning useful for a cooking protein that is prone to stick, such as fish and eggs. While all of these materials are still commonly used in professional kitchens, many modern materials have supplanted them in the consumer market. Nowadays, most frying pans are now made from metals such as aluminum or stainless steel. The materials and construction methods used in modern frying pans vary greatly and some typical materials include:
Aluminum or anodized aluminum
Cast iron
Copper
Stainless steel
Clad stainless steel with an aluminum or copper core
A coating is sometimes applied to the surface of the pan to make it non-stick. Frying pans made from bare cast iron or carbon steel can also gain non-stick properties through seasoning and use.
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The combination of baking soda and vinegar to clean dirt does not work because bicarbonate is alkaline and vinegar is acidic, so they neutralize each other and do not produce any favorable results‼
Ah thats why! Thank you!
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True, I always wonder why people do this. I know bicarbonate on its own is a mild abrasive and maybe the mechanical action of the bubbles can loosen the dirt. Scrubbing pad is likely the most effective part of that treatment.
@@klave8511 well, if I'm cleaning the kitchen and I get a whiff from the drain, I pour in some bicarb and wash it down with vinegar. Works kinda like bleach, but doesn't aggravate my sinus issues.
@@dorcasmalahlela2805 you get neutralisation, so water and heat, you might as well just use hot water. It would be better if you only use one of them
I'd never imagined you could season aluminium - great work! That Teflon looked hard to get off. I thought you were going to reapply it; I've never ever seen that before. Thumbs upped.
Thank you, I would but I have no idea how to apply teflon.
This is a frypan that was sold as "never stick",9l bring it back and have it resurfaced.Unfortunately,never happened like that as they would "redesign" the pan and so the jigs in the factory didn't fit your "old" pan.
You were then offered a new one at a reduction. CON,CON,CON.
Good to see it could be done.
Good job.
Ce n'est pas du teflon, la couche en noir c'est du culottage naturel à force de cuisiner sur la poêle.
Anodized aluminium
@@AJRestoration You would not want to do that anyway. The raw material for that is rather toxic and not suitable outside a sealed, air free environment. Your seasoning looks great. Never saw it done before, but it looks like a good idea. Learned something about seasoning today! It is likely it is not done commercially is that it takes a lot of time and effort to do it, and would add significantly to the cost. Great for home use though, as it turned out looking great.
the aluminum almost looks like bronze now - really amazing restoration job!
Vinegar and baking soda are great for cleaning, but not together. They cancel each other out and end up just producing co2, water and salt. Try submerging the part in lye next time when cleaning something aluminum, as long as the material isn't very thin. It essentially boils off a layer of aluminum atoms at the top, removing anything attached to it in the process.
There should be a smiley face on ALL things sandblasted. 😊
I agree!
I don’t know about anyone else but I was expecting to see the ‘Home Teflon Coating Kit’ make an appearance.
I have a electric aluminum skillet that is seasoned. Cooks things great. Love it for eggs.
The seasoning gave the pan a lovely colour indeed.
It's good to know that you can "season" aluminum pans just like cast iron. 👍
surprising to know pure aluminum pans still exist, because civilized world forgot about them almost the same as lead cookware.
aluminum disk in modern pans is hidden in the middle of steel just for better properties of heat transfer but have no contact with the food
Finally, a South African restorer! Knap gedaan 🙌
Baie baie dankie haha, ek dink ek is die eerste in SA wat die doen actually.
Absoluut! Hou so aan, die TH-cam wêreld is maar 'n eensame plekkie. Solank jy doen wat jy doen omdat jy dit lief het. Jyt sommer nog 'n subscriber gewen lol 😁
I nearly fell asleep because this was so peaceful, lol. These kinds of videos are my choice to fall asleep to but it's 1 in the afternoon right now (but on a Saturday...might be time for a nap). Nice value for a $3 pan since you already owned most of everything to restore it, you got a good pan that can last you years for really cheap :)
It came out fantastic. Great work Who knew seasoning Aluminium would put a great colour to it. *edited for spelling mistake.
