Cast Iron Cooking

Cooking cold meat, using soap, and boiling with water...There's a special hell for those kinds of transgressions, LOL. Seriously though, there are lots of reasons on why to do the right thing, like food tasting better, being cooked to proper internal temps, reducing iron poisoning, accidental consumption of rust, and on and on. We can do better, be better and eat better

If you eat your meat well done or use a glass cutting board, please disregard all of my tips, as I wish you a speedy descent into the 7th circle.

 

Rare and wood or plastic cutting board.

 

Braised blue grouse, served with polenta. It was fantastic!

 

Get that butter flowing

 

Very nice set up. I know I’m a little late

 

My family loves cast iron pans. Mom still uses one she bought from a garage sale in the late 1950s. I picked up a few from thrift shops before CI became popular again. The one I love using the most was made in the 70s. I keep a small jar of pork fat for seasoning.

 

How am I just now finding this thread?
I cook in cast iron often and use 3 Dutch ovens for camping meals.

 

Great thread

A little over 30 years ago, a couple months before our wedding, I was asked what I wanted for wedding gifts from the Fam and friends.

Cast iron cooking utensils.


We were gifted with them on that cwazy wabbit day my wife was dressed up with flowers in her hair, and been using daily since.

Percolated coffee from a late 1960s coffee pot is the only way i drink my java

When our moms passed, we saved their cast iron pots and pans, most of which reside in storage today.

 

Yeah.....it's tough to beat Cast iron.
One of my favorite things to make is simple Sweet Cornbread.
It comes out about 3 inches thick with a sweet finish.
I'll try and find the recipe.
There's a Cooking with Cast Iron sight out there and it shouldn't be hard to find since there's so few of them out there.
They have some great recipes!!!

 

Yeah there is!!!
We always boil a little water in em and scrape em with a plastic spatula and thats it.
And thats assuming it has some baked on crud.
If not we just give them a rinse put a little oil on em,wipe em off and put em away.

 

I have a friend that has made one wall in her kitchen that is covered with recycled “Barn” Wood. She has all of her family’s cast iron and has a large collection of cornbread and other unique cast iron pans hung on the wall.

 

I saw something similar when I was looking for cast iron cookware storage ideas.

 

Emirle's New New Orleans pasta.