Debunking CAST IRON myths & How to Care for your Skillet! | Makin' It! | Brad Leone

[@jordanholmes9943]

The biggest issue with YETI cast iron (and their whole product line) is the price. Its 10 times the price and not 10 times the value of Lodge

[@JoeHatesItHere]

$150 for a size 8 cast iron...wtf

[@Daniel-oq3ep]

they significantly cheaper than the OG butterpat ones

[@Panama_Red]

Totally true. When you buy a Yeti you're paying double for the name. There coolers are decent but RTIC are just as good but much cheaper.

[@Pan_Galactic_Gargle_Blaster]

good cast iron lasts forever. by which I mean, go to yard sales and thrift shops to find vintage pieces to reseason yourself. most are much better made than modern cast iron due to the fact the pan cooking surfaces were actually polished unlike modern lodge pans.

[@mk8124]

I think the biggest issue with YETI is that they're anti-police.

[@Castiron_Kyle]

Thanks for the kind words guys! Tuffy is legit

[@Chainsaw-ASMR]

@@Castiron_Kyle The true cast iron legend has entered the chat. Hope you’re doing well sir.

[@mileschilson]

You’re the GOAT!

[@Castiron_Kyle]

@ much appreciated

[@ImpCaesarAugustus]

YETI CAST IRON?!?!!? I've always wanted to buy a cast iron pan but Lodge has always been to affordable. So excited I can now pay 10 times the price and finally get a cast iron. Thanks guys!

[@Shmew455r]

I love this channel, just forget YETI is involved, an example of domestic brands ripping us off. This is one of the real reasons people buy foreign.

[@itmeurdad]

Get that bag braddyo, but no way yeti cookware is going to be priced remotely reasonably. PS the link in the description 404s.

[@MissGimpsAlot]

Absolutely agreed

[@Panama_Red]

Yeah: $40 for a cup, $300 for a small picnic cooler & $200 for a 10" pan? That's just crazy. Also glad that Brad is getting some sponsor money, but there ain't no way I'm spending that kind of money.

[@EminemLovesGrapes]

That's hipster cookware for ya

[@roberttaylor9259]

The world needs less $200 cast iron and more $50 cast iron

[@BSVideoProduction]

Love Brad and his energy. Love my Lodge too. Indestructible, made in USA and incredible value & product. Yeti sells a brand name, Lodge sells a quality product.

[@Mark_1988_]

It is crazy how aligned your channel seems to be with my interest! I started fermenting stuff, you make a video about it within a week, I started fly tying you made a video within a week, I recently bought some cast iron pans used and need to refresh them and boom this video is here!

[@mm9773]

But now you have to get rid of them and buy YETI instead, apparently.

[@luisj.castironcooking]

I don’t think people understand the amount of time skilled iron workers take to have these pans casted. Yeti isn’t just producing cast iron pans based on their brand but rather adopting the ideologies of the original founder of ButterPat Industries… Denis Powell. While Lodge is top tier based on price, quality and customer service Yeti aka ButterPat go several steps further. Lodge uses an automated system to make millions of pans a year while Yeti is making no more than hundreds monthly all by hand. And as they mentioned the casting process is a ceramic mold which allows them to make more precise cast iron cookware. Very similar to vintage cookware which can rival Griswold and Wagner. It takes roughly 21 days from pouring the iron to curing and seasoning to produce 1 pan. All by hard working Americans. This is the reasoning behind the PRICE.

[@RyanKasp]

Only thing missing is some cast iron Kyle

[@Blueswailer]

Petition for a "Cast Iron Kyle goes to Connecticut"-episode where Kyle goes to Brad's neck of the woods and they try to thrift store some potential new cast iron, then cook something on some more cast iron. TLDR; CAST IRON KYLE.

[@hannahh6793]

Yes! If anyone hasn't seen the Local Legends with Cast Iron Kyle, watch it!!

[@ED-wt8xs]

I literally went back to that video again before watching this one!

