How do I clean up a rusted old iron skillet?!


Question: How do I clean up a rusted old iron skillet!?
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Unless you have a fireplace in which you can place the skillet in some hot ashes and let set until cool and wipe and repeat as many times as needed to clean it then you will need to do this: Dampen a cloth with vegetable oil and rub the skillet!. Place the skillets in a heated oven set at 350 F and heat until smoky!. Using heavy oven gloves, carefully remove the skillet!. Rub again with vegetable oil until any loose residue is removed!. Repeat this process until all the rust and residue has been removed!. Once your skillet is rust-free, keep it in a warm, dry place!. The oven is home for mine! If you don't use the skillet very often, rub it with oil once in a while to keep it rust-free!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

It will clean up very easily, and will be a treasure forever!. One of my favorite cast iron pans was something I found in the sand at a beach, all rusty and abandoned!.

Wash it really well with soap and water (first and only time you'll use soap on it!)!. Rub vegetable oil on it and put it in a 200 degree oven for about an hour!. Take it out, let it cool, add about a 1/4 inch of vegetable oil and put it in the oven again!. Take it out and wipe it out!. The rust should be gone at this point, and now you need to season it!. I like to season mine by oiling them and putting them the oven after I'm done cooking something, and turn off the oven and then just leave it over night!. Do it again the next time you're cooking in the oven!. That way you don't need to turn the oven on specifically to do this, so you're saving a bit of energy!. I used to keep my cast iron pots in the oven until my DH killed one of them by preheating the oven for pizza without checking first!. He did that to another one that was on the stovetop-- turned the wrong burner on!. So, my cast iron lives in the pantry and my hubby doesn't get to touch them!

My very favorite is a Dutch oven that was once my grandmother's!. They are the best and original non-stick pan!. A rusty one is a treasure!. Just keep seasoning until you build up that nice smooth black surface!. When in doubt, oil and heat it again!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

You mean as a decoration, right!?
I highly recommend that if you are considering using it as a tool for cooking food you reconsider, and throw it away or turn it in as scrap metal!. Rust causes pitting mostly at microscopic levels!. These become dwelling places for food and bacteria, it can kill you!.
I have been through food handling in the service as well as three state programs, and they all agree on the presence of rust on any utensil, "Throw it out!"Www@FoodAQ@Com





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