Cast iron aficianados

RustBeltCowgirl

Found this in Kickstarter. Thought you might be interested.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/prepd/chef-skillet?ref=discovery

silvertipgrizz

@RustBeltCowgirl Since the day I started cooking...very young, I have not been without my mother's, and my own iron skillets and griddles etc. My fav things to cook in iron skillets is: fried taters with onions and peppers and red pepper seed, cornbread, morning eggs and pancakes and puff pancakes.

Monek Marie

I grew up on cast iron, then we went to ther new non stick pans.

I am looking for the good old cast iron again. It costs a lot but you can use it forever

Torey

If you can't afford one of the beauties in the above article, there is a new TGN blog article (with video) on how to season your own pan. Great for those flea market or second hand store finds.

https://thegrownetwork.com/season-cast-iron-pan/

Monek Marie

@torey I saw that article and planned to read it.

ltwickey

Love their concept. May have to save a bit and try one! Thank you for the link. I love, love, love my cast iron pan and dutch oven!

Lisa K

I have just recently started cooking and baking with cast iron and I love baking with them!

RustBeltCowgirl

I think I'm going to splurge on it. The Kickstarter campaign ends March 25th. I can just imagine what the retail price would be.

annbeck62

I just started using cast iron. It's not as hard to take care of as I thought it would be and I love the way it cooks. All my cast iron is lodge brand. It's very reasonably priced and high quality.

RustBeltCowgirl

It's $139 for the pair. Working 6 days a week. My overtime will give me a nice reward.

Monek Marie

For a good set, that is very reasonable.

Sigh, I ordered them. I haven't gone overboard on seeds this year so I can justify it.

judsoncarroll4

I have a lot of really old cast iron pans and dutch ovens, all inherited... like 200 years old! I love them and prefer to cook with nothing else. I also think that my great grandmothers may have lived to be so old and still fit due to all that cast iron weight lifting!

RustBeltCowgirl

My order is in. Found this statement at the bottom of the page.

Annie Kate

@RustBeltCowgirl Is that a good thing for food grade iron?

I use my cast iron pan only for making sourdough English muffins, but I should start using it for other things.

RustBeltCowgirl

@Annie Kate From what I was just looking at on a couple of sites, the remelting of unusable castings and reusing casting sand is reasonably common..

kbmbillups1

I cook with a cast iron skillet almost every night. A few years ago I took a free Rouxbe plant based cooking class and learned to cook in a stainless steal frying pan. I love my cast iron skillet so much more!

JennyT Upstate South Carolina

I mostly use my cast iron pans. And all of them my mom and I were able to find at estate sales.😁 I've reseasoned them or attempted to, I need to look at how to do it again.

Monek Marie

Cast iron is extremely expensive around here, even at sales. We sold off out ols stuff years ago - all griswold. Wish we still had it. I have one wagner but its not the same.

I also grew up using stainless steel frying pans. You can get a nice solid burn if you're not used to them.

Tave

I grew up using cast iron, too. It was a sad moment when I realized I wasn't going to be able to take them with me when I moved to South America. You guys can imagine my joy when someone gifted me a couple of old cast iron skillets and a griddle.

SuperC

I use cast iron pans all the time from boiling and searing to making yucca root flour tortillas. Very sturdy and durable, and easy to clean.

RustBeltCowgirl

https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/comment/891661#Comment_891661

I also bought this. Where?

http://www.shopgoodwill.com

RustBeltCowgirl

Here's a link to cast iron care, with also includes an article on fixing cracked cast iron.

https://www.southerncastiron.com/category/cast-iron-care/

Will be crawling through the recipe pages, too.

Monek Marie

@RustBeltCowgirl Goodwill never lets you down price wise.

I have not checked goodwill for cast iron. A guy here had a 1000 piece griswold collection that went online for sale. It pretty much sent prices though the roof here.

I just decided to get good cast iron again because these pans they have now need to be replaced every 3 years.

We still have moms nice steel pots and pans - 70 years old

marjstratton

I do like cooking with cast iron. These are interesting as I have chef training, and traditional cast iron I have is not the shape I prefer. This looks great.

RustBeltCowgirl

@Denise Grant OMG!!!!

Monek Marie

@RustBeltCowgirl Yep< my brother sells old griswold and rakes in the dough. It is good, but...

marjstratton

Like the look of the Prepd cast iron and need an 8" skillet so I'm supporting them at that level. Would love to see them succeed.

nicksamanda11

I have no clue what i paid for my cast iron but i know it was not $100 or more per pan- that's insane to me- absolutely insane.

Monek Marie

I have two wagner cast iron pans upstairs I need to look at. They came from an auction and not being griswold they were out in a box. I think I paid $5 for the box. How I wish we had kept our old griswold.

I did participate in the kick starter. Its more than I would usually pay for a pan but I have spent a lot of money on those no stick pans in the last ten years and they do not last as long or work as well as they say.

Brindy

I love cast iron and have quite the collection that I don't use. I do exactly what my grandma said and they still stick really bad. I am going to look at that link and hopefully I can start enjoying my car iron.

Thank you for the post!

Momma Mo

I love all my cast iron cookware and use it several times daily! Nothing better! IMHO.