Best Oils for Seasoning Cast Iron | How to Season Cast Iron
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- What are the best oils for seasoning cast iron? And how do you season cast iron? In this video we're answering these top cast iron questions! #castiron #seasoningcastiron
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Folks, we tried something different on this video and added some ambient background music- did you like it?
Love the new set and the ambient background music! Merry Christmas and happy new year from Pittsburgh!
No I do not want to hear anything other than you or Shannon 🥰
I like it! Just as long as it doesn't get too loud as to distract from your commentary
Feels like Pro status Kent 👍
Like it a lot, but maybe like a click lower in the background.
I've found a tall cast iron pan buried in a yard. Cleaned the dirt and rust out, seasoned it, and it works perfect.
Buried treasure! 🙌🏻
I accidentally left my first cast iron skillet in the oven when I ran the cleaning cycle. Thought it was ruined and tossed it. Such a huge mistake. That was before UA-cam. I started using flaxseed oil and noticed it flaked off a couple weeks ago. Guess I’ll move onto grape seed oil now. Now I know that if I mess up again it’ll always bee salvageable.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure ! Great find enjoy
Who buries a good cast-iron skillet?
kinda like saying "found a stone outside, works great"
By that I mean ofcourse it works, it's a cast iron pan, try doing that to a "high end pan with Teflon or dimon coated copper etched triple laminated carbon steel vacuum NASA pan"
nothing cleans out like a cast iron and all it needs is a couple rounds of oil on it to become close to perfect again.
It's not like you're ever going to "bend it", or "scratch it".
I season my cast iron with either bacon grease or Crisco, just like my mother, her mother and HER did. I have more than 50 pieces of cast iron, all of it well seasoned. I am 76 and two of my skillets belonged to my great grandmother! Each of my kids will get one when I am gone. Another great video, Kent!
Just remember... cast is FOREVER if you care for it ! It can be passed down through generations!!
My moms been out of town for a bit and I’ve been cooking all my own meals using her trusty cast iron, I love it and i will never use a Teflon, I’ve also been watching you for years and Ian ever so grateful for your advice, blessings from Florida
Thanks so much and it is the best thing to cook with
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Thank you! Been telling my kids this. They don't need to smoke up the house putting cast iron in the oven! I always season stove top. Easy!
When I broke down several cast iron pots and skillets and started fresh with them, that was the most efficient way. Use the oven, open the windows, and turn on tbe vent fans. I knocked out 3 large skillets and a camp pot in a single afternoon.
You sir are a gift to us all! Thank you for taking your time out of the day to explain cast iron treatment and maintenance along with your many, many delicious recipes. God Bless the Cowboy!
I grew up watching my grandmother and my mother cook with the cast iron skillets that sit on my stove today. I use them constantly and wouldn't have anything else. You have some good videos on taking care of cast iron and I love your cooking videos. That was where I found out how to cook the best prime rib ever. Happy New Year to you and Shannon.
I absolutely love cast iron cooking. I wish I still had a space for a grill but we had to give that away. Thank you Kent.
Thanks Kent and Shannon and the Beagle for sharing this with us. Always a help when it comes to Cast Iron Cookware, you're the best. Fred.
Thank you, Cowboy Kent. I have to say, you got me back into small cast iron pots and pans in my kitchen again, after all these years of watching your videos. I might never be an outdoor master cooker, like yourself, but it's a start. And I'm going to start buying some grapeseed oil, ASAP. Seems I have too much vegetable oil laying around.
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Perfect info and happy new year!
Much love Kent to you and your family! God Bless! You’re an amazing Chef!
Cowboy you and your videos may have just saved my cast iron pan from being a plinking target. I bought one a year ago and struggled. I am so glad I found your channel. Some 80 grit hand sanding and avocado oil, I now have a shiny golden bottom skillet to start over with.
really good information here Kent. we have been using grape seed oil to season our cast iron for a good long while now. it works great. keep the great content coming!
