Remove Ash and Prepare for Seasoning

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Everything you need to know about CAST IRON cookware, seasoning and restoration

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Once the oven has completed its self-cleaning cycle and cooled down (often requires waiting overnight), carefully remove the cast iron pieces. You'll observe that the high heat has transformed all the old seasoning and rust into a white, powdery ash. Take the cookware outside to prevent making a mess indoors. Use a wire brush, or a brush attachment on a drill for faster results, to vigorously scrub off all the ash and any remaining loose material. Alternatively, a kitchen scouring sponge can be used for this step if other brushes aren't available. Ensure all surfaces, inside and out, are free of ash and smooth.

Goal: After the cleaning cycle, remove the cookware and thoroughly brush off all the burnt ash and residue to reveal the bare cast iron.

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Cleaned Cast Iron Cookware

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you guys once all the crust is baked off all right the long-awaited reveal so behind the scenes it's been about five hours here okay we're into the next day and here is the result of all of that baking you see how it turned everything white down inside there's a bunch of crusty stuff so we'll take this guy outside you don't want to do this inside we'll take it outside and put a wire brush to it now you're going to see some cool differences in the different grades or the different grade of cleanliness these pans were these uh small pans so this guy was virtually brand new and you can see it still looks virtually brand new that's the one that we're gonna be carrying out today and then we'll talk about the rest of it this i'm saving the crustiest one for last so inside here is all of the stuff that baked out of there okay so we'll dump it out into here real quick that's the bottom of that pan that pan that we couldn't see any numbers on or anything it's clean as a whistle i'm gonna put it down in the other cast iron skillet and the nasty nasty one is right here so this is just a cleaning cycle look at that you can see right there the five is on there everything's on there okay it did a little bit of damage to the rack here so i got to take the rack out and bend it back into position but let's talk about where we go from here so where we take the crustiness and you can see i would just call it ashy it's just covered in ash we're going to take them out we'll clean them with a wire brush okay guys you can do it with a wire brush you can do it with a brush on the end of a drill which makes it a lot faster what we're going to do you can also just use a kitchen scouring sponge too you can do it right in your kitchen sink it will not hurt these to get wet however i do suggest before you get them wet that you get some oil on them now let's take the cleanest one and we'll show you guys how it looks when it's done we're going to finish it out and it's going to look very similar to that so we're going to go from this to this and it's very very simple guys again it's about saving money it's about passing on something from generation to generation these things can be passed on from generation they're not a throwaway item and we live in such a throwaway world so let's show you what we do and we'll talk about the different kinds of oils that you can use to cure out and

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