how to clean a CAST IRON PAN after cooking 

NOT ANOTHER COOKING SHOW can you do a steak recipe video? Your steak looks so good.

@@jackieL1228 I've got a few. Check out my beef playlist

NOT ANOTHER COOKING SHOW yeah I saw those but wanted the recipe for this steak to cook inside on the cast iron 😂😂 love all your recipes

Lard is the best and is the healthiest. Oils have chemical additives. Hydrogenation is very bad. Your brain needs the cholesterol to not shrink up and become dissfunctional.

@NOT ANOTHER COOKING SHOW Hey sorry about the nonsense with the one dude!! Thank you very much for sharing the video it was very very helpful!

I fucking appreciate straightforward videos (and anything in life) so much. More and more I find myself sifting through bullshit nonsense. It’s so frustrating. When people say what they mean and do what they say…it’s solid gold.

Same here!

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Couldn't have said it better. Finding info on how to do anything but season a cast iron skillet is impossible

@@Ask571986 different folks different strokes

yes to that. the intro, when white powder went in, thoughts were of soap. I am glad to know it was kosher salt.

This should really be a standard for all how to videos 😂😂

@@margosparkle4299Rubbing salt on it actually damages the seasoning. Soap does not. You just need to re-oil the pan after washing with soap.

@@megamaser Soap breaks down fats (which your seasoning is comprised of). Never use soap on cast iron. That’s the #1 advice you’ll find in any book. That said, I don’t use salt either. Too abrasive. I use a plastic brush, hot water, maybe a bit of oil.

@@davefreeburg7346 The seasoning is not made of fat. It's polymerized.

Hannah Neill haha facts!

Ugh, i love cooking with a cast iron, but hate having to clean it

Haha I feel ya. You have time to do this while letting your steak rest (as it always should, of course) for a couple minutes.

I don't agree you have to clean cast iron immediately after cooking with it. I took this to heart and ate many many cold meals while busily saving my cast iron from idling in dirtiness. Cast iron has been around for longer than anyone making or viewing this video. It surely won't come to an end because of slow hygiene. You can't believe everything on RU-vid or the internet. I did my own research. Even left skillets unclean several days. Dutch oven I deep fried in for two weeks. Not my habit to do this but I really wanted to know if my seasoning would melt off or my cast iron would disintegrate. Still using the dutch oven and skillets I tortured - with seasoning intact. If people just cook with the proper heat and keep their cast iron dry and seasoned correctly, you are not duty bound to clean it with haste. And it doesn't take long to clean. I'm disabled and need time to fully enjoy my home cooking. Sometimes I also need to rest or attend to other things after a meal. I don't let anyone touch my cast iron. But you don't have to take my word, test it yourself. Obviously you don't want stinky food left out, so use common sense to take care of big scraps and anything malodorous. You will thank me later.

@@Director-M yea i usually use those minutes to create a pan sauce, one which will enjoy the company of my cast iron skillet for at least as long as i take to fully enjoy my meal. :)

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lol, must have missed the full minute of BS at the beginning of the video. This could have been an actual 3 minute video like he states he wanted it to be, but no

This might be a funny question, but do you clean your cast iron right after you take your food out of it, or do you clean it right after eating?

Someone else answered me and said both, for anyone wondering.

There's no reason a little dishsoap can't touch your cast iron. Properly seasoned that little bit of soap wont affect the polymerized oils.

@MichaelCampbell01 True! Like, has anyone ever burnt oil on a stainless steel pan? It's essentially the same polymer and that shit is a bitch to get rid of. You have to boil it in vinegar for like half an hour and scrub it with a scouring powder like barkeeper's friend to get rid of it. Oil polymers aren't fragile at all! Cast iron pans are supposed to be tough. Idk why a huge part of the people who own cast iron pans treat them like little princesses. It ain't teflon.

Sorry to hear. -You could probably sell it to some fool for what a much better clad pan costs.

What about them makes them the best, ASIDE from the long lifespan they have?

Alexandra Read Artwork you get massive arms from lifting it all the time 😂

@@programmingcafe7571 yes please 😆

Claptrap Jesus Based

I did that once, left it overnight cuz I didn’t know any better. Came back and it was covered in rust as was my sink 🤦🏻‍♀️

Hell yes!!!

Is the salt just for getting food off of pan? If there’s not food stuck could you just do hot water and scrub then dry?

@@fontyfole I’ve had my cast iron for over 20 years and I got it from family and antique shops. I use hot water and a scrubby, dry it and oil it.