Switched over to cast iron recently and your videos made it so easy to clean up and season my new lodge cast iron. I sanded it down, got it seasoned, and the wife is astonished how nonstick it is, even for scrambled eggs!
Got a Lodge cast iron skillet some years ago as a holiday gift. It's one of two pans I use to cook in. Other one's a stainless steel when I WANT food to stick so I got something to deglaze and turn into sauce afterward. The cast iron's absolutely my workhorse pan. Everything from breakfast eggs, fried chicken, kimchi pancakes, pizza and cornbread goes into that sucker. Hope some day to pass it on to children, mine or my brother's, so your advice and insight is well-cherished. Thank you kindly, Mr. Rollins.
Absolutely loved the background music. Thank you for your knowledge, God Bless You!
I love your videos. Watching how to cook using simple techniques and equipment gives my courage to try without relying on expensive kitchen appliances that can be somewhat intimidating to this beginner.
I just love you & Miss Shannon! I also love all of your cast iron videos. I've learned so much from you! I used to season with Crisco exclusively. Then came canola oil for a long time. Had a brief stint with flaxseed oil, but didn't care lots for it. Now I'm all about the avocado oil! I have better luck with it. Plus, Sam's Club has a big bottle for $8. I wasn't lucky enough to get any of my mom's or grandmas' cast iron. But I've been buying new & old pans for my collection. Love them!! My favorite way to cook. God Bless you, Kent & Shannon. Thanks so much for all of the great videos. Have a wonderful new year!!
These are the best CI videos on the internet...hands down. Thank you Sir!
Thanks Kent as former chef for a decade, I was always curious but rarely used cast iron, now in my non professional cooking life I appreciate knowing the ways we did things and why we did them i.e. bacon grease etc. I used grape-seed oil (for high temp frying) normally due to its high smoke point if I remember right 475 degrees Fahrenheit, or darn close to that, good to know that other things are possible, and Ill continue to use grapeseed oil on my cast iron pots and pans! Awesome tips :) God bless and keep on keeping on!
Got my first ever cast iron skillet for Xmas this year! This could not be better suited👏🏻 Thanks Kent, Happy New Year
Happy New Year and thanks, Kent and Shan! Great video and advice to kickoff 2022. Your cast iron series is the best! Also, love the new set. It's perfect!
Most excellent thanks for updating the new old cast iron 👍🏼
We appreciate you Cowboy! God Bless
Coincidence I have been watching your cast iron videos alot lately after getting a new Lodge dutch oven, hands down the best advice for cast iron maintenance on the internet right here on this channel.
Thanks Kent! As always very helpful!
Saw this quote somewhere and immediately though of you and Shannon - "The warmth from their hearths is matched only by the warmth of their hearts." Thanks for being there for us all.
I have cast iron handed down through 3 generations. It is as slick as teflon. I rarely use anything else. I recently bought a new skillet so this video (and playlist) are right on time. Thank you!
Yep, grapeseed oil worked great for me on my Stargazer skillets. I use all the oils you recommend for cooking except for the grapeseed. Thanks for getting me back into cast iron!
After many years of cooking exclusively with cast iron I've come to this very same conclusion of using Grapeseed oil to start and Avocado/Olive oil for regular care. Wise advice Cowboy, thank you for confirming for me what I have been preaching. They all tell me to use shortening... and I personally have never had good results with shortening.
I have really struggled with my cast iron they were handed down to me and they weren't very well taken care of I'm slowly getting them better now that I've been watching your cast iron videos
Thank you Kent GOD Bless you both too
Thank you Cowboy Kent for caring
Enough to share what you think is the best way to care for your. cast iron and when you make a change you are not scared to say it’s going to be a great year that area you are in would make a great kitchen love the bricks
Looking forward to another new year with you Kent 😊 I love your videos. Take care and stay safe, my Dancing Cowboy. 💋
I love this guy's personality! I'd hang out with this dude. Plus, he's absolutely right
With avocado oil, it can put off a strong odor when you season with it. Knowing from experience. Works good but I prefer to use it for only cooking, plus it’s a bit expensive lol
O wow! Been using those two for so long! Just recently started using a very thin peanut oil as an alternative, since it also has a high smoke point. The hardest point for me is using an electric stove. The second hardest (we can argue the order) point in cast iron use & care is sharing my cast iron with more than just me! lolz
Thanks for going over this process again. We all need reminders 👍🏻
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Cowboy Kent, you got me started on cast iron, starting with an 8” skillet I use at home and keep on my motorcycle while road tripping/motocamping. After 500-600 miles on the road, it’s nice to get a small campfire started and pull out the cast iron skillet and fry up some sausage or a small filet if I find a nice looking cut while on the road. I’ll never use Teflon again.
