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Hey, you know folks is always asking me, what's your favorite way to clean cast iron after you cooked in it
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That's one method, and that's the one he prefers, but it's not the one we prefer
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Stick around, I'll show you how we do it. All right, folks, we just got through eating some breakfast
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It was some sausage and some eggs. Who, wish you would have been here. Now, you can see there's some stuck-on food particles left from that sausage
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and this thing is cooled off a little. Got to be hot to clean it this way
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So if I can figure out which one of them knobs, up, ain't thatting
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There we go. If there's a wood stove, I'd know where it at. Let this heat up just a minute
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Now, while it's heating, we've got to heat our heart water. So we're going to turn this on to hot water
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hot, let it run till it gets good and hot. You cannot clean cast iron cold water to hot iron
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It'll go crack, but it's always been safe to clean it with hot water, hot iron. It's going
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to make a steam let it run for a little bit to you know it good and hot I mean hot to where it burns your finger Now this has already got hot I can see a little smoke coming off of it That water good and hot We turn this fire out It is good and hot
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So, don't get your face directly over this. We've got hot water, we've got hot iron
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What's going to happen? Steam. And it comes off, oh, so easy
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Now, you can do this with a rubber spatula. You can do it with a rubber spatula. You can do it with one of these, the soft side
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Just be careful that you don't burn yourself because that iron, remember, is hot
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Ain't no food particles on there, but what's left? We've got to do something now
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What are we going to do? Dry it back out, resean it just like I've told you, every time
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Sometimes on this steam method, if something's really stuck on there, really bad, gravy burn on there
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eggs burned, that sausage burned a little bit, you may have to do this twice
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When you have that stuck on mess that it don't come off the first time, put it back on the fire, let it get hot, let your water get hot again, and that steam will get that second course. It'll be off there quick and easy
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See me clean that old piece of iron there with the steam. That is the best method ever. Remember, hot water for hot iron
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Now we fried us some rooster bullets or some cackleberries in this old thing this morning We been sitting in there eating They sort of stuck on a little So we going to add the salt to it folks and you can see them eggs really just sort of stuck on one side So we going to make sure it got a good coating
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And it's just going to take just a smidgen of water. That's Oklahoma for about that much. Okay
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Now you can see that ain't much. We'll take soft side of our sponge and we'll just let that abrasive there work just a little
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But we ain't really scratching that cast iron. all that much. It's going to dissolve some of that salt. That's why it ain't hurting your iron
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Rinse her out of good. There we go. Be sure that you put a little water with your coarse salt
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because we're not wanting to scratch the finish of that iron. We're just wanting that to
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loosen that debris that's on there, them stuck on eggs or something like that. We
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rinsed it out. We took a rag, we dried out the excess moisture. Now we've got to figure out again
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in which one of these turns on the burner. We're going to bring it back till it's hot enough to re-season
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because every time you use it, you reseason. That's what's going to give you that good finish all the time
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Not once a week, not twice a week. Every time you cook out of it, every time you clean it, re-season it
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I prefer olive oil or flaxseed. We're going to get this hot enough to season
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and by that when you can put your finger on it and hold it and mine have been burnt a lot it hot enough to season you can do this cold because the pores aren open
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and you'll just have an oil slick but you can't do this too hot because you're
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burning the oil before it gets to be absorbed to make your season to make your
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finish now this is ready to go I got a little olive oil here it don't take
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much I promise you we're gonna go About that much right there
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Now, I'm going to use this deal because I don't want to burn my fingers. Bottom, sides everywhere really good
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Make sure you don't leave any excess oil in there. We just want to give that a good coating
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You can see that shine. Hey, it's ready to go next time. Hey, done job, slicker to finish
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But make sure you always check this. It don't never hurt to give it just a little coat there, just what's left on the rag
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Now, the most healthiest thing you can eat. eat out of in your entire life piece of iron. You absorb iron by eating from iron. Like Shan said one time
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ain't nobody going to fight in the wheel for I want the Teflon. They'll fight over the cast iron
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Take care of it. It'll be something that you can pass on for generations to come. God bless you
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