Cleaning my Cast Iron skillet

Place it in the oven on a cleaning cycle.
Then follow this article.
curing cast iron

I promise you that you will be blown away with the results. Take the time to do it right.

LINK this is from lodge's website. I had to re-season mine and it worked great

A sponge
A drop of dish soap
Some elbow grease (but not to much)
Rinse
Dry with paper towel

Put your skillet on the stove top on medium/high heat.

Put a teaspoon of lard in the skillet and spread throughout using a wadded up paper towel (held with tongs so you don't burn your fingers)

After you've evenly coated it, turn your heat down as low as possible, and let it continue to slowly (& evenly) heat.
If it starts smoking to much, just take it off the heat.

Boom done.

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but not get down to the molecular level. Like I said, depends on how clean and pretty you want it.

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So, if one wanted the very best... Electrolysis? Anything else?

What do you use to re-season? Lard? Crisco? Your insight would be appreciated.

I stripped one by hand with steel wool and I am not pleased with the results. Seasoned with lard. Several coats. Every time I wipe it out with coarse sea salt and hot water (if something has stuck), I get back to the raw iron.

That's awesome. What voltage did you use on the battery charger?

I've used oven cleaner a few times and always worked well. Heavy coated pots will take a few coats. Lye bath works better.

Great tips, I think I'll go with oven cleaner, see how that works for me and just re season it.

Thanks again all

you can cut an onion in half and scrub it with that to remove some of the grime after the oven cleaner, or dump salt in it and scrub with onion(hard to clean the outside this way though)