View Poll Results: do you use cast iron pots and pans?
yes i do
64
88.89%
no i dont
8
11.11%
never heard of them
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cast iron pans do you use them
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From: woodland ca
cast iron pans do you use them
out here in cali everyone uses teflon pans and pots for all the cooking needs, i dont like them cause they scratch to easily and a ruined also they dont have the flavor that a good seasoned cast iron pan will have. i only use cast iron and when my friends come over they are always telling me to come to the future and use teflon or they never have tryed cast iron. they do take more time to clean cause you cant put them in the dishwasher and you have to put oil or grease in them after they are cleaned. but they are tough and leave behind a good flavor
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I do fried eggs in a cast iron skillet. Have to use lots of grease to get them to slide out, but unless a teflon pan is brand new you have to grease them too. Main reason I use a cast iron pan is better heat distribution.
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I use a lot of cast iron pans and pots etc. They cook way better than teflon pans and they are too heavy for my wife to swing at me.
They are not that hard to clean and are almost nonstick if properly seasoned.
I still use the pan that my mom used since before I was born in the 50s, and I even think it might be from my grandma. I also use the pans from my mother inlaw and I think they are also pre 50s.
Nice smooth heating, sear really well when needed and good slow cooking.
Jim Henderson
They are not that hard to clean and are almost nonstick if properly seasoned.
I still use the pan that my mom used since before I was born in the 50s, and I even think it might be from my grandma. I also use the pans from my mother inlaw and I think they are also pre 50s.
Nice smooth heating, sear really well when needed and good slow cooking.
Jim Henderson
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Yes, how in the world would one cook "blackened" anything in any but a cast iron pan? You MUST NOT heat Teflon pans too high without anything in them or they will start putting out fumes. Those fumes must not be good for you as they kill pet birds. 
Makes you think? I've never heard of anyone being killed by fumes from a cast iron skillet. I HAVE heard that food cooked in cast iron actually has higher dietary iron content - as opposed to aluminum pans which seem to have been linked to Alzheimer’s.
(Can you tell I’m rather enthusiastic about using cast iron?)
Makes you think? I've never heard of anyone being killed by fumes from a cast iron skillet. I HAVE heard that food cooked in cast iron actually has higher dietary iron content - as opposed to aluminum pans which seem to have been linked to Alzheimer’s. (Can you tell I’m rather enthusiastic about using cast iron?)
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Originally Posted by Rory Goggin
Yes, how in the world would one cook "blackened" anything in any but a cast iron pan? You MUST NOT heat Teflon pans too high without anything in them or they will start putting out fumes. Those fumes must not be good for you as they kill pet birds. Makes you think? I've never heard of anyone being killed by fumes from a cast iron skillet. I HAVE heard that food cooked in cast iron actually has higher dietary iron content - as opposed to aluminum pans which seem to have been linked to Alzheimer’s.
(Can you tell I’m rather enthusiastic about using cast iron?)
Makes you think? I've never heard of anyone being killed by fumes from a cast iron skillet. I HAVE heard that food cooked in cast iron actually has higher dietary iron content - as opposed to aluminum pans which seem to have been linked to Alzheimer’s. (Can you tell I’m rather enthusiastic about using cast iron?)
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Cast Iron Forever:
Have been using our cast iron cook ware for 40 years and would not think of being without it . We have a set of the new wave teflon pots and pans as well
but still use the cast iron for all those cooking needs that the new ones just don't cut the mustard for.
We have our old ones that like many here were handed down for a couple of generations . I purchased a new set from my outfitting store to use at our main camp a few years ago and they are scrap compared to the old ones .
They heat up twice as fast , do not distribute the heat evenly and are almost impossible to cure a good finish into the steel .
Ain't no speckled trout of mine going from the lake to the open fire in no stinkin'
teflon pan , to be sure .
but still use the cast iron for all those cooking needs that the new ones just don't cut the mustard for.
We have our old ones that like many here were handed down for a couple of generations . I purchased a new set from my outfitting store to use at our main camp a few years ago and they are scrap compared to the old ones .
They heat up twice as fast , do not distribute the heat evenly and are almost impossible to cure a good finish into the steel .
