PawPaw Restores a Barn Find Cast Iron Skillet and Cooks an Omelet

[@michaelvillalobos3850]

Wow PawPaw, that iron skillet sure turned out great and I bet that omelette came out even better, thanks for sharing, you’re Awesome PawPaw. 👍👍👍

[@seattledelgado7735]

The thing I like about Paw-Paw's videos are, he covers every last step. Any good old boy could appreciate that. True class

[@sandrajohnson4065]

Hey PawPaw, I really enjoy your videos. You make me laugh and you teach me things. Keep on enjoying life and have a wonderful 2017.

[@jerrybeavers3808]

Great video, PawPaw. I have been hunting a good old cast iron skillet. My mom used to cook on one all the time. I sure do miss it. Thanks for sharing.

[@dianac5764]

My mom gave me one of her cast iron pans after I moved out. My sister saw it and I had to hide it away. She was so jealous. I still have that pan in storage now. It is like gold.

[@maehay4065]

Nothing like a cast iron skillet! Thank you for sharing this tip👍

[@MaturePatriot]

PawPaw, GREAT job on the skillet. You keep educating the masses. I've always wondered if teflon was killing us. Cast iron is non-toxic.

[@dalefrank3354]

Next time I'm garage saleing and there's a cast iron skillet it's mine! Thanks again for another great idea!

[@drawvenmusket]

Hi there Paw Paw, as I have said before you are an honest man and I respect you so much for that, I think the worst thing I did to my parents as a 10 year old who thought he knew how things should be done I took my dad's best cast iron skillet and cleaned it till it cleaned it till it shined I even used a sheet of 400 grit wet/dry sandpaper on it I am ashamed to say, lol well my farther never raised his voice or his hand he just looked on struck silent and then set to work replacing some 10 years of seasoning. how I wish I had been just a bit smarter that day as to your house it is YOUR HOUSE and as you live there it is your right to have it your way just keep telling those busy bees to go clean their own home

[@OhItsJustMe2]

You just cant beat cast iron! I have several pieces that was handed down from my great grandmother, a few yard sale pieces and some lodge that I bought new over 30 yrs ago. My collection consist of Lodge, Griswold, Wagner and yes a couple pieces that I found at yard sales that came from Taiwan (which is not very good).

[@woodymiletich3162]

Great video. I never thought about salt for cleaning cast. Thanks

[@dalestaska1807]

Nice job on the skillet. Pretty good Justin Wilson too! Emmmmm em!!

[@DoingItCheap]

LOL!

[@stevetabor9046]

I use bacon grease usually but I've used conolla oil also. love my cast iron skillet a. great video as always

[@DoingItCheap]

I use bacon grease as well, but if you have been watching the latest videos, you will notice the dogs have been slurping up bread and gravy! So, no left over bacon grease !!

[@atlhammer]

Dagnabbit, Bob. I got that dang DoingItCheap song stuck in my head now 😀👍🏻🇺🇸

[@philipprigmore8723]

Mighty fine looking skillet. You done good.

[@ellengage1527]

Awesome treasures PawPaw! Love old cast iron

[@DoingItCheap]

Me too. I especially like all the little cornbread pans. I have the traditional corn sticks and cactus and fish.

[@skellym37061]

Great vid about restoring cast iron Bob.Your channel is one of my favorites keep em coming and screw the trolls!

[@DoingItCheap]

Thanks Greg. Please share my videos with your friends and ask them to support me as well.

[@thorvoldk]

Being young and not so experienced, I redid a barn find with a sand blaster. It cleaned it up too well. Probably would have taken a couple of years just to season it for the first use. Luckily I learned better. Now I have a bunch of cast iron that never gets washed and is about as non-stick as you can get it. Same seasoning will work for plain steel woks. Just have to remove the wood handles.

[@blueblood7610]

Keeping it real with the cool whip bowl! I didn't know that cereal could be eaten out of any other bowl when I was a kid.😁 Great memories

[@genebeck3781]

Paw Paw I've got a couple of cast iron skillets and I agree with you you cannot screw them up have a good day better tomorrow

[@dougb4460]

awesome find PawPaw i have a skillet needs seasoned thanks for the how to👍

[@2DebbieDoo]

BIG thank you! I have always wondered how to save some old skillets I have, now I just have to learn how to cook in them! lol Take good care of you and yours!

