Pots and Pans at Townsends www.townsends.us/collections/pots-pans

I am legally blind and have been watching your channel for a little while now. I love how you describe everything. Keep up the good work. It definitely makes me want to get into doing some of these projects here in my town to get people interested in history. This is one of my favourite time period in history.

@qasimthedream5243

2 жыл бұрын

Watching?

@rebeccanater

2 жыл бұрын

My mother is legally blind too (macular degeneration) i always joke every year the tv gets twice as big and the couch gets twice as close

@Valscorn01

Жыл бұрын

@@qasimthedream5243 Blind people can in fact watch tv, depending on the level of blindness they have.

You know, out of all the seasoning vids on youtube, your's is the only one to show a comparison of an unseasoned and seasoned pot. Well done.

@PaleHorseShabuShabu

5 жыл бұрын

*yours

I don't know how to say it differently- I love your friendly and warm attitude in these videos. They are so nice to watch!

" . . . . you may not have an oven like THIS . . . " So politely spoken, and so true. LOL

@lukefrombk

8 жыл бұрын

+leon bushnell LMFAO ^^^

@krafty65

6 жыл бұрын

I do not have an oven like this.... but I sure wish I did! I really dig that little wooden door he slides into place. Very cool setup. Building one outdoors near the patio is on my "one of these days" list... lol!

@vanzarockin

4 жыл бұрын

My aunt and uncle had an antique house with the original kitchen. They added modern amenities, but on special occasions we'd fire up the original hearth/oven and cook beans, stews and breads using recipes from her 1st edition The Fannie Farmer Cookbook. Such an amazing experience!

Properly seasoned cast iron cook ware is wonderful stuff. I have some of my grand mother's cast iron, which she inherited from her mother. I'm almost 70. Two of the frying pans and one dutch oven are over 150 yrs old and look the same as the day I got them. They will last as long as they are taken care of.

@flores7480able

5 жыл бұрын

@E S hahaaaaa

@Sharberboy

5 жыл бұрын

A 70yr old with the name macnutz420 gtfoh.

@taniaearle4457

4 жыл бұрын

That's fantastic, generations of pots, gives me the warm fuzzies. Look after those Pots! 😊

@stanky6261973

4 жыл бұрын

That's fantastic!

@stanky6261973

4 жыл бұрын

@@taniaearle4457 I swear I didn't see your reply before I left mine.

Flax seed oil ... Thanks for that vital piece of info, Jon & all the commenters! As for the folks who say never to wash cast iron: we've been washing cast iron pans forever (well, as far back as late 1800's); just make sure not to soak them, to get all the soap rinsed out, and to dry thoroughly. Occasionally, had to re-season a pan, but not as often as you'd think. I've even soaked my fav cast iron fry pan, scoured, rinsed and re-seasoned it; no harm done. Keep 'em stored away from humidity.

cast iron its all i use! last forever i have some i use given to me from my grand mother she was 93 when she past, you just keep handing them down after generation after generation ..and once again thank you for keeping our history alive!!!!!!!!!

Love these videos. Well thought out, polite, educational, and he mentions that catalogue/website but does not push you on it. That's awesome for me. I hate videos where they mention a website multiple times.

@niteshademusic5262

7 жыл бұрын

agreed. hes like we got this very politely and then video is all about learning you and not selling you.

This reminds me of my grandmother seasoning her pans. Her house was heated with a wood stove and she would rub either bacon grease or lard on her pans and put them into the wood stove to season them.

Holy molly this was 11 years ago! And I still come and watch it cos its so helpful!

i have just recently re-seasoned some cookware, did some reading beforehand, and it worked out great, so here's a little info dump. hope it helps somebody. :D flax oil works so well, because it polymerizes very readily. that's why it's used for varnish, paint and putties for centuries. it seems to build up more glazing than other oils too, i need much fewer layers than with olive oil, to get a rough, cast pan glassy smooth with it. (the outside doesnt need as many layers) there is a temperature, where the coating turns slightly siver-ish from pitch black. that's perfect to finish off the seasoning for maximum hardness and almost teflon like non stick proerties, but dont go there, untill just before you take it off the heat. the coating turns back to black as soon as it's cooled a bit, and you give it a last quick wipe with your trusty oily rag (tm).

