OT Cast Iron Cooking Skillet

John B. · Dec 9, 2015

How many of you use cast iron cooking skillets for cooking?

My wife told me that I always scratch her non-stick skillets but she never wanted a cast -iron skillet.

So several months ago I went and bought a small 8" cast-iron skillet with out telling her.

This week she was measuring up her lids for her other pots and skillets and I asked what she was doing. She said she wanted to buy a larger cast-iron skillet since they don't get scratched up. She's been talking to other women that use them and they have told her how much they love the cast-iron ones.

ohiojim · Dec 9, 2015

use them all the time, i never wash mine, just scrape them clean, wipe them with a paper towel and oil them down.....

Nebraska Cowman · Dec 9, 2015

I cook in cast iron, always have. My mother used the copper bottom stainless Revere. Food always stuck. That stuff was terrible. I hate stainless. My saucepans are glass. As far as the coated aluminum junk, it's just that. Junk. I feed my pets in one of those.

Richard L · Dec 9, 2015

I grew up on a farm and all this farm house kitchen had was cast iron skillets. Grandma always said if you use aluminum skillets you are asking for health problems. Maybe grandma was right. We do seem to have more health problems even though we are living longer. Are we living better? I am not getting into that mess. I like cast iron but wife says they're to heavy. TUT TUT

Gambles · Dec 9, 2015

My mom's favorite frying pan is a large cast iron one that she got as a wedding present....back in 1950.

JayinNY · Dec 9, 2015

Cast iron is all I will cook with.

Stubborn Dutchman · Dec 9, 2015

I love my cast iron skillets and have several. I saw a cooking video the other day where the cook served up the meals in warmed up skillets in stead of plates. He said it was to keep the food hot longer! I'm gonna try that.

OH Boy · Dec 9, 2015

Love my cast iron! I have at least a dozen CI skillets in various sizes, several CI griddles, a couple CI waffle irons, and some muffin pans, corn stick pans, etc.

Best way to get a good seasoning established in a pan that has been stripped/cleaned is make a pan of corn bread in it.

buickanddeere · Dec 9, 2015

I have a couple of favorited purchased from Cabbela's. A 14" deep sided with a matching lid . The lid can also be flipped over and used as a shallow skillet.
For large meals there is a 20" diameter flying pan with a matching lid. It covers two elements plus the heated bridge between them on the electric stove . Also fits over the camp fire ring to grill sandwiches on.

coshoo · Dec 9, 2015

Cast iron is about all we use. Either saut? or fry on the stove, or bake or roast in the oven. Including vegetables. A very few things, like canned green beans, get cooked in a sauce pan.

L.Fure · Dec 9, 2015

Anything fried in a cast iron skillet taste better. I bought a complete set of skillets at an auction house when we were first married. When we moved out of the house we rented I accidentally left them in the bottom drawer of the oven. I should have went back and asked for them, but for some reason I never did. I sure wish I still had them.

LAA · Dec 9, 2015

There is a chain of restaurants at Petro truck stops called ''Iron Skillet'', they serve the food in hot cast iron skillets, pretty good joint.

CenTex Farmall · Dec 9, 2015

Non-stick cookware = chemicals in your food. Why take a chance?

Cast iron all the way.

Ultradog MN · Dec 9, 2015

I can't imagine anything other than a cast iron fry pan.
They are just the best.
Take care of them and they will last several lifetimes.
We have several sizes, 6", 8" 12" and 14"
Also have a couple of them in the camper.
All of them are old ones picked up here and there.
Best of all though is the 12 qt CI dutch oven.
I wonder how mny thousands of meals I've made in it.
I bought it about 40 years ago from an old man who was selling everything off to go into a nursing home.
He had had it for at least 40 years himself and really wanted me to have it so he gave me a few $ off the price.
I still thank him sometimes.

