How to season your CAST IRON and make it NON-STICK

Today’s three minute cooking tips video is all about how to remove rust from cast iron, restore it, and get your nonstick surface back on your clean cast iron by seasoning it.

Cast Iron need to be seasoned to reach their best performance. Seasoning can make your pan nonstick (and resistant to rust). Through heat, the seasoning oil will bond to you cast iron pan

It takes some elbow grease, but the actual process to remove the rust and season it is fairly easy and consists of 4 basic steps:

1. Loosen Rust
2. Remove Rust
3. Completely Dry the Pan
4. Season it
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MISCELLANEOUS DETAILS

Music: Provided by Musicbed
Filmed on: Sony a6400 w/ 18-105mm F4
Voice recorded on: Behringer Ultravoice Mic
Edited in: Premiere Pro #Homecooking

[robt]

Wow. A video that gets right to the point and doesn’t waste the viewers time. Bravo!

[HeavenlyInspirations]

DO NOT leave your pans in vinegar for more than 30 minutes at a time. It will begin to eat away at the iron and cause pitting. Remove after thirty minutes, scrub, and repeat if necessary.

[casserowl]

I have watched far too many videos on cast iron; This is the best one. Appreciate the heck out of you, thanks!

[YurMommy]

Yo the production quality on this is insane, how dont you have more subs?

[drewbrown]

Hey Ethan, thanks for the video! Could you make a video sharing your post-cooking routine for cleaning cast iron? I've been really interested in seeing how you clean your skillet after a tasty meal

[JCrozier]

dug deep into the archives for this one tonight. I'm looking for some more stuff to do with my cast iron, but I figured this would be a good start.

[lauraabrams]

This was super helpful! Thank you so much! I just got my first cast iron and was a little clueless so thank you!!

[canadabry]

Would love to see a follow-up video on your "daily" cleaning/maintenance of your griddle!

[avalerionbass]

Hey man! Love your videos, but I was hoping to see more out of this one. I know this is an older video and you have come a LONG way with your content, but in comparison to say the chicken or steak cooking episodes, this lacks some finer details of what I've come to love of your videos. I'd like to suggest a remake of this one!!

There are multiple schools of thought about cast iron seasoning, which oil is best, smoke point and polymerization theories, tempature of the overn etc. There is also information about unsaturated fats being better that saturated fats for polymerization.

I would LOVE to see a cast iron seasoning shootout video that has that scientific cooking method you're so good at and see what way reigns supreme!!!

[NinisCooking]

Wow, very very useful one! I don't have cast iron pan yet, because it's a bit pricey. But now maybe I will try to find a second hand one and 'restore' it eieiei
Thanks Ethan ! 😏👌

[KeyserTheRedBeard]

impressive content Ethan Chlebowski. I shattered that thumbs up on your video. Keep on up the very good work.

[tigerzoo]

Straight to the point. My kind of channel. Thanks for the video! Subscribed

[bleutitanium]

Great Tips !! Love my cast iron pans !! Better than most of my non-stick pans !!

[michellebaker]

Thank you so much for that... I needed it to make my Frittata... I will let you know if I did it correctly and completely

[etherdog]

The step that I have never seen anyone mention before is the soaking in vinegar and water solution for a rusty pan. Most vinegar (assuming white distilled vinegar was used here) is 5%, so what is your dilution with water? Thanks for the tips! BTW, I, too, cook my eggs in cast iron or carbon steel pans and NEVER have a problem. NO ONE needs Teflon coated "non-stick" cookware, unless they want to get cancer.

[KairiIsWeird]

Thank you! My MIL recently gave me a *bunch* of cast iron that had just been sitting in her shed for untold time and I don't think a single piece is free of rust. Having not dealt with this before I was about to tear my hair out trying to figure out how to rescue them.

[tenzinrigdol]

Damn this video was so clean, no confusion. Kudos. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[nikkireyes]

I have that same exact pan! Never knew it had an official name. I use it for big chocolate chip cookies ☺️

[Veganbytheway]

I love my cast iron pans. I'd really like to get a pot too sometime in the near future. Could probably make a ton of nice stuff in it when it gets colder :)

[bobprobert]

I have just bought 2 non stick bbq plates and I'm already scared to use them. I want to make an outside oven and hope these with be ok for my shelves. I already have a really rusty one and with give your technique a go.