How to Smooth Rough Cast Iron - Remove Pre Seasoning on Cast Iron for Non Stick Cooking

you got a piece of cast iron that sort of sounds like this feels like this stick around I'm gonna give you my number one tip it's gonna take that brand-new rough pre seasoning off there to us smoothest glass finish [Music] my name is Kent Rollins oh thank y'all so much for joining us in this video today we are going to show you how to smooth out rough cast iron I'm talking the stuff they preseason now the preseason that I'm talking about is the stuff they put on this cast iron to think that they're saving y'all some time and some effort the ones I'm really talking about folks is a logic cast iron so if you've got a piece of pre-seasoned cast-iron and it is rough gritty feeling to your touch I'm gonna tell you how to take care of it when you start out with something smooth you're gonna season quick or build up season easier and have that smoother finish do you need more ideals or more help with your cast iron to get it in the best shape it's ever been in its life Shan my little sweet wife has created a link that is down below it is a playlist we've also created a step-by-step guide that is everything this video is about how to smooth cast iron it will be in the description below always keep that thing handy because you might need it you can go back to it find out anything you need to know so let's quit beating around the bush and let's get some of this rough cast iron smoothed out to where we can cook up some goodness you go to the store and you buy cast iron today 99.9 percent of the time it is something they called pre-seasoned now they want you to cook out of it right off the bat I'm telling you don't that stuff is like a polymerized coating of a high temp soy oil that they put on there you ever felt a truck bedliner run your hand across it you'll know what I'm talking about you will eventually get that rough coating covered in 26 and a half years of cooking I don't want to wait that long so how we going to fix it well I'm gonna tell you folks this is the only time Shannon will let a mouse in the kitchen I promise where is it at it is here just one of them little Sanders they cause a mouse you get one of them orbital sanders you could do this by hand if and you got two now I've got a 60 grit paper over 30-day the lower the number the upper that paper now I like to use a sixty to eighty sometime along in there now you need to realize when we go to sand in this we're not going down to go gray nothing Oh net cast I just want to get their rough stuff off there then we can build that finish up to something that's going to be nonstick it's not a very long process this is not going to be a half a day deal I'm talking like maybe at the most ten minutes I don't think it's gonna take that long so hang on you folks you you see this got a little point on it so make sure you get in the curve right here in the bottom of this skillet and up them sides just a little and we nearly there I can begin to see some color in there we get that wiped out I think we're in pretty good shape sometimes folks that's gonna gum up that first round so hey they make some more just get you another sticker on there and go back to town you won't have much trouble the second round cuz you don't got most of that gunk off there the first round I'm not taking all that off they're plumb down to the bear I promise you so I'm gonna wipe this over here the war I can you sort of feel fit around these corners just a little bit more because you need to be able to take your finger in there and make sure because if you leave this rough down there in these corners something going to always want to stick there it's not plumb down to the black bear shiny metal everywhere I just want to make sure that I get that rough stuff off there so folks we got this send it down smooth I don't think it is good to go we're going to show you how to rebuild that seasoning on this skillet to get that slick glossy finish that you can slip and hang out whether you've just send it off a bunch of rust or you burnt something in a no fire pit to get rid of it to start plumb over this is starting over we're going to rebuild that seasoning up to where we got that slick glossy finish we do this to rebuild that seasoning up there you're getting three really good benefits out of it right off the bat number one nonstick number two easier to clean number three your food don't taste a whole lot better rinsing so skillet out will drive that excess water out of it c-can I get this newfangled thing to work here called a stove and I'm going to turn it up on about medium-high heat because I've got to get this to work it's dry before you season because we cannot season cold cast iron it's not going to accept it it's not going to get hot enough that it's going to bond to that's what this baking process is going to create here in a minute takes cast a little while to heat up so we're going to put it on there when you pour that all in there if it is smoking it is too hot but it ain't going to be too hot it's gonna be just right and y'all have seen me in the past always use some olive oil sure I use olive oil on my old stuff now because it has been slick and finished for so many years but I got to using some flaxseed oil when I was starting out with brand new stuff or stuff that was refurbished and we're gonna re season we're gonna take some of this flexi dough and we're just going to pour some in there now when your first time seasoning this and building back it's going to take more than what it would just everyday care so you're going to put a little more oil in there than eight or four or five drops so get you a good lint-free rag and the handle might be hot now so make you have something you can hang on to make sure you get it all wiped around up to the sides everywhere now we've preheated that oven like I said to 350 so this is hot enough that we can go in there so we can turn that burner off we're ready to go and if channel get in here where you can see you can see there is a good coat of oil on this thing so we're gonna put this in the oven on the middle rack of the oven at 300 degrees for about 40 minutes and then we're gonna turn it off and let it cool all on its own this is not a one-time process I promise you we're going to do this in three times before we can get that service to go to building up as you can see it's cool enough for me to handle it's been in there about 40 minutes just turned it plumb off let it come to about room temperature but guess what it's time to do it again now we made some progress here I could see some things taking place where this was pretty shiny in here you can see that we're beginning to build some gold up over here some layer so as we get another and another known there we're gonna go to get this black that we want to see on there let's put the oven back on 300 let it preheat heat this skillet magic when it gets a temperature like we did before the world we know it's warm enough that it'll take this seasoning we're going to pour again a pretty generous amount in there lint-free rag all the way around back in the oven another 40 minutes let it cool again and we'll look and see where we're at well folks as you can see we've done this about this is my third trip and this thing is slick it is good now you can see we lost that silver and we're getting more to that goldish bronze color in here now you don't have to continue to do this till it's solid black all the way across [Music] now go to front bake it in here front potatoes coast cast it does love some starch and every time you fry something that the more you use it the better the seasoning is going to be now if you ever use a skillet or a Dutch oven and it tastes a little like metal you ain't near there yet seasoning will cover that it'll make your food taste better if you go to tasting metal and something you know you ain't weren't far enough now folks I want to stress to you putting this in the oven and baking this seasoning on that way that is for this instance when you're starting from scratch and building up seasoning on cast iron going forward if you're starting with something that's rusted plumb up or you're having to start with a brand new oven this is the way you started so folks we hope you learned something about how to take care of that rough pre-seasoned cast-iron now like we said in the video not all of it comes this way there is new stuff that you can buy that has a slick preseason finished I'm mostly talking about the lodge and all that stuff that comes pre finished that is so rough get in there and take care of that cast iron because remember it is something that will give back to you every time you cook out of it thank you for stopping by god bless you each and every one hit the little subscribe button how about some mascara too