@TheStaniG

5 жыл бұрын

Very helpful, cheers.

Every time I watch this channel I get the sudden urge to buy a woodburning stove, grab a cast iron pan and start cooking stuff in lard. Meat, vegetables, my iPhone, an old shoe. It doesn't matter. I just want to know . . . WILL IT LARD?

@d4n4nable

6 жыл бұрын

That desire really burned itself into the collective human psyche over the few thousand years of sedentary farming life, huh?

@sage0925

5 жыл бұрын

They did use a lot of lard in the day, didn't they. While it adds great flavor, I'm an older person and I'm going to have to do without. Trying to get my blood lipids down to something reasonable, and lard just isn't going to help. LOL

@taniaearle4457

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@ocarinalover1214

4 жыл бұрын

This is surreal in 2020 to read a comment talking about GMM that's been going on for years.

Spot on. Ive had a cast iron skillet for 15 years and its as good as the day it was cast. In that time the latest "wonder" cookware has come and gone. Our ancestors weren't stupid people and used cast iron for a reason😁

@jcmorgan26

6 ай бұрын

I always find it really interesting that our best and most efficient form of stove (induction) is perfectly suited to one of the most ancient forms of cookware we use

And once again, the old dog learns a new trick. Thanks.

I would like to add that this goes for seasoning any iron if you wish. I make wrought iron spiders, pots, trivets, and whatever people want and give this as a "finish" option.

One thing to keep in mind is that flaxseed oil rags can spontaniously catch fire.

@jennieredrose5819

5 жыл бұрын

Spontaneously!??? Without any flame being near it, it will just burst into flames? Is this true?

@debbiej.2168

4 жыл бұрын

@@jennieredrose5819 Yes, it's true. Do a search on KZread.

@jamesmurray3926

4 жыл бұрын

completely true. it's any oil also. actually it is any hydrocarbon, like oil based stains and paints. any solvent has this ability also, think turpentine, mineral spirits, etc

@gregorymalchuk272

4 жыл бұрын

@@jennieredrose5819 Flaxseed oil tends to polymerize and form a hard, plastic-like substance. This makes it great for use as a finish for wood products. But the reaction is exothermic. Rags soaked in flaxseed oil (linseed oil) tend to both maximize the surface area exposed to oxygen and speed up the reaction, and the fabric insulates the heat from escaping. A pile of these rags can indeed burst into flames.

I’ve been watching you forever and now i finally bought a cast iron pair for my birthday. I’m so excited. 🎉

Truly, you are an excellent teacher. Informative yet easy to grasp, this is brilliant guide to seasoning iron cookware. Thank you as always!

I love this channel--so much fun and so much information. Cast iron is fantastic for cooking and will last nearly forever with care. Some of the pieces I've inherited must be pushing the century mark by now and they're still as good as new. Thanks for all the great videos, Jon!

I've tried almost every oil for seasoning and just recently I discovered flax seed oil and it works awesome. I had a old rusty skillet I scrubbed with a brillo pad and seasoned with flax oil and it looks brand new. The coating gets hard and slick almost like teflon.

This has got to be my favorite channel on youtube. I could just watch your videos for hours a day.

well, I love iron skillet, they are amazingly resilient. I've had some handed down to me all rusted and dirty. I simply scrubbed it out good, and reapplied oil and baked it in the oven for an hour or so, then wipped it out and did it once more. it worked nicely, and I used it for years and years. thank you for showing us all these helpful hints.

I wish you safe travels and thanks for the enlightening shows

Great Channel! I love these videos they're so cheerful and historically accurate and educational! I didn't even know you had to do that! Before I thought Iron cookware was just magically non stick and very rust resilient!

That was the most in depth cast iron seasoning video I have seen! Thanks Townsends!

This was super helpful as it was my first time seasoning cast iron over an open fire. Thank you!

I love both my cast iron skillet and dutch oven. Soaps, stews, sauces, pan roasting... they're so versatile.