[@JesseCohen]

Funny you mention it, he’s just above you in the comments! At least on my screen…👆🏻👍🏻

[@Majiger]

Guys, are we for real with these prices? $200CAD for an 8" pan??? $25 Lodge from Amazon or a 2-in-1 for $50. Yeti needs to stop pretending they are Snap-On, or go the full route and start getting a truck to come around my house that I can pay $10/week to.

[@jeffneiman4635]

Yeah it's kind of embarrassing in this context. I can understand Yeti coolers, and Yeti mugs.... but a cast iron, regardless of brand, is a solid hunk of iron that requires a bit of hands on effort and maintenance.... don't sink $300 into a chunk of iron that will cook, and rust, the same as a $25 lodge that will perform (and last) just as long. Unless you think Yeti's will become heirloom pieces....

[@Aradin56]

I know Yeti gives you money, and I hope they continue to do so. But they have a price point that is way above other brands and doesn't deliver on anything more than they do.

[@tree3po]

YETI 250.00 for a 12" huh? GTFOOH

[@Daniel-oq3ep]

Butterpat had it priced at $325

[@jakegwolford]

But it matches my Stanley...

[@Dude_McNuggz]

My cleaning method is to use salt and a rag to scrub stuff loose. Then run it under water with another rag to clean out the rest. Then I put it back on the stove to make sure all the moisture is gone. Not sure if it's the best method, or if I can even recommend it, but it's how I've been doing it for years.

[@Panama_Red]

Same here. I throw a little neutral oil on them when it's still hot from drying out. And then, just cause I'm a dork and think it's fun, I scrub them down good and re-season them in the oven once a year or so. Usually when my partner forgets to clean them properly😂

[@lone1259]

Dish soap is fine, they haven't put lye in soap in decades

[@Panama_Red]

@@lone1259 as long you don't scrub to hard. Soap will break down some of that oil seasoning. I normally just go with warm/hot water and count on the heat to kill anything nasty when I'm drying it out.

[@IanLoughead]

@@Panama_Red it really won't. It will break down the dirt on top. My baking sheet that is covered in a black layer of oil I would love removed can swear by that.

[@Picit-13]

nice but the typical Yeti pricing that most people can't afford!

[@YaBoiTaeWu]

That shark impression went so hard

[@GreenWitch1]

I’ve been using my grandmother’s cast iron for years! Yes, I wash it, dry it and oil it 😊

[@chadheydt8221]

Thanks for all the content🎉 I love your stuff Brad💜 happy holidays to you and your family❤😇

[@emilieerickson2831]

i love the qvc vibes of this one

[@captaincooksfood]

As someone who predominantly uses cast iron, and enamel cast iron even for boiling pasta, I trust Kyle when it comes to Cast Iron more than that fancy-faced adorable little man there. Brad, you have been and remain absolutely beautiful, bud. Thanks for always Makin It.

[@G1LP]

Kyle > Chris

[@sk8yr]

Cast Iron Kyle would never

[@GabeSegura94]

JEEZ i'd rather pay $70 for a 100 year old functional Griswold than 250 for an overpriced brand

[@Castiron_Kyle]

❤

[@HTLGoodFoods]

Love these tips for caring for cast iron! I always wondered if I was using my skillet correctly.

[@MakersTeleMark]

Huge secret, so simple, not huge. Take a rip roaring dirtyAF just cooked in CI pan, and shove it under the hottest water you have, wait 5 minutes, it all comes off with a few swirls of anything even mildly abrasive with little pressure, little, like a scrubby. Immediately pat dry, and you are good to go. No salt, no soap, nothing. Been doing this multiple times a week for decades. It's really simple. Hot pan, hot water, done. It's cast iron, no need to get fancy, like this YETI marketing. Brad, stick to fishing and cooking simply.

[@Nickropolis]

Where's Cast Iron Kyle!?

[@JesseCohen]

About 8-9 comments above your head 👆🏻

[@kellseybri1053]

This is absolutely the video I needed, I love cast iron.

[@DrRockso0]

Yeti has become a rich soccer mom brand. Good for them but let’s be real, I’m not paying 250 for cast iron. That’s getting into the price range of copper.

[@mattwhitten4296]

Yeti here with our new cast iron skillets. Only 400 dollars for 1!