Just toss it into a sink full of soapy water when its super hot and then pull it out and rinse it off after a minute and it will require very little scrubbing. Then pat dry and throw back on the burner at low heat until it is fully dry, then wipe a teaspoon to a tablespoon of high heat oil over the surface, let cool and store. 5 minute 3 step process from cooking to cleaned.

@@fontyfole yes. I usually use dilluted soap. My pan is perfect. I cook eggs in it just as if it was a brand new teflon pan. It's ok to use soap once your seasoning is very well done, after months of proper use, as long as you only leave it in there for a few seconds. But if for some reason you get some burnt food badly stuck in your pan, then the hot water + salt method is the way to go.

That metal scrub will run away the original seasoning , salt is suffice

I just used a new rough one out of box. Seasoned it. Made sandwich then cleaned wait I oil then made crepes. Non stick. Oiled it again with ghee and then oil. Skip the oven process nonsense.

The Oven is for when the seasoning is getting dull an not up to standard. No way around it. Not that complicated!

same

Mela'n Greathouse Too bad pretty much everything he said or did was wrong and a great way to ruin cast iron. Kent Rollins has far better and PROPER ways to work with cast iron.

Reading this in June 2020, we didn't really know what was coming...

Not a happy 2020

Not suppose to wash it while its still hot. Not even with hot water because even hot water is relatively cool compared to the hot cast iron . You have to allow it to cool first. Then wash it. Then place it back on the stove to dry. Then reapply oil, then back on the stove again to allow the oil to harden and dry as well as to prevent it from becoming rancid.

I can taste it that bacon right now! 🤣

I do the same

Well the kosher salt is not going to like that at all. :P

Bro this is the most haram comment i've ever seen

lol i see what you did there @@krazyknux8746

@louiciousthewerewolf4819 There all the same if you know how to use them.

What kind of oil do you use after cleaning it? Also, after it gets hot and you re-oil it, do you place it back on the stove to cool or do you store it right away to cool? One more question, do you hang it, store it upside down or right side up?

I use grape seed oil. I only use about a nickel size bead of oil. Do it after every use. No I do not heat it back up....I put it to the side and use as I need. Before adding oil make sure pan is completely dry before adding oil. I usually dry with paper towel and wait 15 minutes, then add oil.

I store inside my oven right side up and no other pan inside it. You can sore by hanging or by turning upside down, I've just never done it.

I'm only at the 15 year mark but mine are almost as slick as yours by the sound of it. I also use the hot water and brush, recently moving more toward just scrape it with a metal spatula, bacon grease it and back in the oven for storage. I will second, No soap! If I'm out of bacon grease, I keep a dedicated stick of butter on the fridge door for the pan, quick shot of heat on the stove to melt butter, wipe with paper towel and back into storage.

​@@DBrisky37 espátula de metal? Eso no se hace

Hello folks. Yes impressing oneself as your in total control of your show that flows. 4:04 Even the dogs know to stay way back and be dazzled safely. Knowing that cast iron pan wouldn't be lick clean, stove floor will be fair hunting grounds. Just like in the movies. Gone in 60 Seconds. Stainless steel pan now eggs. The torture never stops. Ride Easy

1st time using it today,gotta German Pancake in mind for breakfast wish me luck Bro...

Cast iron pans are very robust, even if you do get it rusty it just takes a little elbow grease and some time to clean it up and re-season it.

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Is your name Cody?

Getting ready for the crusade i see

I use olive oil too and find it's fine.

From what I heard it's extra virgin olive oil that's a no-no for cleaning cast iron, but normal works fine.

@@JimmyPizzaDelivery The cheap, refined / filtered stuff works best. But I also use low priced extra virgin with no problems. Just don't use the fancy stuff with lots of fibre in it.

Olive oil actually does not tolerate high heat well. Maybe rancid isn’t the right word but it is an unstable oil that easily oxidizes due to heat (or even light) and can produce free radicals. So for health reasons it’s best not to use olive oil with heat. I’m a nutritionist and I don’t ever suggest that people cook with it or introduce any heat really unless it’s pretty low. Its best consumed raw like in dressings. If it’s smoking though that’s likely way too hot to keep it stable. I know in this case it’s not actually being eaten but it is still touching the food so residues can leech on to the food during cooking.

Any oil but flax works.

