RESTORING AND RESEASONING CAST IRON COOKWARE
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2017
- I'll show you how to take some crusty & rusty cast iron skillets from the thrift store and turn them into beautiful daily cookware you can use for decades to come. We'll completely strip these skillets to the bare metal, clean and re-season them for immediate use. No special chemicals, tools or skills needed. Just your oven or outdoor grill.
WARNING: IF YOU HAVE A REALLY NASTY, GREASY, CAKED UP SKILLET, YOU MIGHT WANT TO AVOID THE EXCESS FUMES INDOORS BY USING YOUR OUTDOOR GRILL. NEVER LEAVE AN OVEN IN SELF CLEAN MODE UNATTENDED ! - Навчання та стиль
Wow, this process saved my Grandma’s cast iron pan. There was so much caked on grime that I didn’t even know the Wagner brand was stamped on the bottom. I’m so happy to have this heirloom restored and ready for use again. Thank you for the detailed instructions... although now I’d really love a glass of wine.
WOW, cast iron magic! I'm excited to give this a go. It's the most thorough, yet simple, video I've seen. Thank you!
GREAT Video!!! Used your method and it restored 2 very caked (FAVORITE) skillets to NEW looking condition! Good for another 30 yrs! The wife was HAPPY that I cleaned the oven..... Tonight is going to be a FANTASTIC 2018 Valentines Evening.....
Favorite Piqua is one of my favorite vintage cast iron brands! Glad it worked for you!
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Used this method on my great grandmothers skillet that hung on my wall in my humid garage over 20 years. Reconditioned and restored beautifully and I use it today! Thank you!
Thank you SOOO much for posting this video!!! I inherited my Grandmother’s cast iron skillet which had so much gunk on it I couldn’t even tell the brand! This worked SOOO well!!!
My Grandma was born in 1886 & always cooked with cast iron. When the gunk would build up on the bottom of her pans,she would build an oak fire,put her pans in & then light the pile of wood. She would heat the pans up slowly, after the fire burned down she would move the pans to the side & let them cool down gradually..She would wash them with warm soapy water,rinse & dry ,then cover the insides with lard( Crisco)She would set them to the warm side of our wood stove to let the lard do its job,then wipe them down.She never allowed us to use Brillo Pads or Steel Wool on them ( That makes them stick). When she made Biscuits or Corn Bread she would just wipe the pan & that's it. She had a large skillet that was for mainly baking bread .
nice story.. please note that Crisco is crystallized vegetable oil (cottonseed oil back then), not lard, which is fat from a pig.
@@joepah51 i use bacon grease, never crisco, im gonna try some grapeseed oil on a few this time just to see the results.
Mag that's pretty much the way my mama cleaned hers ,I would get mine very hot on the stove and many cooking gloves and dry towel go out side with a smooth service knife and scrape the knife then take inside clean with sudsy water let dry and then season with oil
Thank you for this video. My husband's grandfather gave us an old standing dutch oven with a biscuit lid that needed cleaning, and I had several pieces with caked on debris that needed attention. I found this video very helpful. I didn't want to heat the kitchen so I put them on the gas grill and it worked great. I am in the process now of washing and seasoning. I can't wait to use them again. You are a very good instructor.
Love this process. I thought of it before I found your video, but didn't know if it was a viable idea. And if your oven is dirty already, too... two birds, one stone. Excellent!
Excellent. This is the first video I've watched that showed a fry pan that was gunked up like the one I have. I have my mother's and it has chunks and lumps all over the outside of it, like the little one you used to demonstrate with. Your video was very informative and cleared up a lot of misgivings I had about trying the self clean method, I was afraid my pan might break from the heat, but obviously they do not. Thank you.
You should counsel for anxiety patients! You are so calm and cool as well as a great presenter and speaker! Cheers!
It's the wine McGoo :). Thanks for the kind words.
Hahahahaahah,,,, or should I say Bah,,Bah,,Bah
I certainly agree! Soothing as well as informative!
I followed your instructions and 4 cast iron pans (2 skillets, one small frying pan, and a dutch oven with a lid) came out looking great - maybe not quite as good as yours but still many times better than when I started. Using the oven cleaning was brilliant, and the various seasonings seemed to work out well. Thanks.
I have seen many videos with different methods, but it is not because of flattery, it is the clearest and most accurate video, neat, thanks for sharing it, and I will practice it, because it is the one I think is least harmful.