[@grasshoppergreen6532]

The number #8 on the old cast iron cookware in the video looks to be in the 30's 40's 50's The #8 ment it would fit in a #8 inch wood burner stove. It's a keeper

[@chevyphil3969]

love your videos and love that you talk the truth about life today as well as the pass sorry to hear about you friends that were involved in that car accident rip thoughts and prayers for the little boy and his family

[@DoingItCheap]

Thank you.

[@lbtsucks]

Great video I've learned some new cast iron cleaning and conditioning techniques.

[@brandonbearden3136]

just subscribed too your channel I love watching you ! you are a real person nothing fake about you and that's the kind of people I try to involve myself with , they are so hard to find these days !

[@linneabeckman6543]

Couldn't agree more. A rarity indeed. Wish I could find one.

[@GooglFascists]

Great job, Bob! Love them cast iron skillets.

[@bob21801]

I love cooking on cast iron. Beautiful stuff that'll last longer than a lifetime, if taken care of.

[@KeikoBushnell]

Omg your like an older man version of me!! Haha I love this sht!

[@kenjett2434]

great video paw paw I do love my cast iron as well take care of it it will last forever.

[@davidweaver2156]

cast iron skillets are the best for frying chicken, the even heat makes for crispy crust and the heat is easy to control. thanks paw paw

[@robertintexas]

I love my cast iron skillets. My number 1 choice when I cook. Came home one day, and a well meaning family member had put it in the dishwasher. I bet they don't do that again. lol

[@codycheney3401]

Hey PawPaw, Man am I glad that you did this video ! I have soe old cast iron pans that we had for camping. Well we had it in the trailer that I pulled from Idaho. That was 2 years ago. Any way I was ready to take my wire brush and grinder to ! I also didn't really know the correct way to season the either. My mom always cooked with cast iron but, we were not to use it because she didn't want us to screw it up ! Any way now I know how to do it ! Thanks

[@randycash121]

I'm a new subscriber and truly thank you for showing how to restore cast iron pans complete from beginning to end. I am that younger generation that did not have much in a family or people to teach skills like this. So you have taught me something I can pass down to my sons and hopefully they will pass that down to others as well. Thank you again!

[@DoingItCheap]

Thanks Randy.

[@donniecarrico1028]

thanks for sharing I have some old skillets that I wanted to restore now I know how.my house also is very cluttered it's a small house and we use every inch of it.

[@troymoore9866]

great video i have a new pioneer woman iron skillet and im gonna try it with an omlet never used it before but you inspired me

[@ssmith7330]

seen many a video about seasoning cast iron..never any as good as this...I been a scared of my cast iron pans for years you inspire me to get it out and redo it... I thinks theres still an old egg welded to it

[@kathyleners600]

luv my cast-iron pans !! BEST cornbread.. grilled cheese.. fried chicken.. sausage gravy & pineapple upside down cake !! ALWAYS season mine with BACON grease..That's the way my Mamaw did it !! PS..Your voice is so calming& relaxin.. brings me back to my childhood !! lots of my Folk was from Kentucky & Tennessee.. somehow made my way up to Wisconsin.. hopefully one day I will make my way back south

[@guncotton1950]

If you take incredibly rusty cast iron in a hot fire the rust will separate from the cast giving you a perfectly clean job with no scrubbing

[@rodneyhardee2527]

Nice job pawpaw. Thanks again!

[@stefanrandall8345]

not at all surprised somebody said you should clean your house.those people are called trolls.trolls just like to get under your skin,and run thier mouth when they shouldnt.Really love your show ,thanks!

[@davidinthedesert3532]

You have a sandblaster, but I enjoyed the video. I have about every kind of iron cookware out there. Almost all of it acquired like yours and restored. Best for making cornbread too!

[@DoingItCheap]

I do, but most of my audience does not. I try to show you how to do things as if you only have the basic means.

[@wafive]

guessing that all temperatures are in Fahrenheit Paw Paw. Just on houses, I never feel at ease in a real clean house, for the most part, if the house is a bit messy, they're the people who tell the best stories

[@jamesmullis6827]

looking good ! I love a good omelet and I love my cast iron . It's the original nonstick cookware if you treat it right.

[@outdoorsnga]

Thanks sir, I have been trying to find another cast iron skillet ever since I accidentally sold ours at a garage sale 3 years ago when we were getting ready to move to Tennessee. I have shied away from the ones I have seen at garage sales cause they just looked dirty. Now I know how to clean em and season one properly...and great info on the markings on bottom. Very interesting. Oh and in a few hours....gonna have me an onion and cheese omelet and bacon....boy did that look good....have to cook it in a stainless steel skillet till I find me a cast iron skillet. Enjoyed video sir, thanks. Have a great day.

