In today's video we're going to teach you how you can season a cast iron skillet
on the stove or on the stovetop. I get this question quite frequently and so I
thought I would address that today because you can do that. You don't
necessarily have to do it in the oven every time so let's get right to it. I'll
show you exactly how easy this is to do. Okay first thing first we've got our
cast-iron skillet that we picked up from Cracker Barrel, the United We Stand
skillet and we had this in a previous video where we was asking if bacon is
bad for you and you can check that out. But anyway, all we've been doing to this
skillet is basically cooking bacon in like we did that video. And what you want
to do in order to season your cast-iron skillet on a stovetop is once you wash
it, and I just washed it and everything so it's it's dry we've got our burner on
here. Matter of fact I need to turn it down to medium and so we're letting our skillet heat up
a little bit. I saved my bacon grease. This bacon can was my mother's and so it has a strainer
Once you get done cooking bacon you just pour your bacon grease into your can and there's a
strainer there to strain out any bacon bits or whatever so you guys have seen me do that in
previous videos but all you really need to do in order to season your cast iron skillet on the
stove only thing you're going to need is basically bacon grease vegetable oil whatever type of oil
that you choose to use and paper towels and then i use an old soft cloth basically all the time on
my skillets and what you do once this skillet is warmed up you can kind of feel it right here
to the touch and once it's hot you're ready to to go but now in order to keep from burning yourself
you might want to pick up one of these large silicone pot holders and I leave a link to that down in the description box but it easy to hold on to these and won burn your hand but anyway what you going to need to do basically is just pour
in oh about oh half a dollar size or dollar size about a tablespoon in other words take your dry
paper towel and just begin to wipe that around your skillet all the way around on the sides
even the top edges and especially these little pour spouts here be sure and get
them get down in the corner of your skillet and just wipe out any excess oil
because you don't want any oil to pull up into your skillet all you're wanting
to do is just put a small thin layer and then since this skillet is already so
warm you can see smoke already beginning to rise from this and that's a good
thing that's what you want you want to bring this skillet up to till it's just
barely beginning to smoke. Now you don't want to smoke your whole house up or anything, but you
just want to bring it up to this point. And that's why we're on medium, roughly medium heat
So once you do that, then basically what you want to do is come back in with your
cloth. And you don't have to use a cloth. You can continue to use a paper towel if you choose
And you just wipe the excess out. And it's going to look like that right there. Now
Now, if you happen to have any dry spots, if you see some real dry spots in your skillet
what you're going to want to do after you wipe it out that time, you want to come back in
pour you just a little bit more bacon grease or vegetable oil, whatever you're using
Crisco or whatever, and come right back in and do this one more time
Just take and wipe your oil all the way around your skillet. Be sure and get those pour spouts
be sure and get all the inside edges. And we're not focusing on the bottom of the skillet
if you noticed but we will address that here shortly And see once you get everything wiped out let that set there come up to a smoke point bring it up to where they lightly starting to smoke and then just come right back in with your
your rag and wipe out any excess that may be there. And that's kind of what it looks like right there
This skillet has not been seasoned other than cooking bacon in it and using bacon grease
I have not seasoned this in the oven and you only typically have to do that three or four times a
year if you if you so choose and you don't necessarily have to do that you can actually
just do it right here on the stove top so if you've wondered how to season a cast iron skillet
on the stove top this is how you do it and this rag of course it's going to have a little excess
oil on it from wiping the excess out of the uh the skillet itself so while the burner's still on
You can flip this over and just lightly rub your outer edges and your bottom of your skillet
to get just a small light coat on it and on the handle as well
You can do that too. And that's what that looks like. And so you see how easy that is
We're going to do this one more time there because there's a little bit, I don't know if you can see that or not
there's a little bit of a gray spot in that skillet right along in there
and so what I'm going to do I'm going to go ahead and put about a little over a
tablespoon about a tablespoon or so we're going to get our I'm going to get a
little bit more paper towel because this one's getting oil soaked and skillets
warm so we're just going to take and rub this oil all over especially on that dry
gray spot right there. Be sure and address that. Be sure and get every little nook and cranny, all your pour spouts here, even your handles
And once you get the excess out basically then just let it heat up a little bit And as it heats up and expands there will be just a little bit of excess oil that will come to the top because it heated up
You just basically let it come to that point once your skillet begins to smoke a little bit
And then just come right back and wipe out your excess again. And so we've done that three times
You don't have to do that after cooking unless it's a brand new skillet like this and you want to do that
You can just do that every time after you get done cooking something
Be sure and wash your skillet out good and clean and dry it real quickly
either with a paper towel or on the stove like that. And just take and heat your stove up to medium like we just did here
Pour you just a little bit of bacon grease or vegetable oil or whatever you're using
and just coat that real good and you're ready to put that skillet away and it's ready for use for
the next time that you're ready to cook in it. Well we hope you found that helpful. This is our
new Lodge cast iron skillet and that's what it looks like when we just seasoned our cast iron
skillet on the stovetop and you can do that very easily. As a matter of fact I suggest after you
cook a meal. Be sure and wash and clean your skillet out every time real good. Dry it real
quick. And then you've seen how quick we did this. I mean, just in a matter of a few minutes
you just heat your burner up to medium. And you can do this on a glass top stove or, you know
a gas grill, a gas stove like this or whatever. And just put you just about a tablespoon of
your favorite oil in there. Wipe it down real good. Let it come up to a smoke point and wipe it down
one more time and put it away until you're ready to cook with it again. So hey if you guys found
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