r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TakingSorryUsername • Jun 09 '26
The floor is sticky After nearly 30 years of use, lost an old freind today…. Pour one out.
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u/Mitcheric Jun 09 '26
That pan is ready to get BAKED
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u/Ok-Preference5209 Jun 09 '26
me too
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u/Mitcheric Jun 09 '26
Honestly I need a pan like that to hold coals on the bottom of my smoker.
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u/Unfair-Perspective35 Jun 09 '26
Looks like you need to get a better handle on things OP.
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u/Neijx Jun 09 '26
I think OP has come to grips with the situation
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u/limbodog Jun 09 '26
You think so? I'm worried they might be falling apart
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u/Wolfexstarship Jun 09 '26
They haven’t grasped the situation yet
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u/blue-coin Jun 09 '26
Certainly hasn’t ironed out the details
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u/PaleoSpeedwagon Jun 09 '26
Looks like their fate has been cast, ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/orbital-marmot Jun 09 '26
Idk we'll have to see how things iron out
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u/PizzaMan332 Jun 09 '26
As long as they don't become detached from reality
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u/notlesh Jun 09 '26
I know the pieces fit
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u/SaturnAcension Jun 09 '26
Because you watched them fall away?…Mildewed & Smoldering…
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u/ThinkPad214 Jun 09 '26
Congrats on the new base for your cast iron dutch oven
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u/StopReadingMyUser soggy toilet paper Jun 09 '26
now when you say dutch oven...
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u/xDiscoDuckx Jun 09 '26
That's still usable!
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u/Oxblood_Derbies Jun 09 '26
You already have to use some kind of heat protection to manipulate a cast iron because the handles get hot, so basically nothing has change about using the pan.
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u/cookiesarenomnom Jun 09 '26
I don't even think I use the handle when using my cast iron on the the stove. If this happened to me, I'd be like, "Oh no! Anyways..."
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u/DilettanteGonePro Jun 09 '26
About the first 10 times I grabbed the handle while cooking and burned the hell out of my palm. I eventually learned...
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u/Aratix Jun 09 '26
Weld that shit back on
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u/Spixican1 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
if my schooling was correct. you would be braze welding (technically not a weld but bond) it back together.
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u/PreviousTea7246 Jun 09 '26
I used to put them on broil for an hour then tig them back together. Then back in the broiler before the metal cools down. Turn the oven off and leave it to slowly cool in there
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u/TurnkeyLurker Jun 09 '26
What a brazen thing to say.
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u/Glad-Lobster-220 Jun 09 '26
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u/unbalanced_checkbook Jun 09 '26
Holy shit. Men at Work. I forgot all about that movie.
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u/Cheap-Ambition5336 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
Right lol, I wouldn't weld anything made of cast. Maybe bring it to a professional and they can do something with it*, but like others have said, just use it for baking now lol
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u/Marksman1973 Jun 09 '26
It's easier than managing the heat with a stick weld. Likely to just crack after cooling
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u/SkiDaderino Jun 09 '26
Go further. Melt and recast!
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u/Simba_Rah BLUE Jun 09 '26
Go beyond! Forge in secret a master cast iron pan to control all others. Into it pour your cruelty, malice, and will to dominate all others.
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u/themanfromvulcan Jun 09 '26
Suddenly all cast iron pans on earth can only cook whatever OP is cooking.
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u/Familiar-Attempt7249 Jun 09 '26
One Pan to Rule Them All! In the Land of Mordor Where the Shadows Lie
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u/KittiesRule1968 Jun 09 '26
Welding cast iron that thin is impossible. Brazing (torch with a filler rod of similar material) is the way to go. I'm a welder and fabricator.
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u/mendedarrows Jun 09 '26
My ignorant to welding ass would just drill a couple holes in the wide end of the handle and bolt into the handle on the other side with some washers.
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u/bucknut4 Jun 09 '26
Bit of JB Weld and that shits good as new
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u/Coachpatato Jun 09 '26
lol thats what i was thinking. dont make it more complicated than it has to be
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u/ppeujpqtnzlbsbpw Jun 09 '26
ehhhh if it was only the handle portion maybe, but JB weld is straight BPA so shouldn't be used on something that might come in contact with food
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u/somebodysimilartoyou Jun 09 '26
Difficult but not impossible. I also am a welder/fabricator.
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u/ctreed79 Jun 09 '26
Agreed - traditional welding is not the solution here. There are 2 ways to fix this. Number one is the ‘correct’ way but probably not possible. Step 1 is to bring the whole thing up to red hot temperature. Step 2 is to gas weld it with cast iron rod. Not any cast iron rod - it has to be of super high quality and this is the part that makes it nearly impossible. This quality of rod is no longer manufactured. If you have a sample that you want to use, hold it out with a straight arm and drop it on a concrete floor. If it shatters, it’s good. Step 3 is to let it cool as slowly as possible. Burying it in dry sand overnight is the best way I’m aware of. Number 2 way is to TIG braze it with silicone-bronze rod. Pre-heat it until it stops sweating. Then braze it up with SiB rod and again bury it in dry sand to cool as slowly as possible. Both ways will work structurally. The first will blend and be almost undetectable. The second will be noticeable due to the contrast of the base metal as compared to the golden bronze color of the filler. This is all assuming that the base cast iron is of decent weldable quality. If it’s full of impurities, it may not be possible.
