Rusted Cast Iron Skillet Restoration Without Tools
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2022
- In this video I will be doing a restoration of an old rusty skillet. I bought the pan for only five dollars and almost right away started restoring it.
I will be restoring cast iron skillet in this video to show how to do this simple process at home with minimal tools. Cast Iron cookware is great and could last for many years if treated correctly.
Some of the different types of cast iron cookware are:
Wedge Pan, its perfect for making cornbread.
Cast iron grills are great for stake.
A Cast iron skillet or a pan is one of the most common cookware.
Also, there is a cast iron Dutch Oven it's great for outdoor cooking. I have done a Dutch oven restoration video on this channel, so check it out.
Grill pan are great for collecting the dripping.
Cast Iron Fluted cake pan is amazing for classic desserts.
A loaf pan is great for bread cooking and meat loaves. And pizza baking pan is perfect for crusty pizza.
After restoring the rusty cast iron skillet, you can start the seasoning process. Below is a great article by Jake Smith
"Cast iron skillets are unusual. They’re a kitchen staple, but they’re also often misused. Unlike basically every other kitchen implement (most of which can pop right into the dishwasher or sink), cast iron requires TLC and attention to survive. But with the right preparation, you can work wonders with a skillet, from curry to chicken to cornbread.
Cast iron cookware needs seasoning, or a baked-on layer of oil, before you can use it. No, you don’t add spices-this seasoning is more like a polish that keeps your skillet from rusting or sticking to food.
How to season cast iron the right way after restoring it from rust.
Please follow these steps, with better detailed explanations below:
Preheat your oven to 350°F.
Wash your skillet with soap and water.
Dry it completely.
Coat it in oil or shortening.
Place the skillet upside down on your oven’s middle rack.
Allow it to cool before removing it.
Repeat the process up to three times.
Before anything, preheat your oven to 350 to 375°F. Start by washing your cast iron skillet with warm, soapy water, scrubbing with a sponge where needed. It has to be completely dry. Otherwise, you could end up with a rusty pan.
Coat it with oil or shortening you plan to use. Make sure you coat the entire pan, not just the interior, in a thin layer of oil.
Once your oven has warmed, place the skillet upside down on the middle rack. The oil or shortening drips, so put a pan or foil below the skillet to catch anything. Let the pan bake for about an hour, then turn off the heat and let it cool before taking it out."
This is a DIY process of simple restoration for cast iron. The simple guide to restore and seasoning cast iron cookware. This video is simple, educational, very informative and easy to follow along. Soon I hope to do more restoration videos with a corn stick pan, also Tonka Truck Restoration and hand tool restoration videos. Perfect Restoration is the goal. On this channel I hope to do awesome restoration and satisfying restoration of vintage and old rusted items. I really like to restore old, rusted things from the 1920's 1930's 1940's 1950' 1960's and 1970's vintage items.
#Restoration #DIY #ASMR
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Pizza recipe:
1. dough: around 2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of yeast, 2 tablespoons of olive oil, 3/4 teaspoons of salt, and 3/4 cup of warm water. Mix and let sit in the fridge for 3 days (or find ready-made pizza dough in the grocery store).
2. Once ready to assemble, poke holes in the dough with a fork so that the crust bakes evenly, and bake the pizza dough for about 10 minutes in a 400 F oven before adding sauces and toppings (this will help keep the dough from absorbing too much moisture from the sauce and getting soggy).
3. Add olive oil, sauce, cheese, and other ingredients (we used bell peppers, mushrooms, basil, and thinly sliced beef kielbasa).
4. Bake for another 20 minutes (or until the crust is golden brown)
5. Invite Daisy, she'll be happy to grade your work.
Recipe screen-shotted. Thanks!
Going to try this method soon! I wish I wasn't cutting carbs!
Glad Daisy got some-it looks good!
@@daisydukes8252 Thank you! You have a wonderful name :)
@@CoolRestorations Thank you, I’m glad I share my name with such a sweetie!
Here's a tip, put Crisco in a small jar next to your stove with a small piece of towel in it. After each use, rinse out and place cast iron on stove top to dry. While it is hot, drop your Crisco towel in it and swab. This keeps it well seasoned all the time. Been using 40+ years. Never use any other type skillets.
