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Local grocery store had boneless ribeye steaks for a good price yesterday, so I got one for dinner. Local hardware store had a 3-pack of cast iron skillets on sale, so I picked those up too, and tried cooking the steak in cast iron for the first time. Life altering. I can't believe I never tried this before. Who here is cooking with cast iron? How are you cleaning and storing your skillets? I've seen some places say absolutely DO NOT use soap to clean them, I've seen some say that's a myth and it really doesn't matter. Share some tips if you have them, and of course, share some of your favorite recipes to make in cast iron. ****************************** May our caskets be made of hundred-year oak, and may we plant those trees tomorrow. | ||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Aeteocles has the method I’ve used for some years for steaks. Sear in hot iron pan one minute on each side and 5 minutes under high broil in oven. Only once has this come up short, on uncommonly thick steaks. Another minute would have done the trick. You can search for his details. Another useful dea is microwave corn on the cob, which I use all the time. Forget who provided it but it’s terrific. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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I normally just use cold water and a paper towel unless something is stuck on, then just cold water and one of those green scrubbie pads. It hasn't seen soap in 50 years  | |||
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I have a plain dutch oven from our wedding 32 years ago. Seasoned once with oil in a hot oven and soap has never touched it since. My go to for chili, pot roast or soup. On the stove or in the oven. Just clean with hot water and a plain chore-boy or 3M pad and wipe with a little cooking oil. food will not stick. "The days are stacked against what we think we are." Jim Harrison | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
No. Try This. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Yes, I like this method...in the winter. SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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Wife and I use a 2" wide plastic putty knife (stowed with other utensils) for cleaning the cast iron. Scrape, rinse with tap water, wipe out, then wipe with oil. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers | |||
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I use one of those blue scratch free sponges that's dedicated to the cast iron. Just warm water and the sponge. I break out the little plastic scraper if something is really struck on. Then towel dry and a minute on the burner to get rid of the leftover water. Then wipe with oil and heat. | |||
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A Shugart post is where I learned the microwave corn shake shake shake method. ________________________ God spelled backwards is dog | |||
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| I Am The Walrus |
If you're going to get into cast iron cooking, follow Cowboy Kent Rollins here: https://www.youtube.com/user/krollins57/videos He seems like an awesome guy. _____________ | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
I've cooked on cast iron for years. Skillets, griddles, and dutch ovens. Once you get the hang of it, it is a piece of cake. Cleaning is a breeze: boil a little water in them, scrub (if need be) with a small scrubber brush, wipe out with a paper towel, smear a little lard in it, heat it up to just smoking and you're done...piece of cake. For particularly messy pans I don't hesitate at all to use a little Dawn on the scrubber. It won't hurt a well seasoned pan in the least, just make sure you rinse it well. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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My pans will pretty much wipe clean depending on what I cooked in them. I made a apple cobbler in my 12" Griswold for Thanksgiving. The sugars got a little stuck to the bottom. After everybody ate I put the left over cobbler in a container. Put the pan on the stove and got it hot and deglazed with some water. Turned off the heat wiped the pan clean added a little oil and that was that. There have been several long threads here regarding cast iron cleaning, care and what to buy. "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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I always deglaze my cast iron with water while its still hot, scrape gently with a spatula, dump the water and wipe dry. | |||
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| Too soon old, too late smart |
+1 P.S. His cowboy coffee recipe looks interesting. | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
I use my cast iron every day. Generally all I need to do is swirl some water through it while it's still hot. Of course, it's a century old and seasoned to a fare thee well. I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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| Dances With Tornados |
I recently got his book Kents Cookbook and found it more than useful, it's also very entertaining. My sister knows him and says he's a great guy. | |||
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| 10mm is The Boom of Doom  |
I do most of my cooking on the stove in cast iron pans, aluminum pots, and a large stainless stock pot. I the oven I mostly use a pyrex baking dish or either the terracotta chicken or turkey roaster. These are what work best for me, though I am certainly not a gourmet cook. I have a large collection of ones that sounded good but disappointed. Copper is at the top of that list. To clean the cast iron pan, once is cooled, I pour off the grease into the trash, then set the pan on the floor. Within a few minutes, it is Ridgeback clean which is 97% there. Then I pour in boiling water with a little dish soap, scrub with a brush, rinse well, dry and wipe down with olive oil and sometimes warm a little on the stove. The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People again must learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. ~ Cicero 55 BC The Dhimocrats love America like ticks love a hound. | |||
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Not me. But I can say this. Rice cooked in a cast iron with a secret special ingredient is the best tasting. Lard, not love. It allows for a whole lotta hatin'. *************************** Knowing more by accident than on purpose. | |||
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I cook with Griswold cast iron which is older than me. When it comes to cleaning I'll use a ss scrubber, no soap and dry it on the stove and take a little oil on a paper towel and give it rub on the bottom and sides. _________________________ NRA Patron Life Member | |||
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