The Ringer - The Original Stainless Steel Cast Iron Cleaner, Patented XL 8x6 Inch Design

So I ask myself - given the long history of cast iron cookware, would, oh, King Arthur's squire have used this to clean the royal skillet? Holy Moly this thing works great. I'm kind of a cynic about such things and yet I was surprised at how well this did. And it's not like I set up a softball test either...I left my cast iron dirty for a full day before using this product, and it scrubbed off the stuck-on crud like it warn't no thang. Really easy, and loads better than the 3M scrubby-sponge I was using before. My big complaint was that I needed a dedicated scrubby sponge, because the sponge would turn black after a cleaning. No more, and I can stop getting grief for blackening all the house sponges. And it's not like you should be worried about scratching your pan with this. Cast iron, like the honey badger, just don't care. After cleaning I looked at a half sheet pan upon which I baked some cod without benefit of parchment paper. "I wonder," I said to myself. And I set the Ringer to work on that pan...and it had the baked-on fishy bits off that pan in about 45 seconds. So it's not just for cast iron, but pretty much for any untreated/uncoated pan. I haven't tried it on my Le Creuset yet, but with a little caution I see no reason why this wouldn't work on that either. Heck, my Anolon may get a visit from Sir Ringer as well, not to mention my grill grates. So this is the XL size, and it's big enough to compress into a ball just under fist sized. That's just enough to get a good grip in order to scrub. Honestly I wish it were a bit larger, but that would be gilding the lily. Truth be told, it works marvelously as is. The hanging ring on one corner is appreciated as well - it can hang on a regular pan hook, for people to come over and ask "what is THAT?" It's well made and just screams quality. This thing is going to last a looong time. I am not sure how I heard about this product - an Amazon recommendation I think - but I think I'm turning into a bit of an evangelical for this product. It's that good.

UPDATED REVIEW (AGAIN): I've bought multiples of these for gifts. I think they're fantastic. The last one was a replacement for me though. After cleaning my beloved cast iron skillet I went to drop the ringer on the kitchen counter and it went right down the drain. Surprisingly, the ringer is NOT ferrous (which I guess lends itself to never rusting). My attempts to fish it out with a magnet on a string failed. Subsequent attempts only forced it further along past the "S" bend. The only thing my building's handyman could do was blast air under pressure through the pipes and blow it away down the buildings main riser pipe (a drain snake couldn't get hold of it). Gone forever. I now have the replacement ringer and am awaiting repair of my leaky pipes (now cracked due to the air pressure) so I can start using it. The ringer works every time and like a fellow reviewer has stated - it's ideal for stainless steel pots and also enamelled baking dishes (use lighter pressure until you learn how strong your enamelling is). It just works! UPDATED REVIEW: After using it for a few months I'm really surprised at just how well it works. So much so that I'm now purchasing them as gifts for other cast iron chefs. Perhaps it's my well seasoned skillets but The Ringer really cleans it well and does it in a super quick fashion. One last added point is that occasionally the odd non-cast iron baking dish or saucepan gets the treatment as well for any baked on stains. Get one and you won't be disappointed. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I was wondering just how well this would clean my brand new and freshly seasoned cookware. I thought it was going to ruin the seasoning or just not clean it at all. Instead, I found this to be about the best thing to clean my cookware - more than I could have managed. The chain mail has rounded links so it's not too harsh yet easily takes off cooked on food. I wrote to the seller asking how hard I could press using this and they told me I could press as hard as I liked without any worry. They were right. Running under hot water I just scrub away and the pan remains perfectly seasoned and gleaming (after a little bit of post washing vegetable oil). I have a little hook on a shelf above my sink so I hang the Ringer there and it's always in reach. It's dishwasher safe and easy to clean. If you've got cast iron cookware - old or new - and want to easily keep it clean, then this is the product for you...