Awesome! Thank you for the tip Lisa!👍
Wuuo it's an amazing idea, I will try, thanks 🌺💥
@@TRUECARNIVORE
What ?
@@zap4980 I'll just join in - Grandmother told me the same thing, but she didn't say 'ruin' ...she did say use flaxseed oil as it works better. I'm sure you could do the same thing (and I did inherit one of her cast iron pans :) ).
I use bacon fat and newspaper - also for - lolol I'm old- 50 years , since I left home at 18 and camped for 3 years , seeing my country. 🇨🇦
This looks just like the pan we used to call my grandma‘s pancake griddle. Talk about some great tasting pancakes! Years after she passed I fired up that griddle for the first time since and smelled her pancakes once again!
This is a comal. It is a Mexican cast iron tortilla (and everything else) pan. In Mexico, It makes flat, unlevened bread. We make burritos out of it. It also works for pizza very well, as you experienced.
Thank you for the information! Its a great pan 😋
@@CoolRestorations Great job! Your hands move a lot faster than mine but I'm going to try it anyway. Thank you very much.
It is a comal, I make tortillas and quesadillas on it.
I don’t agree with it being only Mexican, my family is from the Kentucky mountains and this was used for biscuits. They never had any contact with any Hispanic people until the 1950’s in Tampa,Florida. But I know they had been using this wonderful skillet ( I know it’s not a true skillet) but that’s what I called it . They called it the biscuit and pancake pan. It makes wonderful pancakes. But I know back to the late 1800’s it was used in Kentucky. Not sure about the other generations but my great grandparents used it.
When they moved to Tampa they found wonderful Cuban and Italian food. I still use my mothers pan for biscuits. I miss my Cuban food, I’m stuck in SC because of good ole Covid, it knocked me for a loop.
@@sandragarner3913 exactly! We had no contact with Mexican people either but my grandma had this pan and we used to call it her pancake griddle. She made the most wonderful pancakes on it. I have it now and I smell her pancakes once again every time I fire it up.
One of the best cast iron restoration videos I've seen! I'm going to do this exact thing on my cast iron pot today. Thanks for posting this!
Thank you Stacy! Warm/Hot vinegar works alot better 👍
i concur
Last week I saw a video from someone who used a laser to clean the rust off of an old pan. Apparently, laser machines are about 10 grand. So it’s nice to see someone getting things done with much humbler materials.
Haha, thats funny! I think the guy you are talking about is the guy who does alot of woodworking videos, and he's actually from the same city as me (Portland) . . . Maybe one day I can also do a video like that :) Thanks for watching 👍
@@CoolRestorations NO! KEEP doing videos just like THIS!😀❤️👍
edit: LIKED SUBSCRIBED AND NOTIFIED!
Those lasers are *very* expensive and of course extremely dangerous.
Oh no, I was hoping for my little keyring laser to do the trick, than the disappointment followed. 😀
Just kidding.
Old fashioned salt and potato! Well done 👏
Thank you Kev!
I watched your process of cleaning and seasoning it back to useable greatness again.
We clean ours with the same thing you use but never use vegetable shortening
To season our only pure snow cap lard!!
I have some skillets that are well over 100 years old passed down from grandparents grandparents that are better then new.
That's awesome! Thank you for watching 👍
You can also use virgin linseed oil ( Flax seed oil). But it’s clever to use more than one layer. You should actually do 4-6 layers of baking and cooling down.
@Pål Ellingsen I use bacon grease. For two reasons, 1 I get to eat bacon. 2 bacon grease or lard is the best thing you can use.
You can literally see the mirror finish on it when the pizza comes out of the oven. Absolutely beautiful.
Oh thank you!
Love the food safe cleaning materials!
Give us the recipe so I can pin the comment:)
Thank you for not wire wheel destroying this beauty! Great pans for pizza for sure!
Well done! Pizza looked delicious and I love your house! It's so peaceful with all the birds chirping! 😋
Thank you!!!!))) Did you notice the cows also?:)
@@CoolRestorations oh I thought that was my stomach after seeing the pizza. 😏
That salt oil scrub was legit ASMR for me.
