re: Somebody school me on cast-iron skillets......

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The last time cheese entered this house was 3 weeks ago.

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I quickly ate it and got rid of the evidence before 'she who must be obeyed' awakened.

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What's wrong with cheese?

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What's wrong with cheese?

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Somebody else tell him the story. I'm going downstairs to watch the Braves v. Mets.

It just so happens that this week I restored a cast iron dutch oven that was really rusty and also cleaned and seasoned a 10 inch skillet that my mom quit using years ago. I think she quit using it cause it started sticking and she probably didn't realize that washing it in soap would require it to be reseasoned. Before my restoration I googled cast iron care and maintenance and came up with a wealth of helpful information. If you have to get out food that somehow stuck to the pan, put water in it and bring it to a boil to loosen the stuck substance. You can wash cast iron with soap and water but it degrades the seasoned coating. So, if you wash with soap just reseason the pan and you are back to normal. Bacon grease is very good to use and the most popular. Vegetable oil is good as well as others. Don't put too much oil thinking you will get a better seasoning. Too much oil is NOT good as it will make little globs in the pan. Use a very thin coat on the entire pan and put it in the oven upside down then set the oven temp to around 350 degrees allowing the pan to warm slowly for at least 60 minutes. Do this process 2 or 3 times letting it cool for over an hour between seasonings so you can handle it to put another coating. Once finished put the pan on the stove, add a little oil or butter, fry a couple eggs and they should not stick. Use medium heat and warm the pan up slowly. In my google research I read cast iron works better on a gas stove(flames). I have an electric stove and read that it will work but to use caution not to have the heat setting past a good medium on the electric burners. I hope this helps. Post back and let us know your outcome. I'm goin go fry me some eggs.

For those who have Kroger in their area, I just saw an Emeril Brand cast iron 12 inch skillet for 19.99.

LINK

did some reading on this the other day when i got a badly rusted one from my grandpa. short story:
electrolysis to get rust off,
flax oil coated in oven at (cant remember temp check link), coat seven times
try to get on ebay or somewhere and find a griswald and cant remember the other brand, but they are from long ago and had machined cooking surfaces for smoothness. Lodge doesnt do this.

long story with links

chemistry behind it with some explanation

best advice I can give is use it, use it often.
Use it often, heat it up to dry it after washing.

no i havent..but if you read those two articles it had me sold. Kind of expensive, but oh well. Make sure yo unote the temp and the time that they let it sit in the oven.

I have been wanting to do the electrolysis thing, but dont have the battery charger. Well, they say that you can use a battery charger instead of the welding style charge thingys, the only difference is the time it takes to finish

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i have a feeling, he's wanted to get that off his chest, for a while..

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Poor guy was just waiting on a thread and had to get it out before someone else did.

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heatom2 and ole Geaut. I have been enjoying reading the posts on TD.com for many months and it has become part of my daily routine. During that time I have seen numerous posts by newbies that were ridiculed and flamed with things like.....GTFO.....FU.... , among other insults to FELLOW TIGER FANS. I have hesitated to post on the rant because of the insults a newbie recieves. Since I love to eat and really enjoy cooking I thought the Food and Drink section might be more receptive to a newbies posts. I was trying to share with a fellow Tiger fan some information that I thought would be beneficial to him. I didn't know it had to meet with you guy's approval. I didn't know YOU have a limit on the length of a post. Do I need to check with you guys before I post again to see if it meets with your approval? Am I and other newbies not welcome here on YOUR board? If so, let me know and I will gladly not post. Have a great day!