Sir, you just taught me how to save my old skillet! Thank you.
You're welcome Michael.
I love that work you put into cleaning those skillets, and one Griswold brand reminds me of my grandmother's old skillet. I still use that skillet and have recently ordered a new skillet which I will be using regularly. The skillets you have are nice looking and must get regular usage.
Just found a rusted, filthy, unmarked Wagner 9” skillet at a local thrift store for $2.50. Followed your instructions and now I have a great piece of cast iron that’s beautiful and the finish is slicker than... well... a very slick thing! Thanks for teaching me to restore cast iron cookware!
So I started researching about restoring and seasoning cast iron. You are right you can watch videos until your eyes bleed :) Ran across this video after watching about dozen before. Decided to follow your method. Spot on worked awesome! Thanks for the video! I now have an interest in cast iron.
Great explanation! Looking forward to trying your method. Thanks for the great info!
Thank you so much. I tryed this and worked wonders. I also used lard as coating and went in with 3 coats. Like new!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video - it was entertaining and great info to have!!
You are my kind of Cook. I put my cast iron in a self cleaning oven for 2 hours. I totally love mine. They come out a little rusty but cool down and wipe down. And let the seasoning begin. Incredibly like new
Used to use Crisco, got away from it for no good reason; you convinced me to use it again. Thx!
I think food tastes so much better when it's cooked in cast iron. id have to say blackberry cobbler is probably my favorite! Good informative video, there's hundreds of videos out there that's over complicated.
Hi, I just did this to two cast iron skillets I inherited from family a few years ago. One was caked on the outside with layers of gunk. This worked a charm. Thank you.
This is exactly the video I needed to save a cast iron skillet I inherited after the passing of my mom. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with the world.
Nice restoration and I like the Griswold. Michelle loves her cast iron and we stopped at the Lodge factory in Tennessee last month. A kid in a candy store wouldn't have been any happier. Anyway those turned out looking really good.
Thanks. I took advantage of the wife being out of town to get this project done. I'd love to see the Lodge store.
TheGoatMumbler We were weighted down a little on the way home. Lol. They have a seconds section with stuff with blemishes so small it's almost unnoticeable. Of course we took advantage of it 😁
You guys are so amusing and entertaining.
I was in that store about 3 years ago.I only got a green metal trivet,a jar of whiskey pickles and 1 6 inch CI skillet.I think they are building a new store or visitors center.
Hattie M. Hattie the sad part is, I've found Lodge cast iron in stores priced the same as the seconds we bought at the factory. Oh well, we still love it. 😆
i worked in a wood fired kitchen for 2.5 years as a chef and whenni first started the cast iron pans we had were never that clean and the dishwashers would use steel scrubbies on them right away and leave them wet. whatever didntbget dried and oiled would be rusted by the morning. after a few big snow storms were we were closed for 3 days strait all the cast iron pans were so rusty it was incredible. some still had water in them.
put them in our pizza oven that was at about 600 degrees left them in for about a hour had them rescrubbed down and then they went back in.
seasoned them with vegtable oil. let cook for 30 minutes. wiped out and reseansoned 3-4 times. the pans were the deepest shade of black the night. when the owner came in and brought one out to the table he asked if we got new cast iron pans cause they were all so clean. said no i cleaned and reasoned.
few weeks later same thing happened and some had water left in and somebody scrubbed down. and head chef didnt know you can reclean and said throw them out. i said “ ive got a big scrap metal pile, can i put them in the pile at my house” i dont care i dont want to see them. so ive got 6 “brand new” #3 size cast iron pans added to the collection.
Lucky Lucky you !! Great story! his ignorance is your gain.
Your chef was not a smart man
My mom just gave me my papal's cast iron skillet that he cooked cornbread in. It has a very thick coat of who knows what all over it. It had been used a lot! It now looks brand new! Thank you for this video. I can now use my papal's skillet.
Thank you for this guide. I used your process on a cast iron BBQ grate and it worked beautifully!
Thanks, that was great, very informative. I feel the need to buy a skillet coming on 😂 Atb, rich.
Same here. I've lost all of mine except for two. Even after years of cooking in restaurants with aluminum, and other materials, nothing really comes close to cast iron. I just wish it was lighter in weight. I have osteonecrosis and am not supposed to lift, push or pull over 3lbs, but how do you avoid that when cooking? Ya don't! So why not cook with the best cookware ever invented?? Viva la cast iron! lol
"Pour a glass of wine while you're waiting... how 'bout that?" Subscribed.
