Cast iron skillets and pans

[Badger]

   A few weeks ago my ex wife gave me back all my cast iron cook ware. been divorced over 20 years so it was a nice surprise. They were in very sad shape to say the least. Last weekend I built a roaring bonfire from my bow making scraps and put the whole collection on the fire, just cooked them to death. Cooled them off went over them lighty with some steel wool and they looked like new. I brushed them all down with a thin coat of oil and reseasoned them over the coals on the fire repeating the process about 3 times with each pan and I am proud of my new pans. They couldn't look any better right off the show room floor.

[Cameroo]

Better late than never, hey Steve!  As soon as I read the "ex" word I thought the story was going somewhere else... like assault with a frying pan

[Badger]

   My mom saw that frying pan over the head thing on TV and tried it out on my dad one day when he came home a bit tipsy. She regretted it, did much more damage than she intended.

[mullet]

Yea, my wife almost nailed an intruder one day but he backed off when he saw how mad she was and how big the frying pan was.

Since I have done karate for over 40 years she said her style was Frypan-Do.

[medicinewheel]

...  Frypan-Do.

That's funny!

[Pappy]

One thing about cast iron,it can get in bad shape pretty quick ,but don't take long to get it back in shape,I love mine,I use the stuff all the time. I have one that was my grand maws. She passed at 96 married at 15 and said she had it all her married life.It is as slick as glass,you can cook an egg in it without adding oil if you
want to.It's like Teflon. I have mine at the cabin,Miss Joanie don't like them,she has to use soap and water to clean everything and that just don't work with Iron.
   Pappy

[crooketarrow]

  I like you PAPPY have the ones  that were handed down clear from my great grand mother. I use mine and have eaten out of mine sence I was a kid. I have 11 of all sizes that were theirs but use only the 2 they use daily. A 12 INCH ROUND ONE AND A 10 INCH SQUARE ONE. Your right you have to take daily care of them when you use them.

[cracker]

I got a bunch of cast iron I use it all the time. At first my wife didn't like it but after a few years she came around the only thing she don't use it for now is boiling. Ron

[Badger]

  Like Pappy says, cast iron is just like teflon if you treat it right. I normaly just take a paper towel and appy a thin coat of oil for eggs or anything else. Pan cakes I use nothing. Hash browns from a small cast iron skillet are hard to duplicate, I use about a 1/4" oil for the hash browns.

[criveraville]

Badger that's like finding money in a coat or a pair of jeans.  That was nice of your ex to give them back. 

[YosemiteBen]

Just about the time I get mine seasoned well my wife sticks em in the diswasher and I have to start all over again. Ongoing debate in my house! A coworker once was leaving at the end of her summer season and asked me if I wanted some cast iron. I said sure. her sister had given them to her and she had bee using them as flower pots! Had to run a wire brush around them before I could do anything with them.  My dad said the square ones are for cooking"square" meals!

[Gus]

Yes Sir,

I have my Great Grandma's cast iron skillets, a 12" and a 14" High Side.

Also have two old style (Classic?) dutch ovens that I found buried in a friend's Garden Plot.
One big one and a smaller one, complete with lids. Offered them to my buddy but he didn't care for em.
The ovens had been buried for at least thirty years as that's how long my friend's family had lived there.
The family had no recollection of the ovens.

Had to clean and re-season them, they Look, Cook and Bake like Champs!

And there's just something about a Venison Stew done in cast iron... 

-gus

[chigger]

   My favorite skillet is a #7 Griswald my Mom left me ,She bought it off of Popcorn Sutton the Legendary Moonshiner.If you wonder who he is there is a Documentary about him called " The Last Run" he was caught ,convicted ,and was waiting to be sentenced when he took his life ,couln't take jail.

[chigger]

  Here is another Pic of Popcorn Sutton , who all knows what the bone is in his hat?

[Badger]

   My guess would be the bone came from a revenue collecter! Or maybe a possum or coon.