How To Season A Stainless Steel Pan Advanced Version 

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My wife made an omelet this morning. Stuck to the pan like crazy. Soaked it and cleaned the old oil out of it. Just finished seasoning using your method above with lard. Cooked another omelet and it came out perfectly. Thanks for making my life healthier. No more Teflon skillets for me.

If actual Cooking was taught in school, WE would not need these great videos, or Teflon. Keep up the good work ladies, gentlemen, and all of you others. We need you ALL! Now more than ever.

Just tried this seasoning approach on a cheap, thin, 10" SS skillet that food would stick to in a heartbeat. Applied 6 layers of a 1/3 grapeseed oil, 1/3 canola oil and 1/3 beeswax that was working well for my cast iron pans. I cooked scrambled eggs with just a pat of butter after warming and testing temp as u showed and there was absolutely NO sticking whatsoever! Eggs cooked perfectly and afterwards, just wiped pan clean with a paper towel and it's good to go! Can't thank u enough for posting this vid. I plan to invest in a higher-quality SS set and toss all my toxic nonstick pans now for good. Just awesome! Tks again!! 👍

Female here. So I *did* learn from my mom and Grandma, but that was decades ago and not like riding a bike. Thanks for being here to remind and re-teach people like me, and not coddle us. Oh and that stove looks sooo much like the ones I learned on! The good old "they don't make 'em like they used to" stuff right there.

7 years later I'm Female and watching you season the pan! Thanks!

Michael that is nice of you to say. I am a Family nurse practitioner. I work in a clinic 2 days a week and I see old folks in their homes the other 3 days. My motto since I have to interact with lots of people, is "just be nice". works pretty well most of the time.

Woman here. My most treasured (and frequently used) item in my kitchen is my grandmother's cast iron skillet. I grew up in her home....and there's almost a century of cooking that has been done in this pan. I keep it well "seasoned" at all times. Woe be it to the person that puts my skillet into a sink full of dishwater!!!!!

i am buying our first set of stainless steel and found this very helpful. oh, i am a woman viewer by the way and I actually DID learn to season cast iron from my Grandma!

I’ve only ever seasoned cast iron and carbon steel. I did not know you could season stainless steel too. Thank you for this.

I'm 70 years old and cooked an omelet in a stainless steel pan without it sticking for the first time in my life! Thanks so much for the video. I don't know if it was the seasoning you describe, or getting the pan to the correct temperature as described elsewhere in the RU-vid Universe, but seasoning definitely helped. One caution though, when the oil starts smoking, it is also perilously close to catching on fire. So everyone, please pay attention to what's going on, else something's gonna burn and it ain't your omelet.

I’ve cooked on a cast iron skillet all my life; passed down from my grandmother. She taught me to season it in the oven. This is very similar. Thanks for the tip because my husband prefers the All Clad set he bought and I’m going to season them for him.

Thank you so much for this video. I never knew you could season stainless steel. I also am moving away from nonstick pans so I’m actually moving back to stainless steel. So the fact that I could make my stainless steel more nonstick is a bonus. Thank you so much!

So glad I found you. Never knew a stainless steel pan could be seasoned (no wonder my food would alway stick to the pan ). All this time I thought I was just a lousy cook. Thank you for sharing.

Female viewer here and first time stainless cookware owner. I purchased a set of Cuisinart cookware today and am on here looking at how to cook with it. My grandmother and mother always cooked with cast iron and I have their skillets. Those things are as slick as a teflon pan and I love them but don't want to cook everything in them. Thanks for making this video. Now I know what to do before using my new pans!

I’m already 50 yrs old and cooking all my life for my family and wow just learned something new today lol.. thank. You👍😍

Hi - just stumbled upon your video when I looked up cooking eggs in a stainless steel pan. I'm overjoyed to learn you cook with cast iron! I use 60% cast iron and 40% stainless. I grew up in the south witnessing my gramma's cookin' and cast iron was all she used. Her meals were delicious and completely home made. My grandparents were farmers. Every vegetable was grown and any meat was owned! Thank you for these videos!

I have two sets of 18/10 cookware and was about to buy a Made In Blue Carbon set just to get the non stick effect. So glad I looked up seasoning stainless steel and saw your video. Note: my mom taught me how to season cast iron, just didn't know I could do the same with steel. : ) I'll happily share the flax seed suggestion with her. Can't wait to try your cast iron Mac and Cheese! Thank you very much!!!