Ain't no speckled trout of mine going from the lake to the open fire in no stinkin'
teflon pan , to be sure .
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> as opposed to aluminum pans which seem to have been linked to Alzheimer’s.
Yea, I was reading a bit on that. I like stainless steel and iron pans. Teflon pans never seem to last, same with cookie sheets.
Yea, I was reading a bit on that. I like stainless steel and iron pans. Teflon pans never seem to last, same with cookie sheets.
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If you soak a cast iron skillet too long in a liquid detergent solution, it will remove some of the seasoning. Therefore, use liquid detergent sparingly on cast iron. Somehow this advice became interpreted by my mother-in-law (no longer with us) as DO NOT EVER WASH CAST IRON. She had a skillet that she used for everything, that had never been washed since 1946. She just scraped out some of the bigger, crustier chunks, and kept on going. It was rumored that the Smithsonian wanted to buy it so that they could do core samples on early ozark diets. I once watched her vulcanize an entire woodchuck in it. It was magic - she could put anything in it, animal, vegetable or mineral, and turn it into greasy charcoal briquets. Despite all the sayings about frogs and snakes and alligator and such, nothing that came from that skillet tasted like chicken - not even chicken. Just thinking of that skillet gave me heartburn. If she'd of ever konked her old man with that pan, he'd of died from food poisoning. And so on and so on.
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From: woodland ca
Originally Posted by emboyd
I checked 'No' simply because I don't do the cooking in our house. But, I do ask this: what sort of grease do you use to coat the pan after washing?
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oh lord! death in the making!! did that pan get washed??
my grannys pans went to my dad and mom doesn't like them "they're too heavy and they take up space" and she threw them under the house and they rusted amost irrevocably. dad got a hold of them with something and reseasoned them and the ones he cld save we split between me and him. i've bought a couple of my own but one dad saved was a one pancake flat round griddle that i use for tortillas and pancakes both. works better on a gas range instead of this little miniature apt electric thing but ya take what you get. i learned how to make cornbread without a measuring cup in that big skillet and pancakes the same way on a big two burner griddle when i was just a kid and im only 23. corn cakes and tater cakes ... just aren't the same unless they're in cast iron.
i just take some veggie oil or bacon grease on a papertowel and wipe a very thin layer in mine and since i'm in dusty west tx, i'll usually wipe it out and clean it up before i use it if it's one i've stored for any amt of time.
my grannys pans went to my dad and mom doesn't like them "they're too heavy and they take up space" and she threw them under the house and they rusted amost irrevocably. dad got a hold of them with something and reseasoned them and the ones he cld save we split between me and him. i've bought a couple of my own but one dad saved was a one pancake flat round griddle that i use for tortillas and pancakes both. works better on a gas range instead of this little miniature apt electric thing but ya take what you get. i learned how to make cornbread without a measuring cup in that big skillet and pancakes the same way on a big two burner griddle when i was just a kid and im only 23. corn cakes and tater cakes ... just aren't the same unless they're in cast iron.
i just take some veggie oil or bacon grease on a papertowel and wipe a very thin layer in mine and since i'm in dusty west tx, i'll usually wipe it out and clean it up before i use it if it's one i've stored for any amt of time.
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Lemme see...one 12"er or so for much of the cooking, a dutch oven somewhere, a 2-burner griddle that pretty much permanently resides on the gas stove, a Chargriller smoker/grill with heavy cast iron grates...nahhh...we don't use any cast iron around here....
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Seasoning:
We season our cast iron just the way granny taught us by coating the inside with bacon grease and putting it in the oven to even heat it at around 400 for
an hour or so . shut the oven down and let them cool at the same speed as the oven . Seems to put a lasting life into the steel and does not need to be done often .
Never use soap on them to clean them but scratch them out with a scrub bud
and wipe them clean and apply a light coat of good old olive oil for storage .
an hour or so . shut the oven down and let them cool at the same speed as the oven . Seems to put a lasting life into the steel and does not need to be done often .
Never use soap on them to clean them but scratch them out with a scrub bud
and wipe them clean and apply a light coat of good old olive oil for storage .