I'm not sure if it was washed, so I quickly washed it with soap and war/hot water.I am cooking potatoes and notice a poison-like smellPerhaps it is the pan itself?Is this safe? I my food safe to eat?
never heard of it but you can melt chocolate in/ on double boiler or microadd in toffee/ heath pcsand chrushed saltinessounds good.
No, not a poison like smell!! that is the rust resistant coating they put on the outside of the pan burning offIs ok! But I would still have done my cast iron burning before putting any food in it even if it says it is already seasoned I scour them inside and out with SOS or other soap steel wool pad, rinse well in very very hot to boiling water, grease them inside and out with CRISCO, put in oven at 400F on aluminum foil for an hourSmells like it is burning - that vicious odor you got.Then grease it again and cook it again - about 3 times on the insideYes! I scour my cast iron with steel wool soap pads!! Every time I use them! Mine were inherited from granddad who was a wagon boss with one of the old ranches in NM and had a full cook set of cast iron and he scoured it too! He would not eat with cooks who did not sterilize and reseason their cookware each meal.
