[TheForge] Seasoning tasting spoons: EXPERIMENT

[Daniel Crowther]

Yes, indeed.  Don't try to sell pre-seasoned cookware, though.  I 
pre-seasoned kabob skewers and some medieval knife/fork sets; 80% of the 
customers thought the golden brown was rust and wouldn't buy them.  Several 
even commented that they could believe I was selling 'rusted' cookware.

Live and learn.  Marketing is everything.

Daniel Crowther
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At 07:55 AM 8/16/2005, you wrote:
>D-ski,
>
>Great!  Good experiment.  Good information.
>
>Bruce
>
>
> >>> dski1045 at qis.net 8/15/2005 11:08:14 PM >>>
>Bruce,   your are right.  The color is from the oil and is not a tempering
>color.  I performed the experiment as described below and the piece with
>CRISCO turned the same deep yellow/gold and the piece without did not hardly
>change color. Maybe a shade darker.  This was at 375 by the stove's
>thermometer for 1 hour.  I think I will try some more experiments.  I want
>to see what happens to the bare steel at 400 degrees.  also, I want to see
>if there is any color difference between CRISCO vs. Polyunsaturated oil.
>
>For this experiment, I used the CRISCO, because that is what I originally
>used and I did not want to introduce too many variables.
>
>regards,
>D-ski