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 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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@ndmike Thanks. I’d love to tell a story that it was acquired over years of searching through garage sales and flea markets, but that just isn’t the case. One of the Griswalds (#9 with the lid) was inherited. Everything else except the other Griswalds was just purchased new over time.
The rest of the Griswalds came as a set that I just happen to fall upon not long after I started looking for Griswald cast iron. Someone had taken serious time to restore them, and they were in perfect condition. Either they didn’t know what they had or they were just trying to unload them, but they were asking less for the set than I see the identical #10 going for on your friendly, neighborhood online auction site. Frankly, I didn’t know what they had, either, or I probably would have offered to may -more- than I did. At the time, I was afraid I was paying too much! I just figured I would splurge, since it was the set!
I guess it really is better to be lucky than good!
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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.
GWG8541 that looks absolutely delicious. I love peaches!
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The Camp Chef cast iron conditioner saved one of my cast iron pans. Huge fan of it. They also have a cleaner but I have not needed to use it yet and the ingredient make me nervous as I was always taught not to clean cast iron with anything citrus and there was some sort of citrus ingredient on the label.
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I have a couple Griswold skillets that I use alot. Bought my wife a set of Le Creuset for Christmas a couple years ago. She says it’s too heavy for her preference. Haven’t been lucky enough to find an old dutch oven at estate sales so bought a couple Cabela’s models. They work well for campfire cooking.
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Gluten free Pineapple
upside down cake
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I have a couple Griswold skillets that I use alot. Bought my wife a set of Le Creuset for Christmas a couple years ago. She says it’s too heavy for her preference. Haven’t been lucky enough to find an old dutch oven at estate sales so bought a couple Cabela’s models. They work well for campfire cooking.
wdaly I haven’t found any old dutch ovens yet either. I bought a Lodge Camp Dutch Oven that I really like.
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