A few weeks back I posted some stuff I picked up on a road trip to West Texas. Among those pieces was a Griswold 32 p/n 962 Danish Cake Pan/Egg Poacher/Aebelskiver piece. It was rusty somewhat and not pitted and today I removed it from my etank after a 12 hour session and amazingly with a little elbow grease and the aid of some 000 steel wool it looks pretty good.
One twist to my cleaning method was the aid of an electric drill ( hold on ) with a wire brush cup where as I put the steel wool in the cavity of the poacher and then set the wire cup on top of the steel wool and used the drill power to work the steel wool instead of my fingers doing it. The wire brush grabs the steel easily and the steel wool acts as a buffer to keep the wires from scratching the CI surface. This obviously will work on a recessed rounded cup as the egg poacher so I do not recommend it for any other CI surfaces such as flat or sharp angled surfaces.
Here's the results.
http://imgur.com/a/lmnLY
One twist to my cleaning method was the aid of an electric drill ( hold on ) with a wire brush cup where as I put the steel wool in the cavity of the poacher and then set the wire cup on top of the steel wool and used the drill power to work the steel wool instead of my fingers doing it. The wire brush grabs the steel easily and the steel wool acts as a buffer to keep the wires from scratching the CI surface. This obviously will work on a recessed rounded cup as the egg poacher so I do not recommend it for any other CI surfaces such as flat or sharp angled surfaces.
Here's the results.
http://imgur.com/a/lmnLY