I love to use my Grannies cooking methods/recipes/ and pots/pans. I'm 67 and will pass on to near and dear ones, If they can be bothered that is.. Thank you. Regards from Scotland.

Saw this 5 years ago and had to come back just to make sure I was doing it right. Good job!

I’m a 79 female and in an effort to get away from Teflon and back to the stainless steel I used to use and loved, I just bought a beautiful new stainless steel pan with the type of bottom yours has. I knew that I read somewhere that I could make stainless steel nonstick. This is certainly simple enough to do whenever it needs done again, but tomorrow I’m going to do this . I wanted a stainless steel fry pan with a lid, a thick heavy clad bottom and expect with the extra handle on the opposite side because of my arthritis. I’m so happy I bought the stainless steel pan. I do love stainless steel and plan to enjoy it even more now that I know your method. So thank you.

Thank you so much. Just got my first ss skillet and just checked to see if it had to be seasoned. Came across your video and now I'm all set. Am subscribed too as I have bought a Lodge cast iron skillet too but will embark on that adventure a bit later. And yes. I'm female and no hard feelings 😄

I watched yesterday and did this today. Amazing, worked perfect. I made an omelet with no problems. All the years I have these great stainless skillets and buy Teflon that wears out and gets tossed. Thank you very much!

Hi, I’m a woman and have watched this video, I like it. It’s useful, I also dislike Teflon coated pots and pans ! I ve had as pans for a long time...same ol thing sticks...mess. I will watch the beginners video and try to get that look to my pans and cook with them. I will add your video to my likes here. In my opinion EVERYBODY needs to watch this video, or one other of your videos for their own good. Thank you for the information my pans thank you too😅🤗🙀👏🏻🤝

Thanks so much for your information. Since this method solved the sticking problem so i dont have to soak the pan between every cooks. I start getting the concept now. Thanks again, subscribed!

WOW! Thank you for posting this. I never knew you had to season stainless steel. Explains why even my one expensive skillet makes everything stick. I love cast iron, but now I think I will come to love stainless steel.

I got a set of stainless steel pans for my wedding and I’ve seen so many videos on RU-vid about seasoning and they all don’t work. Several months later I found your playlist and all I can say is, THANK YOU.

I have the exact same pan but in non stick. I've had it for a decade now, and the nonstick finish is nearly as good as the day I bought it. I just bought a set of all clad SS.

Thank you, I just bought my first All-Clad stainless steel pan, I knew they had a learning curve (grew up with non-stick) and im seasoning my pan now

You aren't wrong,my gramma down south taught me how to season Cast Iron and Stainless when us kids used to spend summers down there. The year of the pandemic has got me back into cooking in a major way and I just wanted to make sure I was remembering this right. Thanks for a quick and concise video.

I have alot of cast iron around the house sooo now Im just starting to use them. I also recently got a cute copper bottom Revere ware skillet so this is perfect. Thanks for sharing. I have also one Glass visions skillet I am re learning how to use.

Lard is the ONLY way to season! I love your instructional videos. Down to earth and factual.

I’m female and love using cast iron ❣️ Thank You for this informative video.🙏🏼

Thank you for the fantastic information!! I wish I could have learned anything from my grandmothers--we moved quite far away when I was 11 so I never had the opportunity, so watching you share these tips is the next best thing!!

From cooking in restaurants also ( 25+ years ago ) is how I learned this myself. I only did one cycle, and we never sent them to the dishpit. Always hand washed at the line sink. I used those green pans ( ceramic coated ) for awhile, but they eventually lost their nonstick quality quickly. I’ll only stick with cast iron or stainless steel from now on. Great video !

This woman is watching your video and love your wit as well as instructions! Thank you!

Thanks. I called my new stainless set the "everything sticks cookware"... I'll defiantly give this a try! Thanks.

I didn't know Amy of that. Thank you for taking the time to put out this very informative video for people like me to learn from. 😃

I never knew hat you need to, or could season stainless steel until I read about it on the internet. I have a pan where pretty much everything sticks , and I was going to throw it out a couple years ago, but still have it...I'm glad I didn't. Strange thing is I knew woks were seasoned, but I didn't think of applying it to pans, similar or same material most of the time

I could listen to you talk all day ! Thanks for the video

I found you by searching how to season a stainless steel pan. I tried it and it worked great. My eggs float around like they are on air. Thank-you !

nice presentation... thank you for sharing...