I thought of doing this several months ago, with some old cast skillets. It worked beautifully!
Great vid! I used this process on some of the more gnarly cast iron pans at work and it worked great!
Well, THIS WORKED SO WELL! Thanks so much! Found some nasty looking pans at an estate sale. They look like new, now.. Amazing. thanks again! I learned that is essential to turn on the exhaust fan....
True story. I just saw a very grimy pan in a thrift store the other day and passed on it because I couldn't see a Maker's Mark. Stumbled onto this video and saw the Griswold logo scrapped out from under the gunk. Went right back to the store to see if the pan was still there. It was so I bought it this time. After lighting it up in the oven, turned out to also be a Griswold!
Great find! This is why you should also learn to recognize handle shapes, etc as well as logos.
K. Praslowicz
You liar.
Thanks for sharing this video Bud! I have 3 cast iron skillets that really need restoration bad!!! Now I know exactly how to restore them😉
Had to thumbs up just from the hard work and time you put in those skillets.
When I lived with my grandparents in their log cabin, there was no such thing as Cisco. Bacon fat aka laird was the thing to use. I can still cook an easy over egg with less than a thimble of butter. Never sticks. Keep one pan for ham cooking. After you cook ham in iron everything will stick to the pan.
Ham has sugar in the cure. Some bacon have a high sugar content too, and will leave a sticky goo in your pan. Just toss in a 1/4 cup of hot water after your done cooking while the pan is still hot, and it'll wipe right out with a paper towel. Then a wipedown with a tablespoon of your favorite oil as it cools. that will prevent it from being sticky.
My 94-year-old grandma sat down with me as I was on UA-cam. This video came up and she and I watched it and I had her critique you. She thinks 1st that that pretty stove deserves something that won't "tear it up". She says that for more than 50 years she took her cast iron out once a year and put all of it in a big bonfire with enough wood to get it "damn hot" and keep it like that for "a big part of the day". Apparently, if you are using cow pies you try to get it finished as quickly as possible. When the fire is cold you tap the pans together a little, wash them clean (I ask, horse trough? She just laughs, but that isn't a no either). Then reseason them. She swears that bacon fat and duck fat work better than anything else. "It ain't wagon building", she says.
Great story! Most of use don't have access to a fire pit though and any source of high heat for a decent amount of time will work. i.e Outdoor grill, etc. The old timers like the bacon fat, but unless you're cooking in the skillet every day that stuff can get rancid and possibly give you food poisoning. My wife's Danish grandmother spread bacon fat on bread and ate it like a sandwich. She lived to be almost 100. :)
Grandma say's that once you clean the pan, anything from wiping it out, to scrubbing it with sand...you reheat it and wipe a thin layer of bacon fat on it and put it back on the "fire" to "season in". Once it has been reheated and wiped down they won't "turn bad" or go rancid.
Brian Bassett Thank you for sharing your grandma's first hand experience with cast iron , AND I will always treasure the remark "It ain't wagon building." ;- )
This process worked PERFECTLY!!!! It is brilliant!!! Thanks so much for saving 2 of my treasured cast iron pans!!
Love this video so much, most cast iron cleanup video are all talking about rusty ones, finally I find one for my greasy pan
Like your video but I have to add that after using numerous oils while seasoning my cast iron collection (I have a pretty decent collection of Griswold, Wagner, one BSR and a couple older 1950's era Lodge) and the best oil I've found for seasoning is Avocado oil. It's almost $18 for a quart but it's a high heat oil and works incredible. Just my 2c but we should all stick with works for us. Great video.
Agreed. I've heard about all types of oils, but this is the first I've heard about Avocado oil. I'll have to research that. Thanks.
I really like flaxseed oil. It has a super high temperature, so the polymerized layer is rock hard.
I find that the rust comes back after a few uses.
Great vid, salud.
That shouldn't happen if you're seasoning and drying correctly. I usually season 2-3 times after stripping then I put on a light coat of Crisco and wipe it all off and put it away until I use it. After each use I wash, towel dry and set on the burner on medium to dry all the excess moisture out of the pores. If you aren't drying it on the burner that is probably where your rust is coming from. When it cools down but still warm I put on a coat of Crisco and let it soak in for a few minutes. Wipe it down really good and then put it away. Hope that helps.