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Looks so yummy, thanks

Looks so yummy , thanks

This video gave terrible advice for long term care of a pan. Don't use salt if you've got a chain-mail (or any other metal scrub) and hot water. Salt adds no benefit here but increases the risk of rust. Ironically, salt helps remove rust, so some users think the salt is helping keep it look clean, but it's the only reason there was rust in the first place.

@@None17555 got it, no salt

@@None17555 he rinses the salt out afterward. So it isn’t left to eat at the pan. Salt is fine.

We always used your mates method for our barbeque plate. Best clean ever & kept the dogs busy for a couple of days.

Slightly new here, how did it take off the seasoning - because of the boiling liquid?

@@beckybodaschweri9215 acid in the tomatoes. Cooking things with a tomato based sauce is best avoided with cast iron.

Won’t that wax seep into the food? Doesn’t sound too healthy

Take a good look at a sheet of wax paper! How much wax do you really think is on there? No, it is not a problem!

Any wax paper from the grocery store? You ball it up and then rub the pan with it?

@@internetcrap7 Not enough wax to hurt you.

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HAHA...honestly he’s a big inspiration. Thank you!

Put your food in the oven to keep it warm 🤷🏽‍♀️

ABSOLUTELY. Don’t take away the “seasoning”!! I’m from Deep South Louisiana. We hit it with a scrapper (you can get from Academy, or online), then oil it down. ABSOLUTELY.... NO..... Detergents, Period. NO DETERGENTS!! They “make water wetter”, get inside the pores of the metal, contaminated it, and when the trapped water hits the fire, CRACK goes the pan. All the best to everyone!

@@martyreed8193 That's not even close to how detergeant works. Modern soap won't harm cast iron. The only danger from older soaps was from the lye dissolving the seasoning. It doesn't "contaminate" iron.

A Olson Yup, I use a tiny bit of soap on mine when stuff gets stuck on. Finish cooking, scrape out the big bits/oil that come out easily, add hot water and a drop of soap, heat until it starts to foam up carefully so it doesn’t boil over. Turn off the heat, give it a good stir. Let it sit until cool enough to carry safely to the sink. Usually everything then comes out really easily and it just needs a good rinse and heat and light oiling. (I’m a fast eater so sometimes I just let it soak while I eat.)

K- What if I used a small amount of soap in the sink with just hot water... it was steaming. I then rinsed it really well and dried it on the stove. When it was still hot I seasoned it with Coconut Oil. I don’t have Kosher salt so just used a scrubber.

@@ravenzyblack You CAN use soap, I do occasionally too. Use it sparingly and just be sure to rinse well, dry it completely and then replace the oil/grease layer that the soap took off. Do NOT use dishwasher soap though, just dish soap like Dawn or whatever.

Use some wax or pomade and style your hair while it’s still damp after washing

patriot guy Canola Oil

You've got to shoot the hangman's rope fist, but multiple different times and make money off of the criminal.

Oh wow! I remember going to Matsumoto’s right around that time. Loved that place.

in 3 mins ? :D .. every decent streak rests for 5 mins before even touching it with a knife

If you can’t do this in under two minutes, you got bigger issues there chief.

Can you also season it with ghee? I just bought a new skillet and Don know what oil to use to do the initial seasoning. Thanks!

AnaM. D. Don’t use canola; that sh*t is nasty. Get it out of your cupboard.

Marirose ?? What’s wrong with canola?

@@marirose756 I don't even have Canola in my country lol

@@marirose756 canola is literally fine and not a single fear-mongerer of it has ever provided actual evidence of its disadvantages

It’s alright if you can get it hot quick and scrub it and oil it

@@SiegePerilousEsauMaltomite exactly, soap is not going to ruin your pan

Dish soap isn't going to do anything to the seasoning. The worst thing that can happen is some of the oil which is 'embedded' in the patina getting removed - which is a good thing, should the oil ever get rancid. Simply apply a very thin layer of fresh oil after cleaning the skillet and it'll be fine. Today's dish soap does not harm the seasoning of iron cookware. The myth, never to use dish soap on iron cookware, dates back to the old days when dish soap used to contain lye (which removes the patina). Today's dish soap is lye free, therefore it is safe to use on cast iron or carbon steel.

@@HrWisch a old but true saying don't put anything in your cast iron frying pan you would not put in your mouth

@@jimwortham8634 A sip of soapy water ain't gonna kill you. So, even after your old saying a little dish soap is perfectly fine.

Actually you have to leave the steak to rest for some minutes. So you have time to clean the pan

Is regular salt ok to use?

Bangbang Dee yes

@@alicad2190 Yes it is, but Kosher is more abrasive and works better.