I am fairly new to cast iron and have learned a lot over the past few weeks - what to look for, how to restore, season, etc.. Yesterday, I realized I made a critical mistake with my most prized skillet and I didn’t even know I did it. My girlfriend bought me an early Wager #7 skillet for Christmas, which is what has started my obsession. She paid a premium for it from a well known online dealer - which makes me feel horrible that I probably damaged it. Out of curiosity I tested my new skillet and it has decent wobble and is now a spinner. Maybe it was already warped, but considering how much she paid, I’m guessing I damaged it. After much research I’ve come to the conclusion there really isn’t much I can do to correct the problem. But I think I have a better idea now how it happened and how I can prevent it in the future. I have an electric coil stove unfortunately. I’ve never had the pan on high heat, at most a 4 out of 9 (high). But I have set it on the burner for several minutes to warm it up and waiting to time whatever it was I was cooking. I have also thought it helped to clean the skillet while it was warm, but I think I may have ran it under luke warm water when it was too warm. So I think it warped either because the electric stove got it hot too fast, sat too hot too long, or running water over it when it was too hot. Honestly I didn’t think I did anything so extreme to damage it - I had no idea how fragile these old cast iron pieces were.
Anyway, the main reason of this post is ask this community if anyone here has tried to “reverse warp” a spinner. My guess is the main culprit of my warp was running cold water in warm pan. So I was thinking of doing just the opposite and heat the pan up, and run water on the bottom side of the pan. The idea is to warp the pan in the other direction. Has anyone here experimented with this idea before? Have you had any success? At this point I’m willing to try anything besides hammering or sanding.
Anyway, the main reason of this post is ask this community if anyone here has tried to “reverse warp” a spinner. My guess is the main culprit of my warp was running cold water in warm pan. So I was thinking of doing just the opposite and heat the pan up, and run water on the bottom side of the pan. The idea is to warp the pan in the other direction. Has anyone here experimented with this idea before? Have you had any success? At this point I’m willing to try anything besides hammering or sanding.