Glad you liked it mate!👍
@@CoolRestorations yeah just leaving aside how immensely satisfying the appearance of the final product was, I really enjoyed listening to that scrubbing. I'm curious with the total time was for this project
This was incredible! I always wondered what I could do at home if I found such a neglected pan. What a great use for it too! Daisy is adorable!
Thank you so much Karen 😍👍
This is amazing. Thank you for cast iron 101. Fantastic
Thank you very much!👍
This is on time! I have 6 inherited cast iron pans to restore & wasn't sure of the method.
Thanx!
Awesome! If soak it in warm vinegar it will be alot easier to work with it. All after vinegar its best to get some baking soda and neutralize the vinegar effect. Its a long process but you can do it!✌
And before you start the restoration make sure you don't have somekind of rare antiques that could be worth hundreds of dollars, you want to be very careful with those
Excellent restoration! And I always love it when the restored item gets an awesome first use! 👍👍👍 Yum!
Thank you! I will have to do more cooking then, have still alot of cast iron cookware to restore ))
A couple of tips, before waahing, take a sanding block and starting around 80 grit, start sanding the cooking surface and progress down to around 400 grit to as smooth of a finish as possible, I have even gone on to using 00, and 0000 steel wool to polish out the scratches. Clean thoroughly with the soap and water as shown and then season. I use flax seed oil and cook it through around 4 to 5 times an hour each at 450 degrees. The flax seed oil polymerizes much better than cisco or vegetable oil and will leave a much more stick free surface I have found. I will then reseason after cleaning simply using olive oil or vegetable oil in a pinch. I have around 30 different cast iron pans and pots and use this technique and when done right, it's better than any non stick cookware out there that you can buy. The other option is to cook on the pans and reseason for about 20 years to get a similar finish.
Thank you for your feedback 👍
Put your cast iron highly black encrusted pots and skillets in your oven on auto oven clean. They will come out like the day you bought them. Then releasing them in your favorite way.
Wow... this is the most practical, down-to-earth demo of restoring cast-iron cookware I've ever seen. Most others I've watched recommend complicated things like electrolysis or using strange chemicals that are not advisable for home use. You did this with nothing more than natural products and mild dishwashing liquid. I have a set of rusty old cast-iron skillets that I have put off cleaning for too long. I'm going to try your method soon. Thank you so much!
If it’s more then just surface rust you will need to soak in vinegar for longer time. Some people also suggest putting the cookware in the over on self clean mode or even making a fire outside. Thank you for watching 👍
@@CoolRestorations Combining the vinegar _with_ the salt will lift the rust even quicker, in case that helps...
Then follow just as you did, by neutralising the acidic compound with the alkaline bicarbonate of soda, (doing it immediately is important or fresh rusting will come back in an accelerated form if there's _any_ trace of acid left!) 😳
Daisy was the beat part that video. 😉
Thank you Ryan! My friend is looking for a new home for her ;)
Loving the out doors music, nature at its finest
Thank you, it was accually a audio played on my phone for better effect:)
I've got a skillet just like that to restore, thanks.
Awesome good luck!
I have that exact pan. I love it.
Twins 😍🛠
It turned out really good. I can smell the pizza from here. 😋🍕🍷Daisy is beautiful.
Thank you very much:) The pizza was very good and daisy was happy to eat some!
Thanks 👍 I needed this, all my cast iron was left outside and is rusted badly. This was so very helpful 😊
If its more then just surface rust then soak it in complete for couple days. 👍
I am going to try this on my cast iron. Thanks for showing a easier way to clean cast iron. God Bless.
The warmer the vinegar the better cleaning it does. After vinegar you have to nutrilize the acid reaction with baking soda 👍👍👍
I love the jump at 0:53 from a rusty to a brand new pan.
Yeah. Obviously fake restoration video.
@@draineweeks9605 Hahaha what are you talking about 😆
Yes its a jump from one shot to another shot. Video is 6 minutes long, if I included all the footage you would be watching a 2 hour video 👍
The best way to restore your castiorn skillets and pans is to use cooking lard. Not vegetable oil or anything else leaves a nice clean surface, and it never sticks
Thank you for the info! What exactly is cooking lard?