Thanks for the tip
wash dry oil after each use
Alex Smith you need to heat dry after every cleaning and put a sheen of lard before storing. It has to be done with each use.
Alex Smith also...never cook with tomatoes in your skillets, the acids will break down the seasoning.
Thanks for the video. I did this with 3 skillets that have had rough lives and they look good as new.
Excellent. Thank you. I am going to season my grandmother's large skillet this weekend.
Excellent! I don't know why I watch this when I don't even have cast iron cookware... And as far as I know - you're doing a great job, so I don't understand the 162 dislikes...
3:41 ...and, before anyone tries this, the cleaning cycle for the oven will damage the cooking racks (they should be taken out before running the cleaning cycle--check your oven manual). I hesitate to say it will ruin them, but it will take off the shiny chrome exterior and you'll be left with a rough surface on the racks (I've accidentally left them in before). So, if you have some old oven racks (maybe from an old oven) use those; otherwise if you use this method, just be aware of the possible damage that could be done.
That's exactly why I came to the comments. My owners manual says to always remove the racks. My ovens do not have a bottom element, wonder if the pans could be laid directly on the bottom?
I have 2 small pans that are very old and have build up on the outside, inside is fine.
Egads! I've never removed the racks in 20 years. They are all perfect.
@@donnamwallace On the oven clean cycle? I mean, if you say so, I guess my oven racks sucked then, but they were definitely tarnished (not ruined in terms of use) after the first, and only, time I left them in during the oven clean cycle.,
I have used cast iron all my life never seen one with chrome rims,it's cast iron all over, what rims r u speaking of
@@penniecurrie2424 I'm talking about the oven racks--not the cast iron skillet. The skillet can survive the cleaning cycle--the oven racks generally "cannot" (it's not like they get ruined--just lose the smooth chrome finish and will then become more susceptible to rusting).
They're GORGEOUS!!!!! They look brand new!!! OMG - great work on those; next time I'm at the thrift store I'm going to buy myself some cast iron - and thanks for the tips and advice on how to restore them! AMAZING!
You're welcome Hannah.
Just subscribed...completely enjoyed all the secrets you shared in reconditioning cast iron. You are very funny. But the beautiful pans you ended up with....just gorgeous. I need to recondition my great grandma's pan and lid. I know what to do and I'm not scared now. Thank you so much for an excellent presentation.
Running the cleaning cycle with the oven racks can warp and discolor them. Discoloring is unsightly but not a major issue. Warping will make the racks slide rough, though.
Putting cast iron into a hot campfire is our go-to method to strip them.
I love your accent... I just bought a cast iron frying pan it was hard to clean...
This is exactly what I needed! I remember my dad using our fireplace to take the skillets back to zero.
thats what my grandfather used to do
Oh my gosh, this worked. It looks wonderful and the eggs I have made the last three days have slid out and my pan has cleaned up with a quick swipe of a towel to clean! I would still be scrubbing with the other methods. Thank you!!!!
I haven't even started your video but when I saw the name of your channel I just laughed out loud real hard!! Goat mumbler haha!!!! I just love it! !!
Lol! The channel name is exactly why I watched the video!
Well, the goats don't pay much attention to me anyway so Goat Whisperer really doesn't apply. Thanks for watching.
TheGoatMumbler Ha Ha! Oh well, thanks for the info!
M Gm - Same here.
TheGoatMumbler, how do i do this with a cheap gas stove with no self cleaning mode
Notice how all folks who know how to season cast iron have southern accents.
I've never been so offended by something I completely agree with
Jay Vee I’m from Alabama and I approve of this comment
Once I heard his opening lines in the video I was sure he knew what was up
So true!
Just being facetious, but I too have a southern accent but it comes from growing up in Southern California - of course all my cast iron came from the mid-west or Utah.
Chef Life thank you so much for sharing your life, your such a good example of America and our heritage of cooking, getting together with everyone and teaching us tradition and true story of eating. God bless farmer and chef and people our customers. Of course Ben and Vivian and Crew.
Great video . I usually buy new. Now I want go thrift shopping. You got me motivated to restore some cast iron skillets
Half the fun is the hunt Marcus!