I'm an Estate Sale junkie. I have quite a few vintage cast iron pans. I need to start selling the ones that I don't use to often. A few years ago I stopped at a sale that the family was doing, not a Estate Sale company. Anyway I had made a few piles of things that I wanted to buy including maybe 20 +/- old Revere Ware pans lids. I asked the lady there what I owed her for it. The pans were in one pile and other odd things were in other piles. For the other piles she wanted $10.00 for the pans she said $5.00. It was one of those couldn't get the money out quick enough moments. Now that I know how to season them I can get rid of my Non-Stick pans.

Thank you for making this video. I am so done with non-stick cookware. The non-stick works for about six months, then it starts sticking. I bought a stainless steel skillet, and love it. It will last me the rest of my life. No more buying non-stick crap pans an skillets ever again.

I love my cast iron skillet which my grandma gave to me,and I have a couple of SS ones hidden in back of my pantry,this video made me want to give them a chance,and no my grandma never told me about this! Thanks so much!

The man/women thing; interesting you notice. Myself, a male & living in an apartment, not a house that I can do Do it yourself projects as much. Deprived of an outdoor area & shed, I'm always looking for little improvements & old fashion ways to do stuff. Anyway, this is the best seasoning advise I've come across so far. A bunch of good tips, & details. Cheers pal.

Love this helpful video. I bought myself a set of All Clad stainless for Christmas..followed your instructions before use. Worked perfectly!

Great info! Thanks for the little tidbits that make a big difference. Just got a set and will be seasoning them this way...😎

I am female human ( checks herself to make sure) and I grew up in Asia where everything was stainless steel in the kitchen but the problem is I never learned how to use it because it was mainly the grandmas and great aunts who cooked and didnt think twice about HOW they did it.. I just figured it was easy. Then I tried it when I was living on my own and my goodness, i burned everything! So i switched to nonstick. Now Im moving back to stainless steel and i need a refresher course so THANK YOU FOR THIS!! ( Im still female and Im still gonna watch your shows lol! )

Cool trick. Will have to try this on one of my All Clad saute pans and see how it works.

I season mine by leaving it outside all year. It gets 4 seasons that way.

Awesome! I learned from my dad, who learned from his mom... TY for sharing

It took me several times of searching to get this video... and I'm so glad I found you!Can't tell you how much I appreciate this video! Thank you!!

I'm female & take absolutely no offense! I cook with nothing but cast iron & stainless steel! I'm a foodie...I love it! If taken care of properly these pans will not only last our lifetime's, but that of our children as well! Thank you!

Thax for the tip👍 PS.woman watching 💕

I’m a woman - thanks for this - I got new pans for Christmas! Nice to know how to season the fry pans.

Amazing. This is how I found your channel :) Thank you!

i never had a grandma, and learning this just now has changed my life! thankyou!

Lady viewer checking in. Really appreciate the informative videos, my cast iron & carbon steel skillets are in brilliant condition and I haven't cooked with anything else for a long time. I'm sure it'll make its way back into kitchens once again and we can stop this awful trend of teflon pans that need to be replaced 2-4 times a year. Keeping the craft alive 👍🏽 Peace :)

My grandma cooked everything with lard in her cast iron skillet. Best fresh fried chicken ever. My mom cooked everything in lard in a stainless steel Revere pan that I still use today. In fact, now I want to fry up some applewood thick sliced bacon with eggs. Great video 💪

Imagine I am following your tips after I have decided to use my long forgotten pan. The first time I use it, was a disaster and I packed it away until now. Thank you so much. My grandmother used clay pots a long time ago in Southern Africa 🤣🤣🤣.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Thanks! We've been using cheap hand me down pots waiting to buy stainless steel since we can never use cast iron again.

Lady viewer checking in tired of throwing away money going back to cast and stainless. Thanks for this video as I never knew you could season stainless. Have a frying pan I’m going to do now. Thanks

Nice video man. I just got on because the power came back.

I love all my cast iron pots and pans and just pulled out my only stainless steel pan, cleaned it and thanks to you it is now seasoned. You will be surprised how many women use cast iron as well...

Thank you for the demo, was just about tearing my hair out as the pan stuck to my egg. Now I have seasoned it, the smoke alarm went off but man, it is now so smooth and the egg just slipped on the plate. Many many thanks

Well, thank you for stopping from buying another nonstick. I have 2 pretty good stainless pans and I will try seasoning them and see if I can finally cook an egg correctly. The nonsticks are not nonstick any more so hopefully I can get it done and save quite a few bucks. Thank you!