Haha we all muke spelling misthakes! ;-) hehe thanks for sticking with the channel for so long!
Been looking for a pan like this to do exactly this for long time.
Amazing! It’s worth a lot more than $3.00 dollars now. You continue to blow me away at what you can do. ♥️😊👍👍
Wow, thank you Shelly!
That is beautiful! Nice work.
I have had great luck with significantly thinner coats of oil. You may need to do a couple more of them, but you'll avoid drips and thick spots.
Good morning from Southeast South Dakota
Morning buddy!!
Good evening from Southeast Washington state
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Good job, good effort and good content. Ignore the naysayers here.. most of them are armchair guys and would not attempt anything like this themselves. Keep the videos coming.
Thank you very much!
@@AJRestoration hey no problem I'll be there I love watching you turn something that looks like there's just no hope for it,, and then work your magic, and give it a new lease of life fully restored just Ace. 👍🌻would love to see a a vintage hand cranked spice grinder restored, if at all possible,,Thanks, and thank you for your videos.
Never knew you were a fellow South African..... Awesome man !
Baie dankie! haha
Beautiful restoration!
Aluminium is great for heat Transfer but should not be on contact with the food, that's why it's mostly cover with non-stick material or steel. Because It should not touch the food. Great video!
Have you been to Africa or India? They use aluminum pots all the time🤣🤣🤣
That turned out to be a wonderful color after the seasoning!
What grit of sand do you use for sand blasting?
Love that colour it's so dark but golden.
Great job. The color that turned was gorgeous. Again food looked good to, lol.
nice job, dont know if u know this but cast aluminum is very porous and will absorb all liquid materials amd semi liquid materials it comes in contact with. best way to clean is wash, sandblast, solvent tank rewash then final clean with acetone and one more soap n water rinse thereby removing as much contaminates as possible then do your seasoning .. my preference would be 4 or 5 timed 😁👍 hope this helps in some way 😁👍
Thanks for the info
Beautiful work. Hi from Denmark 🇩🇰
Beautiful!
Great job!!
Baking soda plus vinegar is just water with salt.
Wondering what media did you use?
Was this a “non stick” frying pan to start with?
I saw a video that uses something called “Bar keepers friend” have you ever tried it? If so what’s your opinion on it when it comes to cleaning this type of pan up?
Groete uit Engeland. One thing I definitely don't miss are the hadedas making a racket in the background.
Lovely refurb job…….now the turntable could do with one also !
Hahaha the turntable has some attitude now!
Looks awesome. 😊👍
Fantastic restore, AJ!
Thank you buddy!
Wood glue is great. I watered some down and painted my hanging baskets that I keep my herbs , still going strong after 5 years,.
Amazed at myself that didn't notice the sticker says R35 but when I heard a hadeda shriek I thought to myself, hey isn't this guy also from South Africa?
Pretoria hahaha
Next time show these folks how to season brass, and copper pans.
It's interesting and beautiful to see. Aluminum seasons ok, provided you use it, often, otherwise it flakes away.
Turned out great
Thank you!
wonderful....all the aluminum pans I have used were very shiny.....like a mirror almost...I worked them over with steel wool.....this seems easier.
I might shine this one up. The seasoning looked nice but did not hold up too good with the aluminum.
I have magnalite pots from 1973. They can be shined up but the interior is slightly pitted, probably from acidic foods like sauerkraut or tomatoes. The advantage of the darker color might be faster cooking? The shiny stainless steel baking pans I have take longer to bake.
Great job 👍 , do different oils result in a different colour after seasoning?
Slightly yes.
@@AJRestoration I'm wondering if you could blue the metal. Or won't that work with aluminium? I'm just throwing ideas out.
Finally some SA currency on youtube! Good job with the restoration!
What did you do after after applying oil?
Baked it in the oven for 1 hour at 240 degrees Celsius.
Amazing!
You are!
Use Barkeepers Friend instead of baking soda and vinegar.
Would not eat at your place, but the restoration was good.