[@DoingItCheap]

If you ever get down to Chattanooga, take I-24 West just a few miles to South Pittsburgh to the Lodge outlet store. They have an entire room dedicated to "seconds" and you can buy some beautiful stuff about half price. When you see what they call seconds, you will realize that they are perfectionists.

[@outdoorsnga]

Thanks sir.

[@joycemaguire4633]

good video I cook with cast iron I have the older ones Wagner and Griswold

[@DoingItCheap]

This particular pan is from 1910-1920

[@joycemaguire4633]

yah I no really old but they still do the job 😊

[@Howsitgrowingscotland]

Great wee video 😊 from your friend in Ayrshire Scotland Uk 😊

[@KeikoBushnell]

OJ in eggs?! 🧐😀Imma try that!

[@joshdholsinger933]

you tell em Paw Paw I have done the same thing I bought 4 or 5 old cast iron for all of $11 bucks at flea market I cleaned them up and have been using them ever since as for your house its your house and there is a Difference between filthy dirty and just clutter from living your house is just fine the way it is paw paw

[@davidschwartz2398]

Great video! My wife and I bought Lodge pans at yard sale & tossed all of "modern cookware" out. I found a Griswold dutch oven, so light; great venison stews!

[@woodsyfeller5995]

only thing I ever worry about reusing old cast iron pans is I always wonder if the last person used it to melt lead. Ill throw them in a fire or at least put them in the oven on clean setting and try to remove all the old seasoning before I preseason the pan again.

[@KdoggMkeyy]

OH my INCREDIBLE video WOW this WAS AWESOME STUFF now I just cleaned up a IRON Skillet barn Yard find this is AWESOME

[@crg9603]

your way is a hole lot faster than my way for season a frying pan thank you

[@TrikeRoadPoet]

Your house is your house and she has no right to speak on it. She's a twit plain and simple. Outstanding video on restoring a classic to use, thanks I still use a similar pan originally used by my grandma from the 40's! Quality tells, even after nearly a hundred years!

[@charlesmorris100]

Walmart has that wire brush that chucks to the drill in there tool ile. I couldn't find it at the time so took a BBQ brush from the dollar store chopped it put a nut and bolt on and used that on my drill and it worked long enough to finish the job lol!

[@patsycav]

When you fry bell peppers for an omelette, you need garlic and olive oil and black pepper. I use garlic powder if I don't have any garlic. They also have minced fresh garlic mixed with olive oil that comes in a jar. Just another helpful tip for today, for the helpful videos you share with us. I learned a lot from Mama Lucy. She taught me how to make broccoli rabe, which is Italian wild broccoli. You make it with water, olive oil, garlic and salt and pepper. It's a soup,just like making collard greens or kale. Leafy greens are so good. The garlic and olive oil really kicks it up several notches. I like to let it cook all night on low, in my big crock pot my daughter gave me. It smells so good while you're sleeping.

[@docink6175]

you can't hardly beat the color of an old cast iron skillet

[@dalestaska1807]

C'mon now. Share some of those delicious Cajon Recipes with us Paw Paw! I know you have some. I Gar-ran-tee!

[@DoingItCheap]

I GAY ROHN TEE !!

[@donaldsmith3048]

to help get the last rust off of that. You can soke it in vinegar. It will clean the rust off. Vinegar with some fine steal wool. Thank You for the information.

[@chuckhaynes6458]

We recently picked up a Dutch oven and a 12 inch skillet at an auction. $20.00 for the pair and both are made in U.S.A. I gave them both the treatment and they are better than new. Beef stew cooked on the 100 year old wood stove (Alabama U.S.A.) was never better.

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

I get my ass ripped for being politically incorrect and sometimes I'm told that I'm brutally honest. I respect honesty and someone being upfront with you. Sometimes I feel like a relic from the past.

[@SPARKYx23]

New subscriber. Love the wine. Made some myself and was utterly surprised, I used to drink wild Irish Rose and this cheap and easy homemade was every bit as good if not better. Now time to binge watch haha.

[@19dfr54]

What I first do with my barn find skillets is toss them in the wood stove. It turns all the built up carbon to ash. The rest is as you do

[@raymondthomasjr.6383]

Up here in Ohio you find the Griswold cast iron skillets around. I think they were made in Erie, PA.

