Hey folks, today I want you to look at this. Can you imagine what we've cooked here
Mrs. Cast Iron cooked me some awesome hamburgers. She does a great job with it
Unfortunately, we don't have any hamburgers to show you, but what I do
have is a mess to clean up. So, in this video, I'm going to show you how to clean
a cast iron grill pan real easily. Now, grill pans are a little trickier than
most other type skillets because they have these ridges in them. But I've got
some scrapers here. Now, these come from Lodge. These work great for like
in the corners of stuff, but this one here is not. And as you can see, the
grooves on our cast iron grill pan, these fit perfectly in the grooves of a grill
pan. So, all you have to do is just kind of line them up like that and scrape all
your excess burn on food or food that's stuck on after cooking in a cast iron
grill pan. So, you can see how I pulled some of that hamburger that was cooked
on the skillet. Now, ideally, the best way to clean any kind of cast iron is
immediately after you're done cooking while the skillet is still hot. But since
we weren't able to do that, you can still clean a cast iron grill pan even after
it's already cooled off. What you want to do, like I said, go ahead and get your
excess burn off pieces off of here and we'll discard that in the trash can. And
then next, I'm going to move over to the sink and I'm going to show you how to clean this. I want to go ahead and rinse my little scraper off. Boy, these are
handy little things. Certainly, for like getting into the corners, you can use
these with. But for the grill pan, this is not a little scraper. It's perfect. What
you want to do, I mean, you can use this hot water like this and take a, you know
just a brush like this. They make different kinds. They've got some that
you can hold in your hand like this. And then this one's a little bit longer handle. I like this one quite a bit. I use it regularly. But there's also another
thing, too, and that's chainmail. If you've not ever used a chainmail scrubber, this
is one that I use quite often. Now, Tricia bought me another one that
actually you can put soap in if you wanted to. You can put your little dab of
soap in it. And folks, I'm just going to tell you, it's okay to use a little bit
of soap in your cast iron if you want to, but you don't have to. I know a lot of
people say not to, but even Lodge says it's okay to use a little bit if you
want to. But in this case, I'm not really going to do that. I'm just going to kind
of show you how we scraped a little bit of that out. Now, we didn't get it all out
As you can see, there's still some in here, but the reason why I'm leaving it
in here and not completely cleaning it is I want to show you another technique
that you can use. And if you're not able to clean it immediately after you're
done cooking while the skillet is still warm, just take you a little bit of water
like this right here and take it back over to the stove. Okay, so now that we're
back over here at the stove, what we want to do, we've got our water in here
and we're just going to, we've got the burner on, we're going to turn this up and we're
going to let this water heat up and the hot water and the steam will help to
clean this and release all this hamburger meat that was left on the
skillet. And as you can see, this water is beginning to bubble and boil a little
bit, so it's really releasing a lot of this baked on, burnt on hamburger meat
that's still on here. So I'm going to turn my heat off and we're going to go back to
the stove, or back to the sink. So we'll turn the hot water on and we're just
going to take our scrub brush and we're just going to begin to scrub down in all
these grooves and release all of this hamburger meat that's been cooked on, baked on
And as you can see, as we heated the water up on the stove, it helps to
release any of the burnt on food that might be stuck to our cast iron grill pan
So what I'm going to do now, I'm just going to take and dump all this water out
wipe it out with a paper towel, and I'm going to take it back over to the
stove top and heat it up and eliminate all the moisture out of it. Okay, we're
back over here on the stove, we've got the burner turned on and we've got our
cast iron grill pan clean and so we're letting it heat up and burn off any
moisture. You don't want to put your grill pan or skillet or any kind of
cast iron away while it's still wet. So this takes a little bit more attention
because of the ridges, but it's real easy to do and once you get everything
completely dry, then just like any other cast iron, to maintain it you want to put
a little bit of oil of some type or another. And we're going to have a little
bit extra because of these grooves. And you just want to let that heat up a
little bit and just take your paper towel or a soft cloth like a t-shirt or
something like that and just be sure and get down in all the grooves and make
sure you wipe out any excess because you don't want any excess oil because that
causes stickiness and we don't want sticky cast iron. So anyway, I just wanted
to show you guys today how easy it is. When Mrs. Cast Iron cooks me an awesome
hamburger in our grill pan to get the grill marks on it, we love that, but
sometimes we don't have the time to clean it immediately, but you can clean
your cast iron grill pan even after it has already been cooked in and cooled
off. So we appreciate you guys. Y'all have a great day. We'll see you again