Well, hello folks. It's Mike here. I
just want to welcome you back to Mr.
Cast Iron. I know it's been a while and
I almost quit YouTube over this blue can
right here. Can you see this? Oh, wait a
minute. Wait a minute. Let me turn it
around. This blue can right here of
Crisco
almost caused me to quit YouTube. Really
not this can, but this can was what
caused the controversy.
I recently, well, I say recently, heck,
it's been about 10 months ago now. I
made a video about uh seasoning cast
iron with Crisco. And for many years,
I've used this. And I'm going to tell
you what, it does put a very nice uh
layer of seasoning on cast iron. But
boy, I'm going to tell you what, the
YouTube community nearly crucified me
like I was Jesus Christ going to hang me
on the cross and leave me to die right
there. And so I get it. I understand why
a lot of people are so much against
Krisco. And I must say that, you know,
hey, I get it. It is bad. It's not good.
And I've learned my lesson because I've
had some health problems recently. Uh
it's another reason why I haven't made
any videos. And I've had so many people
reach out to me in a text message or
email or uh even comment on previous
videos that u you know they haven't seen
me make a video in a while and they were
just curious if I was okay. And uh you
know I played it off and said, "Yeah,
I'm doing pretty good. We we'll get back
to it soon and I haven't done it so far.
The last video that I recall making was
some or the long form video was back in
December of 2024 and then I made a
couple shorts uh after that and one of
them was about scrambled eggs and did I
get crucified for that too? I was just
making some scrambled eggs for my wife
and granddaughter. And so the YouTube
community can be wonderful and I love
it. It's an awesome community. But I'm
going to tell you what, there is also
that other factor of people that will
just freaking just nail you down. I
mean, just crucify you to the cross. And
uh but anyway, let's get back to this
blue can that almost caused me to quit
YouTube alto together. And u you know,
the thing about it is everybody was
talking about how bad Krisco is. And
really, it is folks because I've changed
my eating habits. I've changed my eating
styles. I had to I had some health
problems that I really didn't mention to
anybody or anything. And so fatty liver,
I had high sugar, high blood pressure,
you name it. I had inflammation. I had
joint pain. I had all these other things
going on, fatigue, brain fog, you name
it. And uh once I uh eliminated a lot of
this crap that is in our foods and in
the grocery stores and I went back to uh
keto uh style of eating in a sense or
basically even next step forward would
be carnivore which is a meat only basic
uh type uh eating habit or a way of
eating. And so that's what I did. I
eliminated a lot or if not everything uh
low carb to no carb and just basically a
meat only meat salt. I eat bacon, beef,
butter, eggs. Uh I eat shrimp and salmon
and all kinds of things really. But uh
just very little if any vegetables at
all. No breads, no pastas, no rice,
nothing like that. No sweets, no soft
drinks, none of that crap. But let's get
back to this can here. This can is what
was a lot of the problem uh that caused
me to nearly quit YouTube because of the
comments. And let me just read the
ingredients off of this. And once again,
let me say this. Hey, I get it. It puts
a very good layer of seasoning on a cast
iron skillet. You've seen my video.
You've seen what it looks like in the
finished product. But I want you to just
listen to this ingredient list. It says
ingredients. Number one, the very first
ingredient is soybean oil.
The next one is fully hydrogenated palm
oil. And then palm oil, mono and
diglycerides,
TBHC
and citric acid for an antioxidant. I
don't know what any of that crap is
hardly except for soybean oil. But
anyway, it's not good. It's inflammatory
oils. They're they're a product of
manufacturing. They're they're seed oils
that uh you know are processed at a
factory. They're not natural like lard
or bacon grease. You've seen my bacon
grease videos. I really like bacon
grease. Love lard. Love tallow. I've
made tallow videos as well. And those
are all saturated fats from animals
which are actually the best for you.
even though, you know, we've been told
that they're not good and we need to li
eliminate uh all saturated fats like
that. But let me listen here now. Hold
on just a minute. Just hold on just a
second. Listen to the warnings on the
side of this can. It says, "Warning
shortening will catch fire if
overheated. Damage or serious burns may
result. Do heat shortening. Shortening
carefully, uncovered on medium heat. Do
reduce heat if smoking occurs. Do not
leave unattended while heating. Do not
refill can with hot shortening. If
shortening catches fire, do turn off
heat. Do cover pot until cooled to room
temperature to avoid reignition. Do
carry or do not carry pot until cool.
And do not put water on on a hot or
flaming shortening. So, you know, not
only has it got bad oils in it, but it
comes with a warning that, you know,
this is uh definitely
not a good thing. And so, anyway, I just
wanted to come to you guys, let you know
why old Mr. Cast Iron hadn't been around
for a while. But, you know, just hold on
to your britches cuz we're going to be
back and we're going to be talking about
this new way of life. This channel
originally initiated it initially
created it as a keto style keto type uh
channel. We initially changed it later
on after a while uh to a cast iron only
basically type uh channel and we're
going to continue to do all of it. I'm
going to make keto type recipes. I'm
going to make carnivore type recipes.
I'm going to keep uh cleaning,
seasoning, and answering questions about
cast iron and different things like
that. I'm going to continue to show you
some of the cast iron skillets and Dutch
ovens that I've personally bought or
that I'm cleaning up for a customer or
something like that. So, you guys hang
on. It's good to see you again. Glad to
be back. But I just wanted to share with
you what was the controversy. It was my
health mainly, but it was another thing
of how we were crucified over a couple
videos that we created. And I got big
shoulders. I can handle it. So anyway,
we're back in black and we'll see you
guys again. Y'all have a great day. Now
it's Mike over here at Mr. Cast Iron.
We'll see you later. Bye-bye.