Everything tastes better when it is cooked with cast iron! We all remember when our mothers or grandmothers used to make those memorable meals using those big, heavy, black skillets and saucepans. We can still imagine and almost taste those perfectly spiced dishes. Well, cast iron cookware is still around! They are so durable that they are almost always passed down from one generation to the other, as are the recipes they used. This cookbook holds not only amazing timeless recipes, but also instructions on how to cook with cast iron cookware. You can use them on the stove top, on the grill, and of course, in the oven. You can even bring it along for your next camping trip and make some delicious corn bread, breakfast skillets, hamburgers, and so much more!
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I cant use mine anymore, cooked eggs on it the other day and they completely stuck to the bottom.I seasoned it when i first got it, thought i did it right as i had just seasoned a wok. do you know how you are supposed to take care of them? I am sure i must be doing something wrong. Hard to get the stuck food off the pan also
Couple of things:
Just because the cast iron is seasoned, you still need to use oil. Seasoned =/= non-stick.
Heat may potentially be too high and with cast iron, i generally cook mostly on the lowest setting of my gas stove (exception being searing meats).
Get a metal spatula or fish spatula - the scratching is a good thing and helps even out the surface so eventually the seasoning becomes smoother.
Awesome! thank you. Taken all of that on board
I watch Cowboy Kent Rollins on YouTube and he has some great tips for cooking with cast iron. We just cooked eggs this morning using low heat and sufficient oil, as well as making sure the pan is cleaned and oiled before putting it away is important. Definitely a bit more work than a non-stick, but much tastier and better for you as no chemicals when cleaning. Watch this video on how to clean it - https://youtu.be/a5NbQwzwUTw
@beeeej: +1 for Cowboy Kent. While you're at it watch all his videos on everything, great and wholesome channel.
@beeeej: Thanks for the link! He has a cast iron pan with a long handle and a handle cover, how would I clean the pan in this way if I have the 2 small handle version. Is best way to just put it down in the sink or some other clever way?
@Alex10: There's probably some clever way with short handle but I'd just do the same and put it in the sink, that's what I do with my cast iron Dutch oven.
Good info on the metal implements!
Years of Teflon PTSD had trained me to avoid metal implements but your comment makes a lot of sense.
@Telios: Didn't he say better to use a wooden spatula?
…. i'm still trying to season my aldi cast iron pan :/
Are you finding it difficult? asking because I am planning to buy one from aldi.
My Aldi one has rusted big time and has permamnent black stuff on it. I will probably need to sand paper or rock wool it out. I can't recommend em to noobz.
Steel wool should get it out!
@harro112: lol - "capable of causing divorces, ending friendships, and starting wars"
difficult - yes. i thought i had seasoned it properly prior to first use (there's an endless number of youtube vids on seasoning). but my marinated steak left what seems to be a permanent black crust on the cast iron, and nothing can remove it. wooden scraper. salt. soaking in water. washing detergent. steaming. steel wool. i.e. stuff you're not meant to use on a cast iron pan.
i want to buy the ringer / chainmail scrubber.. but it will cost as much as the pan lol
every man and his dog says it's easy but that's not my experience :(
There's a guide on how to season your pan a few pages into this book.
Heard same from too many people.. sounds like hard to maintain.
Kung Pao chicken recipe with no garlic, no dark soy, no Szechuan pepper??
Bad bad bad.
All I remember is my mother and grandmother used cast iron to make us behave.
did they cook you really nice food?
They preferred to hold the pan over my head.
oh i didn't think it was possible women could at all be the instigators of domestic violence.
how to cook with cast iron
step 1: raise cast iron skillet over significant other
step 2: demand significant other cook lunch
step 3: lower cast iron pan and give it to them to cook
step 4: plan backfires and they kill you and cook you insteadhere endeth the lesson in how to cook yourself with cast iron
doesn't work for single people
single people whack self over head with cast iron skillet outdoors in hot summer
step 3: lower cast iron pan and give it to them to cook
they will start from Step 1. XD
Camping recipe
US link still good.
This might have been the only ebook I would probably have read, after buying..if it was still free
Time to make use of those cast iron pans bought from Amazon 👌