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you see me use cast irons on the show a
lot and one of the questions I get asked
the most is how do you keep it so clean
how do you deal with the cast iron and
when you're done using it so today
hopefully in less than three minutes
we're gonna cover that welcome to a new
format of the show right now let's call
it 3-minute Thursday's so suppose that
you just cook the steak
got your cast iron out used it got a
beautiful crust cooked the steak
perfectly took the steak off the cast
iron now what the key to cleaning a cast
iron is dealing with it right away what
it's still hot it's gonna be fat in the
pan what you're gonna want to do is
immediately remove that from the pan
don't push the cast iron to the back of
the stove and let all that fat kind of
coagulate into the pan it's gonna make
it super hard to clean so it's hot
remove the oil as soon as you get the
fat out of it you want to wipe it down
with a paper towel and then what you're
left with is a pan that essentially just
has all these crusty bits that are just
sort of caked on to the bottom of the
pan if something is really caked on
there say you cook eggs or something
what I would also do is pour some hot
water into this pan not cold water cold
water and hot iron don't really go well
together so boil it and then with a flat
spatula or something while it's boiling
scrape it off pretty much every time I
use a cast iron pan this is how I clean
it from this stage you would use a dirty
towel something that you're gonna kind
of not care about getting disgusting or
you can use one of these which is called
like a chainmail scrubber it's rounded
metal so it's not gonna screw up the
cast iron that's got this little sort of
structure in it like a sponge we're
gonna use this today but you don't need
it you could use just a regular old
towel the abrasion we're gonna use for
this is salt coarse kosher salt
coach salt coarse kosher salt that's
gonna act as the abrasion with a little
bit of water we're gonna do the same
thing with this just to make sure we get
it nice and clean this is a great tool
to have again you don't need it just
want to rinse out the cast iron of any
of that gunk and it's still a little wet
take some kosher salt
a little bit water just sort of get it
like a slush and then with your scrubby
pad or your towel
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ladies and clean
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turn the heat on just to dry the pan as
much as possible get any excess moisture
off of it it's going to heat the pan up
in neutral oil canola oil not an olive
oil or anything like that olive oils can
go rancid you don't have a high smoke
point so use like a canola oil or
something like that
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and there you have it clean cast-iron
pin remember cast-iron and water don't
mix why we heat it up get all the
moisture out of it make sure that you
just wipe it real clean super simple as
long as you just do it real quick and
right away that's three minutes Thursday
for you I hope you found that helpful
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