Howdy. Like the title says. Left my new griddle out overnight in the rain on accident. It rusted over and I've been trying to clean it with some elbow grease and vinegar for about an hour now. It's gotten much better but I'm running into the issue where when I step aside for a bit, the rust settles back in, leaving it worse than where I left off. If I keep scrubbing, will it eventually get clean? The general steps I'm following are
Apply vinegar
Scrub like crazy
Rinse
Dry
Repeat
by Secure_B00t
10 Comments
Unless you want to polish it clean, time to rinse and season. The rust will form every time theres water and no oil protection
So after you clean it get it super hot, oil it (season it) and let that oil burn and the you’re good to go
Maybe get a cover for it?
Gotta oil to prevent rust, rust will form however it dries if you don’t
Treat it like a cast iron pan 🍳
Get it hot pickle juice and a scrubber and then oil it, some ice cubes with the pickle juice if its really dirty
Use baking soda… put a bunch in a bowl and add just a little water so it makes a thick paste almost like toothpaste. It will take that rust right off.
Then like others said season it up with some oil
I used a wire wheel on my drill and scraped it back to the steel carefully and then preseason. Good as new for the last 2 years.
It’s flash rust. When raw steel is exposed to the moisture in the air it rusts. Vinegar accelerates this, you want to neutralize the vinegar with baking soda on the final rinse then dry and wipe with oil. If you season over the rust it will flake off.
Rust is nontoxic. Get it clean enough for government work and grease with a high temperature oil like grapeseed peanut or safflower and don’t worry about it.
White vineager