Cast Iron cooking

[ed308]

Oh and I was incorrect. It's a 9.5 QT pot.

Thats their large oval Dutch oven. I've got one that I use for cooking pork shoulders, casseroles and etc. It's large. But hang onto it. Before you know it, you'll have a bunch of mouths to feed. You know women..., that nesting clock is always ticking.

 

[ed308]

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[acorneau]

Oh and I was incorrect. It's a 9.5 QT pot.

Yeah, that's a big pot, especially for two people.

The one Le Creuset I've got is a 5.5 QT oval and I rarely use it, although I just happen to use it tonight for a ground beef and wild rice casserole-type dish. As the Brits say, "Worked a treat!"

 

[NewToTX]

Big pot came in handy. Four friends came over for dinner and the wife made a huge amount of penne alla vodka. That size was needed to hold all the goodness.

 

[Ole Cowboy]

We had to toss our cast iron

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I got this for Christmas. I haven’t used it yet. Should be fun tho.

(I have 3 girls, hence the hearts)


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Won't work at my house, we hat to toss ours. There are 3 kinds of cook tops: Gas, Electric and Induction. If you cook on an Induction you will NEVER go back to gas or electric. BUT it takes special cookware: 1) if a magnet will not stick to it, won't work; 2) must have a FLAT bottom that is flat agains the cooktop surface or it won't work.

I could not find flat smooth bottom cast iron, if anyone has some give the mfg as I grew up with cast iron.

The way we cleaned our skillet, paper towel

 

[Vaquero]

We had to toss our cast iron

Won't work at my house, we hat to toss ours. There are 3 kinds of cook tops: Gas, Electric and Induction. If you cook on an Induction you will NEVER go back to gas or electric. BUT it takes special cookware: 1) if a magnet will not stick to it, won't work; 2) must have a FLAT bottom that is flat agains the cooktop surface or it won't work.

I could not find flat smooth bottom cast iron, if anyone has some give the mfg as I grew up with cast iron.

The way we cleaned our skillet, paper towel

I've been peddling electricity for way over 30 years.
I've made a fine living off of it.
I much prefer gas for heating and cooking.

The idea of burning gas to boil water to create steam, to spin a turbine, to make electricity, to sell to someone who wants to boil water to make steam.........

I just prefer my own fire.

 

[Ole Cowboy]

I've been peddling electricity for way over 30 years.
I've made a fine living off of it.
I much prefer gas for heating and cooking.

The idea of burning gas to boil water to create steam, to spin a turbine, to make electricity, to sell to someone who wants to boil water to make steam.........

I just prefer my own fire.

Induction is like gas only better, MUCH better, you try it you will buy it. I have always loved gas for the control, but after I tried induction I replaced my gas unit with a Bosch Induction. Check it out...

 

[Vaquero]

I've tried it.

 

[karlac]

I've been using a blow torch lately, myself ...

 

[40Arpent]

I've been using a blow torch lately, myself ...

Never figured you to be the creme brûlée type, Karl.

 

[karlac]

Never figured you to be the creme brûlée type, Karl.

LOL
Mais cher, how you make a roux for that, hanh??

 

[40Arpent]

LOL!!!

 

[FireInTheWire]

If it rusts, you cleaned too much.
I don't oil mine once seasoned.

Yeah... I takey too many cervezas one nigh and accidentally pooty in one dishwasher by accident. Totally ruined it.

 

[FireInTheWire]

My Favorite thing to cook in mine is... Chop sweet onion slices and sliced shrooms. Throw skillet on smoker. Add oil. Add onion cook a bit... then add the shrooms. Add whatsthishere sauce, french salad dressing, thin drizzle of honey, salt and pepper and let all that caramelize. Then on top a phat rib-eye... or steak of choice.... or grilled chicken. Damnit... is it lunch time yet

 

[benenglish]

Totally ruined it.

Not really. You can always completely scrub it down to bright, shiny metal and start all over. That's one of the things I love about cast iron. No matter how badly it's been abused, even if it's pretty badly rusted, you can use abrasives or even a sand blaster to get down to the bare metal and then apply heat and oil to start over. It's a time-consuming PITA to try to recreate the carbon buildup that took grandma 40 years to put on her pans but it's possible to get even a badly abused pan back into usable, if far from perfect, shape in short order.

 

[karlac]

Not really. You can always completely scrub it down to bright, shiny metal and start all over. That's one of the things I love about cast iron. No matter how badly it's been abused, even if it's pretty badly rusted, you can use abrasives or even a sand blaster to get down to the bare metal and then apply heat and oil to start over. ....

On cast iron, soaking in 50% solution of white vinegar/water, long enough to remove rust is easy to do. Overnight will usually take it down to the bare metal. Follow up with one of the stainless scrapper pads mentioned earlier in this thread.

 

[benenglish]

soaking in 50% solution of white vinegar/water, long enough to remove rust is easy to do

Excellent point. That's what I did when I restored my Hollywood reloading press.

 

[FireInTheWire]

Well dang... I didn't know all that. Guess there's hope for it after all. Appreciate the tips gents

 

[mroper]

If you have a self cleaning oven put in there and run it through a long cleaning cycle. That will ready it for seasoning again.

 

[NewToTX]

What was left of short ribs from this past weekend.