Whoo! Another Jas. and Townsend video! (Love how he cares about the smell and our homes.)

The best video on seasoning i have seen so far, simple and educative. I love your outfit and your kitchen lol...

This is great!!! I've been looking for a correct, accurate video about doing this. Thank you so much!!!

I’m sure you’ve heard it many time but nevertheless thanks for what you do. Great content, well produced and the love of the craft is evident. Fantastic channel, thanks again!!!

I did not know you had to do this, I'm not in any scenario where I had to learn or use this. When I read the title I thought it was a process like pre-seasoning then adding your food. You learn new things every day.

Hey Jon! 1. Sorry for the times I've called you James. Force of suggestion from the name of the company. 2. I'm am always surprised and pleased at the little snippets and treasures I find on your channel. I was thinking to myself about how I could re-season or otherwise care for cast iron on the road, i.e camping or something, and I see this video as I am reviewing another video on the same subject of seasoning cast iron cookware. Color me delighted! 3. Coming back to the channel after awhile is like meeting a distant uncle or cousin who is a bit odd but utterly delightful. Thanks for all you share.

Your vids are always so good. Thanks

you should keep a skep beehive! and make candles and honey, and mead- those such thigns

If you're looking for a less caustic method for next time, a trick my mother uses with great success, cook a tomato sauce in the pan to strip it then render some bacon to season the pan.

@suzibikerbabe8073

4 жыл бұрын

I found a nice old Dutch oven and didn't want to mess around with the seasoning on it so instead washed it vigorously a few times (it had spent a few years collecting dust, literally) and then made batch after batch of popcorn. The popping 'scrubbed' the surface, and the popped corn soaked up all the old nasty oil and yes, toss that popped corn out! When a batch came out smelling and tasting good, and looking 'clean', it was done. I didn't do all the batches at once either, just one every few nights.

Thank you I had heard of seasoning the pans. And was somewhat familiar with what to do but it is nice to see someone really go thru the process. I didn't what kind of oil to use for seasoning so that will help. My Grandmother used hers when they would go up into Canada when my mom was a teen. They built a cabin back up on a lake. So some of the things you talk about they would do. Very helpful video.

I've had the best results with flax seed oil, too. One thing I don't see mentioned often that I picked up someplace a year or two ago is to simmer the clean, unseasoned iron in a strong tea for 10 or 15 minutes to build up a protective layer of black oxide on the surface of the iron. I don't know yet if it'll affect the durability of the seasoning but it definitely helps prevent rust.

It helps to season a pot up side down to keep oil from pooling on the bottom. Pooled oil can be gummy and get rancid. Great video, thanks.

The French chef I trained under always insisted that flax seed oil was the only possible choice for seasoning cast iron because it forms the hardest surface with the highest smoke point of all the oils and fats used to season with.

@TheSchweeps

7 жыл бұрын

Jon Mayo a

@TheStaniG

5 жыл бұрын

Guess frenchie was right. Good on him

@cranberry6pointOh

5 жыл бұрын

I've seen a lot of praise for flax seed oil & not much in the way of facts. How's it compare to lard for durability, ease of seasoning, smoke point, etc?

@90whatever

3 жыл бұрын

I have read that grapeseed and avocado oil are equally good due to the high smoke points.

This is the best seasoning video on you KZread. .

in Britain people throw away cast iron cooking pans, you can pick them up for nothing, they are too lazy to season them. I've got a cupboard full.

@konicu

7 жыл бұрын

that's sad to hear. I grew up with cast iron and that's mostly what I use still.

@mackenziedrake

7 жыл бұрын

IMO, that's insane. I love my stainless steel for some things, but there is nothing like cast iron.

@reginaromsey

7 жыл бұрын

Rufus Chucklebutty , true in the U.S. Too. I have a set of all sizes of skillets and a couple of pots. They were either my mother's, Grandmother's, or Good Will ((Oxfam) funds . I've only found frying a steak with a brown sugar rub marinade to be a problem.

@niteshademusic5262

7 жыл бұрын

same in the states. cheap or free. sand the rust off season and good to go.

@garethm7510

4 жыл бұрын

Well that's not really true, a lot of younger people like more modern cookware.

