Today on Caveman Keto Quick Tips I'm going to
show you how to resurface a Cast Iron Skillet
We're going to reseason it and the first step is
to remove all this crud. I bought this one at a garage sale for two dollars
and you can see it has a bunch of stuff on the rim
you can barely read the text anymore and there's some
Rust on the bottom of it
The first step in redoing the cast iron is to strip off the original layers of crud.
to do this we're going to use an Electrolysis setup
First you need a Home Depot bucket or some kind of plastic container
you need borax which is a soap from the grocery store
copper wire, a battery charger, a piece of steel
and a piece of wood
Once you have all the parts assembled you're ready to put the rig together
start by putting
the positive ends on the steel rebar that's gonna get
used up and but the negative end
on the actual thing that you're trying to de-rust, in this case our cast iron pan
actually I didn't need the wire, I just used two clamps
I clamped the rebar directly to the side the bucket and clamped
the pan directly to this piece of wood
Then you want to add 4 to 5 tablespoons of the borax solution
I've already done that here, mix it together, and you can see we're already starting to see rust removal
The rust is now bubbling off of the cast iron
I will check back and a few hours and see how the rust is going
so I've just take the pan out of the Electrolysis
setup, its 100% complete, took about 24 hours. Now you can see
the moisture will start instantly re-rusting this untreated pan
But don't worry about really minor surface rust
like the stuff you can see in this. You notice we've cleared out all of the crud, you can now read
all the writing on the pan
Now we're going to start the next step in the process but
that's the conclusion of the Electrolysis