Cast iron cooking
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Here are my favorites. All vintage Griswold and Wagonerware!
The old skillets are better finished, smoother and lighter in weight than anything new that can be purchased.
The dutch oven is cast alloy and pretty light.
processhead nice! I have some Lodge stuff too. It is rougher finished but it works decent. Nothing like old cast iron though. I even have a Griswold Erie Scotch Bowl that was in my wife’s family. It was her Great Grandmas.
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@ndmike I enjoy my cast iron. I have a collection of different pieces and keep an eye open for things I can use, I don’t want to have a collection just sitting around on the shelves. I do have a 12 inch deep pan that has the sprue mark that is as solid as the day it was made 100+ years ago. I like the versatility of them
YooperDog yep for sure. The pieces I have I use.
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Tex_77 I was willing to bet you were a cast iron guy!
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Do you guys watch Cowboy Kent Rollins on YouTube. He has great recipes and cooks on cast iron all the time.
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Do you guys watch Cowboy Kent Rollins on YouTube. He has great recipes and cooks on cast iron all the time.
@ndmike yes I catch his channel from time to time. Once I figured out how to cook with and maintain the cast iron I haven’t looked back. I have some enameled stuff too. I agree with processhead that I like the older CI. Some of the newer boutique stuff looks nice but the older CI works like a champ for a lot less $.
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@ndmike yes I catch his channel from time to time. Once I figured out how to cook with and maintain the cast iron I haven’t looked back. I have some enameled stuff too. I agree with processhead that I like the older CI. Some of the newer boutique stuff looks nice but the older CI works like a champ for a lot less $.
YooperDog yep. I am very drawn to the old stuff. That old Griswold in my picture is so non stick you would swear its teflon!
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Here are my favorites. All vintage Griswold and Wagonerware!
The old skillets are better finished, smoother and lighter in weight than anything new that can be purchased.
The dutch oven is cast alloy and pretty light.processhead I didn’t notice until I zoomed in that the cast alloy dutch oven is hammertone as well! That is awesome!
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processhead I didn’t notice until I zoomed in that the cast alloy dutch oven is hammertone as well! That is awesome!
@ndmike I use my 8 Griswald as my go to skillet. I have collected and inherited various sizes over the years, but the Griswald was my Mom’s and has sentimental value. I also used Dutch ovens and a kettle with a tripod my son blacksmithed for me. Its hard to beat good cast iron cookware. My youngest son is a great cook and hardly uses anything but cast iron. Cowboy Kent does have some great YouTube vids!
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Do you guys watch Cowboy Kent Rollins on YouTube. He has great recipes and cooks on cast iron all the time.
@ndmike I watch Kent, as well as Sam The Cookimg Guy.
Isaiah 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks
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Tex_77 early start for you too tex! Off to work, would much rather be home making a different flavor of sticks right now
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processhead nice! I have some Lodge stuff too. It is rougher finished but it works decent. Nothing like old cast iron though. I even have a Griswold Erie Scotch Bowl that was in my wife’s family. It was her Great Grandmas.
@ndmike said in Cast iron cooking:
processhead nice! I have some Lodge stuff too. It is rougher finished but it works decent. Nothing like old cast iron though. I even have a Griswold Erie Scotch Bowl that was in my wife’s family. It was her Great Grandmas.
Can you post some pictures of the bowl?
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@ndmike I use my 8 Griswald as my go to skillet. I have collected and inherited various sizes over the years, but the Griswald was my Mom’s and has sentimental value. I also used Dutch ovens and a kettle with a tripod my son blacksmithed for me. Its hard to beat good cast iron cookware. My youngest son is a great cook and hardly uses anything but cast iron. Cowboy Kent does have some great YouTube vids!
GWG8541 awesome! This is such a cool group of people.
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Tex_77 hahaha…me too!
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@ndmike said in Cast iron cooking:
processhead nice! I have some Lodge stuff too. It is rougher finished but it works decent. Nothing like old cast iron though. I even have a Griswold Erie Scotch Bowl that was in my wife’s family. It was her Great Grandmas.
Can you post some pictures of the bowl?
processhead yep, I can when I get home after work. It needs to be seasoned as my wife’s aunt didn’t take the best care of it. Little bit of surface/flash rust on it.
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You bet! I have 9 Griswald skillets of various sizes (3-10, plus another 9), a lid for one of those #9 Griswalds, 3 Lodge skillets (8", 12", 15"), and 2 Le Creuset enameled dutch ovens (4.5 qt. round; 7.25 qt. oval).
I also have a couple of molds that we never use, but they are fun for decoration.
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My sons both blacksmith as one of their hobbies. The youngest, who cooks and home brews more, took a lodge and polished the inside with a grinder using a sanding disk. It smoothed out the notorious rough finish and made the lodge a lot better to use. I was a good dad and also passed on a Wagner skillet to him. Wagner Ware was in Sidney, Ohio which is about 50 miles north of me. They made some great CI along with Griswald. I do like the thickness of Lodge for outdoor cooking and camping.
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processhead yep, I can when I get home after work. It needs to be seasoned as my wife’s aunt didn’t take the best care of it. Little bit of surface/flash rust on it.
@ndmike Thats the beauty of CI. A little elbow grease and some TLC will keep them going forever. Try that with a modern “Non stick” skillet.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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@ndmike Thats the beauty of CI. A little elbow grease and some TLC will keep them going forever. Try that with a modern “Non stick” skillet.
GWG8541 yep for sure. I have seen videos of guys sanding down modern Lodge skillets.
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You bet! I have 9 Griswald skillets of various sizes (3-10, plus another 9), a lid for one of those #9 Griswalds, 3 Lodge skillets (8", 12", 15"), and 2 Le Creuset enameled dutch ovens (4.5 qt. round; 7.25 qt. oval).
I also have a couple of molds that we never use, but they are fun for decoration.
TexLaw that is quite the collection!
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processhead yep, I can when I get home after work. It needs to be seasoned as my wife’s aunt didn’t take the best care of it. Little bit of surface/flash rust on it.
And you can make desert in this stuff. My dad died last August at 91. Still lived on his own until the end. He loved peaches, so I made him a peach upside down cake in the cast iron.
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