[@Chainsaw-ASMR]

Came here for cast iron Kyle not for a $200 Yeti skillet No problem with you getting paid by Yeti, but it’s pointless for me to watch an advert for something so expensive.

[@Sierubino]

Should you season again every time after you clean a pan? I usually clean it, heat it up to dry, put oil on and let it bake in, wipe excess. Is that needed every time?

[@blakelanders6966]

You don't need to throw it in the oven after you put oil on it and wipe the excess.

[@JesseCohen]

@Sierubino to clarify your question, let’s separate the terms “cleaning” from “seasoning”, re-seasoning, or “baking in”, as you mention. TLDR: Clean after every use. Re-season only as needed, but deep clean first, using salt paste, or cast iron cleaning product. Season from scratch, only if the seasoning layer is very damaged. For cleaning, scrape out the solids, wash with warm soapy water, towel dry, then warm on a medium-low stove for 3 minutes or so until completely dry. You can check by wiping it all over with a paper towel. If it comes away with a wet spot or two, back to the stove with it. Save the paper towel. While it is just warm, you can add a thin layer of neutral oil (with said paper towel), to protect the seasoned coating. That’s it, you’re done. I do this because I live near the ocean, so more moisture and salt is in the air around my place, and the thin oil barrier protects from most corrosion. Seasoning is a bit different, and isn’t really necessary unless the coating has been damaged. But for newer pans (read: having less seasoned layers overall ) it might also come into play. After the cleaning you just did, if you notice a light patch or two, or just to build up the layers further, for reasons, this is when re-seasoning comes in. Use a paste of oil and sea salt to really ensure a clean inner surface. Rinse with warm water, dry on the stove or in the oven a few moments. After you wipe on a thin layer of neutral, high heat oil (wiping away excess with a fresh towel), get it in the top rack of a preheated dry oven at 425-450 for one hour. Best if it’s upside down, with a drip tray under it on the rack below. After an hour, kill the heat, letting it cool on its own. Repeat this process until you’re happy with the results. Bonus Fact: The myth about soap being unsafe for CI comes from how old soap, especially powdered soap, was formulated. In decades long past, lye (sodium hydroxide) was included, in some amount, in most soap products for home use. These almost always insisted on gloves when handling in the directions. That highly caustic alkali will eat through polymerized oil very quickly (aka. seasoning). In the decades since, “hand safe” soap formulas (containing no lye at all) took over as the standard, with lye now only appearing in some oven, and industrial cleaning products. Good to remember if you’re stripping CI or carbon steel down to bare metal, to truly season from scratch.

[@blakelanders6966]

@@JesseCohen I agree with everything you said but I don't see why you would make a salt paste to clean when you point out soap is safe for cast iron.

[@JesseCohen]

@blakelanders6966 It’s a trick I use to deep scrub away caked hard stuff if soap isn’t enough. It doesn’t happen often, but now and then I get lazy after cooking for an evening. You don’t want to soak the pan overnight, or even for very long, nor use abrasive powder or sponges. The salt scrub acts like a gentler abrasive. It’s especially useful at removing flaky seasoning, when a deep clean is required due to damage, prior to rebuilding the layers. Bonus, if I use the seasoning oil in the scrub, I can just wipe away the salt with the excess oil, and throw it straight in the oven. Hope this helps clarify the use case.👍🏻

[@GlobalNomadPete]

I'd suggest a Lodge Cast Iron skillet for 1/5th of the cost of a Yeti Cast iron Skillet.

[@bonniebordahoffecker4390]

WHERE IS KYLE? Big crush on him ♥️♥️♥️

[@dylnfstr]

FINALLY CAST IRON CHRIS COMES TO EDUCATE THE MASSES!

[@dezertraider]

THANK YOU BRAD,ALL I USE,CAST IRON..PUPPY LOOKS LIKE MY OLD DOG,RUBY,PASSED AWAY IN 2011 IN SLC..VERY COOL..

[@LabH2ODawg]

Tuffy is the man!! This is a great collab you got going on Brad. Excellent video ✌🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@VW.907]

Did i miss the advertising disclaimer?