Another great vid. Thanks for posting these!

I just discovered your channel. Your presentation is great. It is well planned, educational, pleasant, and engaging (without being "in your face"). Very enjoyable.

Fantastic -- fun, friendly, and informative. Thank you!

more fun and easier than any video i have ever watched on youtube thanks

Just got a cast iron skillet for grilling steaks, remembered your video and came back to touch up my memory. Love the content.

I love my cast iron!! Thanks for another great video.

That was amazing and I need a folding pan now!!! Blessings 🙏

thank you for your wonderful videos wonderful on many different levels technically and historically and for providing us with a greater appreciation of what those who came before us went through . viewed through that lens when would or should find it very difficult to complain of many of our daily circumstances today.

@coachmen8508

6 жыл бұрын

one not when

I'm STILL watching the old ones (again) and I TOTALLY agree with the opening remarks of THIS one and of cast iron!! ☺

Awesome video, well done. Glad I found you on here. I have an old cast iron griddle, flat on 1 side, ribs on the other. I guess I would season it the same way as you did here? I've never seasoned cast iron before, well, 1 time I did but I messed it up.

I really appreciate your tutorial. Thank You

This was Helpful! Thanks

@townsends

8 жыл бұрын

+Matthew Hunt thanks for the comment!

I love this channel! Such interesting content! This episode is particularly interesting. I’ve been curious to know how to properly season my cast iron pans. How often should you re-season your cast iron?

THANK YOU. AT LAST the way to do it without an oven. THANK YOU !!!

Really enjoy your videos mate 👍👍 Thanks. Could totally see you with your own tv show here in Australia on the ABC television network. Keep up the great work 👍👍

Excellent demo

Wow this video is ancient but its really inspiring to see how the quality of his vodeos have stayed true all these years

I'm so glad I happened on your Site by accident watching hundreds of cooking videos and I love this Era in American History as one of my favorite films is "The Crossing" starring Jeff Daniels as Washington. as well as further back when the Pilgrims found Plymouth and the history of Thanksgiving.

Flax seed oil is definitely the best. Hands down. My eyes bugged out when it was mentioned. This guy knows his stuff!!!!!!!!!!

@katherineurbahn-hall8545

8 жыл бұрын

Yep, same here! I grinned teally wide when he said flax oil. Just love this guy!!

@katherineurbahn-hall8545

8 жыл бұрын

Yep, same here! I grinned really wide when he said flax oil. Just love this guy!!

Enjoyable and informative video and thank you sir. I love your wood oven. It makes me jealous! I just ordered a catalog, liked and subbed.

great video keep them coming

These videos make me want go out into the wilderness and leave the craziness behind.

Damn, this channel is awesome.

I usually season my skillets on the burner or in the oven. I wondered how one would do it on an open flame though. Great video!

Pure gold, thank you

Outstanding. Thank you.

Thank you for this information.

We usually put another layer on the cast iron when someone sets the self clean mode on the oven and turn the hood fan...kills 2 birds with 1 stone so to speak!

@mackenziedrake

7 жыл бұрын

That's rather brilliant. Now that we're coming into summer here, it will be a late-night operation anyway.

@matthewpham9525

7 жыл бұрын

I hear using the self cleaning option to clean seasoning really screws up the heat treatment.

@mackenziedrake

7 жыл бұрын

What heat treatment are you referring to?

@matthewpham9525

7 жыл бұрын

Heat treatment isn't the right term, but it can screw up the pan.

@suzibikerbabe8073

4 жыл бұрын

That isn't so great for your ovens rack, though. ;)

Try Crisbee Cast Iron Seasoning. Flaxseed oil often flakes off over time.

I love my cast iron! I do the vast majority of my cooking on it.

I clean after use with salt and a little oil; never any soap. If camping outside, fine sand works well; and always dry and reseason with oil after use. acid eats into seasoning so dont leave acidic foods in cast iron for long. loved your video, didn't know about flax seed. will use that next time. I've always used lard. I have some old recipes. do you have an email. happy to share them. no dates but most go back to civil war. been in family years.