I like the extra video in the week and the extra changes like adding music, not crazy about the location. I think of you as more of an outside cooking in the fields or by water. Thanks for the tips!
Happy new year Mr.Rollins. All the best for the hounds, the misses and the Cowboy in these trying times. Many more great recipes to be expected, The Cowboy is in his Prime :D............................The cast iron I am used to seasoning are those Small block chevy's
Since I took over cooking duties from my wife I have started using cast iron more and more. Heck I make all kinds of sauces in my cast iron pan all the time. These pans are well seasoned my mom and dad used to use. Love them. Now to throw most all of the teflon crap out. Thanks for the video series.
Just got my Cookbook and seasonings! Along with my Cowboy Happy Dance coffee mug! Best gifts of the year!!!
Thanks for the update!!!
Very helpful tips. I wish you all the best in 2022. Cheers, Kent!
Kent and Shannon, I like the music. I've got some cast iron to refurbish and I appreciate this information. I've cooked with grapeseed oil many times before and I'm glad that you recommend initial seasoning with it. Happy New Year!!!!
Love you guys so much! Many blessings to your family in the new year!
Thanks Matt
Always helpful Kent thanks for the great video always enjoy 🤙
Love this channel you guys have filled my family's belly many times they absolutely love your biscuits and gravy recipe I do too .. I made for my mother and stepfather one night and there was no leftovers and I made a double batch so yes many things you have taught me how to make are greatest hits with my family .. Thanks it helps bring us together ...
Our pleasure!
Wow this is my first video from this creator and I thought it was a little adorable wholesome channel. Went to the page. Over 2M subs 😳. Wow. Love it. Nope to binge your older vids. Thank you for the knowledge!
God bless you and Happy New Year, Kent! Love your content and down-home wisdom.
Thanks and God bless you
I Love You! I Love You! I Love 💘You Shannon and the Pups! Watching you be yourself and teaching us to be better cooks! Thank you from me and All the Other Friends I Keep in touch with of mine in the USMC! Your Family Makes our Wednesday!
Thank you for the great informal content
This is so helpful! Thank you!
Love your videos and really got into cooking with CI after seeing ya at Silver Dollar City few years ago. Just ordered grapeseed oil and been using avacodo oil for couple of years now. Note: went to Amazon and found the grape seed oil but found the exact same thing at Walmart for $9 a bottle cheaper. Also took your advise on flaxseed vitamins and after couple of years I swear by them, never miss a day taking them.
Love your dogs, Kent! They are so cute and such an added pleasure to your videos. 😁
I agree with your methods and especially the frying. If my wife scrubs the pan a bit too clean, I find and excuse to fry something. From what I know about the expansion of metal, this really should work best.
Love the music. Thanks for the tips!
Yes sir, I like using grapeseed oil. I restored some very damaged cast iron and it works very well.
Happy new year !!! Im working on my cast iron today; thanks for ur help!!
I found your channel after trying to restore some cast iron a week ago. I know your whole channel and love the way you talk. Thank you for all your wisdom. Please try some native recipes from me and my brothers
The music is great, just don't let it get too loud to drown out your great commentary. Happy New Year from Arlington, Texas!
Another informative video on cast iron. Because of your channel, I have about 5 cast iron cookware (wok, griddle, skillets, dutch oven). I appreciate the tips and tricks. BTW, the cast iron makes the best fried rice!!