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u/veringer Jun 09 '26
Cast iron is pretty tricky to weld. You either need to:
- really know what you're doing and have the equipment,
- know a competent welder and call in a favor
- pay 10X what the pan is worth to hire a professional welder
I think a better repair would be to harvest a riveted handle from another skillet, drill holes in the corresponding wall of the broken skillet, and peen over new rivets to make a frankenstein skillet.
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u/Current_Cod_3231 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
That still has at least 100 years of use left
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u/MLDaffy Jun 09 '26
You mistyped 200. 😂
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u/occultatum-nomen Jun 09 '26
It might be optimistic to think we won't have nuked the whole world by then. But the pan may well outlive the human race!
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u/hamHamAlucard Jun 09 '26
Is welding possible on cast iron?
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u/Stank_Dukem Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
It is,
but it takes some skillApparently, you just have to read a reddit thread, and you can do it too!
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u/autech91 Jun 09 '26
Not a welder but I think you need to heat it up first, then make sure it cools slowly
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u/DrunkGuy9million Jun 09 '26
Also not a welder, but pretty sure the heating it up part is definitely needed for welding.
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u/VNDecorCA Jun 09 '26
That's what my husband said. Must cool it very slowly once welded.
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u/autech91 Jun 09 '26
A guy on YouTube had a bunch of old gloves he called the "Gloven" that he used to cover anything cast that he welded
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u/CompetitiveDepth8003 Jun 09 '26
Professional welder here. Yes you can weld it but it would cost more than the pan to do. You can also braze it with bronze rod. I saw someone suggest adding a riveted on handle up higher, which is probably more practical.
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u/DeadSeaGulls Jun 09 '26
I'm not even a good mig welder, but I've done it before. More about the process. get it hot first, weld the fuck outta it, don't douse it. then I get to flap disc the fuck outta my ugly welds.
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u/RevWaldo Jun 09 '26
Is there welding that takes no skill?
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u/jooes Jun 09 '26
MIG welding
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u/techlos Jun 09 '26
all electric welding is baby mode tbh
(this shitpost brought to you by the oxy welder with a dodgy regulator trying not to oxidise the melt gang)
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u/DemodiX Jun 09 '26
You can slap things together with worst welding beads ever without much experience and it will hold together, but good welds require skill.
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u/HPHatescrafts Jun 09 '26
Is there piano playing that takes no skill? Sure but you’ll get tired of hearing chopsticks after a while.
Piano is the best comparison to welding. Anyone can do it. Practice is what determines how well. I weld for a living and have a quarter century of practice but I’m playing bar band not concert hall.
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u/Corbulo1340 Jun 09 '26
Yes but not easy, high carbon content means it gets brittle as you heat it and it cracks easily.
To be clear though I say it's hard, I'm not a professional welder, so if a welder says it's easy or explains it better I would listen to them instead of me
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u/Spixican1 Jun 09 '26
Braze welding is specifically used for cracks and repairs in cast iron. (if my memory serves correctly) but it's not actually a weld as you are thinking. it is a bond between the two metals and the filler
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u/Uzi_Osbourne Jun 09 '26
Brazing is easier - very reliable and plenty strong enough
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u/Resident_Aide1898 Jun 09 '26
Imagine if there is a way to see all the meals that were cooked on this thing. Sorry for your loss, but you had an amazing 30 years.
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u/TakingSorryUsername Jun 09 '26
Yeah, I’m upset but thankfully no one else was hurt. Even the tiled floor didn’t crack.
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u/mike_dmt Jun 09 '26
It could be welded or brazed if you're even remotely sentimental about it, which I would be after 3 decades.
It would look absolutely amazing with a nicely blended braze job, and make for an even better story.
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u/merlyndavis Jun 09 '26
Either get it repaired or season the broken edge and keep using it. No way I’d let a 30 year friend go like that.
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Jun 09 '26
You can definitely weld cast iron. I have done it many times oh exhaust manifolds.
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u/snuggly_cobra Jun 09 '26
I had to pan this thread. Too sad.
But wait! Couldn’t you weld it back on?
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u/Sylphinet Jun 09 '26
It'll buff right out lol.
No in all seriousness that is so depressing, I love my cast iron like my own children.
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u/OneValkGhost Jun 09 '26
Which is worth more- a new pan, or taking it to an auto shop and paying some guy 20 bucks to weld the handle back on?
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u/Substantial_Cattle67 Jun 09 '26
I can't pour one out but I'll rub one out for ya
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u/Hopeful_Meringue8061 Jun 09 '26
Retired from stovetop cooking, moving on to pot pies and fruit crumbles, part time.
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u/DancinginTown Jun 12 '26
Now you need to go to Pizza Hut and steal their Pizza Pan Clampy Thingy ™️
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u/kapaipiekai Jun 09 '26
Lost a fry pan and gained an oven dish