Gary Mitchell · Dec 9, 2015

When my wife and I married she used the no-stick pans while I brought my cast iron ones. She finally switched entirely over to the cast stuff. Our main skillet was getting kind of cruddy looking so I took it to the wire grinder wheel in the shop and she re-seasoned it. Looks like a new one. gm

4520BW · Dec 9, 2015

Lamberts caf? in Missouri and Alabama do the same.

LAA · Dec 9, 2015

Your right, I have eaten at the Foley Alabama and the Sikeston Missouri location. last time I was there it sure seemed like a lot of food they gave you, I can't eat like a horse anymore.

Charlie M · Dec 9, 2015

Learned to do cast iron Dutch oven cooking when I was a scout leader. Still get one out occasionally, fire up some charcoal and cook outside. Outdoor cooking was one of many things I loved about scouting.

hd6gtom · Dec 9, 2015

mom is still using 1 she got for a wedding present in 1941. I have eaten bushels of home grown fried potatoes out of it along with chili dad made and many home grown corn fed steaks, hamburger, etc. I think my sister has dibs on it when mom goes.

ss55 · Dec 9, 2015

Cast iron has it's place. We recently moved and now have a gas stove. Our heavy cast iron skillets negated most of the convenience of the gas range, so we switch over to ceramic coated skillets. I liked the cast iron skillets, but I like the ceramic much better now.

M-MAN · Dec 9, 2015

Anything fried here is in a cast iron frying pan. Cornbread is the same way.

Back 43 years ago when we first got hitched we tried the new fangled Teflon coated pans. Didn't stick but they didn't hold up too well. Tried the stainless and had more burnt dinners than when we first got hitched. Finally had enough sense to buy cast iron like Mom and Granny used and we've been using them ever since.

old · Dec 9, 2015

The only skillets we have are cast iron. I have 7 of them. All different sizes. Have one just for corn bread and one just for pancakes etc.

Pair-a-dice farm · Dec 9, 2015

(quoted from post at 11:45:59 12/09/15) Your right, I have eaten at the Foley Alabama and the Sikeston Missouri location. last time I was there it sure seemed like a lot of food they gave you, I can't eat like a horse anymore.

I haven't eaten at Lambert's in a long time. Now y'all have made me want to drive up there for lunch.
When I do the cooking I always use a cast iron skillet. Cornbread in cast iron is the best, My wife is a slow learner, she still uses stainless steal after 34 years.

old popper · Dec 9, 2015

I bought a set of ceramic coated skillets this fall, and I like them but........it is a learning experience to make pancakes in them. I'm learning but it is slow going. I think my old cast iron skillet is far superior for pancakes.

pete 23 · Dec 9, 2015

I make popcorn in the revere ware frying pan. All the rest is cast iron. I do wash them but immediately put them back on burner to heat up and lightly oil. When one gets really thick, I take it out to the sand blast cabinet and then start all over with a new pan. Picked one out of the junk at the farm, sand blasted it and good as new. I have heard some who have excess iron in their blood that cannot use them.

rrlund · Dec 9, 2015

I can only use cast iron. Anything else and it burns.

pasbonbasile · Dec 9, 2015

I like to find them at estate sales or places where they are all rusty. I put them in the electrolysis vat and they come out new looking, season them again and good to go. Love my cast iron pots.

MarkB_MI · Dec 9, 2015

I don't care for the new cast iron stuff from Lodge, et al. I still have my mom's No. 9 Griswold skillet, made back in the fifties. The older stuff has a nicely polished cooking surface, unlike the rough finish of new skillets. Griswold went out of business in 1957, but you can find plenty of Griswold cast iron on eBay, usually at reasonable prices. I buy No. 9 Griswold skillets, clean and season them, then give them away as gifts to my friends.

newfurrows · Dec 9, 2015

I have a Findlay cast iron skillet which came with a wood cookstove (Findlay) my grandmother used. I would guess it was made around 1900. Dan

buickanddeere · Dec 10, 2015

Come to think of it. I did spent some time with a wire brush on the hand held grinder polishing those Lodge cast iron pans.

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