[@bsers7660]

Come on brad .. no Kyle This is a commercial for Yeti .. Don’t start slipping Brad ……

[@Panama_Red]

Hey, the man is making some cash and having fun. But, yeah no, I'm not buying that stuff.

[@eblake3617]

My mom cuts the fat off the steaks and renders that in the pan as it heats up. By the time the fat pieces have rendered, the pan is ready for the meat and you don't have the giant fat pieces on your steak to try and eat around, while keeping all the flavour.

[@phillipsmith5937]

The content that cast iron chris creates is great. Glad to see him on your channel.

[@leighalmond4128]

Beautiful pans! I can totally get why they are expensive.

[@901D]

Since you met Diresta 5 years ago, it's about time for a collaboration again.

[@MissGimpsAlot]

All I know about my old fashioned electric coil cooktop is that I don't even have to think about being careful putting my pan on it. Gas doesn't care if you scoot the pan. I don't like having to be precious with the cooktop.

[@longarmingbyjaclyn]

Right, we have enough moody things to pamper in life. I'll never buy a glass cooktop. I feel like that is for show, not for use. Someone who has it to hold up the pizza box.

[@mm9773]

You don’t have to be precious, just a little bit more careful. I would prefer a gas stove, but we don’t have gas in our house, so I’ve been cooking on glass tops for ages - it’s fine, I just don’t slam my pans onto the surface.

[@lambowalrus]

Can cooking a cobbler in a cast iron cause it to rust, from the prolonged contact of the fruit filling to the pan?

[@tonibal8144]

Yo Brad--that Dutch Baby took so long because the pan was not hot enough when you poured in the batter. Do it again and see the sides raise way up but get that skillet screamin' first. LOVE your vids

[@paullmight42]

where's the other cast iron guy??

[@sheliahallmark8821]

I have a question. I am 74 years old and grew up cooking with cast iron skillets. They were always very smooth inside, but the couple of Lodge cast iron skillets I have bought are 'bumpy' on the inside. Why is this? And shouldn't they be smooth?

[@mm9773]

I had a huge bump in a Lodge skillet I bought, big enough for the edge of a spatula to catch on - that’s not right. But I wouldn’t worry about it if they’re not super smooth: that will come with time.

[@amugc03]

How do you season it?

[@castironkev]

Its pricey for sure, but top of the line iron 🍳🍳

[@abdullahmohammed8502]

how often do you season?

[@yolosubmarine]

the surface actually looks superb. spenno, but like it.

[@beauhuval4029]

"Siri chill" "No, AI will take over the wor-" lol lmao great stuff lol

[@joshh3501]

i switched to cast iron 2 years ago and never looked back

[@Panama_Red]

I've got couple 10", a 12" and I found a 20" at goodwill last year that I use out on the fire pit. They're so nice.

[@castironkev]

This is the way 🍳

[@CapriSjonnie]

This video could definitely do without the other 2 people and you just showjng your love for cast iron. This was just a 15 minute ad read for overpriced pans imho. Anyway, keep it coming Brad. Love your videos otherwise ❤

[@mscentsibly1953]

Some of my cast iron is almost 100 years old. Got rid of skillets other than cast iron decades ago. Only way to go

[@LittleDewd]

yeti is acting like they reinvented metal

[@BenCarpenter-z8z]

Gonna need to know where you got that John Prine shirt, Brad - that thing is rad

[@Nomad_75]

Where’s cast iron Kyle?

[@Gmentality69]

Go with a lodge and save yourself some money! Yeti is great at social media marketing (this video is a great example), but their product line quality doesn't support their prices. Get a 12" Lodge skillet and you're set for life.

[@lilmc4055]

Love a 14 minute product placement Ads disguised as a video

[@caraeuler2927]

My cast iron pan is my favorite for cooking eggs. It makes the best fried eggs

[@gchomuk]

Yeti vs Lodge vs Griswold. Anyone? Beuller. Beuller.

[@F0XD1E]

Did that guy say they "let the pan cool" for two weeks? There's no metallurgical or chemical process that should take that long.