@Cool Restorations rendered fat from a hog it's pure and natural. A lot of you grocery stores carry it in there baking section
Hmm interesting, but I only eat Kosher food :)
Yeah
No plant oil
Esp hydrogenated oil
Use animal fats only
Tallow duck fat schmaltz
I have one of these, I call it a cowboy griddle. I use it for pancakes, grilled sandwiches, warming tortillas! Love it and wouldn’t part with it.
Awesome!👍 you take it camping?:)
@@CoolRestorations we travel and I have it in our RV. We at one time had a Dutch over but I sold it and it went for $85, no lie, at an auction. I had the long flat griddle that sat on 2 burners but gave that to my grandson. I have my cast iron skillets also! Love my cast iron.
I used to restore cast iron with fine steel wool and it always turned out great. I'll be trying your method of cleaning the next time i get something. Great video!
Thank you Dave!
I use my wood stove. Wash dry out in wood stove to cook a while take it out let cool wash again get all that thick hard stuff that's caked on it off wash again. Let dry and season with lard
I found a rusted Dutch Oven in the bush and I tried various things but I'm going to start all over using this method. Its pitted but that doesnt matter. I like the look of those new granite non sticks but my cast iron is the only way to go. My Dad gave me an entire set, including a cast iron kettle when I left home at 18, to go travelling and camping for 3 years to see my country. I have acquired several more cast iron wear over the years and have tried different methods but I now have a really big fry pan waiting just for this method. I have been looking at it all winter lol.🇨🇦( also a 1 gallon cauldron.)
Hopefully it wasn't used to melt lead! Soak it in warm vinegar for couple days 👍
This is a griddle that is called a comal south of the border.
This is the first video I have seen on UA-cam that does not destroy the collectable value of vintage cast iron.
I would season it much differently but if it works for the owner then it's all good.
Great info! Thank you very much 😊
My man’s kitchen is in the middle of a forest lol. Enjoyed the video!
Hahaha thanks mate! It was accually played on my phone to try to make it little more interesting 😄😚
Very nice video, you did a great job on that. The pizza looked amazing and your oven is super clean as well.
Thank you so much! The newer oven was at my friends house :)
Also daisy is an exceptionally cute doggie bear 🐻!!!!
Thank you 😊
@@CoolRestorations I'm thinking she actually stole the show right???
Terrific video. One on the best I've seen. You show a process I think I could actually do without screwing it up. Net result? Picture perfect homemade pizza. Kudos for your excellent video.
Thank you so much Robert!
If you ever do same thing warm up the vinegar and it will do the cleaning much better!👍👍👍
@@CoolRestorations Hi. What was the white milky stuff in the little bowl you used with the yellow scrubber? Thanks
nicely done! you brought that pan back to life and then made a fantastic pizza which I'm sure everyone enjoyed, even the dog!
I love the shape of the pan. Well worth the clean up.
Thanks for sharing. I restored very rusted cast iron pans of my mom-grew up on her cooking in them. I soaked them in white vinegar over night & used potatoes & coarse salt too. Used Crisco oil as well. I also did a batch in my oven (used Self-cleaning). The caked on grease fell off. I use my fajita cast iron pans to do pizza in too. I have an indoor pizza oven & make my dough too.
That's awesome! Thanks for watching 👍
I work a lot with iron and steel, and the steps in this video are exactly right. Depending on the amount of rust, the vinegar step takes a day or two, and if you're just spraying it on, this will require several applications.
If you want to take a shortcut straight to the "wash with soap" step in this video, just use an angle grinder with a wire brush disk for a couple of minutes.
Yes you are right! I also like my vinegar to be hot or warm it makes the process be alot more effective 👍
I've got a much loved cast-iron frying pan that needs a redo. The inside isn't too bad but the outside has about 30 years of baked on crud. Do you have a shortcut idea to clean it off please?
@@nikiTricoteuse Easy-Off oven cleaner works pretty well. I believe putting the soaked pan in a plastic bag to soak speeds the process.
@@paulhare662 Thanks. Does it not damage the cast iron?
@@nikiTricoteuse Hasn't hurt any of mine. Works great on whitewall tires too.
my brother inherited my mother's cast iron griddle after she passed, and he had it seasoned so well you would think that the cook surface was made of glass it was so smoothed. better than a non stick any day.
