Name: How To Cook With Cast Iron
Uploaded: 2016-10-31T23:55:00.000Z
Duration: 5 min 55 s
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- [Narrator] We use cast iron skillets all the time

in the Tasty Kitchen for a million different reasons.

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They're virtually indestructible, they last forever,

and unlike a lot of things you're gonna have in the kitchen,

they actually tend to get better with age.

People are often a little bit intimidated by cast iron,

thinking it's, you know, very hard to deal with

you just have to know what you're looking for.

So, seasoning is a process you want to go through

even if it's new or you have an old cast iron that

Often when you have a new cast iron and there's been

We're gonna help you figure out how to prevent that from

So we're gonna start by getting some steel wool.

Whether it's knew or has a bunch or rust on it,

we're just gonna scrub it down with steel wool

with a mild dish soap and just get it down to its

it's all kinda one piece and you can't just season

While we're here we're just gonna keep scrubbing along

all of the sides, on the back of it, turn it over,

Once you're happy that all the rust and or gunk off there,

you can go give it a rinse under hot water.

And either use one of those non-abrasive scouring pads

making sure you got every nook and cranny.

A good rule to remember whenever you're dealing with cast

We always want to get it as dry as possible before we store

So because of that, we're gonna dry it off with a towel

and then you're gonna put it onto your stove

And let all of that excess water, any extra moisture,

Once you're happy your skillet is bone dry,

we're gonna take it off the heat and start our seasoning

The new standard is that flax seed oil is the best oil

It actually drys the hardest and creates the best non-stick,

The only downfall is it is pretty expensive

and if you don't want to spend that much money

or frankly, you just don't have it in your pantry,

which just means there's kind of small holes or pores even

that we kinda want to fill up to make a nice,

So once we have this thin layer of oil all over the skillet,

we're actually gonna do our best to wipe it all off.

There's enough oil that has soaked into those open pores.

So take the clean side of your paper towel

and rub off as much of the oil as you can.

One of the biggest problems people have is they don't

wipe off enough oil and they have too thick of a layer,

and then it comes out of the oven very sticky still

and not giving them the result that they want.

So you're gonna put your cast iron in your oven

So this process is gonna take about an hour.

The reason we need our oven so high is that we actually

want to take the oil past its smoking point so that the oil

actually starts to breakdown and bond with the cast iron.

So if you've ever taken our your skillet and it's still

it's probably because your oven wasn't hot enough.

So after an hour, you can turn off your oven and let it cool

The result is a hard glassy layer that we're looking for

You actually really do have to pre-heat it.

So just take your time, heat it on a low to medium heat.

Because cast iron is such a great conductor of heat,

if you actually just carefully hover your hand over

Usually that's because they're putting cold food

One reason to get a cast iron skillet really is to sear

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