1) It's well made 2) It's durable 3) It cleans well 4) I'm using it for more things than I expected (eg: a bit safer to get crud off sharp knives than other options) 5) I'm using it more than once per week. If you're on the fence let me share with you the other "innovative" uses for it: 1) kindof like a janky mesh strainer (ie: pour-through) with relatively wide holes. 2) use it to freshen up a pan WHILE frying/sauteing (ie: if you have food bits on your frying pan, get this thing wet, toss it in, and use some tongs to semi-scrub the pan... it's kindof like a heat-safe cloth which can help to keep your pan at high temperature, but get some of the "bits" off) 3) knives? I'm sure the knife-nerds will yell at me for suggesting cleaning your knife with it (be careful!), but it's definitely cut-resistant and depending on the type of mess I'm cleaning with a knife... no reason for me not to use this to get the bulk of "stuck cheese" or something off the knife (aggressive cleaning) to be able to switch over to something of a more delicate cleaning scrubbie/sponge 4) sanitary... it's metal. If you're really worried... boil it! Treating it as a "metal cloth" is the right way to think of it, and it's been quite useful. So useful, I would love to go back to the 1500's and suggest they clean their pots and pans this way b/c it's just such a natural way to do it. An uncommon product, conversation starter, possibly "Buy it for life" product, and something that I'd definitely buy again if I needed to. I've been very pleasantly surprised! Edit: still a great product! New uses: toss in an empty peanut butter jar with some soap and agitate! (it’s own weight and abrasiveness allow it to clean off most gunk inside without having to physically put your hand in it). Also: as a great hand-scrubber when flouring chicken or kneading bread dough. It’s kind of abrasive-but-not-really so works better for getting off those dense, sticky kitchen messes off your hands. GREAT product, I would lean towards “six stars” if I could. :-)

I purchased the Ringer after learning how to best clean my cast iron cookware. (I'm a cast iron newbie and learning the ropes of proper seasoning and storage and cooking in them, as a replacement for typical non-stick cookware that you throw out after a few years!) People were recommending those plastic scraping tools. But I couldn't get stubborn residue out that I knew wasn't the pan seasoning'. I found when I used an old metal spatula, the residue came off, and so did my hard won 'seasoning', which is the non-stick protection. One person mentioned the Ringer. They said it was chain mail--but not the snail mail or electronic version we think of! I googled it. Sure enough, I found The Ringer on Amazon. and it's CHAIN MAIL, as in days of old and knights in armor chain mail. The one person who had tried it said it got all the residue off gently and thoroughly. So I bought one. I can tell you I'm sold hook, line, and sinker! Not only does it clean my cast iron skillets with a quick swish and rinse with water, but it works well on stoneware pans, glass casserole-type dishes, metal broiling pans, and more. I also use it to scrub off burned on food from my stainless steel pots and pans. It works great for the bread crumbs left behind in my bread pans too. We went through so many of those scrubber sponges getting off caked on goo (like leftover oatmeal residue). We'd have to throw sponges away after a few uses because the scrubber part was embedded with grease or food. Well, no more. The beauty of the tool is that it's stainless steel. So it doesn't rust, hold bacteria, hold moisture, hold odors and all that other stuff that sponges or scrubber pads do. Most importantly, it doesn't WEAR OUT! We rinse it and hang it on our overhead pot rack, ready for the next use. For stubborn stuck on stuff, I suggest soaking slightly, leaving a bit of water in, then scrubbing with the ringer. you may have to do a final pass with a scrubber pad, but save this till the very end after the Ringer has done most of the work! I would suggest buying a second one for outside uses--such as cleaning your grill grates or getting rust off. A rinse is all it takes to get the Ringer back to looking like new. Thanks to Quiverr for designing such a great product.

This thing is great. I use it on my cast iron wok, but also my carbon steel wok, and the results are equally good. It really does what it says - a little warm water, this thing, and then a paper towel to wipe off the pan (and a minute on the stove to really dry it) and you're done. Food and gunk gone. Pan restored to what it looked like before you started cooking. The "but" is because I'm not 100 % sure it isn't taking off some of my seasoning. Yes, it isn't going to rip up all your seasoning, but my sense is it's taking some of the seasoning off. For this reason, learning to use it effectively is paramount. If you swish this thing around without a lot of pressure, you will be safe. If you GRIND it into a pan, expect to damage your seasoning. So, don't bunch it up and apply elbow grease and pound on your pan; treat it gently with this tool. I do agree with some of the other reviewers that it seems a bit small, for the cost. There are a lot of competing products that look the same and are about half the cost. Having never used them, I will take it on faith that this is a better product than the copycats. However, it'd be nice if it were a little larger.

