How To Scrub Cast Iron With Salt
The salt breaks up bits of stuck food and residue on the skillet.
How to scrub cast iron with salt. Wash the skillet thoroughly. Slice a potato in half and using the exposed raw end against the cast iron start scrubbing in circles. This step is also known as seasoning your skillet.
Then pour a small amount of oil into the pan and then rub it with a paper towel until the bottom and sides are coated. Wadded up foil along with hot water is rough enough to scrape off stuck on food but not so abrasive that it will strip off all of your seasoning. Let sit and dry.
Heat the pan over low heat for a minute to dry it completely. Pour two tablespoons of Cast Iron Oil onto the cookware and use a microfiber cloth to work the oil into the cast iron. If you need to use a clean paper towel to remove any excess oil.
How to Clean Cast Iron with Salt A sprinkling of coarse saltabout a tablespoonwill do the trick on tough residue. Sprinkle liberally with kosher salt and scrub with a wet paper. Cleaning a Cast Iron Pan with Salt.
Scrub your cast iron with cotton towel once your pan is clean wipe out excess salt and oil into garbage or compost bin. Pour a tablespoon of cooking oil into cast iron and heat pan on stove to warm oil. Gently scrape left over bits out of your cast iron.
The internet is full of recipes and tips see soft scrub and salt scrub for cast iron. Cover the iron skillet with the coarse salt and using just one half of the potato scrub the salt along the pan. A while ago I saw a video about the right way to clean a cast iron pan and what the guy did after cooking a single egg was dump literally about a cup of salt into the pan and rubbed it around with a bunch of paper towels.