what's good everybody and welcome back
to my channel smoking and grilling with
me
av i'm smiling because listen i'm
finally getting ready to answer all of
the emails and all of the comments on
how i keep up with my uh my cast iron
skillets right
super easy i want you guys to take a
look at this right here look
this is actually my favorite one i just
like let it be any old kind of way have
cleaned it
you can see right here we got a little
food on it you know i mean uh look you
see the rush right here i'm gonna show
you guys just how to bring this back
and then my small one right here you do
these are just going to be my examples
you know what i mean
and then this one right here needs to be
re-seasoned you know over
but i'm going to show you guys how to
just like break them down go ahead and
you know
bring them to the original listen to
this nobody thinks about this but the
cast iron skillet is the original
non-stick pan
hey super easy we're not gonna over talk
it i'm finna get prepped
and get everything going and we're gonna
make this happen okay so look we jumping
right into it i just want to show you
this right here look got like a wire
scouring pad right we got this and look
i got this right here they call this a
cast iron
you know skillet cleaner but it's like a
little chain maul
you know but look i want you guys to
take a look at this right here
look at this discoloration and all that
and you don't know this but this right
here
it's kind of like sticky that's from
putting oil in here and then just
putting it up
but i'm gonna use the scouring pad and
this chain mall right here
and we're gonna scrub this all you're
gonna need is let me go ahead and get
started
you're gonna need a little water
and then we're going to use some mild
you know dishwashing detergent right
so look we're going to go like this i'm
just going to put a little water in here
like this
right i want you guys to pay attention i
just put a couple of drops in there
and that's it now i'm gonna go ahead and
get my skyrim pad
and we're just gonna work this around
like this look
that you know the uh the dishwasher
detergent is gonna break everything down
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you guys getting the message right now
you're getting the just of it this is it
we want to strip this all the way down
because we're going to start at zero
and then i want to say this too never
ever once we finish this process
never ever hey look at me when i tell
you this
never ever and i mean ever once you have
everything seasoned
seasoned do not use soap on this when
you finish cooking with it
look get yourself some hot water and get
yourself a cough and just go ahead and
wipe off everything on there
and then you want to dry it i gotta say
that and i'm probably gonna say it
ten more times in this video do not use
soap on a cast iron skillet
once this season
okay so look i've cleaned the other two
this is the third one
we're at the end now right this right
here hey listen this is gonna be
gratifying to you guys
look just lay it down and this is the
one that had like a little food that was
down there that was burnt on the bottom
look i just lay it down flat take my
hands just like this
and just work that area and then i work
it all the way around
and what i like about it look you can
get right here in the corner in the
scene
you can go like this and it just it
hey it's perfect make sure you get the
sides all of that
now i'm just gonna rinse this out and
make sure it's completely
you know clean of all of the uh the
soapy water
anything that was left in there and then
look at this right here
that's nice and clean now you want to go
ahead and get yourself a you know a dry
towel and you want to keep
running this across here because you
want it to be free of all water
right we don't want it to rust but i got
a little trick right here to help you
guys with this part right here also
let's move over to the stove okay so
as i'm ensuring that this is dry don't
forget to dry the under
under carriage too right
we'll do like that
and just in case we have dry and
sometimes when you wipe it you'll see a
streak
look no worries we turn on the fire i
turned it on high
i let it go ahead and like cook put some
heat in there so the rest of it just
evaporate
okay so look now that i'm getting ready
to take the you know the skillet off of
here now be a great time for us to
preheat our oven
so i'm gonna preheat my oven to 500
degrees everybody doesn't go to 500
it'll probably go to some people got
those that go to 400 you can do excuse
me 450 that'll work too
but for me i'm going to 500 and we're
gonna preheat
okay so this is done it's a little warm
right i got a pot holder
holding the handle this right here this
is called a trivet you guys want to get
one of these because listen you don't
want to put nothing hot on your
i do all the time you know i mean good
