Do you have one of these at home? It's a cast iron pan with rust all on the bottom of this pan. Well, maybe somebody put it in the dishwasher or maybe you left it and didn't dry it properly. And so the rust formed and how do you get rid of it? Well, that's what today's video is about. I'm going to show you how to remove that rust with hopefully things that you already have at home. And then I'm going to show you how to re-season it and bring it back to life. So let's get into this. There are a number of different ways that you can get the rust out of these pans. But today I'm going to show you that I'm using an SOS pad like this one here that's a steel wool pad to get that rust out. Now this is the only time that you can use soap in a cast iron pan because what we're doing is we're getting the rust out. We're just eliminating all the seasoning that's in there so we don't have to worry about the soap getting into that and then transferring into our food. That's why you can use soap at this point. Now if you don't have an SOS pad, another thing you can use is some coarse kosher salt, which I have right here. This is a non abrasive type scouring pad that you can use to work that in and remove the rust. So stick around towards the end of this video. I'm going to show you how to cook an egg in this pan after we've seasoned it and to see how well it really turned out. See if that egg will stick or not. So I'm going to take my steel wool pad, get it wet, and then I'm going to place it in the pot and start scrubbing. Now this is going to be the point where you spend the most time working on this because it's going to take some muscle to get rid of that rust. And if for some reason you can't get it all out, then we resort to maybe the second thing using salt. But right now I can see the color of the water has changed and that rust is lifting up. So I'm going to go ahead and scrub the pan. There is a little bit of rust on the handle so I'm just going to do the whole darn thing. And since I can't really see the bottom of the pan very well, I'm probably going to flip this over, do the other side, and then come back to this. Thank you can see already it's looking pretty good. Look at that. So I'm going to flip it over and just give a little scrub once over on the whole thing. Now we're going to be seasoning the whole pan inside, outside, upside down handles, every nook and cranny that we've got. And this SOS pad is doing a great job of getting rid of that rust. Okay, now we're going to give it one more very thorough rinse because we don't want any soap left on this pan. I'm going to wipe the pan with some paper towels of any excess water and then we're going to place it on the stove. Here's one thing you don't want to do ever. And that's what the cast iron pan. If it's hot off the stove, you never want to put cold water into a hot pan because what will happen is it could crack your pan. So just keep that in mind. After letting the pan heat up for say maybe a minute or two, turn off the heat and then we'll let it cool for just a second and then we're going to apply some oil. Now we need to moisturize or oil our pan and the question is what kind of oil should you use? Well, there's all kinds of opinions out there. Some people swear by flaxseed oil, which that is fine. If you want to go to the store and buy that just for this, I don't have that personally and I think any oil that you use pretty much will work. I like to use avocado oil because that's what I have. I use avocado oil, olive oil and coconut oil. Probably coconut oil would work as well. You can use canola oil, vegetable oils, use whatever you have just as long as you do it and that will take care of your pan. So I will pour in a tablespoon or so and you want to rub this oil all over the pan. It's a little bit more meat, so I'm going to use a pot holder and we want to get every nook and cranny here. The handle, the lip, the bottom. And in fact, I'm going to put some more in the bottom. I really want to make sure that every inch of this pan is covered with oil. The handle and inside the little crevices there. Now you'll see I'm doing this in a sheet pan here just to keep the oil contained and not get all over my counter or my cutting board. Alright, so really give it a good rub. Be generous and then I have my oven preheated to 500 degrees. We're going to put this in there so that it can actually bake in and start creating our seasoning. Now you want to wipe out any excess oil at this point so that it's not dripping all over the place. So really wipe it out and we're going to place it in the oven upside down. That way if there's any leftover oil it's going to drip out and we'll put a little sheet of foil in there to catch any drips. There shouldn't be any because you're going to wipe it out really well. So getting the rust off of that pan was in my view fairly simple and easy to do. It did take a little bit of elbow grease but hey, you know, no big deal. So once you get that off of course we put it in the oven and usually you leave it in for about an hour. But when you take all the finish off like we did, you're going to want to season it more than one time. It's just not going to have enough. And every time you use the pan of course it's going to build a little more seasoning as long as you do it properly. So what I'm going to do just for the sake of the videos, I'm going to take that out. It's going to be super hot. You got to be careful that pan is, you know, a good 500 degrees. And I'm going to apply another coat of our avocado oil and put it back in for another half an hour. And I might do that three times just to speed up the building of the coat. Okay. So that's what we're going to do. While we're waiting for our pan to really cook up in the oven, I got a chef joke for you. Here we go. What alloy contains magical properties? Cast iron. If you're finding this video helpful, let me know by smashing the like button. So here's what the pan looks like after one seasoning for 30 minutes and we're going to do this two more times. So here's the cast iron pan after three 30 minute seasonings, which definitely isn't enough. You got to continue to use this in order to build a nice finish. So let's do our test and see where we're at. So we'll take our pan, put it over medium high heat, add some avocado oil and get it hot. So how do you know the oil's hot? Well, mine starts to smoke a bit. So once it's hot, we're going to drop an egg into this, one of the hardest things to cook. Because they like to stick. Even though I hate to say it, it's sticking pretty good. Now really what this means is that the pan is not seasoned enough. So what I've done is I've continued to cook with this pan several times and I've used it maybe six, seven times. I've cooked potatoes, mostly and vegetables in here, some bacon, just to get it seasoned up overall before I give it back to my friend. So now I'm going to show you by cooking an egg again, how well it's improving. Okay, so we'll place our pan over medium high heat, add some avocado oil to it. Just enough to cover the bottom of the pan, let it get hot, swirl that oil around and crack that egg into the pan. Fingers crossed everybody. Cooking pretty good. So here's what's left on the bottom of the pan. I think that's pretty darn good and it's only going to get better. So here's a recap after you cook something in the pan, let it cool, use hot water or whatever temperature the pan is and just rinse it out, scrape it out, then wipe it out with a towel or a paper towel, place it on the stove, dry it out, add some more oil, wipe out any excess oil and let that heat up and get hot for another five minutes and then you're good to go, let it cool and put it away. These pans are amazing, they will last a lifetime if you do just a few simple things to take care of them, you just have to keep up with it and just don't let the water sit in it or you know put it in the dishwasher, basically don't let it rust and you can just continue to build that finish and it will be practically non-stick. Now that your cast iron pan is well seasoned, I will bet you want to try it out on a delicious filet mignon. I will leave a link for you right here on the screen, you can check that out and make such a delicious meal just as a little reward after restoring your cast iron pan. Thank you so much for watching, don't forget to subscribe to my channel, click the notification bell so you'll know when my new videos come out every week and leave me a comment. Thanks everybody, we'll see you next time.