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Do you want to go from this
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to this? Now friend of mine found this
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old skillet sitting by a dumpster. Why
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would you throw this old skillet away?
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Look here, it is a Griswold, a drifter.
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It is in bad shape and I'm going to show
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you how to get the rust off this thing.
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First thing I'm going to do is I'm going
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to sand it just a little to make sure
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there's no cracks in there because if
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there is, I'm just wasting my time.
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Next up, vinegar.
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Got to have a little baking soda there.
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They both going to react, make it foam a
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little. We're going to place one in this
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corner, one in this corner.
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Well, let's go ahead and give this in a
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sprinkling while we're at it. More
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vinegar.
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We just want to make sure that them are
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submerged and covered. We're going to
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cover them up, set them aside. I'll see
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y'all in 24 hours. Well, it's been 24
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hours. Notice how the plastic tub
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changed? The other one had a hole in it,
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so I had to make a frantic dash to get
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one and come back for I lost all my
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vinegar. But it looks pretty nasty, it
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does. Just flake off of
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Oh, wow. I think what we need to do
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right now is take the water hose to them
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and give them a really good rinsing,
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then we can sort of see where we're at.
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I mean, when you look at that, this is
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really what you would call probably
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minimal rust on a cast iron skillet.
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This vinegar trick and little baking
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soda soaking 24 hours will get the job
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done easy as it can be. You can see
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these are layers of old seasoning. You
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can see we got down to a little bare
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iron right there. I'm going to use a
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paddle brush or a wire brush and I'm
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going to get it in here that's on a
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rotary grinder and I'm going to take
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that off to where that vinegar and that
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baking soda can soak in it one more time
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and I think we'll be to the bottom, raw
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cast iron again.
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Now you don't want to get too deep in
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that. You go to eating in your iron. So
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I went back to some 200 grit and just
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try to polish this thing.
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So, look how far we have come. That lid
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looked like it's brand new. Now, it
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wasn't as bad as the skillet, but it had
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quite a bit of rust. After I got it
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cleaned, I seasoned it twice on the
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stovetop. Then I preheated the oven and
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done it that way. And uh it has come a
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long way. But, we have so many tutorials
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on our cast iron playlist that will go
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through this process and all the other
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things you need to know to take care of
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your cast iron and turn out the perfect
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meal every time.
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