Everything you wanted to know about cooking with cast iron
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 30, 2016
Cast iron: for some it’s intimidating, for others the best cooking device known to humanity. If you’re in the former category, watch this video so you can move to the latter.
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Cast iron skillets are the greatest, I have collected a few them including a cast iron Dutch Oven and use them all the time. I have one of the largest cast iron skillets ever made, it’s a giant one.
I have several different different size skillets, Dutch ovens, Deep skillets, Tri-leg Dutch oven pots. My wife refuse to use any of them. She complains they to hard to cook with. She don’t complain when I cook a meal in them.
Does she have to end every declarative sentence with a question mark? So immature and inappropriate.
Great video, i really needed this, i was not reseasoning the cooking surface after using. I love the temp consistency and distribution… cast iron crocks and skillets as well!!!
LOL… seems the good men cannot find the good women….
Great information, but it was over powered by the stupid music…..
My wife has ruined a lot of cast iron because she is germaphobic. It’s been a 40 + year battle on properly caring for cast iron at my house. She once commented, “Whats wrong? They’re nice and brown.” My son told her that the brown was rust. That went over like a pay-day in the swimming pool. I catch her gone and rehab ours on a regular basis.
If you can use an outdoor propane or gas grill to season do so. Your better half will appreciate it when the oil hits its smoke point! But short of cracking the cast iron there is no way you can destroy one. Ruin the seasoning, strip and reseason. You can’t do that with a Teflon pan.
If you can find a local cast iron cooking club join them, you will learn so much about how you can use and care for cast iron. I did so and one dutch oven has now morphed into 25 or 30 different pieces including a couple that are over 100 years old.
Good article
This is way too complicated. The beauty of cast iron is that it doesn’t have to be. Just use very high heat and you usually don’t even have to bother with seasoning it. I frequently don’t even clean mine between uses, depending on what was cooked in it last. (It’s a frying pan.) If it needs cleaning, just a steel scrubber with no soap works just fine. I would never use Teflon for something that needs high heat and even stainless steel should never be put in a dishwasher.
Would have been great if she did not talk so fast
I wish I had a print of the directions of the video, so I could follow along with it, please advise if I could… thank you