u/the-subjectDelta

I miss working and creating in the kitchen. I got fed up with low wages (or no wages) in fine dining, and switched to the front. Which I do enjoy and am good at, especially bartending and upselling the fun stuff the chef puts together.

But I do miss it, I miss running kitchens and the push of creating new dishes with seasonal ingredients every day.

Hopefully I’ll be back one day, I have some financial goals that just don’t align with cooking at the moment. But I miss it for sure.

Throwing in some photos from a couple of tasting menus I’ve done over the last year on the few occasions I got to cook.

I’ve scrubbed with vinegar but this rust won’t give up, any tips?

Edit:
Thanks
I appreciate the input, I’m gonna give it another treatment for rust with a full vinegar bath and put some elbow grease into it and see anymore comes out.

If not then I’ll just proceed as usual with seasoning, as it seems like it is heat damage. I’ll give it a few extra rounds and see how it looks.

I was looking to put this pan up on marketplace but probably isn’t worth much bc of the damage so I’ll most likely keep it and use it.

Corn bread pans are going back in the lye, hard to get that super thin coat of oil, but the rest came out fairly well! Going to do a couple more rounds before they go up on the walls or under the stove.

Going to let go of some of the lodges and unmarked wagners (#6 not shown still has some stubborn rust)
But happy with my baby collection so far!

Got a lot of pans the other day and these ones I did the most work on/seemed my valuable from the pull.

Is the “Wagner Sidney” O 8 the 1910-15 era?
And what about the Wagner Ware one, I know that’s a bit younger.

The 2 unmarked I believe are also wagners? I don’t have much experience with the unmarked pans. The “6” with the W I think is definitely but I’m not sure on the “8” with Z1 under the pan size.

Any ideas and let me know if my assumptions are wrong!

Got this lot of 7 for $75 off facebook! The gentleman selling knew he had at least one higher valued pan with the (1910-15?) wager, but looks like I also got 2 unmarked Wagners and another marked (later) can’t quite tell the logo 100% yet.
Any info on the lodge? I know it’s post 60s but I haven’t seen this logo before.

Can’t wait to clean them up!

Restored this BSR (I’m still new and might be wrong) and after all the carbon came off I found this little scratchy engraving. Thanks Marty (I think)!

Tag claims 1800’s as the make year. Not too sure. They are asking 80

Is it a lodge? The heat ring makes me think so but unsure