Easy-Off Cast Iron Stripping
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2019
- Easy-Off Cast Iron Stripping is a video were I use easy-off oven spray to strip the old seasoning from a vintage #5 single notch Lodge skillet.
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🍳 Just a word to the wise - Aerosol cans are designed to be used upright. When you spray them at an angle you release propellant without as much product. If you would set your tub upright on one side making sort of a spray paint booth, you would get a more efficient spray. 👍
You are right, I was having issues with holding the can at the correct angle. I believe if I had set the tub on its edge would have also helped with the camera angle as well.
Thank you I guess that’s why I couldn’t get my can to spray right only a tiny bit would come out, and I was wondering if I needed to shake it before hand, I’m about to go try again, hopefully the smell won’t kill me!!
@@castIroncookware Great video and love the scripture included.
This is not true of all spray cans. Some (particularity spray paints) are engineered to spray the same amount at any angle. Always. Read. The. Directions. On. Each. Can.
it looked like the angle he was using would be okay for a can that was half full or more. Usually there is a tube that runs from the valve to the bottom of the can. As long as the end of that tube is submerged in the liquid, it will work. If the can is low, then it needs to be upright or you will get nothing but propellant.
I watched your video several years ago. I had several pieces of cast iron that I got when I married --way over 50 years ago. They all had a lot of build up of grease and was terrible. I tried your method of using the Easy Off and it took a few days on some pieces but it worked great. My cast iron looked brand new. Thank you for your tips.
Folks I once burned fried chicken in my cast iron skillet. My grandma told me to boil some water and a little bit of vingear in the pot for about 15 or 30 minutes. She said that would soften up the burnt crusty stuff. That worked well enough that I could then take a Brillo/SOS pad to finish up. I had to re-season the inside after that, but it worked good.
Always a fan of your videos. Thanks very much for sharing your techniques!
I swear I could smell the old familiar aroma of Easy Off from when Mama did it back in the day. I even coughed a little. 😝 😂 but, seriously I am going to have to try this method because I walked into my kitchen after being out all day and found my husband had used and burned food in ALL my cast iron cookware then set them into a sink full of soapy water. 😡 He has been banished from my kitchen. He has no idea how much we southern ladies cherish our cast iron cookware (he's an uptight British chef who only uses stainless crap lol) because most of us have inherited it from generations past. I inherited mine from my Mama who passed away last year and my silly ass never asked her how to maintain them. Next time I leave him unsupervised, I will put them somewhere he will never think to look for safekeeping like... where the vacuum is kept or, in the washing machine. 😹
Loving the story about Hubby 👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
He did that to your cast iron and you let him live?? You're more merciful than I would have been.
Thank you again for your pearls of wisdom🥰
That is the most i have learned from searching! Thank you for the blessing. Keep the shows coming!!!!
Awesome! Thank you for watching.
I like your videos! and I like the fact that you showed your errors! Very helpful!
I really enjoy your videos, I specially enjoy when you share knowledge not only of the cast iron. But of the scripture...thanks and may God continue to bless you, Amen!
Great video! I watched it and learned to leave the grubby pan in the bag for longer than 1 or 4 hours. I left it in the bag for 15 hours! After rinsing the pan there was still crud left, so I scrubbed off some or the black gunk with a stainless scrubber. Then I applied the second coat of EasyOff. I even used a clean trash bag! I preheated the pan to 200°F and took the pan, bag, gloves and spray can of EasyOff OUTSIDE to my picnic table The temperature was 40° and the wind was blowing the spray away from the area. I put the pan into the bag, sprayed it well, wrapped it tightly and brought it inside to my cellar which is about 68°. I’m going to leave it for 24 hrs this time and hope to be ready to season the pan tomorrow.
Thank you brother for fearlessly proclaiming God's Word. May the Lord richly bless all that you do.
Thank you thank you. I have about 10 maybe more cast iron pots of every size and they all need help. My husband got them at a yard sale, and I will clean everyone of them thanks to you.