I watched the 3 videos in this series, cleaning/beginner/advanced. Great info on all and I agree with many who comment about your str8t to the point, no BS approach. Good Work! I subscribed so I can keep up!

I would love to use cast iron skillets (no better way to make fried potatoes) but I can no longer lift them. I am looking into a good set of stainless cookware. Your video will help me so much, I didn't even know you seasoned stainless steel! LOL

Had no idea you could season SS thanks for the information

Brother, I have to thank you for the video. I received my All Clad 10 inch fry pan a couple weeks ago and seasoned it with lard. It works like magic.

Just found your channel! And so glad I did! I have watched others do the water deal to cook on ss. I thought to myself as I tried their techniques that there must be a better way! Thank you so much for the information! I had no idea ss was so similar to cast iron!

Thank you so much for your video... I am a female... I gave away all my Teflon pans and bought a high quality Stainless Steel skillet with thick bottom... I really loved it at first, but now everything sticks terribly, so I needed to see this video... It is very helpful, thank you.... I used to use nothing but cast iron many years ago and I do love them also... I knew how to season them but did not know about seasoning the stainless ones... I must look again for lard... I have tried several times to find it, but I never found lard for sale here where I live on Vancouver Island.

Viva paper towels work best, they don’t leave any lint prices behind. Blue sop paper towels work great too, they are made to not leave lint behind.

Thanks for the handy tip. I have my grandma's cast iron. Need to restore it.

Thank you! I just got new pots tonight I am doing them all, not just the he skillets.

You are welcome....you deserve the compliment and I appreciate your response.

Thanks for the video. I’ve seasoned both cast iron and my stainless for years, but I’m glad to see that it’s just not me doing it. I am curious as to why you don’t use Bar Keepers Friend on the bottom of the pan keeping it clean for even heating and distribution, appearance, etc?

I agree with you that more me are getting into cast iron and stainless steel. I'm a male, and a bunch of us at work, also men, discuss what we make with cast iron and stainless steel. I guess because of how rugged they are, it seems okay for men to use and appreciate them publicly, LOL. Also, for health reasons, I've replaced all my non-stick, i.e. teflon, pots and pans with only cast iron and stainless steel. Thanks for your videos; I've learned a lot about cooking as well as maintaining the pots and pots. Thank you.

Thank you for your video! I'm a woman and I use stainless steel and cast iron!

Concerning the smoothness of the pan interior, you can wet sand them with “wet or dry “carborundum sandpaper. A good bit of elbow grease and some 400 grit then 600 grit norton sandpaper can turn your $50 budget clad pan into $250 performer. It will change the interior finish appearance to a random swirl pattern, but it works great. I nearly lost two beaten eggs testing the pan I just sanded. It was so nonstick that the eggs slid across the surface so well, they nearly “jumped the fence” . It is a $50 stainless clad wok. I used coconut oil to season it.

3 chefs here, in a maximum security prison, watching this video on a smuggled cell phone. Can't wait to try this (in 8 more years) ; (

Thank you!! My neighbor tried to toss out a lovely little vintage Farberware Aluminum Clad Stainless Steel omelet pan recently, and I said nooooooooooo! And grabbed it! ~ I was so excited, remembering how much I loved mom's old Aluminum Clad and Revere Ware from the '50s..... until every darn thing I tried to cook in it stuck like it was in love or somethin'! I'm on 'stage 3', with 3 to go! Yay! Can't wait to cook with it WooooHoooo! Thank you!

I am new to stainless , thanks alot much appreciated

I learned from my grandmother. I also teach my daughters.. ;) :'D haha but, I get where you where going.👀 unfortunate really. Nice video.

Well, you almost lost me but you stopped just in time!!! lol

Thank you, very helpful. I just brought some stainless steel pots.

Saw your video, excellent info. Went out & bought a good quality food grade stainless skillet. I'm just about to do the seasoning process as per your instructions. Thankyou, regards from 🇦🇺👍🏻👌🏻

I didn't know you weren't supposed to use soap on these. No grandma taught me.

My husband hates cast iron and stainless steel pans because he doesn't know how to cook with it. Soo...I'm a woman who loves her cast iron and stainless steel pans.