[@tnhillbillyo5695]

Lodge makes the best cast iron that I know of and it's made here in Tennessee too! it's the home of the corn bread festival in S.Pittsburg.they have a store there where you can buy all of their products.thank you for a good video showing how to take care of the skillet. livin cheap!!

[@DoingItCheap]

You need to watch more of my videos......you sound like my echo !!! LOL !!! You forgot to say that in the outlet store you can by seconds.

[@chukzombi]

i like my Lodge, but what you really want are cast iron pans made in the50s or earlier, they were milled smooth and thinner so they are lighter, i havecarpal tunnel and the new lodge pans play hell with it. paw paw, Finex is made in the usa. finexusa.com/about/

[@DoingItCheap]

I just called the Finex plant. They started selling retail in 2014. They are NOT your standard cast iron cookware manufacturer. Theirs is a very high end product. A basic skillet is $200 That is a little rich for my blood. They make a nice product, but it is not like grandma used to use.

[@chukzombi]

agreed, i do wish i could afford one. but that being said, some of those old school Griswold pans fetch high prices too.

[@patsycav]

My Italian mother-in-law, Lucy used to lightly brown the onions in olive oil, then she would add the cheese, then the eggs. I have to say it was pretty tasty. I loved her bell peppers and eggs too. She always served it on Italian bread, which is delicious...crusty on the outside and soft on the inside...

[@Rayray-zu1hd]

I like you pawpaw, you remind me of my grandpa

[@patsycav]

Have you tried adding cider vinegar to the water that you soak it in? I'm not trying to be an expert, just heard about it many times. There are videos you can compare and find the best one. Now, don't misunderstand me, yours is the best, but just for the heck of it. No one should be without a cast iron frypan, and I have a large, round cast iron pizza cooking pan from Emeril La Gasse, that came with some pots I bought from QVC, and it was a free bonus. I am going to make pizza a la PawPaw with my cast iron pan. Holy Moley. I spent three hours with your videos yesterday and her I am, back again. You are addictive, but I am so glad to have found your videos, PawPaw. Your house is fine, so ignore the ignorant people who just haven't been taught manners and not to be judgmental of others. I learned that when I was four, from the Bambi movie. Thumper's mom told him "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Or was it Bambi's mom? It was so long ago...I don't know for sure. I also eat the whole egg, the skin on the chicken, and anything else that pleases me. I'm still alive, so it must be okay. I never go to a doctor. If you lay down with dogs, you will come up with fleas. You remind me of my dad, who was first in the Army in WWII and then joined the Merchant Marines where he stayed for ten years and traveled all over the world. He was just like you. I think you are the reincarnation of him. Seriously. He was born in Arkansas, but his father was full-blooded Comanche Indian and was from Texas. His father married an Irish woman, and her parents were from Ireland. My mother's folks were from Scotland. I am a real mutt.

[@shellygardner6410]

Your place looks lived in to me.

[@keithbrookshire]

That Arch Logo Lodge is a real find. If memory serves it's from the 1910's - 1920's.

[@DoingItCheap]

Thanks Keith. I tried to date it.

[@keithbrookshire]

I'm glad you didn't take a bead blaster to it. It looks like you can still see the milling marks on the cooking surface.

[@johntrevor8815]

I watched this vid again, its been a long time. It was so funny when you started singing "I THROW NOTHING AWAY" at 12:35,,,lol

[@keithgeorge2541]

PawPaw... do you do all the cooking in your house? And show us that griddle you got at the auction too!

[@DoingItCheap]

I will do the little griddle another time. After all, it is the same process. Maybe in 90 days or so.

[@DoingItCheap]

Good idea.

[@penelopepotter9953]

Good cast iron is nearly impossible to find second hand. I don't trust a cast iron skillet who hasn't look like it's been around since the beginning of time, LOL Nothing fries up fish and chicken to that golden perfection by way of an open fire like good OLD cast iron, in my opinion. And that hater who tried to hate on you with that nasty comment, smile and know that you are doing great that is why they hate. May God continue to Bless you and your family, thanks for sharing.

[@sparkydoss]

Yeah that's an Army omelette alright.Made me all hungry

[@melvinschmecklebak3766]

Paw Paw. It's like Deja Vu. I figured by the way you have cracked eggs thru your vids that you were a cook. That's what you told me today that you cooked.

[@76chyanne]

great job and that bacon adds to flavor latter cook

[@larryglass8834]

I cook breakfast every day on a Lodge cast iron skillet. We have non stick cookware in the cabinets but i always cook with my cast iron! installed an induction cooktop and the iron works great on it. Funny---21st century technology meets 19th century cookware.