Thank.you SOOOO much for your Easy Off method. I'm going to give this a try on my Dutch oven.🙂👍
Thank you! I will try this on some pieces I have. And thanks for the Scripture. One of my favorites!
Thank you, I will try this method. You gave me hope, these pans I have are sentimental. Thank you also for the encouraging Word. Blessings
Something I've learned when using any stripper... re-wet the surface with the stripper a few minutes before rinsing, it will make it big difference in how much comes off.
Great tip. Thank you.
This is the method that I have to use. Thanks for the tips. Love your video's Steven. See you next week!
You are so very welcome and thank you for watching. See you next week.
Thanks for the video. Most especially for the ending. Totally unexpected and gratefully received. God bless and keep you and yours.
You're welcome and thank you for watching. I'm going to be putting your tag at the end of every video from now on. I've been feeling the need to do that for quite a while but just haven't done it until now. Thank you for your comment.
Thank you. Blessings to you and your family
Absolutely awesome video thanks for sharing such a informative post. Thanks for the scripture as well such a blessing.
So very helpful!! I am glad to be apart of the facebook group, everyone is so helpful just as you are! Thank you for the scripture at the end!
I believe you meant UA-cam group
@@hollygolightly8048 nope, he runs a Facebook group that people post questions in. It’s a really great group!
My Mom had my Grandma (from Sweden) do her cast iron. It took a few days, but was worth it!
Great video Stephen! I used this same method to restore a #8 Favorite Piqua Ware skillet that was my grandmother's and it turned out like new
That is awesome! It's great to see heirloom pieces continuing to be used.
I've got my Mother's cast iron & it needs real help! I'm trying your method right away!! I know this will save her pans! Thank you !!
Did it work for you?
Hi, Thank-you very much for this amazing video. You are an excellent teacher! I bought a very old dutch oven in Cast Iron and it was so crusted over that I thought it might just be for decoration. First I let it soak in water for about an hour on my own and then with a knife I peeled some of the gunk in thick strips like I was peeling an apple. (super gross) Then I found your video. After 2 EO applications I can see progress and I am excited to keep trying and leaving overnight. When it is all cleaned I will continue with your season methods. Absolutely amazed at the results so far. Thank-you!!!
Thank you for the tutorial AND the closing scripture. God bless you and your sharing the Word.
After wanting a good cast iron pan for years, my Husband brought one home that a friend gave him. I'm so glad I found your channel. I'm going to get some EasyOff with the yellow top and strip the old seasoning off. I can't wait to start using it. Thanks for all of your knowledge.
Excellent didn't know I got very educated on this thank you so very
Don’t know if somebody already said this, but placing it rim down and making sure the bag is tied off, not just cinched works brilliantly to strip off the seasoning. I left mine for 48 hours (liberally coated) and had none of the old seasoning left. Great video and thanks for the demonstration.
You are so very welcome and thank you for watching and commenting.
Also, I bought an Easy-Off refill container and applied the liquid form with an old brush. In my case, 24 hours was sufficient for the complete removal of old seasoning. I did add too much seasoning oil afterward. Thank goodness I saw this video and removed it. This video is really helpful.
Very nicely done!
Great video...the first couples of attempt was actually a great lesson...it shows the length of time that might be required for greater results with less work..
Love it! Great job
Glad I watched till the end. Psalm 1 was read at my daddy's funeral and always makes my heart smile. I just stripped a BS&R dutch oven and lid and also an Aebleskiver pan and have them both in the oven seasoning, and now I'm stripping an old Wagner Ware 9 in. with the same method. It's smooth as glass on the inside but pretty crusty on the outside and on it's second coat of Easy Off.
Thank you for taking all of the confusion out of caring for my cast iron cookware.
Very nice, thanks for the Word, too!
Thank you for the video. I restore mine 6-8 hours and at times overnight when using Easy Off.. Less scrubbing or rinsing. Works pretty well for me.
I watched a couple of you videos today in preparation for working on a few different Cast Iron pans and a griddle. Great details and good advice. Thank you for you time and effort in sharing this information! I'm now a new subscriber! ;)
Thank you , very helpful
Wow. I wasn't expecting the scripture reading. Nice touch brother.