My mum gave me a cast iron skillet some 30 years ago. My boyfriend hated that pan, and packed it away. I recently found it and he wanted to throw it out. (!!) Of course, it wasn't seasoned and it sat in a box for 30 years. I scrubbed it clean because it was quite icky, and looked up your vid to re-season it. It's still my favorite pan to fry stuff in. So much better than the teflon ones. :) PS my regular pots are also stainless steel. Now I just have to find a decent wok! I do like to cook my fried eggs in oil tho... :)

I inherited an old parrot so I have to get rid of my no stick stuff and get a few SS pots and pans. I have an 120 year old cast iron 12" ERIE pan and I like it a lot but the bottom is not perfectly flat, almost but not perfectly so I use it for cornbread and other things like that. Thanks for your SS videos. I'm learning a lot.

Sure am grateful for both of your SS vids, they've helped me a ton! I appreciate it much! You mentioned restaurant, & I was wondering if the lard (370°F smoke point) seasoning wears or burns off if you sear a steak (400-450°F)? Ever try avocado oil (520°F smoke point) for seasoning SS?

I stopped using my stainless steel because they stick. I'm going back to them . Thanks for the helpful video

😂love your comment about not enough women watching this video! But count me in as I “watched” the video and LOVED IT!❤ Learning something new (for me) and useful is very gratifying. Thank you for sharing your skills.👍🏽

Great channel, since my soon-to-be ex moved out, I've been cooking everything I can think of on my 12" cast iron skillet. Also have a brand new in the box set of All Clad MC2 pans that I'm anxious to start cooking with. With my cast iron I made a great butter basted ribeye last night and had 2 over easy eggs with sausage patties and toast this morning. The process to clean and quickly reseason the cast iron is fun.

You are absolutely the best. I have sat in front of my TV all day watching people season everything from griddles the nonstick frying pans literally everything and I can safely say that you are the best out of everybody on RU-vid the reason I watched all the stuff all day is because I ordered a custom fitting griddle to go inside my weber grill it’s being made out of just cold rolled steel I should have it in a couple days so could you please tell me of how to season it. I know you say that cast-iron is porous anyways I need help. I’m actually a decent cook I have a shit load of cast-iron everything and they’re all in pretty good shape I was raised cooking on a wood-burning stove in Kentucky I just don’t wanna screw up this grill I want it to be right. I seen a high end griddle today it’s a EVO. There are about four or $5000 end it is steel but it is jet black it ain’t splotchy like a lot of these Blackstone griddle‘s and everybody else’s look like do you have any idea how they got it like that? Well I don’t want to get too greedy with your knowledge just help me out on my griddle please once again you’re the best when you done that scrambled egg. flipping it Around in there without a spatula I couldn’t fucking believe it man that was bad ass. I am a new subscriber but I promise you I’ll be around for the long-haul

Just got a really nice SS pan and I’d like to take my time seasoning it. If I were to use the low and slow method and do 6 coats, how long should I expect it to last? I’m just looking for a rough estimate, i.e. 10-15 meals, 5-6 meals, etc. I’ll obviously keep an eye on it but just wondering what to expect. Thanks for the video!

Hello! You're awesome and thanks for the great videos! I came here because I was curious to see how you season your pans. I've seen some good advice and bad. Yours is right on the mark! I can't help but comment on what you said about most of your followers being men and it's odd because...It's pretty simple really. Most chefs, as you know are men, and women probably don't usually look at your videos because they already know how to do these things. Guys won't ask for directions even when they're lost (Thank you Google maps!!) and they won't read instructions when they put something together until it's a complete mess. A woman can give her man advice till they're blue in the face but it won't click until their buddy tells them the same exact thing and they run home to share this amazing advice with their, now stunned, wife or girlfriend. Most women already know what you're teaching because they learned from their mom or grandma. Some never cooked or never had that sort of upbringing so they will look for cooking advice. These days it's different too. in the 1980s women started raising their boys to know how to cook, clean, wash clothes, etc and their girls to mow lawns, etc. The point was to make them both self-sufficient and independent adults. They became young adults and the girls ended up going to work and dads became stay-at-home dads (not all but it was extremely common) along with a lot of other gender changes that changed the rules entirely. Now that's a whole other book, lol. But you get the gist. Men are amazing cooks/chefs, the women in their lives love that (and if the guy is single he gets a lot of girls being a chef), while women have been taught through generations how to since it was always our place to "cook, clean and rais babies". I'm not a feminist or one of those, chicks. I'm just a lady speaking the truth.