practices to have some of these
you know one or two you can put it on
your counter that way you're not putting
this
on your granite or corian or whatever
you guys are using but for me i'm gonna
start with it right there
okay so look everything is ready this is
still kind of like cooling so what i did
was
i did this is my barbecue setup right i
got some cut resistant gloves right here
and i got you know my regular black
gloves over the top this allows me to be
able to
you know touch this without burning
myself it shouldn't be this hot and for
you guys that don't have this kind of
setup
just go ahead and let it cool at least
cool enough so that you can do it
now let's talk about the oils look this
is extra virgin olive oil
actually this is from branson vine you
know what i mean this is my scallion
but listen you guys probably have this
you can use
look this is crisco everybody might have
this and then for those of you guys that
are
around my age let's talk about when we
was growing up our grandparents had a
can that was on the uh stove that stayed
there permanently
hey anyway this is old school right here
now the reason
i'm i'm showing you the oils right
listen i didn't really tell you
you know what to use because i'm gonna
be honest with you listen i just
seasoned mine with whatever i had in my
you know my cabinet
right now everybody's saying cause i
looked up some videos to see you know
what's hot anybody doing anything
differently than what i was talking
and uh only thing i can tell you right
now is uh everybody's saying using that
flaxseed is probably the best
you know what but i'm going to be honest
with you listen i've used whatever i
have
whether it was vegetable oil canola
whatever i have available that's what i
use
but right now you saw i got extra virgin
olive oil you know what i mean it just
happened to be a flavored olive oil
and then i got this crisco right here
which that's what i'm gonna be using now
you want to go ahead and get yourself a
paper towel right because i'm gonna be
using you do it however you want to do
it
i'm not trying to over complicate it
i've seen some videos out there just
talking about all kind of stuff right so
we're gonna do it like this
this is what i'm gonna do i'm gonna take
it get a little bit of this
right it doesn't take much
and remember this is already warm right
so we're just gonna go ahead
and just hit it like this before i even
do anything there
i'm gonna turn it over like this we're
gonna do the same thing i'm gonna go
ahead and give me a fresh piece
just something like this
some of you guys might think it's not
necessary to do the back but i do it all
for one we don't want nothing to uh to
rush right
you want to get yourself another paper
towel right
and again look not trying to over talk
it and tell you guys how to do it you do
what's best for you
for me i just fold it down like this
everything that i put on there i got my
in my mind my mindset is to get it all
off
we just want to take everything that we
put on here off we want to wipe it
get it completely free of what we just
put on there
right same thing in here just take it
all off
wipe it all you don't want to see
nothing pooled in the side nothing like
that right
you see all of that that's okay that's
what you want to see we want to get it
all off you think you're taking it off
but you're not
this is so porous right it's got oh i'm
gonna give you an example like this
this is how i would look under a
microscope this is what we feel with our
hand but listen you got all of these
little crevices
inside of the cast iron what we're doing
is just imagine us pouring something
here and it's starting to build up
once we got it build up over the top
it's going to be like glass right
and that's why we're going to come up
with the original non-stick pan
okay check this out i don't know if you
guys can see that from back there but
look this is at 500 degrees
everything is preheated and it's ready
to go right so
you can see that i got all of these done
now i'm doing three at a time
so this one will look a little different
from that one
and this is the one that i've done last
remember we put the shortening on
and what i did was i tried to wipe it
all out
everywhere we applied it and you just
want to wipe it out
you think you're wiping it out but
you're not now what we're going to do is
we're going to put this in the oven
now notice i just flipped this over i
don't want to get ahead of myself
turn this upside down like this put it
in the oven
like i said i'm doing three but when we
put it in the oven we're gonna put it in
there for one hour
then after one hour we're gonna shut off
the oven and we're gonna let it just
rest in there
for about 30 minutes hey super easy you
guys
and you know what i'm gonna say this
part too if you clean this and got
everything out of here putting it upside
down