Great tips, thank you!
2024 - Thank you so much! Your video was great. I have to skillets and cant wait to start on them tomorrow.
Very nice video.. I tried this for the first time last weekend. Used 2 black trash bags for 5 pieces. Left it in the bags for 24 hours on the back porch in 80 degree weather. Worked great. I learned that my wrist length rubber gloves weren’t tall enough ! Got a little blistered just above the wrist. I used my silicone grill gloves afterwards and had zero problems. It seems to be a good option if you don’t want to set up a more elaborate tank, or if you aren’t doing big numbers of iron on a regular basis.
The longer the gloves are, the better. Especially if you have sensitive skin. Thank you for watching and sharing your experience.
Excellent video. Thank you for posting!
Thank you for your expertise and your videos. I am now to cast iron and am in the midst of attempting to revive a trio of skillets. One is a nickel plated no 8 slant logo Griswold. The gunk encrusted on it is so thick I honestly thought someone must have painted over the nickle with black paint. Now I see on this video that the old seasoning can indeed look like actual paint. Will continue with the Easy off method. Hopefully they plating will prove to be intact. The interior surface is pristine. Thanks once again
This the 1st time I have herd of this. Think I will give it a try. In the winter when the cook stove is in use, I will put the pan into the fire, It works real fast and good. Thanks .
Heat cleaning works but there is potential for damage.
So what kind of damage might you get by baking cast iron in a wood stove? That works fine for me.
Baking aluminum frying pans with plastic handles, THAT takes more skill. And it might burn off Teflon coating.
But my experience is that by placing the handles down, away from the main heat of the wood stove, that works in my limited experience. And the any Teflon is LONG gone!
So what kind of damage might you expect?
Awesome scripture awesome tutorial!!
Thank u for allu do u are a great man!!!
I have a no 5 one notch lodge and love it, nice little frying pan
The #5's are the perfect size for so many things.
Thanks for the explanation, I never trusted this. I feel more safe using this technique now. God Bless you and yours.
You're welcome and thank you for watching.
I use a razor blade on the cooking surface too. It scrapes off the hard food layer real well.
Like the way you put it into the bag "bottom up" the third time!!
Yep!! I know what you mean about those fumes!! I do my Weber, typically, every year with easy off. The entire inside of the grill cavity, the flavor rails, and the grills. Outdoors of course and, for sure, if you accidentally get downstream of the vapors, it's "breathtaking"!!!
I'll have to try that "bag" trick on the grills the next time. Those carbon deposits (you call them "seasoning") are pretty tough and the treatment usually evaporates/dries prior to softening it enough for it to wash off. On grills, it's not nearly so easy to scrub off as a skillet surface!!
Very, very helpful videos! Not sure how I found them. Must be a God-thing. The scriptures at the end are so refreshing. :-) Thank you!
Love how you ended your video. Bless you!
Very helpful
thank you
Thank you,I needed this😂
Amen, thank you
Keep up the great Work
Ok I have been wanting my two cast iron skillets stripped for a long time came across your video. I purchased some oven cleaner today with yellow cap and it’s outside now in a trash bag after I sprayed it down. Thank you for this video wish I would have come across this sooner.
First of all... WoW, I am thoroughly impressed ! I found an antique æbleskivver pan for my daughter, and someone made a feeble attempt at removing random spots of seasoning. "You could wear rubber gloves, not such a bad idea" (but not like me), "now you really want to be in a well-ventilated area" (not inside like I am), "probably, not a bad idea to have a fan" (not like me). After the horse has already left the barn... "I like to breathe".
We must be brothers, lol
Good video I enjoyed watching keep up the good work and I’ll keep watching god bless
Thank you, for showing us how to cleaned cast iron. Your way was much better than ours. Love the verse from the bible.
I have used this method eight times over the last six weeks.
I've learned that Easy-Off is formulated to work FAST. My first spray stays on no more than 24 hours. I've found that even the gunkiest pan loses half of its crud by then. I scrub with steel wool, rinse and spray again. It comes out again after 8-12 hours. I have moved on to rust removal after two treatments but two of my eight so far have needed a third treatment.