This is what is called "Polishing a Turd"
Sand blasting is a great process and very useful but because I had to do it for a job in less than ideal conditions I will always hate it. Nothing like suiting up head to toe and putting on an external air supply helmet to sit in a dark room with your neck locked in a certain spot for hours.
I can imagine, doing it as a job takes out all the fun.
God, same. Sometimes pieces of steel that were so hot, I’d blast it until I saw grey and then would watch it start turning colors.
@@lakerfan82k3 Fortunately I didn't do hot steel, primarily because I was one of the few workers and was also the one cutting, fitting, welding, powder coating, and packing the parts.
Great Choice
Wow! Nice! Alot of work!
Nice project. I've never used an aluminum pan for cooking. Did the seasoning hold out okay after a few uses? Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
Did the seasoning hold out okay after a few uses? No hahahaha it did not, damaged after the first wash.
@@AJRestoration perhaps you should put that in the video so others don’t waste their time.
You cook that better than the fries lol
How long did it take to sandblast?
I love the color!
Beautiful finish 👍
Only on suggestion, ham before the egg. Great video!
I’ve got a bench grinder just like that! You’ve done a great job on it.
Test Rite? I’m trying to remember the label. Made in Taiwan ....awesome quality machine.
I decided to watch this because I have an old Ken Hom wok that’s got battered non stick crap 💩 on the surface, normally I’d chuck it but it was one of the first presents given to me when I moved out all those years ago......
New sub!
Welcome to the family buddy! The seasoning works okay on aluminum, jys make sure to refresh the seasoning if you notice the aluminum coming through again.
I am busy restoring the identical pan that my grandparents had! From Durban!
Is this a placents in the beginning?
you needn't have bothered seasoning the pan, in india there are concave aluminium pans that we call tava, and those are perfectly usable. don't worry and continue using it.
That is interesting! Ill keep that in mind thank you!
@@AJRestoration that was teflon on that pan
do not EVER use aluminum cookware, its very poisonous especially now that you sandblasted it and increased its surface area
it WILL leach in your food and poison you
result of ingesting aluminum over long periods of time is dementia - altzheimer
severe aluminum poisoning can cause irreversible neural damage and even death - its a powerful neurotoxin
@@meex88hiphop I wondered about that.
@@tinascoggin5049 even stainless steel is not preferable for cooking because its leaching chromium and nickel
safest you can go is earthen or seasoned cast iron
@@meex88hiphop I love cast iron. 🥰
You guys are genuinely talented lads
I can't get over the fact that you cooked your egg in more oil that all 4 coats of seasoning on the pan and you put the egg in cold oil.
Great restoration mate. Don’t know why someone complained about the length of the video; maybe they need a new pass time?
The seasoning was interesting for aluminium. It appeared to have added non stick properties to the pan. How did you find it?
I reckon it’s about time your turntable gets a restoration.😂 she’s looking a bit tired. 😂😂😂
Thank you! There is always some "professional" that has done it 100000 times and how I did it will probably kill me hahahaha
Her: "Hey, honey, can you come and wash these pots?"
Me: "Sorry, babe, I'm too busy watching a guy restore a frying pan."
Hahahaha lovit!
love it💕
Could have ran a bolt through that handle with a nut on the other side, and mounted it in a drill. That way you could rotate it while sanding.
Hermosa recuperación de sartén de hierro
Fantastic restoration! I never seen a aluminum pan seasoned before, but it came out amazing!
Thank you very much!
OMG! i have been watching you for months and only now found out that you are South African!!!
Indeed I am hahaha
All that patience and he cant even let the pan heat up fully
Everyone cooks differently my friend ;-)
If you put in oven for 3 hrs at 550 f would it not come off?
Nice restoration dude! 👍🤘
Thank you Andy!
Nice resto job. Looks great!! As for the bacon & eggs, where's mine? hahahahaha
Next time! hahaha
This is the first time I've ever heard of seasoning aluminum. Is there a way you could give us a long term update on it in, say, 6 months?
Short term update, the seasoning on aluminium does not hold up. already started to scratch. Best to stick to seasoning cast iron.