This is a great product and I highly recommend it! A friend in Texas who uses a lot of cast iron steel has one and suggested I get it. You will never be sorry. If chicken gets baked on your pan, just whip out the Ringer and it works so easily you won't believe it! It also dries quickly and looks really cute on my dog's head:-) Nothing you scrape out of the pan is hard to rinse out because of all the little holes. 4/30/2017 Just sent one to my daughter in MO and she LOVES it! If you care about your cast iron and especially like easy care, do order this. It is well worth the money, which is not a lot, and will last you forever. Try saying that about scrubbies from the store. You cannot go wrong with this product. June 13, 2017:I have now had this for several months and love it still! If the pan has cooled, I just put some hot water in it and then use the Ringer. Works great every time! This isn't one of those things you'll get and then leave it in a drawer. I have 5 cast iron pans and the big pot for stew and bread and it works so well in all of them. Don't hesitate to buy this as you won't be sorry. Barbara June 15/2017: another thought about particular cast iron pans. I have an antique small fry pan of my grandmother's.It was made in USA. My others are all Lodge Logic, again made in USA. Not one has been damage in any way by the Ringer. There must be cast iron pans made elsewhere and that might be the problem. When I use mine, I scrub hard and they come out just fine!

Back after 6 years. This has been legit the BEST Amazon purchase I have EVER made. This lasted 6 years and would have been longer had my kids not let it fall in the disposal several times and get a little ate up. The size is perfect, it cleans my cast iron exceptionally well, I mean I use NOTHING else. I normally don’t leave reviews but this one was worth it and I waited 6 years to leave this. Buy this, you will never regret it. Heck, buy one for everyone that you know that has cast iron.

I've had this ringer for probably a month w/o using it. In fact, the owner of the ringer wrote to me several times asking me what I thought about his product. Each time I wrote back saying I hadn't gotten around to using it yet, which was true, until last night... For whatever reason, the 12" cast iron pan I bought sometime last year, to fry thin pieces of steak, has only been used for that purpose. I found a recipe called minute steak stacks that said to buy 3/8" to 1/4" thick pieces of round steak, then beat with a kitchen mallet to tenderize and flatten out and make thinner, then to season with Montreal Steak Seasoning, all the while you heat up your cast iron skillet and get it as hot as you can on the stove top. I never owned pure cast iron cookware except for some enameled pieces (Le Crucet), so I bought a 12" cast iron pan And I believe the writer of this recipe said to gradually bring the temp of the pan slowly but to high heat, add a few tablespoons of canola oil and then add the steak pieces, which should not take more than 30 seconds on each side for medium rare. Well, first time I made this recipe and went to buy the round steak that was called for at my local grocers, they had Top Sirloin on sale so I had the butcher cut slices the prescribed thickness and rolled with that (about a pound and half) for my dinner. Totally awesome meal, but there was also an herbed anchovy butter to go along with the steak stacks, adding a pat of this herbed butter between each steak while you cooked all of your slices Needless to say, cooking multiple slices of Montreal Steak Seasoned slices of steak, with canola oil added each time a new piece of steak was cooked, the pan gets nasty fast, mostly from fallen bits of pepper and what not from the Montreal Steak Seasoning. IOW's, baked on black bits. Remember, although I bought a seasoned cast iron skillet, I've only used it this way a half dozen times, and from the research I've done on cast iron seasoning, I really need to do more to season it properly. Suffice it to say, each time I cooked with this pan, I had a black gnarly mess and inappropriately, I had cleaned the skillet up using soap and water, until now.... Last night when I made this recipe again (for several hungry guests), for clean up, I used the ringer and hot water only, and no soap whatsoever. I'm a believer, the ringer got all of the blackened bits off the pan so all I had to do to finish was to rinse and dry and then re-oil. The pan looks new, and all w/o the use of soap I should add, every time I cleaned the pan with soap, I did a mini re-seasoning by heating the pan a bit, adding oil, wiping the oil into the cast iron (inside and outside) and then placing the pan in a 300 degree oven so the oil would bake on. A time consuming process. With the ringer, no more of this, I just ran the ringer around the pan with hot water, rinsed, dried and used a little oil wiped in and called it done Am I satisfied with the ringer? You bet I am. After this first use I placed the ringer in a glass with some soapy water, swirled it around, rinsed it, hung to dry. So easy

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Simple and easy to use while also being very effective in cleaning my cast iron skillets and pans.

Best purchase I've made in a long time. Great quality and it gets the job done.

Easy to use, effectively removes all cooked on bits and always leaves the pan with a nicely seasoned surface for the next meal

I really like this thing. I'm happy I bought it. Makes life with cast iron and stainless steel much easier.