So far, the longest I've gone between first spray and vinegar bath for rust has been 72 hours. That was on a No. 10 3-Notch Lodge that had about 1/8" of crud on the back. It needed four treatments and each of the last three were for 12 hours.
Easy-Off is not cheap. But it is highly effective and it rinses clean. The vinegar bath strips off rust and neutralizes any alkaline residue. What I end up seasoning is bare metal Cast Iron, and the seasoning is what keeps everything in that bare metal from contaminating food cooked in the pan. If you can afford the $25 for three cans, do it. If you're impatient or time-poor, or you're in an apartment or someplace else that makes lye or e-tanking unworkable, this method is the answer.
What contaminates food in a cast iron pan? It’s iron, and iron isn’t contaminating unless you have hemochromatosis that requires blood letting.
Thanks for Everything!
Thank you for the info!
Man! I would REALLY like to have that collection of yours.
Thank you for this! My boyfriend recently bought a bunch of old cast iron at an antique auction and described them as "really rusty". I can handle rust, but I haven't seen them and have no idea how rusty they are. I previously used your 50/50 vinegar solution on a Lodge dutch oven I accidentally let rust over and the results were nothing short of amazing! We are tackling them tomorrow afternoon and I will take before and after photos. Thanks again!
Thank you for sharing a scripture. It was a nice surprise. I have a lot of cast iron. I'm trying to teach my daughter how to take care of it.
Hi how did your rust auction cast iron come out
Just want you to know I love you and always great to hear quotes from the Bible when ending your videos thanks
Enjoyed your informative video. Also I realize this is not a new video however it must be the miracle of God's timing because I really needed to be reminded of that verse worse than I need cast iron help. Thank you so much for what you do. God bless
I owned a restaurant business for ten years, I hoard cast-iron cookery.
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We operate a small organic teaching farm near the outskirts of Eugene, Oregon.
The acreage is surrounded by bare land with absentee owners, so the goofballs are everyplace in their warehouse-pallet hovels covered in blue plastic tarps.
They are regularly evicted, so I forage through their mounds of rubbish.
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I find newish and antique cookery...
...but it is usually coated in axle-grease and campfire soot...
...with the strong probability of Third World infectious diseases.
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Our old oven gets to 500°f.
At that temperature, everything is removed from cast-iron, leaving only beautiful bare metal.
I am comfortable with this procedure because it eliminates any residue.
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I coat that beautiful bare metal with **coconut oil** then it goes back in the very warm oven to settle overnight.
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We avoid seed oils -- lin, cotton, soy, **rape** (aka 'canola'), sunflower, safflower -- because of the inflammation.
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Although I have no way to prove it, I hear olive oil is too delicate for higher temperature.
We save our olive oil for low temperature and adding a glaze at the table.
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Of course, we avoid GMO and petroleum-based pesticides and fertilizers.
We are pretty sure organic food is the way our Paleo ancestors evolved.
We are pretty sure consuming petroleum is probably a bad idea.
Awesome video!!! Can't wait to try it on the skillet we just found a couple of days ago at an antique store!! TY for the information you share, as well as the Bible scripture at the end!
Omg thanks so much for this video. I have my grandma's cast iron and the bottom is so gunky!
Found several of your videos just today and have been watching. So much great information as I want to restore my mothers iron skillets. But best of all the surprise reading of God’s Word!! Thank you, what a blessing!
That sounds like a wonderful project to make a on.
That was awesome
Good info, thank you.
I enjoyed watching your method to strip the rust. There's a few other ways I've watched on UA-cam that has no fumes or bags. They used a storage container and put the cast iron inside, then added 50/50 white vinegar and water to cover completely, snapped the locking lid and let it sit for different hours to see the progress then left it overnight. I must say it worked very well and zero harmful fumes, the acid from the vinegar did the trick. Another way is to use Lodge rust eraser to get the rust off and washed/rinsed/dried and oil seasoned in the oven at 400 degrees for an hour. Love your collection on the wall!