QUESTION : I've always taken the chrome racks out of my oven before using the self cleaning. In leaving them in, does the super high heat discolored the oven racks? I would love to use the method to clean my cast iron skillets, but I don't want to ruin the smooth chrome on my oven racks. .
I'm in the same boat. My oven self cleans with water, so the racks has to come out.
@@tandrahill302 same! Manufacturer instructions say to remove racks before cleaning.. :/
I went through this phase in my late twenties. I'm in remission and almost 52.
Great video! I've got a stack of old cast iron pans that were pulled from a scrap metal bin at the recycling center; they are so crusty, dusty, rusty, etc. but I know they've got lots of life left in them under all that gunk! I just put a couple of them on our grill for about an hour and already see a big difference!
I have a large deep cast iron skillet that was my parents. New around 1930 or so. It has bad heavy buildup on the sides and bottom. ( lot of deep frying w/ this pan ) The inside is very smooth and clean. I will try this reseasoning technique but in an oak fire w/ coals outside where I can get it really hot -burning the crud to ashes and then clean it up and do the seasoning in the kitchen with the cloth and veg shortening. I think it will work well. This specific video gives me the method, Thank you !
There are a couple of other ways to completely remove all the old burnt on grease. It can be done indoors IF you have a fireplace. When I was a kid my dad built up a good sized hardwood fire and set the cast iron pans (only one per fire) on top. As the fire continued and was working it's way down to coals he used the fire poker, tongs, and shovel to bury the pans in the hot coals. The pans turned a dull red hot color and when the fire died and all cooled down, dem pans wuz CLEAN. There was never even the slightest remains of the cooked on layers that would need or require a cup brush on a drill motor. Also any bad smells and odors just went right up the chimney. All the houses we had when I was a kid had old style brick hearth fireplaces which aren't nearly as common in these modern times. But if you got it... Use it!
As a retired machinist and welder I know you can also use an oxy-acytelene or other gas-ox torch preferably with a "rosebud" torch tip (a rosebud torch tip has anywhere from 4 to 8 flame orifices on the business end of the torch tip) . My guess is you could turn a 12-inch cast iron fry-pan to a dull red color in about 5 to 10 minutes. It might take 20 to 30 minutes to burn off very heavy incrustations. Just be careful to not exceed dull red and heat the pan evenly to prevent warpage. If you know anything about gas-ox torches if you adjust to an oxidizing flame that will speed up burning off the carbonized crusts.
John Robinson That's the way my grandpa taught me to clean cast iron as well. I build a big hardwood fire outside, and then do the same thing. Put pan on top, and as it sinks through the burning wood, bury it in the coals.
Rusty Shakelford
Same way my mother taught me to clean my pans with a fire outside. Her pans were always so clean.
I bought one at a garage sale after she was very sick, but as I told her about it she was so interested, telling me how to clean it and I could tell she so wanted to clean my garage sale pan herself.
Oh the things the older generation taught those of us who would listen. Wish I had asked more questions and learned more.
Rusty Shakelford
Don't ever give up teaching and training them every day as they really will absorb so much of what you say and do.
Just as you and I remember, one day it will be your own kids and grandkids remembering things you told them and taught them.
God bless you for being a good father.
GTO Thank you sir, I try. Bless you as well brother.
This is how my mom's grandpa used to do it. Mom has those pans still and I know one day I'll have those pans, which will be well over a 100 years old by then. Mom's 76 now and she tells me about all the simple and amazing ways to clean and do things yourself. I now make my own soaps, shampoos, laundry and dishwasher detergents and cook most of my own food from scratch. Healthier, cheaper, environmentally friendlier and it makes my soul feel good knowing my family is living better because of the little extra effort I put in.
I have 4 skillets (one is a flat 8" round pan) that needs some love. I got them all from garage sales or 'antique' roadside stands. I even have the little round one he cleaned. I can't build a fire in my yard (city ordinance) but I have the cleaning cycle on my oven. So after watching this, I have them cleaning as I type this....and yes I have a glass of wine too. :) My pans work great but need a little love so they can be their best. Thank you for the video and I'm looking forward to seeing the results.
Honestly, the best method that I have found is the bonfire method. Get your bonfire good and hot and drop in the cast iron. Let it set in there for an hour or so. Even if you've melted your son's favorite tennis shoes in the skillet it will come clean of ALL impurities attached. Pull it out of the fire, let it cool (it will rust), then hot soapy water and a scotchbrite pad. Then hit it with the vegetable shortening and stick it in the oven for regular seasoning. This method works no matter how badly the cast iron is gummed up.