Thank You Cowboy Kent
Been a big fan of the avocado oil. That's what I use every day for my reseasoning/cleaning regiment. Olive oil/vegetable oil for cooking, but at the end of the night I always reseason with avocado oil.
What a wonderful surprise. I just got a cast iron last week and I was thinking about how to best season it. Thanks a lot!
Hope you enjoy it! and glad to help
I follow all your cast iron cooking tips and I point everyone to your channel when giving tips. I grab them cheap at thrift shops, season them the CKR way, then give them as gifts to friends and family. Appreciate all you do Kent.
What a great gift! Wish I could find them cheap at thrift shops. I’ve been looking high and low and hardly ever see them!
I heard someone mention something about preparing a cast iron pan, Didn't know what they were referring too, but I do remember one rusting on me...I appreciate this video today and understand why it's necessary to oil and prepare cast iron...Thanks for the video..
Happy New Year Kent, Shannon, and the Pups !
Thank you for this info. I have a new Blackstone griddle I’m going to season for the first time this weekend. I’m going to do a few coats of grape seed oil first and then a few coats of avocado oil to finish.
Thanks for your expert advice👍🌟
I only fry in animal fat for the most part, but I do use avocado oil for seasoning, and post cook/clean wipe down. Great stuff.
This man is a king!!
Happy new year’s Kent and Shan. Blessings from Michigan.
Thanks Kent and Shannon! Always used olive oil. Have my grandma's circa 1890 Wagner Sydney , my Mom's circa 1950 BSR and a bunch of Lodge. I fill them with your recipes every chance I get.
I appreciate y’all posting your the cast iron videos. They helped me save a cast iron skillet I nearly ruined that my wife and I have had for over 20 years. I love cooking with grape seed and Avocado oils. They give food a nice flavor without being too heavy like vegetable oil. Thank you so much!
Our pleasure!
Mr Kent, hello and happy new year!
Sir, I've not steered you wrong before and I won't start, now! 😀
I've been working with, cleaning, fully stripping (electrolysis) and reconditioning and maintaining cast iron since the 70s.
The two best things for seasoning and maintaining are beef tallow (no, it doesn't go rancid, ever, if it's done properly, as with avocado oil) and the white, "solid" coconut cooking oil that comesin a jar, especially for cooking and a post-cook wipe down. It's great and doesn't spoil or get tacky. It converts all the way, like tallow.
YES, I understand why pork lard is not good, it's not as pure and fine or full of "invisible goodness" (unless you're making biscuits) which is why it's also not used for candles. It doesn't render down as fine as beef.
Beef tallow is by far the *best* as it renders to a very pure, fine fat, which melts instantly to clear nothingness when you touch it (lard just gets goopy) and it polymerizes very well,
which is why it's used in candles and, it lasts *forever* in the pan without peeling, chipping, flaking... Or rotting, as long as it's properly maintained and cleaned after cooking.
And talk about deep-frying, do your French fries in tallow and you'll swear you just took the way-back machine to a 1973 McDonald's! (That's how they did their fries until the vegans got mad). 😉
Beef tallow renders 100% pure and keeps forever in fridge or freezer and is great for frying anything in your pan and bonds better than even oils a d just adds to the seasoning of the pan (and especially flaxseed oil, it WILL come off, eventually).
After I've cooked and then cleaned my still warm pan, wiping down with a half teaspoon or so of coconut oil (will be just below melting at room temp) and giving it just a very thin coating is sufficient. If those aren't available I use avocado oil.
For actual seasoning in the heat and depending on existing level of seasoning, if any, two to three, maybe even four very fine coats of tallow, placed upside-down on a rack and run at 400°-425°f. for 1hr minimum, preferably 1.5 hrs and allowed to cool to room temp slowly, *without* opening the door, gives a bullet proof seasoning.
