My girlfriend bought a cafe and they had a cast iron waffle iron that had, in some places, 5mm of grime built up over 2 years, never once been cleaned. Even the hinges were full of old crusted on batter and grease.

I spent hours with a grill scraper scraping every individual pin.

I have gotten to or past the seasoning in many places except in between all of the pins is hell to try to scrape the old baked on grease away. I have tried sodium carbonate soaks, a wire brush and a wire brush on a drill, a few different scraping tools, and I have only gotten about half out of those grooves. Miles better than before, but still not perfect enough to season and put back in the cafe.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I did some research and it looks like lye does not break down polyethylene or polypropylene, and plastic wrap, at least Saran wrap, is made of polyethylene

https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/lye-master-batching-advice-wanted.60822/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saran_(plastic)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Okay but that didn't explain the purpose/benefit/result of wrapping it which i think is what I'm getting at

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