Any good fire works....charcoal BBQ, home fireplace, campfire. I like to keep an eye on the pan so it only gets to be a dull red color of hot. It doesn't need to be cherry red hot. Too much heat is not good for the iron. Besides which it takes less time. Finally let it cool down slowly. DON'T douse it in or with water. That can cause it to crack. Wash and re-season and you have a "new" pan. This will only remove built up cooking crud. It will not correct any pitting, cracks or the like which might be revealed after all the crud is off. BTW if you are not aware, cast iron in general is brittle (relatively) So don't drop your iron or bang it hard against rocks or such. It will crack. If you doubt this, take a cast iron skillet you don't want. Set it upside down on a table. Then smack the middle of the bottom with a hammer. You will have pieces.
Cast iron WILL break! My aunt once threw one at her (now ex) husband's head. (Yes, I come from one of THOSE families. But I've never thrown anything at my husband's head and don't recommend it!) Anyway, the handle broke off the skillet when it hit the wall. Be nice to your cast iron and it will last for many decades, at least.
When remodeling, we use a sledgehammer to remove cast iron bathtubs.
@mrcynthiag mrcynthiag going to try this, I dont have 4 weeks to muck about with unfortunately. Xmas is a tad closer than that.
I think I've watched this video before...but hell yeah!!! BSR...just restored my dad's (he's old and dead) old BSR skillet. It was never out of use but it did need some lovin'. Looks brand new now!!!
Thank you! My Pop had some beautiful old cast iron pans, but there is a lot of gunk on the sides. I popped them in the oven on clean cycle a couple of minutes ago, and am really looking forward to laying a good new season on them!
What grit steel wool do you use? Cool video, I’ve tried a few different ways with no so good results. Your way seems to be the way to go. I’ll keep you posted
00 or 000 works fine. Thanks for watching.
Grab yourself a 5 gallon paint bucket with a lid and fill it 3/4 full of distilled white vinegar. For rusted pans, just drop them in for a couple hours, then pull out and rinse and immediately toss oil on them. Doesn't matter what kind. This is to stop it from rusting. Now you can wipe any old rust off with a paper towel. Wash, dry and start your seasoning process with no elbow grease.
You won't need it due to the vinegar wiping the entire top layer off the metal. It eats the rust off so you don't need to scorch it.
TacDyne I've never heard of this, but sounds ingenious! I'll try it next time I hit a jackpot of rusted near freebies! Course everyone is on the cast iron train now, so prices went up.
I have a brand new cast iron but I wanted to strip the seasoning they put on at the factory to redo it myself. Would the vinegar strip the seasonings on a brand new pan as well as rusted pans? I hope so, much easier than in the self cleaning oven since I only have one pan to do. Trying to save some electricity if I can.
your hands look like mine. my grandma (1881-1973) approves the crisco.
We don`t get this in the UK! what is it?
mrsillywalk solid shortening
Is it animal fat?
mrsillywalk look for flora white in Asda 👍
Worked your magic on three of our old Wagner cast iron pans. W!e are amazed !! But you forgot to tell us about the smoke ! We have more cat iron pans in retirement that are going to back to work. THANKS SO MUCH!
Thanks for sharing, my mom has at least 10 cast iron skillets that were a yardsale purchase..cheap
But have build up, just like the ones in video. I will be helping her clean and season them.
I like the oven method that worked well. I ordered a skillet from Walmart a few years ago and was very disappointed when I received it. The surface had raised bumps all over and that is how they make them now not smooth like the old days. But you can't fry an egg on them. So I took out my dremel and sanding dics whatever their called their rolled. Anyway I dremeled the surface smooth and I have been happy with it ever since.
That's just ducky I cook eggs no problem on my rough Lodge. a little dab of butter or bacon grease and they don't stick.
Johnny B No they don't, you have to smooth them down.
You can fry eggs on that rough surface once you have added a few layers of your own seasoning. Add a small amount of oil or butter once it has heated up (enough to cover the cooking surface). Then add your egg before the oil or butter reaches the smoke point (it starts to get wavy shortly before it reaches the smoke point).
you got me. I was obviously lying about cooking eggs to impress people on a UA-cam comment section.
