Re: [CH] Off topic some what, but still cooking...

Don Krause (dkrause@unixplanet.net)
04 May 2002 08:59:43 -0700 

Properly Seasoned Cast Iron ROCKS!

I've dumped all my fancy Teflon coated, peeling, expensive crap and
replaced it all with cast iron.

Not painted, enameled, coated, wood handled cast iron, but good, old
fashioned solid black fire melted iron with cast in-place handles.

My personal favorites come from http://www.lodgemfg.com.

On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 08:20, Harold James wrote:
> Thank you,  I am glad that someone else uses cast iron. I use it 
> in cooking everything. One of my cast iron pans was my grandmothers 
> and was bought back in 1963 lets see one of those non stick pans 
> do that (even those sets that cost over 200 dollars).
> 
> 
> 
> At Saturday, 4 May 2002, you wrote:
> 
> >I never buy those fancy-schmancy pans.  I find a properly seasoned 
> cast-iron
> >skillet works better, and lasts longer.
> >
> >Marilyn
> >~~~~~
> >"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached 
> to the rest
> >of the world"
> >John Muir
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Steve M Duddy" <timetiles@icon.co.za>
> >To: "Chile Heads" <Chile-Heads@globalgarden.com>
> >Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 7:12 AM
> >Subject: [CH] Off topic some what, but still cooking...
> >
> >> Hi Chilens,
> >>
> >> Tex-Mex Sloppy Joes recipe asked for a non-stick skillet.
> >>
> >> Just wondering what other peoples experiences have been with these
> >so-called
> >> non-stick skillets.  They seem to work for such a short period 
> of time!
> >> I've bought the most expensive, I've kept them in a pillow case 
> in my pan
> >> cupboard, I've never used any abrasive cleaner nor anything other 
> than
> >nylon
> >> utensils, and they never seem to work well for more than a year! 
> Baring
> >> mysterious scratches that can never be accounted for, they look 
> just like
> >> new.  But try and cook an egg (with chile sauce, to make things more
> >> on-topic) and it needs to be pried and poked from many different 
> angles,
> >> center bit sticking and braking the yolk, of course.  This in 
> a non-stick
> >> pan with a generous glugg of olive oil.  I cook with gas....
> >>
> >> Steve
> >> Wilderness
> >> South Africa

-- 
=Don=

"Newly born wanna-be chili head"