Channel: Cowboy Kent Rollins

Views: 1,501,083

Keywords: cast iron seasoning, how to season cast iron, how to smooth cast iron skillet, how to smooth cast iron pan, how to smooth out cast iron, lodge cast iron, how to smooth lodge cast iron, cast iron cooking, dutch oven cooking, kent rollins, cowboy cooking, campfire cooking, cast iron skillet, cast iron preseasoning

Id: ljSQrSoSYAE

Length: 9min 25sec (565 seconds)

Published: Thu May 10 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/xtapper2112]

He has a bunch of cooking and recipe videos as well. Kent Rollins is a real deal chuckwagon cook.

[u/jimmy_beans]

I see Kent Rollins I upvote. He gets some heat for sanding his pans around here but that's how he makes his living so he must be on to something. His chicken tortilla soup recipe instantly became a winter staple in my house- can't recommend it enough. You get to fry tortillas in your cast iron too, great for building that seasoning.

[u/wazoobeavers]

I love Cowboy Kent Rollins! His videos are great and have helped me learn a lot as a beginner to cast iron. Tons of great recipes and his videos are just plain fun to watch.

[u/[deleted]]

Besides the great advice and recipe ideas, I think we can all agree that he seems like a genuinely great guy.

[u/returnnametouser]

Yeah I’ve been following him on YouTube for years! My coffee maker went south a month ago, his cowboy coffee in my enameled CI pot saved the day. But I too wouldn’t worry about grinding them smooth.

[u/frostedflakelover]

Kent’s cooking videos were a big inspiration for me to get out the old cast iron and start using it again. Used some of his cast iron baking recipes and they turned out great.

[u/imcrafty45065]

Love that guy but I do feel that grinding a pan is unnecessary

[u/El_Carnero_Blanco]

Great videos on YouTube. Check him out. He’s got lots of great recipes and tons of experience and good advice on food, cooking and cast iron.

[u/JFKush420]

That's my fucking guy. When I started learning how to cook, he was one of my biggest influences and still is.