Johnny B glad you admitted it!
The best oil ever is LARD
My wife's grandmother lived into her late 90's and kept a can of bacon grease in the cabinet. She spread it on bread like mayonnaise. Nuff said.
Unless your kosher
@@semperfi-1918 Gitcha some Jesus and a side of sausage gravy.
@@NikovK I already have jesus, aka yeshua and I love doing torah as the feasts help me understand in deeper depth of yeshua. But besides that.... I love my virgin olive oil.
@@semperfi-1918 love the reply. I keep the feasts as well and the 7th day Sabbath, peace brother.
Tyfs how to treat our Cast Iron Pans great job I need to do all mine now my Dad use to do my Mom's u just brought back great memories when I was a little girl I would watch my Dad for hrs doing our Set ty...
fantastic - thanks for the info - wont be long before i clean mine. good job.
It takes a lot of strength to not go off on my family after they clean my cast iron with soap and leave it wet.
Cool video, but you can always use soap on cast iron. When you season I️t, the oil becomes polymerized(glass-like plastic). Soap does remove and oil/grease that hasn’t been polymerized so it won’t go rancid. Happy cooking!
GlorytoGod p
You are absolutely correct. Once the oil or grease is polymerized soap will not take it off, it becomes much like plastic. This no soap is an old wives tale that the uneducated still believe. I and all resturants use soap on their cast iron pans with no adverse affect on the seasoning of the pans. What harms the pan most is very high heat which will burn off the coating and wash off with soap, this misuse is the reason for the seasoning removal not the soap.
My 89 year old mother-in-law gave me an iron skillet yesterday. It was rusted and had gunk hardened on the sides. I watched your video and tried your method. It worked like a dream! Wish I could post a before and after picture that I have. Don’t see that option. Anyhoo....thanks for a wonderful, understandable video!
Love the goat on your apron!!! They came out so good!!
But if you don't have a self cleaning oven how do u do it
You can put them literally in a fire. Kent Rollins has a series about it that addresses that if you want to watch it, but the process is the same.
I put my mother’s eight inch Griswold in my chimena and burned the at least six decades of gunk off. Looking around utube I think it was made somewhere around 1905-1912, still cooking!
Very cool.
Lost On Land Again I've seen your comments on van dwelling brandons channel. Small world
That's so great Jon!
Thank you so much. I didn't know how to get the build up off my my pans from through the years and how to property season them. Now they look brand new. love them. Caused a lot of smoke in the the house though, i had to open 2 doors and turn on a fan. It was worth it
You're welcome.
Thank you. Before this video I never thought of using the Oven’s cleaning cycle to get the crud off. I was about to use a wire wheel on my drill to try to do the deed but understand that can burnish the surface, covering up the pores which can then require etching to correct. This is a much better method. The skillet is in the oven now.
For the last stage, set your temperature to as high as possible, 550 usually. Ensures the seasoning gets baked in good.
...anonymous coward...damn. That's strong. Lov it.
Just a warning for anyone doing this method with pet birds in the house.. Please remove your birds from the house and put them in a well ventilated area like the garage or front porch, or just avoid doing this self cleaning oven method in general. Please be aware that the fumes released from any nonstick cookware and the lining of your stove will kill your birds. Feel free to fact check that, but it's unfortunately very true.
Be careful out there.
Nice pan's, man. 👏 Gunna try this.
Commodity .
Fumes from cleaning cast iron “nonstick” cookware will not kills birds. Don’t know where you got that, but cast iron is not like the synthetic non-stick surfaces out there which have dangerous chemicals in them. The main thing that is given off by a cast iron pan being fire-cleaned (being brought to red hot by self cleaning oven function) is good old simple carbon dioxide. It’s the same thing you give off when you breathe.
Zachary Riley she is referring to the fumes given off when using the self-cleaning cycle on an oven, not the pans themselves.
Cara C yes I know. She is confusing the deadly dangerous fumes that come off of Teflon when it gets too hot with burning off seasoning off of cast iron.
The fumes given off of cast iron heated to 950° will not kill any birds, whereas Teflon heated to 500° will drop them dead in a matter of minutes.
Best method I found and used. My pans look brand new. Did not use the oven liner as it was not recommended by my user manual.
Finally! Someone else who uses a self cleaning oven to clean crusty old cast iron.