[@gchomuk]

Once upon a time, soap contained lye. Lye is not good for cast iron. Simple dish soap doesn't contain lye.

[@Chickenjuggle]

Lodge supremacy

[@kellinomnom]

Chris' voice sounds a ton like Babish

[@valicityyy]

I’m going to need this same energy with stainless steel.

[@bluej511]

I forget where the video is but someone did a video about flipping steaks, flipping once or flipping a few times, flipping a few times came out better. When i make burgers i flip a couple times and they are fucken delicious.

[@Gankinu]

Can't wait to see these in a Ross or Homegoods for a huge discount lol

[@jessicahiruma2296]

How much does this cast iron cost

[@The_Larness]

At least they made them in the USA 🇺🇸

[@j0b3n14]

I wanna talk about windmills.

[@christopherrobbins7754]

Why use a 12” pan for one steak? Seems like it will burn up the areas not used for the meat and cause it to need Re seasoning.

[@westonscott3518]

Something that made seasoning a pan click for me is its seasoning like a “seasoned veteran” not like spices

[@F0XD1E]

You could fry eggs on a rock with enough grease on it.

[@sorrowwinds]

$200? Pass. Lol

[@lasaldude]

People...DO NOT spend $200-$250 dollars on these Yeti Cast Iron pans. that's beyond absurd. Buy a Lodge cast iron pan for $40 bucks at Walmart or Target or online.

[@cr0wn9001]

Why would anyone spend hundreds of dollars on cast iron when Lodge is priced the way it is?

[@spoonz202]

you really need to go hang out w/ guga from guga foods and help w/ some of his experiments. he's wild

[@mm9773]

But remember, kids: of course this stuff only applies to YETI pans. Buy YETI, nothing else. Only YETI.

[@Dadmoves49]

Dude‘s mustache makes me think he’s full of it. I’m not sure why it just does.

[@SMNACTUALLY]

Yippie

[@Shmew455r]

These nonsense tips are scaring people from cast iron, contact me on how to fix this or keep letting people nonstick

[@Dustrick]

Wait... yesterday Brad was bald!

[@tejida815]

👍🍳

[@xkxxxx]

Like all YETI products its probably double the price and double the weight of any other cast iron.

[@LilyBrown-g7j]

"hot like yo sista". haha

[@chefcamsey1375]

😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤😂

[@MrNathancast]

Lodge.

[@interloper486]

Yeah, this is crazy...lets spend 200 dollars on a yeti pan when I can get one for 20...no thanks.

[@Dontmakemereregister]

you said 2 minutes 2 minutes ago

[@weevilsnitz]

getting rolled in the comments for a $200 cast iron pan should have been expected.

[@KennywasFez]

I’m so tired of these entire episodes that’s are ads 😢

[@LBones01]

What's a dutch baby? About $2,000 less than an american baby.

[@m.k_69]

Hi

[@rafitaino3137]

Two and a half men

[@bocephus5088]

cast iron aint brittle. shit, my great grandmother beat her husband with her skillet and then cooked him breakfast with it.

[@Panama_Red]

😂 When I was kid a bear got into our cabin in the middle of the night. Grandma woke up to us yelling, she grabbed two skillets off the wall and started banging them together. That bear was terrified, Grandma looked like a BA and that bear ran for its life😂

[@Panama_Red]

Hopefully you got some sponsor money Brad, but anyone who respects their wallet isn't buying a Yeti product.

[@delongpredannon]

Man, I was with you when you went to make a knife with a guy that makes 5000 dollar knives but this is far too gentrified for me

[@lfcbpro]

THIS is why people don't buy American, they are taking the piss with their pricing. There really is no need for it to be that expensive.

[@auger8451]

F that noise. Who wants to pay 200 bux for a cast iron when you can buy one just as good with a 60 dollar pan. F yeti and theor bs

[@ScotYount2025]

Who shot this man? The outdoor stuff looks like....sh*t....massive overexposed background...this channel has enough subscribers to do a lot better than that. Just because people have cameras does not mean they know how to use them clearly. I love a good cooking film btw..but that blown out background is a channel turner for me.

[@catherinethecarnivorern8333]

YETI is anti-hunting