Food Cast iron cookware

[Millwright]

FOOD - Seasoning cast iron.

We decided to make a big pot of stew yesterday. I picked up a big (12") dutch oven in a pawn shop for $30 last year. Whoever hocked it had left some oil in it, it took a pry bar to open the lid. After a bit of wire wheel action, it was bare iron and usable. Started looking for the optimum oil...

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[Orion Commander]

BTW..I wouldn't give two nickels for that new stuff, with the rough cooking surface. Wasted good money trying that Lodge junk they sell these days, and shuffled it off to the Goodwill pronto. So much for advertising. They obviously never cooked with good cast iron pans.

There are utube videos showing how to grind the new Lodge pans so they are smooth. Personally I like my garage/ thrift store finds. Use them every day.

 

[oops]

Between gran n hubby's gran...mountain man re- enactments...we have to much cast...most used daily to weekly...except for hubby's griddle n one Dutch oven...I flat out refuse to try to lift let alone carry"m...

 

[Delta]

We have cast iron, ceramic, and stainless steel cook wear, but the stainless has been relegated to a cabinet in the garage because food "always" stuck to it and it became a pain. The ceramic is/was my go to skillet for eggs. Then yesterday I ran across the attached (or a version of it) as click bait--the point being heat the pan first, and bring your food to room temp. I dusted off one of the stainless skillets and tried it with my eggs this morning. No stick at all. I may try that one of these days with the cast iron. We had Teflon, but it wore off and I really didn't want to eat the Teflon.

Are You Cooking with Stainless Steel the Right Way?

A complete guide for how to cook with stainless steel.

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[lonestar09]

I just came across a cast iron tortilla press and am looking at getting it shortly. Not made in China but of all places Colombia.

 

[kyrsyan]

I just came across a cast iron tortilla press and am looking at getting it shortly. Not made in China but of all places Colombia.

One of these has been on my want list for a while. One day.

 

[nomifyle]

I just came across a cast iron tortilla press and am looking at getting it shortly. Not made in China but of all places Colombia.

Colombia has probably been making them longer than china, since tortillas are a main stay in their diet.

 

[Cyclonemom]

Update.

Wonders never cease! I've been haunting thrift stores and antique malls for older cast iron pieces. Nothing. Well, nothing that wasn't severely warped and cracked.

I came home for Thanksgiving and mentioned to my mom that I have started using cast iron more. Now, my mom does not experiment with cookware. She still uses the mustard yellow Club pans she received when she was married. I have never known her to use anything else.

She proceeds to pull out 3 cast iron skillets. A lighter weight one from a local electric co-op,which she said she likes because it's lighter weight, but really doesn't use.

THEN she takes out the other 2 a friend gave her that she says are far to heavy. A #8 Wagner, and a #8 Erie (pre-Griswold name, but same company). !!!!!!!!!!!!

Sweet Jesus. All along, my MOM had what I was looking for, without even knowing it!!!

She is keeping the lighter one she likes, and giving me the 2 older, heavier ones.

Christmas came early this year !