A storage container is a great idea. That will help to keep it moist. This method stops working when it gets dry.
@@castIroncookware so true, and white vinegar is much cheaper than oven cleaner.
I totally agree on the price difference. I'll go with the vinegar any day.
Thanks. I may try to strip the cooking surface of my Lodge (not the whole pan) so I can sand down the rough surface. Your way might work for me.
! BRILLIANT ! Mr. Cast Iron Cookware, this is the perfect method for stripping old seasoning from a cast iron skillet. I have an obscure pan for making a Nordic treat called æbleskiver. The seasoning was in bad shape, and using your method, this method, stripped every last bit of old seasoning 😁. Thanks !
Awesome. I've got ableskiver Pan but haven't used it yet. Can't wait to give it a try.
@@castIroncookware You're going to LOVE it ! My Grandmother (who was from Denmark) told me that she's had æbleskiver with a cooked apple wedge with cinnamon and sugar, but she always served hers, warm from the pan & then shaken gently in a paper bag with about a cup of sugar. Right now I'm seasoning a new krumkake iron because I can't live through Christmas without any krumkake roles 😁
Thank you for the Smart idea
I have a self cleaning oven simply because I can't breathe around this stuff. I've started restoring pans even with ventilation, I found it helpful to have a mask (I had one pre-Covid for allergies). If you are sensitive to this stuff, use one you have or wait until you can get one. It makes it a lot easier.
Hopefully before too long it won't be so hard to be able to purchase masks. I need one for mowing the grass and working in my shop as well. They do really help.
THANKS! This is something I CAN do!
Exactly what I needed! Thank you!
Great video, thank you so much!
Which should be done first, removing the crud or removing the rust?
Crud first and the the rust.
I'm new to cast iron and have been using 80 and 60 grit sandpaper, and hrs of work. Lol I hope the way I'm doing it is ok? Its a fun hobby. I've learned alot of info from your vids the last few days and wanted to say thanks and God Bless. Subscribed!
There are a few methods that are much easier than sand paper and you will get better results without damaging the surface. Electrolysis is preferred but requires a little bit of setup. A lye bath is the simplest. The Easy-Off method is basically a lye bath in a bag.
@@castIroncookware Oh man, I've done all my personal pans that way. I didnt know I was damaging them. I'll buy the easy off from here on out.
Followed these directions to restore my 25+ year old Lodge skillet. Then I made my own seasoning kit like yours. This is the most fun I've had cooking with my pan since I purchased it all those years ago. So much easier to cook and clean now. If I knew back then... God bless you! 😀
First video I've watched of your's. Thank you for sharing Psalm 1, 1-3. It gave me a little push I needed to get back to my nightly reading. I got sidetracked and cut back to only reading in the mornings for the past week or two, but im about to get back on track because of you. Bless you brother!!
Thanks for the info! I came across your channel just in time to save Mom’s old and very cruddy pans from “mechanical” options I’ve seen other places. They look great and are ready for some Seasoning Stick. 🙂
You're welcome and thank you so much for watching.
I have used this method and it has worked great, the only thing I did different was that I left the bag out in the sun ( 100 degree) for about 6 hours. I’m in central Texas.
Thanks for that. Where I am in Australia seems to have a similar climate to Texas.
I just did this method after watching your video I sprayed down with oven cleaner let it sit for 24 hours did this two times 48 hours total amazing results it looks new. I put a coat of grape seed oil on it put it the oven. I ordered your Eazybreexy stick on Amazon it should be here later today then I will put at least another 5 coats on it. Thanks for the great video I would have never thought to about doing this
Yeppers...3 days is the average of my findings...and Lye is not that dangerous as most folks consider it being a chemical...and as you stated, Lye in a can is just like a Lye bath...Vinegar which is acidic, nulls out the Lye which is a Base...A positive 1 and a Negative 1 = 0 . However them fumes of that can will make you cough and cough...well ventilation is a MUST !...I had no problems with my bare hands, My skin isn't sensitive to Lye...but my lungs, even outside with no breeze blowing...well, Cough Cough...lol. Very well done video and you covered all the truths and safety precautions...Don't fret the ones that say this is dangerous poison you are putting on your cooking pans.....Because Fire will also kill people...And Water will Drown...just common sense tells us that both, used responsibly, will be useful to cook with.