The look of the dog in the end, priceless AND the background noise is so soothing, not sure if it's real or not but it almost made me fall asleep
Thank you so much! The sound was played on my phone :)
I will never go back to non cast iron skillets. They have been superior in every way I've used them
As someone who cleans a lot of cast iron I usually don't like the vinegar method but you did well with it. What I don't like about vinegar is if the piece is pitted the acid will attack the pits making them worse. Exposure for more than 30 minutes can start the process. Like I said you did well.
Something else I bet you could do is fix a warped bottom skillet. Rumor has it that it can't be done but I've done it so it is possible. I'm averaging 50% success rate so I don't have it perfected. My problem begins when the piece begins to cool. 3-4 minutes after I finish they can crack, the answer for this is don't let them cool but keep them hotter longer. Enter the turkey cooker. put the skillet in the clamp just like before but turn it upside down over the turkey cooker. Heat it as high as possible with the cooker. The bottom is already accessible so use the torch to do the repair and leave it on the cooker for a few more minutes. When the heat is even across the sides and bottom turn the cooker off. It should cool naturally. I've have to experiment with different size torches. It's my hope that a cheap map gas torch will be enough so anyone could do it. I have all sizes in my shop but most individuals wouldn't have access to these and they would be expensive. I have to make time to try this turkey cooker brain fart because I can't see why it wouldn't work. Like I said I had a 50% success rate without the cooker.
Thank you for watching 👍
@@CoolRestorations You do so many things so well that I really think you could fix a warp skillet. If you find a spinner (as they are called) try it out for a video idea. Like I said the collectors think it can't be done but it can. One guy tried to fix his with a hammer. That didn't take long. lol
Good job! 😘 next time my cast iron gets rusty I’ll know what to do, thanks to you
Thank you very much!))
The best thing about this vid was your dog. What a beautiful girl! The pizza looked yummy too.
Thank you so much! Its my friends Dog, she loves to play:)
Several times I have cleaned just such a pan by putting it in the burn pile. We cleared many trees from our yard and they burn nice and clean. I turn it a few times and then after it cools I season it.
Great tip!🛠🛠🛠
How original and definitely entertaining. My life has been enriched by seeing the ten seconds I spent on this video
New subscriber here...from West Virginia!!!
Hey welcome!👍🥰
I LOVE my cast iron.. now I really want a cast iron pizza pan.. thank you for this video!!!!
Years ago I was camping while on a fishing trip in the GWN and I was cleaning up around the site before I left. I found a griddle just like that rusted to hell and back. Brought it home cleaned it up and have been using it ever since. U cleaned it the easy way a battery charger and washing soda
Thank you, i will do this to reclaim my dutch oven.
Awesome! If you soak in warm vinegar completely, it will be even easier to clean.
Does it have to be Crisco only? I’m so glad I stumbled upon this video. I was about to toss mine out 😂😅 great video 👍🏻
No, it can be other oils =) Soak it for couple days, will be easier!
This video is so satisfying 🤤😊
PS, Daisy is the icing on the cake!
Thank you very much :)
Thanks for sharing
I have 4 that need to be brought back to life , so I can pass on to family member .. along with directions 😁👍even the tiniest one I ever found 💞 It heart wrenching to watch a square one being tossed in the trash , knowing how collectable real old cast iron anything's are 🥺
The birds are cheering you on. The background sounds lovely. Great video ☺️
Thank you! The birds are playing on my phone :)
Loved this video! Thanks for the simple approach 👍
Thank you!👍
CR: I will remember your tip on warming the vinegar before use.
I just finished removing rust from the bottom of a comal. Wish i had seen this first. Would've saved a little elbow grease and brillo pads!
Awesome! I have so much cast iron cookware that need to be restored 🛠
We have a Lodge cast iron griddle and I use it for numerous purposes from biscuits to pizza. I'll also use one of the cast iron skillets for making a deep dish pizza. The first time I did it you should have heard and seen my wife.😂 Since I'm medically retired from being an over-the-road driver I now have time to experiment in the kitchen. I also like the design of that griddle.
Really appreciated this video. I have a lovely old iron camp oven or in other words large iron pot , very rusted. I once cleaned and oiled it but it always gave the food a metallic taste so I stopped using it & it got left out in the yard and neglected. I'm now going to give it another go using your technique with the lard. Got a feeling it will work this time.