Useful. Thanks

Inconceivable!

he is so right,..i have watched many videos on youtube on seasoning cast iron pans, and there are so many variations on it, that i decided screw it..i will stick with what they had a century or more ago..i use bacon fat, and or lard..works for me..

i've seasoned my shovel just one time! and it worked well....

Lovely pot both before and after.😀 I go to look it up at the Townsends store. 😉

I came to learn from the best. I left satisfied

I switched to mostly cast iron about three years ago, as I was tired of buying non stick skillets and having them lose their non-stickness in less than a year, even when I was careful to use only plastic/silicone utensils. I use Lodge specifically as I like to buy US made when possible. I use my 10 inch skillet almost daily, and I make "no knead" bread in my Dutch oven pretty regularly! I've always used canola oil for seasoning. I typically set the oven to 450-500 and do several layers with the skillet upside down in the oven. I've never used flax seed oil and may try that next time I season.

another good video!

For those curious why you want to avoid harsh detergents on a chemical level, when he explains that it's due to the soap geting into the coating and your food tasting of it he's exactly right! Soaps are made from fatty acids combining with salts, and exposing it to more fatty acids that aren't already bonded with salts will encourage some salts to associate with the fats in your cookware, leaving a thin coating of soap in your cookware. The harsher the detergent used, the more reactive it is, which means the more likely it's going to affect the coating in your cookware, and the stronger the effect is going to be. It's like the difference between using dilute and concentrated acetone as paint stripper (I've deliberately kept this simple, but all the information is, to my knowledge, up to date with what we know of the chemistry of the process).

Interesting stuff

Awesome! Thanks so much for this video. I recently bought q cast iron set but i dont have an oven. I intended to use the cast iron pots to cook outside. Been wondering how to season them.... Guess i can season them on the oil drum outside, using the bbq cover to create the oven effect.

Thank you! Cheers

Thank you! I bought a Duch Oven and all the documentation and people I talk to say you have to use a home oven to heat it, I don't have one! I can however use a campfire like you have shown. Next job after that is get cooking with it! :-D

Years ago a friend of mine, after admiring my cast iron collection, asked how to season the new one she bought. I gave her the instructions from clean and dry well to final baking. She called a week or so later and bemoaned the death of her pan. She, being an admitted non-cook, went for a short cut on the first step and put her cast iron pan ... into her dishwasher. The pan wasn't the only thing ruined!

First rate brother. Class act.

There’s a reason why they call it flake seed oil. It doesn’t hold up to the constant heating and cooling cycles as well as other oils. It polymerizes so hard it doesn’t have room to flex and contract so it flakes. Grape seed oil and crisco are the most acceptable ways to season cast iron. Sure lard and tallow will work too

I was just wondering about seasoning cast iron today... And boom Townsend and sons comes through again

I gave up and used coconut oil. It worked amazing!

my cast iron skilletts,and pots,i inherited from my mother,and grand mother,some i picked up cheap in rummage sales, they are very old,and my favorites to use,i use bacon grease to season. if you get a rusty one,sand blast it,then re season it.

Thanks just hot 3 pans today and needed to learn this

Is it possible to do the tutorial on how to season clay cookingware?

What's interesting to note is, the techniques used then are still relevant today.

Hi Jon, I have been watching your video's for almost 1 year and am an avid fan. Thank you.I am fascinated with your kitchen and was wondering if you have completed any videos going over the design and construction of the 18th century kitchen. I am curious about how the oven is incorporated into the build of the wall. Is this an earthen oven as in your previous video. Also are the walls straw bale? Any info or links you can share would be most appreciated.Thanks again for you and your production teams efforts. Most informative. Really can't seem to get enough.

i gotta do this with my cast iron... love cast iron apple pie :)

Store your flax seed oil in the coldest part of the refrigerator, but not the freezer. It won't go rancid for quite a long time (years in my experience.) If you are worried whether you can tell if it's rancid, put a few drops on a napkin and leave it out for a week, then compare the scent of the napkin to the smell of a couple of drops fresh out of the 'fridge.

Hey John, come back and revisit this episode. Let's see how they held up!