I did a little bit of coughing myself until I got the fan in there to blow away the fumes. It really is an outside event.
I leave it in the bag for about five days, really cuts it well. When I rinse I gve it a scrub. Then I heat it on the stove top, to nullify the possiblity of rust and repeat, sometimes it only takes a day.
@@frankmorris4790 I had someone tell me too much of this can wear the pan out?
@@tDream78 Well I don't know how that would happen. You should only have to do it, ooh every fifty years or so...
@@frankmorris4790 True. My BSR late 1960s? century pan is taking it's 4th round to get the last off. It hasn't been cleaned in my lifetime, and I doubt ever. Lots of carbon on that one. Same for the Red Mountain #3X. My Wagner Sidney O from my grandma, was probably worse, but coming off nicely. I sprayed them down heavily and have them outside right now. 70 degrees today. The stuff around the heat rings of the BSR pans has been really stubborn.
I'm just glad my folks didn't clean them. It actually protected them from rust/etc and they are in good shape under there. My grandmother noted how they needed to be burned out in the wood pile and that might have been the end of them.
Doing a very good job
Hi. I have another question. I’m in the seasoning process and when I apply the oil, the paper towel shows black/brown residue. Am I doing something wrong?
I SUBD, I've set up ELECTRO tanks in the past, but I'm going to give this a try. I bet I passed up some good pans in the past. I'm not an avid collector I just pick up another project whenever. But now I know a single notch Lodge 5. Thanks from Idaho. TAKE CARE..
You're amazing! Thanks for the info. I just found you and subbed.
You are absolutely welcome and thank you for subscribing.
I am so glad that youtube brought your podcast to me. It's very helpful. I subscribed to your channel. Looking forward to more videos. I was wondering, what do you think about the lighter weight cast iron skillets? Thanks much.
Good video! I use Easy Off (or generic equivalent) on my pans. I always leave it on, in the tied-off bag, for 24 hours. Then rinse, dry, and repeat. Works well. Thanks for the video!
I can almost imagine that smell. Thanks for that. I love my old cast iron. I have several skillets and 1 Dutch oven that will get the vinegar wash next week..I'm bad..I put Wd-40 on it😮💨
Put the item inside the bag before you spray. No over spray flies everywhere and it keeps the stink down.
ETA: I put my hand inside the bag and bunch the bag around arm/wrist. You can still see through a white bag but you don't get stuff everywhere.
Good info Stephen.
Thank you and thank you for watching
Thanks for the information on the easy off method. I am going to try this method. I also enjoyed the scripture, thank you for sharing.
I just had a cast iron frying pan that, after many years, had accumulated caked on grease, especially on the side to which heat is applied.
Since it's winter time, my wood stove was stoked up, and I just put the cast iron in the HOT stove and let the grease be burned away. It worked BRILLIANTLY! Of course it needed to be seasoned again.
Then I inspected a couple of very well used aluminum frying pans, and they had accumulated crusty, baked on grease as well. So I put those in the wood stove and burned off all the grease on those, one at a time.
This required more care than with the cast iron, since the aluminum pans had plastic coated handles. But I placed th handles down, and the frying pans up. The plastic seemed pretty resistant to heat damage as well.
Teflon coatings gone LONG ago, so that was not an issue.
In the past, I'd used a knife to CARVE those grease accumulations of pans, but this method was easier and more thorough.
I work at an electroplating company so stripping cast is super easy. This process of stripping is easy at home for the diy'r in your life or on your own.
I agree. An electrolysis system is my favorite go to for stripping cast iron. Not too complicated for the DIY people.
I used to have access to a machine shop with a Hot Tank. Nothing like boiling lye solution to make life easier...
Thanks for the Psalm!