No but paint a mixture of bicarbonate of soda with water ,on the walls of a just cleaned oven making sure the walls are hot leave it to dry , then of you go cook as usual, when it come to cleaning the oven again just use snappy water, then apply again.
ficou otimo
I'm not even going to pretend that I know anything about restoring frying pans. I just have 2 questions.
It looks like the sandblasting removed the non-stick coating. Did the four layers of seasoning work well enough that nothing stuck? I seen him cooking everything but will this seasoning work in the same way as the non-stick?
Awesome to take cast aluminum and to season it. However, Iike the old fashion way of cleaning. I am old school. 😅 elbow grease and good old scrubbing because I know that I did it
Is it cast iron or aluminum?
was this originally a non stick (Teflon) pan? if it was, you should throw it out unless you know 100% you were able to remove all of the chemicals from the Teflon coating. those chemicals are carcinogenic.
Trust me that pan was clean clean after the blasting.
So is breathing
Joesaid...
What kind of chemicals?
Quite interesting this myth still holds up... Ptfe or commonly known as Teflon is biocompatible, your body does not absorb or interact with it, therefore it is used for implants and components of piercings and such.
If Teflon is so safe, why does it kill birds when you cook with it?
Good job
Did it start raining half way through the video? It sounded like someone was throwing rocks on your roof
Aside from the excellent job on the pan, I always appreciate it when the old wood is preserved. There’s so much character in that old wood and it will last forever if it is treated correctly. Bravo.
Great job on the restoration. Aluminum is really not the best surface for cooking in terms of heat distribution but more so for health reasons. Wondering if instead of putting teflon on, if there's a way to enamel the surface as with cast iron cookware (Le Creuset, Staub, etc.)? Thanks for sharing.
I was looking into enameling or re applying the teflon. I just could not find a local source for the teflon or enameling. So I tried seasoning the pan. It did not work as good as I had hoped.
Aluminum is great at heat distribution I don't know where you got that info but it is a cumulative heavy metal, especially dangerous for kids. recycling it would be better imo
11:54, 👀 - the engine you restored, and the cooling fan for your curing oven
Hahaha yes, that is a fan to extractbthe warm air so the thermomiter does a accurate reading. And its the motor I recently did.
Baking soda neutralises the vinegar but it looks good
Nicely done. You're being generous with that R35 = $3😂
Hahaha
Superb
Thanks 🤗
What is this pan made of?
Aluumeeniiumn
That was my suspension..
Sandpaper would have been much quicker
Until you try it...
The only truely working stuff to clean your pans and ect is CIF! i might be biased on that, but damn i love that stuff it just works.
Impecable quedó !!! super linda! !! Te mando unos cuantos 😁😁😁😁😁😁 para que me los restaures abrazo desde Uruguay
Спасибо за интересное видео. Но по моему мнению сковороды из алюминия (дюраля, силумина, олова, меди и стали) это очень плохое решение. Внимания заслуживает только чугун. С уважением.
Для яичницы - нормально, для серьезной готовки - про чугун согласна. И если уж заморочился с реставрацией - надо было привести в порядок дно (отполировать, нанести концентрическую насечку, сменить материал рукоятки) и вообще не начинать чистку с соды и прочей лабуды :)
@@svetlanaziatnina1514 защитное покрытие которое получается от запекания растительного масла на цветных металлах очень плохо держится и может даже от перепада температуры откалываться . И тогда еда снова начнет пригорать....
great
The sandblasting looks like the spray paint tool on MS Paint
Ficou bonita,mas o cabo devia estar lustrado também..
The color of the pan after you seasoned it was really cool!!!! Found your channel a few weeks back and binged watched a bunch of your restorations, I really enjoy your channel, keep up the good work
Awesome! Thank you! I really appreciate it!
AJ restaurations - You should try putting the item in a plasticbag with about 10 cl ammonia hydroxide and close the bag tight for 24 hours. After that you can cleam the item 100%
I might give that a try next time!
Lekker man. Enterprise spek - die een met die wit goete in (ga!). Ek koop maar die kleiner handelsmerke.
Ek koop bitter min daardie spek. Dit was net vir die video gelukkig.