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How to Season a Cast Iron Skillet, With Rajiv Surendra | Life Skills With Rajiv

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If there’s one thing everyone should have in their kitchen, it’s a basic cast iron skillet. However, what comes with owning one is knowing how to properly care for it, so today, Rajiv shows us how to properly season a cast iron skillet so it works just like new every time you use it.

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20 Comments

@ryechal 4 years ago

Give this man his own show!!! : )

@Kookka_ 4 years ago

More Rajiv please!! I love everything he does.

@LedgerAndLace 4 years ago

Next up: Rajiv paints his walls and we watch them dry with him . . . because we would watch Rajiv do anything!

@rebeccaumble-white8607 4 years ago

He is a renaissance man in the truest sense. More Rajiv please!!

@todddarbyshire7944 4 years ago

It seems there are a lot of people who just LOVE Rajiv, and they are absolutely right to feel that way. When I first got married in 1970, I went to auction sales, and ended up filling the house with great old, but well made furniture. Some things I had professional repaired, but mostly, I just found out how to refinish any and everything. You really learn how to appreciate great workmanship, and still have some main pieces after sizing down, like a 400 year old hall table that was in 8 pieces and I made into a coffee table.
Just like Rajiv, I found a quiet pride, joy and appreciation for every piece. It’s like living in an art gallery for a half a century. I would love to know how much money I have saved not having to replace anything , because it lasts and I love it.

@li_celly 4 years ago

Another tip: best to put the oven in a higher temperature as that can polymerize the oil even more, which gives it the shiny look. Another tip is to put the pan upside down while in the oven, and have an aluminum foil under so the oil does not go dripping on the bottom of the oven. It’s really so that the excess oil that wasn’t wiped off doesn’t go inside the pan and give it an uneven coating.

@Hydrantchan 3 years ago

Eight months after first watching this video, I finally have my first thrifted cast iron pan, I'm back again to actually use these lessons! 💖

@senzaliving928 4 years ago

1. I love my cast iron pans and love to see an old pan get a second life. Nice work, Rajiv!
2. I, too, abhor pigeons.
3. I, and the world, need weekly life skill videos featuring Rajiv.

@oldman_eleven 4 years ago

Rajiv needs his own channel. What a legend

@UmmahLadies 4 years ago

i don't even own a cast iron skillet/pan.🤣 i'm just here for Rajiv !!

@whitmaca 4 years ago

If somebody ran chronically low on iron, they could occasionally cook a tomato based sauce (shorter cook time recipes recommended) in a cast iron pan to boost iron in the diet.

@thecharlieL 4 years ago

Rajiv, please create your own YouTube channel!! 🥰🙏🏾

@Mateo-et3wl 4 years ago

Rajiv is the second coming of Prince. I can't wait for his hit single, "When Pans Fry," sung from his antique calwfoot bathtub

@amaliafrancoa8 4 years ago

I do love pigeons.. inocent animals and very gentle if you live close to them and watch them behave. There is a nest in front of my window and when the babys are learning how to fly they trust us and jump to my window and go back and forth :)

@mharteis9658 4 years ago

When I need to find instructions to do something, I tend to search for the easiest, quickest answer.

But then there's Rajiv. He is the only person who I will gladly sit and listen to on how to do tasks with patience and enjoyment!

@lizzysbookspace 4 years ago

Thank You so much. I inherited 3 cast iron skillets from my Portuguese mother who always kept it in our basement cold pantry with a thin layer of lard in it. She cooked a lot in them. I do not have a cold pantry LOL, didn’t quite know how to deal with these pans but they have been in our family for a long time . I never learned how to maintain them . Thank You so much. I worked along with you on this video and they look so good. Making my heritage proud. You are the BEST Rajiv.

@dg-su5sj 4 years ago

Rajiv, you are such a treasure. HGTV handmade, Thank you for investing in his teaching and tapping into his knowledge!!! Reminds me of classic Martha Stewart episodes!!! LOVE!!! LOVE!!! LOVE!!!

@vasanthimehta 4 years ago

How did I miss seeing this talented man on YouTube before !!??! He makes the mundane so much fun and inspiring... a wonderful sense of humor & joie de vivre peppers his presentations... I stumbled by chance on his house tour video on a day when my creativity is down and my mood a bit blah, & watching him quite simply lifted my spirits enough to feel that joy to create art again! I am Tamil (from India) married to a Gujarati, and, have so many Srilankan friends with whom I enjoy the vermicelli (hoppers as they are called) that Rajiv showed the bamboo plates for (in the house tour presentation, not this one, but I have been binge watching his YouTube shows now😁). It is delightful to see someone share the passion for all these little details! So glad I came to know about this talented young fellow!