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Now that you have your items collected, you’ll need some way to suspend the skillet in the electrolyte solution. NEVER let the cathode and anode metals touch while the battery charger is on or you may be resetting breakers or buying a new battery charger. Below you can see that I use a 1/2″ piece of EMT and a piece of coat hanger to suspend the skillet, and also conduct the circuit. Notice that the negative side of the battery charger is on the skillet, or cathode. Those bubbles you see are hydrogen, use in a well ventilated area! Your water at first will be clear to cloudy white from the washing soda. Mine is orange with rust here because I have already done a few skillets with this water. The solution will last quite a long time and will probably last longer than you can stand to look at it. If you are using a steel drum you will need to line the pipe with rubber hose, or find another way to isolate the circuit. You want the electricity to pass through the electrolyte.
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Seasoning the skillet is easy. Everyone has their own way of how they think it should be done. I’ll stick to the facts and keep it short. Seasoning has nothing to do with adding spices to the pan. Seasoning is a process where you are heating “oil” past its smoke point so that it chemically hardens and bonds to the metal. Use no oil. Cook with oil all you want but don’t use it for seasoning. You want to use something that is solid at room temperature like Crisco. With the skillet HOT, start applying a thin layer of Crisco to the pan with a folded square of t-shirt or cotton. The entire pan. Top, bottom, handle, everything. The t-shirt will get gray or black from the carbon coming off of the bare metal for the first coat. Apply a very light coat. The hot metal will melt the Crisco and soak up what it wants. Wipe the skillet so it looks wet but don’t apply so much that it leaves streaks or you will have streaks permanently bonded in your cast iron.
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