I really never saw you oil the pan?

Thank u for the demo. Youve also got some great comments from other watchers. My specialty is being a word freak. Its sad being this obsessive but I just have to say something about ur pronunciation of the word excess. Excess starts with an e that is pronounced like the e in the word egg, immediately followed by the letter x....ex-cess. It means when theres an amount left over. Access, pronounced like axe-cess, is an incorrect pronunciation of excess. Also, access means when one is given permission to enter something ... for example, the access road running alongside an interstate, permits drivers to enter the interstate. So you wiped off the excess...not the access.

After I removed all the rust from the Dutch oven I was restoring, I rinsed it with water, dried it with a towel, and then dried it in the oven for 10 minutes. It came out of the oven with more rust than it started with. Why?

Where is Devil’s Den, and why do they call it that? Do you know? It’s pretty!

I’ve watched a number of videos about cleaning and re-seasoning cast iron…I liked yours the best. I used this method to clean my skillet, except I put it into a 500 degree oven for one hour. I put it in the oven upside down: after it was in the oven for one hour, I turned the oven off and left it in a while to cool. I did this twice. Was supposed to do three times, but two worked for me. I liked your method of cleaning with half water, half vinegar, plus baking soda! Thanks for the information!

One of the best restoration vids I've seen. I have three that I rescued. I have a sand blaster but something in my gut said not to do that. Getting the vinegar out right now...thanks Eric!

As heavily rusted as that pan is. I think you would ne better off letting it soak for a few days.

Intro's are boring. Never explain what you are going to do. Just do it and explain as you go.

Always add chemicals to water first.

Flip it over because the real test is when the cornbread slides out without sticking!

Cast iron can warp if you put cold water in a hot pan. Looks like someone probably cooked something and then tried to wash it while it was hot.

It’s warped. It won’t sit flat.

I wish you had flipped that pan of cornbread. You know you’ve got a good seasoning when the cornbread just falls onto the plate. 🍽️

Well done🎉

I just refinished a rusty old Goodwill 8" cast iron skillet with pour spouts on both side of the rim. I used the same plastic tub but dumped in a can of Lye and enough water to cover the pan completely. Stir the lye with a flat stick to dissolve it all, then gently put the pan in the tub. DON'T SPLASH ANY OF THIS ON YOURSELF OR YOUR CLOTHES. Lye is caustic soda and is corrosive. Make this mixture outside in open air. You do not want these odors or fumes in the house. Soak overnight or longer. Remove and rinse with lots of clear water, usually from your garden hose. Heat to dry completely and do the seasoning process. Lye is sold as a drain opener. You can dispose by pouring it down drains a little at a time. I advise you to wear rubber gloves when handling this. Be careful.

I always scrub away my rust but I haven’t had one that rusty yet

You should avoid putting hot pans on your stone surface your stone can take it but the Finnish can burn and scorch msrk

That’s a airless fryer

OK I just found this identical pan in my barn and it is in much worse condition 🙃 well I'm gonna try the vinegar but I have little faith..... researching now if and old fish tank and car battery is enough for electrolysis!?!? Thanks for the video!

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good guide, thanks

I watched a lady restore cast iron, and she used Lye to soak the pan. This one might have taken 24-48 hours to soak in the Lye. She DID say, place the water in the bucket first, then the lye. Then clean the way you did. It worked GREAT.

Great video. I have a skillet and dutch oven that has a litter rust. So this looks like a good way to clean them.

Beautiful old pan you restored. Your grandchildren’s grandchildren will thank you for that heirloom.

I use corse stainless scouring pad, steel wool, heat in oven or BBQ and get it hot 4-500, brush off soot from stains that come out when heated, spray with canola oil, wipe off (only want a light coat) and heat to flash point, repeat that last step until happy. Heavily stained use a wire wheel on a drill but don't press hard. If it's newer or from China or Taiwan throw it away and go get a real pan lol.

Fry your eggs with no oil or butter.Non stick if seasoned well.Great video

why the music? exiting out

For old pans you find at yard sales, flea markets etc. I would definitely recommend getting a LEAD testing kit from lowes / Home depot / Amazon and run a test strip over the surface. People sometimes used old cast iron pans to melt lead for reloading ammunition back around 100 or so years ago. The test kits are cheap, quick and easy to use. There might have been a reason Great Grandpa left that pan out in the barn instead of letting Nana make biscuits in it.

boil in water with vinegar(50% wather and 50% vinegar) for 30 minutes (for me works very wel with good results).

Removing rust is easy. It's removing carbon that can be difficult. I'm surprised that is does not need to be stripped!

Awesome Job

BRAVO sir! thank you

The problem with American videos is too much blaablaa and too little action. We don't need a punc-by punch desciption of everything you are doing or using.

Citric Acid is less cheap but the converted Rust is easier to remove. Citric Acid removes Rust deep-down into any pores. You can oversaturate citric Acid by using hot water and Go over 20...30% citric Acid.

I like to put a sponge in the bottom of the sink to support the pan while scrubbing, and to protect the sink from being scratched.

Try soaking for 24 to 48 hours.

Vinegar will remove rust...it will even pit the daylights out of chromed steel. After your initial seasoning, the best thing you could cook in that pan is a pound of cheap, fatty bacon (think, lots of bacon grease) and it will add to the seasoning you did. Good video!

I advise not to use anything copper on cookware, any copper residue will react with acids from your food - forming toxic compounds. Scrubbers made from iron or stainless steel are the better choice. Good work on that skillet though.

you'd need probly a couple of days soakin in that solution 👍

Well I tell you what can we say that the name is very anti other race

Cornbread looks 😋 yummy. Cast iron skillet looks great. 😎👍

Why can’t you just bead blast or sand blast the cast iron skillet and be done with it?

rapeseed oil really unhealthy? Yes it is the problem with rapeseed oil is that it is inflammatory response of the body not to mention the euric acid which is minorly toxic But the thing is it's highly unstable cooking oil which produces carcagonic (cancer) causing compounds and because of the inflammatory response it can lead to digestion issues which in turn causes a whole host of problems with your body

Find a nice pink vagina and you'll never care about this again.

Love the stargazer pan. I have the 10 and 12 inch skillets. I cook sometimes with acidic ingredients (nothing crazy like a marinara sauce, lol) and it might lose some color here or there, but I just add a tiny layer of oil before putting it away and keep cooking!

Is your countertops granite or quartz? If quartz, putting a hot pan on it will crack the quartz. It is not heat resistant.

Very nice, but I'd have sanded some of the pitting out. Even seasoned that will be hard to make non-stick.

Ha! Pizza Tatin! Now that you’ve done this, you really have to try making your own tarte Tatin! Turns out great in cast iron.

I hope you make more videos. You’re not the first person who has complained about the “sandy“ texture of the Lodge cast iron, but it can actually be an advantage. Why? It takes a lot longer to correctly season a Lodge piece of cast iron, but once you have built up the seasoning from your regular cooking, you will get a perfectly glass-like surface inside the skillet, as the texture will capture those bits of oil that you are constantly putting through the process of polymerization. I have lots of pieces of cast iron , both high-end and Lodge. My Field is the least favorite, while my very old Lodge is absolutely stupendous.

Aackkkk!! You poured all that hot grease down your kitchen sink! You’d best take a couple of paper towels and soak out the grease and throw it into the trash first before cleaning the pan.