[@wdbbragg811]

LMAO. PawPaw. My house is cluttered because I live in it

[@DoingItCheap]

Thanks for watching !

[@keithroberts8523]

Great Vid, your house isn't dirty it's lived in.I'm a pack rat myself I reuse stuff

[@georgeearls3338]

Great job on the cast iron. My great aunt gave my mother some good advice on house keeping, when she'd be cooking and cleaning for the kin folk visiting. She said if it don't do to suit them they won't stay so long. I like your videos I ain't worried about your house.

[@benwhite1803]

Your house looks fantistic to me ! looks like a HOME ! Kind of like mine. Whoever dont like it should not watch and go clean something ! Keep the great vids coming. Will be watching 4 sure.

[@DoingItCheap]

Don't have a heart attack, but it is so cold outside today that I have been cleaning the kitchen !!

[@melissajennings8185]

great find! I could just kick my butt for all the cast iron skillets and griddles and muffin pans I threw away when I was younger. I didn't know how to use or take care of so I hated them. but now I do know I would cute your arm off over my iron! and if you use one of my pieces you better use it right!!

[@Traderjoe]

I've heard that the Teflon pan was invented to mimic a seasoned cast iron pan.

[@CarolyneMas]

Really love watching your videos. :-)

[@DoingItCheap]

Thank you !

[@xsiner]

Look you got out the fancy plate for the video. LOL My mother in law says she gets the fancy paper plates when we come visit.

[@DoingItCheap]

LOL!!! Christmas decoration plates 6 for a dollar plastic!!

[@PappyJag1]

Thank you for the info, I have many cast iron cookware and saw many was to clean it. Must say I like your the best ~~ Thanks

[@DoingItCheap]

Thank YOU !!

[@HorrorGoreCrew]

Im about to steal my moms cast iron skillet now lmao

[@DoingItCheap]

If she still cooks, she will whip your butt !!! The Lodge cast iron cookware at Walmart is made right here in good old Tennessee !!

[@appalachianmountains2748]

Love my cast iron! I use it for everything. Good video....

[@KingHenryVR4]

My parents have some old cast iron pans an maybe a dutch oven under the barn on a old wood stove, they in rustier shape than that one but might try an clean them up to make to usable condition, might even do a video on it :)

[@DoingItCheap]

They will clean up and are usable !!! OH I wish I had a wood fired cookstove !!!

[@KingHenryVR4]

They have a couple of the old wood cookstoves but never use them, my dad his a big wood heater inside his barn that he sometimes puts a pot of beans or something on top of an lets them cook, they fried up some herring/herring row - shrimp an some homemade hush puppies this afternoon.

[@seattledelgado7735]

KingHenryVR4 jealous

[@marshataylor4086]

Way to go papaw my house is lived in for sure some folks you just can't fix stupid right

[@AmysIdahoLife]

I liked the song that was playing at the end. What's the name of it/Artist?

[@DoingItCheap]

Eagle Rock by Wes Hutchinson free to use under the create button on the bottom left of your screen

[@KingHenryVR4]

I've heard several older people talk about using sand to clean old rusty cast iron pans

[@cougar1972xr7]

you ever put old cast iron in a bed of hot coals over night that is where I start when you pull them out steel wool them good and then cook bacon in them first time then when done wipe it out and your ready to use it

[@sumfunnow7800]

Blessings to Paw Paw!

[@Lesh1170]

My friend you taught me something thank you for that.

[@KeikoBushnell]

Hahaha I was gonna comment on the mess but not in a negative way! Like.... how do you not be a hoarder cheap? Haha I get so much free stuff I’m starting to feel a bit like a hoarder in my studio apt

[@junehunk1]

if you learn to cook on cast iron you will never go back to steel pans,keep up the good videos.

[@simonson111]

I love cast iron pans.

[@maehay4065]

Ok I will wait later to watch' Lol I really was awake unfortunately because I had too long of an afternoon NAP!

[@arthurleslie9669]

I'm kinda lazy ... I just wait till summer. Then I take the cast iron; spray it heavily with oven cleaner; stick it into a black plastic bag; then set the bag out in the Mississippi sun for several days. Then do whatever is necessary to complete the project.

[@nancynickle1592]

how do I find the chocolate gravy video... my dad has told me all about it... I can't wait to see it

[@DoingItCheap]

Go to my home page and look for playlists. PawPaw's Vintage Recipes !! DELICIOUS !!!