Posted: 8/28/2012 3:08:47 PM EDT
Is awesome! I don't know if anyone here uses it (I'm sure some do), but after about a year of use, and seasoning, its just as good if not better than my nonstick Teflon pans. It can be frustrating at first if they are not seasoned correctly, as everything sticks. But yesterday I just used it to cook some steaks, and made gravy in it. Cleanup consisted of wiping it down with a paper towel and turning the burner on high. Also, no better tool for searing a steak and throwing it all in right in the oven. Gunna use it again tonight for some home grown Zucchini Parmesan, and I may post the results 
Anyone else here a fan? I know, random thread, but I am fairly new here and want to meet other cast iron fans 
|
|
Quoted:
I love it. 
My wife is afraid of it, like it requires this mystical secret ritual to use.  So true! My wife hates it too. When its her turn to do the dishes, thats the last thing she leaves for me. She doesn't want to screw up the method, haha! Probably for the best, if I let her do it I'd find it soaking in a sink full of soap water 
|
|
Quoted:
It's all I use for the most part. CI has it's place but it isn't for everything. That said, I probably have around 30 pieces of antique Griswold. Most of my skillets were made between 1886-1892 and I have a couple of CI waffle irons from the 1920s. You, sir, are a true enthusiast! |
|
I have five skillets of various sizes plus a Lodge Dutch oven. I use one or more of those almost daily. My smallest skillet is almost 20 years old and has been used only for frying and flipping eggs, with butter or bacon grease. It's as slick as ice. My then-wife, all girlfriends, and guests who cook have all been warned that the penalty for misusing that one is death. |
|
I have become a huge fan of baking bread (no knead bread recipe) in a cast iron 5 quart dutch oven (Lodge Logic). Make at least one loaf/boule a week now.
|
|
Quoted:
I love it.
My wife is afraid of it, like it requires this mystical secret ritual to use. My wife came with her great grandmother 's 100 year old cast iron, and the knowledge past down to use and care for it..... Southern girls Love em or hate em, but the good ones know how to cook... PSA - piss them off and they also have learned the fine art of cast iron skillet Frisbee and are as deadly as that fat asain guy from gold finger Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
Whut? I think there is a thread about this everywhere. Here are three of 250 results: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_1/656538_Cast_Iron_Picture_Thread.html&light=cast%7Ciron http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1331053_Modern_Cast_Iron________why_does_it_suck__RANT_.html&light=cast%7Ciron http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1321625_Help_with_old_cast_iron__Update_with_pics.html&light=cast%7Ciron |
|
Quoted: I have a question. What are the flat skillets without sides good for? I looked at a Wagner in a flea market today that was about $15, needed to be burnt off and re-seasoned, but couldn't see any real use other than grilled cheese, and pancakes. Tortillas warming/cooking, toasting buns for hamburgers, making garlic bread, cooking eggs, etc......... |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
The whole "not supposed to clean it with soap and water " thing is what gets me. Sorry ill take my CLEAN Teflon pan any day. Yuk  You won't make it in the field son....  Haha if I have to ill eat off of a dirty pan, I did in in scouts for years, but ill be damned if ill do it with a perfectly good sink a foot away! |
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
The whole "not supposed to clean it with soap and water " thing is what gets me. Sorry ill take my CLEAN Teflon pan any day. Yuk You won't make it in the field son.... Haha if I have to ill eat off of a dirty pan, I did in in scouts for years, but ill be damned if ill do it with a perfectly good sink a foot away! I honestly don't think you know what you are talking about when it comes to cast iron cooking.... Please read up on it, you might change your mind..
|
|
Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
The whole "not supposed to clean it with soap and water " thing is what gets me. Sorry ill take my CLEAN Teflon pan any day. Yuk You won't make it in the field son.... Haha if I have to ill eat off of a dirty pan, I did in in scouts for years, but ill be damned if ill do it with a perfectly good sink a foot away! 2 hours at 600 degrees in my oven, it's cleaner than any teflon pan you pull out of your cupboard. I was once a non-believer myself
|
|
Skillet Restoration This is my go to skillet for cornbread.
My buddy got me one of these as a joke, but I love it. It's great for grilled cheese 
|
| Nothing can beat seasoned cast iron. Fuck a bunch of teflon. The only things I don't like to cook in 'em are some green things like asparagus, green beens.. they take on a weird color. Taste fine, just something about the iron reacts with the chlorophyll I guess. |
|
Quoted:
It's the only way for cornbread and bacon IMO. Going to be doing some Alton Brown method steaks for supper here shortly too. Big following here for cast iron. my ribeyes came out perfect using Alton's method. fuck standing out in the hot ass Texas sun at the grill when I can make them just as good in the AC'd house. |
|
Quoted:
The whole "not supposed to clean it with soap and water " thing is what gets me. Sorry ill take my CLEAN Teflon pan any day. Yuk if it's been used enough, it won't make a damned bit of difference if you wash it with soap and water. I wash and use mine daily with no problems. not even melted cheese sticks inside. |
Cast iron > non-stick cookware 
|
BIG fan of cast iron. We must have several hundred lbs of the stuff by now. I just found a skillet the other day I didn't know we had, all crusty and crappy looking, especially on the bottom.
20 gallons of water, some laundry soda, a scrap piece of steel, a 6 amp manual battery charger and a couple days of soaking and that thing came out looking brand new! Nicely seasoned now, although it still can use some more, and I have another great cast iron skillet to use! Only about 10 in the house! Kenny, get yourself a good cast iron skillet, Lodge makes a good if a little rough, sand the cooking surface down a bit (don't overdo it) follow some simple seasoning tips and tricks and start cooking with it. After it's seasoned, clean it in the sink pretty much like any other cookware - a little less detergent - and you too will become a believer!!! Good luck. |