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