Cast iron fetishists

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Woot has some today
http://home.woot.com/plus/cuisinart-cast-iron-8


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[mtnbkr]

I have two of the big cast iron pots, they're great for slow cooking soups, stews, chili, etc.

Get them up to temp, turn the burner down to the lowest setting, and let it go all day...

Chris

[RoadKingLarry]

There was a time in human history when cast iron was the only cookware we had!

Bull feathers.
If they don't know history any better than that I don't need their junk.

 

[mtnbkr]

Woot has a distinctive "sense of humor", don't read too much into anything other than the raw technical specs for anything they sell.

Chris

[230RN]

Mom had a couple of cast iron implements, Dutch Oven, Frying pan, etc. dating from the late 19th century.  They were her mother's, and who knows how far back they went, all in all.

I once tried to wash one with soap and water and got hollered at.  She said you just wipe them off and maybe rinse them, but that was it.  

I never did much cooking, but as far as I could tell from her remarks, and my later limited cooking experience, they were better in "rinse, wipe" condition than the later Teflon-coated stuff.

I don't know about the newer ceramic coatings, though.

[MechAg94]

I have never had a teflon coated pan where the coating lasted any length of time without getting scratched up.

I clean my cast iron skillet with soap and water.  It still has grease/oil soaked in afterward.  Just want to make sure it is clean enough that nothing is going to start growing in it.

[230RN]

^ "I clean my cast iron skillet with soap and water.  It still has grease/oil soaked in afterward."

And soap residue, as my Mom pointed out so emphatically.  Besides being subject to rusting with brown rust afterwards-- which appeared almost immediately.  Mom was no chemist or biologist, but knew how to treat cast iron cookware.  And nobody ever got sick from her cooking, either.

She had to re-break-in my squeakily-cleaned dutch oven by oiling it and putting it on the stove until lots of smoke came off'n it. I think she used lard for this operation.  Except for the oil she used, I remember that whole incident pretty clearly.

Like I say, I'm no cook/chef/gourmet, but them's the rules I was taught.

She also had a hangup about washing beer glasses with soap, or using them as milk glasses.

Maybe it was all just superstitious behavior, though. 

[Scout26]

The two things I would be interested in buying are sold out....