Let it soak for longer time if its deep rust!
Great job!
Loved this video. I've started watching cast iron cookware restoration videos for stress relief. What have I become?
Thank you 😊
I have this same exact pan!! Trying this tomorrow, thank you so much for this video!
Awesome! keep it in vinegar for couple days soaked. =)
Wow! Thank you for sharing this!
My pleasure Patricia 😊
Great vid, thank you!!!
After watching this I bought a rusty cast iron skillet at a thrift shop 😃 Can’t wait to see how it turns out!
Awesome! Soak it up for couple days and clean with baking soda. Warm vinegar works even better 👍
Fantastic restoration. Yummy pizza. Beautiful doggie. Perfect trifecta!
Thank you 😊
Amazing job!
use a bucket with about a 50/50 mixture of vinegar to water..immerse the whole pan
Yup thats a perfect method 👍🛠
Thanks! Gonna give your recipe a go.
Wow thank you so much!!!!😍😍😍
Cool.
I learned something.
The potato.
Great video. Thanks.
Thank you!)
👏👏👏 best cast iron restoration video and I'm like Daisy now ! Pizza ♥
I'm so glad I found this. Thanks! I've got to restore 3 iron skillets
Soak it in vinegar for couple days 👍
@@CoolRestorations ok. Thanks again
Thank you
LOL! When you took the pizza out, I surprised myself by making a very audible moan and my stomach growled. 😂 Wonderful restoration👏😀 "Hi Daisy!" 👋😃
Thank you so much! PIZZA really looked good in camera, specially right from the oven :)
Cool Res,,, you did that!!! I wonder how long you had to actually scrub. Don't really matter after da reward. I'm checking outside to see if you're out there with my slice. I'm looking like that poor dog like.... DAD PLEEEEASZZZ🤣 Luv da WHOLE VIDEO.
Thank you so much Cynthia! The process is so long that if I was getting even paid minimum wage for the time it took me to restore it, I'd still make enough to buy a couple new pans :)
Beautiful!
Thank you!👍
Love all your tools, impressed by your skills!
Thank you!
Good job.👍💯
What brand of skillet? I have one that looks just like that one. Good video.
Not sure, I think its from Tiwan
I just restored an almost identical ERIE griddle with vinegar. Didn’t need to do the salt. I use flaxseed oil at 500. Came out awesome.
Amazing
That salt is so big . Is that a certain type of salt? Excellent video thank you . I am going to try it out
I have used cast iron skillets for more than 50 years and they are the best. Thanks for yor video on removing rust, I really need that as I have one that I have been unable to get the rust out of the inside. Now I know how to remove the rust.
Thank you for watching 👍👍
What a process. Not sure I have the patience. Definitely looked great after. ❤️
Thank you very much!👍👍👍
I am so thrilled with this video! On my way to the garage to get the two skillets that I couldn't clean......and wanting Pizza like right now. Thanks so much!
Awesome!Let them soak for couple days
Nice job!
We used this for biscuits and pancakes even dinner roles. It is perfect.
Mmm yummy! Thank you for watching 👍
THATS SOME GOOD ASNR
Very nice.
Thanks Robin!
Love all the details - Pizza Recipe and I used your method and my old wore out hand me down rusted cast iron is back perfectly clean and seasoned! WooHoo Thanks!
Yay! Awesome!!!! How long did you soak it for?👍
@@CoolRestorations one skillet was done in like 8 hours with hardly any damage - but the one wow 48 hours with a rinse and dry at 24 and did vinegar again - so at the 48 hours looked a lot better - then did all your steps and WOW like new - cooked pizza on that one and it was sure enough non-stick! The other I made scrambled eggs - well they still stuck so think I need to season that one some more. Thanks for responding - watching more of your Videos now!!
Fantastic video, found this on Digg.
Thank you! What is Digg?:)
Wow incredible beautiful. Blessings. Again again.
Thank you!
I have that same griddle. Great for sandwiches, pancakes, etc. Mine is a Griswold I think.
nicely done. Pizzza looked really good too
Thank you very much 😋
Absolutely unbelievable ❤
Thank you!