ain't gonna do nothing because you're
not gonna have nothing pool but the
purpose of that is
in case anything runs down or whatever
you don't want it to be all getting
lumpy and clumpy and liquidy all on the
side but for the sake of argument we're
gonna put them in upside down
remember one hour 500 degrees and for
those that got for those of you guys at
your oven don't get to 500
450 works too okay so listen
i already was in there for an hour all i
did was turn off my oven right
and we just let it naturally start
cooling down right so it's been 30
minutes
now i'm going to take them out and i'll
bring it over here so you guys can see
look at the color and you can see it's
starting to get a little bit on the
smooth side
but look now we're on our way to
seasoning and then if you rub your hand
right here
you can just feel that it's got like a
little layer on here but we're gonna
leave it alone what i'm gonna do is i'm
gonna get my shortening
and then we're gonna repeat that process
we're gonna put as much on here as we
can
and then we're gonna take off as much as
we can so
let's get something like this just like
this
just got a little heat in it already as
soon as you do it look how liquidy it is
so i'm gonna go ahead and hold that even
though i got a set of cut resistant
gloves here and i got these on top
it's still a little warm but we're just
going to take it like that hey there
this is how you can see it's still hot
look at that right there
you see it melting right there in front
of your eyes just makes it easier when
it's warm
for you to just apply so we're going
gonna put it on just like this
once we got it done again look i'm not
gonna bore you guys and keep talking
about it and telling you
you got the adjust of it we just want to
get it coated then we want to take off
as much as we can
then we're gonna go back in for one hour
then we're gonna turn the oven off
and we're gonna go ahead and let it just
cool naturally for 30 minutes
and we're gonna repeat this process i
like to do it four times
it's something i forgot to say look
after you turn off your oven and you let
it rest for that 30 minutes right
when you take your skillet out turn your
oven back on and we want to get back to
500 degrees right
so i've done these already these are
done you can see
front and back what i'm going to do now
is we're going to put them back in the
oven
upside down and we're gonna come back
and i'm gonna show you what they look
like after being done
twice now again i'm not gonna bore you
with the same old wipe on
wipe off or some of us know that's my
area what's that that wax on wax off
right
i'm not gonna bore you i'm gonna show
you three and four what they look like
and then we're gonna wrap this video up
super simple and this is a great project
i'm gonna probably tell you that again
at the end look it's a great project for
like the weekend
you know what i mean uh when you're at
home you can just do this when you think
about it
by the end of the day you'll have
something that you can pass on like a
family heirloom
so take a look at that right there you
see this this is what it looks like
right after you know your second time so
this is number two
and this is number three and number four
look look at that it's a little bit of a
process but look at that right there
ah yeah and this right here my friends
these are the original non-stick pans
okay so you can see that they all done
right here right these
right here already you can put the eggs
on here you can put whatever and now
let's go ahead and talk about like to
clean up
right so when this when you're done with
this right what you got to do is you
just get yourself some water
look it's already be hot and all of that
you can get yourself one of these look
this is just a stainless steel
scotch brite right or you can get one of
these uh chain malls you know great for
cleaning
you know it's cast iron skillets
everything that you see in this video
right here i'll put down in the number
one comment you guys can get them you
know get them from amazon that way they
come right to your door
now even all the way down to these
trivets you know what i mean uh these
are here
great to put this on top but all of this
is already cool now
i'm gonna talk about your oils remember
i'm giving it to you 100
honest i use whatever i have in here to
do it you got to remember
every oil that you use is going to have
some type of uh it's going to have a
number meaning you know for the smoke
point
some smoke it 375 some smoke it 450
stuff like that so listen it's going to
make your house a little bit on the
smoky side but i promise you
you're going to go ahead and make these
then you can make you know eggs inside
it won't stick none of that
and listen this is a family heirloom you
know you're gonna pass it down from
generation to generation
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peace