Vegetable oils (avocado is a vegetable) and anything that I'd applied too thickly will smoke, a lot. That's how to tell you used too much! But very fine coats of tallow will not smoke very much at all. I promise, dad! 😉
The pioneers did it, grammar did it, everyone did it with tallow (if you cook beef and cool it, the white, hard layer of fat is tallow) and bear grease works even better 😆
All of the things that rot are rendered out of the fat so no rotting.
I have pans seasoned in tallow that hang or sit on my wire storage rack for *years* and never has any issues, looking like the day it was done. Those pans are black as coal and dry to the touch. My grandmother used tallow, not lard for that very reason. Lard can't do that, you're right.
After you've cooked enough steaks and burgers, there will be a slick, polymerization layer of "plastic" feeling material on the bottom of the pan that you could skate on, it's so non-stick. If you burn something, use a wooden tool and scrape any stuck bits loose from the hot pan. If it's stubborn, add a teaspoon of regular salt and scrub with it, it will loosen anything stuck on and you can just wipe the pan clean. if you do have to wash the pan, using hot water and soap is just fine, just be sure to rinse well and dry on a warm stove for a few until the pan is completely dry. That's all you ever have to do. Don't over think it!
I know you advise against it but, you *can* use something like safflower (Wesson) oil to season *IF* you use veery thin coats and do it in the oven as I describe above. It won't smoke too badly at all, if thin because there just isn't that much in there. And it will stick without getting goopy until you start cooking your steaks!
I've got a couple of Dutch ovens I did with oil, lasted forever. It's just tricky and has to be oven "cured."
Yep, we season with several coats of Flax Seed and maintain with olive oil. They stay pretty slick as we cook with lard, bacon grease and butter and olive oil all the time anyway. Tomato sauces require a fresh coat of oil after those dishes usually.
Man, I enjoyed your video. Great presentation and loved the comedy. Subbed!
Happy Sunday!
Thanks for the visit
Have used your Recipes ,Tips and Tricks in the past . Thanks for sharing . Happy New Year to You and Yours 💚 from Virginia
Happy new year!
Hi Kent. Thank you onceagain for the great advice. Stay safe in 2022 and beyond. ATB. Nigel.
I have a few Griswold's, I never knew they were somewhat expensive till I saw some in a resale store. Thanks for the tips.
Happy New Year 2022 to you and your family! Thank you for all of the great videos!
This is perfect timing!
I literally was looking online AGAIN because I just can't seem to get my cast iron right
Thanks for this, I just got a cast iron Dutch oven for Christmas and I’m looking forward to seasoning it.
Hope you enjoy
Me as well and a good skillet
Helps a lot thanks!
Been using carbon steel far a little while. Really like it so far
I use a mix of Avocado oil and bee's 🐝 wax right out of the hive. Mixing wax and lard or bacon greece is something my great grandfather taught my father and he taught me. I switched to Avocado oil because you showed me years ago and i really like the way I comes out. I only have 1 cast-iron skillet but i use it every time i cook. I hope to one day get a few nice ones like you showed in a video but I'm disabled and there are usually more important to buy with my limited income. I am the 3rd male born so i will not be getting the old skillets when they are passed down.
Man, I enjoy your videos. Funny and informative. You're cool.
Great videos! You are a natural in front of the camera.
Just bought a DutchOven for my Nefue made him watch a real cowboy show how to season the Cast Iron while I got the fire started Now he watches your videos all the time ❤
Be sure and tell him thanks
Skillets I use crisco season 475 in oven. Dutch ovens crisco do 350 for longer time. Best cooking with butter to build seasoning.
Thank you for your videos much love from Wisconsin…
Thanks. Happy New Year to you guys!
This Soldier loves your content and appreciates you as an individual
I use lard. Works awesome.
We have an old Griswold dutch oven that was my wife's grandmothers. We use it both for baking bread and making beef stews. Yesterday I went to an old farm estate sale near where we live anf found a 12" large logo Griswold Skillet for $2. Yes, that's correct. It was dry and dirty but no rust or other damage. I cleaned it and seasoned it similar to your instructions, and it's perfect. $2.