cleaning used castiron

Let me start by saying, you do NOT have to do this with new castiron !  I was doing a clean out of a rental for a landlord friend and found 2 castiron pans, a comal or flat pan and a small frying pan, they weren't totally crusted like some you find by they were definately grungy. Here's how I cleaned them.

 NOTE: Yes I could have  cleaned them by throwing them in a fire but it was 100 plus degrees f today

Step 1 What I used

salt and enough water to make a paste

Comments

[sydkahn]

When i was a kid - my grandfather used to take the cast iron skillets out in the back yard, build a pile of firewood around them and set it alight. You could see the pans glowing cherry red in the flames - after it all cooled down - clean pans.

Doesn't seem to me to be all that difficult even in the city - just pile a lot of charcoal in the grill...

[l8nite]

Thank you for commenting. I mentioned in the beginning that I could have used the fire method but building a fire in floridas summer heat just doesn't seem like a good idea. Charcoal will do the job but it would take a lot. Another way would be to turn your oven as high as possible and just let the castiron "roast" for a couple hrs, again not the best thing to do in floridas heat..