Gasoline in the frying pan (not while cooking...). Can I still use it?

Hey everybody. While I was driving one day, I took a turn too hard and a jerry can with a little petrol in the bottom spilled into a frying pan I had in the car boot. When the car started to smell strongly of gas the next day, I checked the boot and realized there was probably about 15-20 mL of petrol in the frying pan. In my haste to get to work, I pulled it out of the boot and left it outside for 2 days. After I finally brought it inside and washed it vigourously, it still smells like gasoline. Can I still use it? Or has the petrol seeped into the pan somehow to poison me, and my children and my children%26#039;s children? Thanks!

Gasoline in the frying pan (not while cooking...). Can I still use it?
When in doubt throw it out
Reply:Add some cooking oil to pan and heat it , swishing the oil around, this will absorb the smell, dump the oil and dry with kitchen roll, should be OK next time.
Reply:I would try coating it with Dawn dish soap over night then scrubbing it good. Dawn cuts grease and MAY help. You can try the dish washer after that. If it works, you will have to reseason the skillet.


If the smell persists pitch it. Gasoline has probably permiated the skillet %26amp; petrolium products can be bad for your family, but cooking in a skillet with gas in it could be hazzardous to your health.
Reply:it won%26#039;t poison you but will make your food taste like crap!! buy a new pan.
Reply:Man I can buy a GOOD frying pan for way less than one trip to the emergency room. The stress and worry alone about my own health and my children%26#039;s health would far outweigh the cost. I would throw it out and get a new one.
Reply:If you can still smell it then it probably did seep into the pan. Even teflon and silverstone pans are slightly porous. I would toss the pan.



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