This is the most “dad” thing I’ve seen today
Finally I can know how it feels to have a dad
I like coconut oil its never sticky it smells wonderful and when it heats up its like liquid so it gets into the pan very easy and when your done greaseing it up rub the extra oil onto your hands arms feet.. lol the wonders of coconut oil it rivals ducktape
Rawr_Kitten : For a moment there I was trying to imagine how you use duct tape to season cast iron!
Rawr_Kitten: I'm embarrassed to admit it but that's exactly the image my brain offered up!
B30pt87 lol yeah for some reason its the best mental image... heh
I have. Several cast iron skillets that are properly seasoned. I was given a chain mail stainless steel (pad) for cleaning after cooking with just hot water. It does not ruin finish when cleaning, after drying coat with a little veg oil and wipe excess with paper towel. Steel wool of any grade would ruin seasoned finish.
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Thank you so much for sharing your method. I was given two cast iron pans that belonged to my great-grand mother, and I want to strip them down and re-season. Also have a newer Lodge that I might redo as well.
Thank you! This was so awesome on my grandmother's 10..8 and two 3 inch pans look like new. They looked worse than yours. I did have to self clean twice. I wasn't willing to try the other methods. Loved the wine breaks the most lol. Cheers
Well this is disappointing, as my oven isn't self-cleaning.
@Aguarius Lady
You can just turn the oven up to the highest temp
Dime it and put it in.
There are plenty of other methods to get rid of old seasoning or rust. Preferred methods are:
1. Electrolysis
2. Soaking the skillet in 1:1 white vinegar + water (don't soak longer than necessary, the acid will remove iron over time)
3. Soaking the skillet in a lye bath
4. Barkeeper's Friend / Easy Off / any other decent oven cleaner
5. Baking soda
6. Mild abbrasives (wire brush, steel wool, sand paper, quick strip discs). Be aware, those methods will remove material. Don't use them on precious vintage cast iron.
HrWisch I have one that is flat on one side, ridged on the other, and sits across two eyes on the stove. The flat side was used mostly for pancakes, and had built up layers of non stick cooking spray. So far, chiseling with an army knife seems to work best, but that’s very labor intensive! Any ideas??
Wow!
And I thought that religion and politics were the two biggest causes of arguments!
LOL
It was FAF.
I love cooking in cast iron. They are all we use. I burn mine off in a hardwood fire. I used the self clean oven method once. Got a f1 code afterward. I had fried my board. 300 bucks later made for a couple expensive Wagner skillets.
Wow, I brought three skillets home today and they need work. I did the easy off thing spraying and put in plastic bag, took a week. The end result was very satisfactory. I like your process except my oven doesn’t have self cleaning. Thanks for the knowledge.
Man I hate electric stoves, but nice vid
Yes. I 'd kill for a gas line out here!
Is it safe on glass top stove
Do what I did, 60 lb propane tank.
Yes, you can use cast iron on a glass stovetop. Remember, don't turn the heat all the way up all at once. Be gentle when you set it on the stove top. Finally, don't slide your cast iron on a glass stovetop.
Be sure to use your wife’s good towel.
A white one.
Thanks very much for sharing your great videos.
I like your channel because it's full of fun,
entertainments, and a great content, regards!
Awesome video i used your bbq method to restore a couple of my cast iron skillets worked great, much appreciated
Yo!! Yo Yo Yo!!! Easy on the "Donald Trump" wise crack there good buddy!!! Ok... I just had to interject with that one and now I will continue the video......
$3 for the pan $60 for hydro to clean it.
I just toss mine in the wood stove or fire pit when I have them going.
Always a critic like you out there.Obviously you have no appreciation for restoring something horrid to fine cookware ! If you're paying $60 to run your oven few hours you must be living in a $%#^hole !
also that would be divided among the six or so pans hes doing.
Jamez0117 Hydro ? Canada eh.
Just do it when your stove needs to be cleaned anyway and you aren't adding any value to the cleaning process. Not a big deal at all....
I have used them for 20 years both at home and at work (chef) use a bit of cheap spray oil to protect them from oxidation (rust) spray the enire surface of the pot/skillet and do not drip dry..I use mine over winter..My personal favourite is to lite a fire and heat them through for a few hrs and then rinse n spray then I am good to go! Great vid mate
This is why I love cast iron. Better for you than any other pan, and almost impossible to destroy.