only way to warm up a tortilla

Margerine

Huh?

Hmm. I much prefer to go right over the fire with tortillas.

Your 12-inch! Read your post again :D

ROFL

Was your post supposed to say "bragger"?

Oh shit it was! ROFL

LMAO

if thats all there is, then i gotta, but at home, nope. i got mine ready to rock! haha

I have Griswold and Wagners...biggest is a Griswold 16 Its a beast and worth a bunch to collectors. I have 4 dutch ovens, a couple hanging pots, and 5 or 6 other skillets and a chicken fryer that is an old Griswold.

Can someone tell me if some old ones that were left in the oven during a cleaning cycle can ever be restored. Looks like the surface was baked off—just not completely. I didn't do it but I was afraid to ever use them again.

Certainly. Your best bet is to finish stripping them with another cycle in the self-clean, or even by using some oven cleaner. Then start over with the seasoning. You'll need to do a few rounds before it becomes usable, but would totally be worth the time.

If you don't want them, PM and let's talk. :)

This... Hard to totally kill a cast iron pan....

When I pick up a used, not taken care, cast iron cookware, I usually just make a big bonfire to clean it all up. Then steel wool it and re-season it proper.

Grab one while you can

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00008GKDJ/...-20&ascsubtag=

Rep. I picked one up.

Also, your link won't blow out the page if you kill the referrer code.

My wife just got the 12" Lodge the other day at Walmart of all places for $20. That seemed cheap to me.

It's a good deal. Don't forget you have to get the one on amazon shipped which adds costs. They had those at Bed Bath and Beyond last Spring for $25.

Not if you do free shipping or are a Prime member.

Prime member here and I'd have it no other way. Seems we order something every few weeks off Amazon and it can be a purchase under $5 and it's still free shipping and to my door in 2 days. Love it.

I thought they were doing away with that as amazon was losing money?

I use my daughter's account for free shipping 'cause she's in college.

I've used Prime before but I thought it was limited to a time period. Anyway, I read amazon was losing money on it.

no they just upped it to 100 bucks a year from 70.

I am reading now that Prime requires an annual fee? Is that so.

So it really isn't free then is it?

http://business.time.com/2011/11/14/...-huge-success/

never has been free. Just free shipping on shit you buy from amazon, plus all kinds of other perks.

It has cost money for many years. If you've never been a prime member, they will give you like a 1-month trial.

It's never been free. It was $79.99 a year, now $99 a year. It's worth it so we can order stuff whenever we want with free shipping (no matter the size of the order) and it arrives in 2 days instead of a week. Plus now you can stream whole albums and watch TV/Movies as well.

That sounds about right. I had it free for a bit as I recall, but haven't ordered in a long time.

I need Red Rooster to clean my copper pans but can't bring myself to order it there. Yet, no one around here carries it.

Yeah, I was reading that in that article I linked. Never knew that before. We use Netflix.

Well it doesn't have even close to everything like Netflix, but it has plenty of stuff we've never seen including multiple seasons of many TV show dramas, plus I can stream many albums over my stereo as well. I'd pay for it just for the shipping as it saves us a lot since we order from them quite a bit.

I use albums on You Tube for free and blast it. Especially when cleaning. Ramones are usually good for that. Keeps me in action. :D

Well, all the more reason..

Oh, nay nay, that's not mine. Just saw it on FB and thought I'd add it to this thread - as if we need any more reasons to buy more cast iron pans.

But it's on my list now, I just need an excuse to make such a sinful dish!

The whole thing!!

Almost like:

http://i810.photobucket.com/albums/z...2/DSC01078.jpg

The Truth About Cast Iron Pans: 7 Myths That Need To Go Away

Highlights without explanation below. Click the link to read more. I do not agree with all of these, though.

cook whatever the eff you wan on a cast lol

love my cast iron. I actually would like to get a couple more of varying sizes.

I'm set on skillets... I need one or two larger dutch ovens, though. I only have one CI dutch oven, a relatively small 5-quart.

I have a CI Dutch Oven on my Christmas list I had to provide to my mother-in-law. :)
I always tell them they don't have to get me anything, but hell....if ya want a list, I'll give you a list.

I have done the EXACT same thing. I have one standard Lodge and one enameled Tramontina on the list.

one year i mentioned I would like a new set of pots and pans; casually mentioned it etc. then at Christmas, they bought a bad ass set.

on the ride home, i mentioned to my wife that it was a really nice set, and they they shouldn't have spent that much money on me/us; and i thought it was probably $200 or something. My wife said "more". I said "300"?....she said "more". I stopped asking after $400. lol. Love the pots/pans.

Wow. Can they be my in-laws, too?

My grandma is giving me a cast iron dutch oven and another cast iron skillet. She has to find it in the attic she tells me; and I doubt it's been used in a decade plus.

But I have one coming, so that's cool.

lol.
yeah, every year or so, they completely do way more than is necessary. a good bottle of tequila as a gift, and I'm good to go.

in fact, I've proposed a few times that in lieu of gifts, we just have a kick ass dinner, with great wine, cocktails, a post dinner cigar etc. but I think everyone likes getting presents lol. I'd be good with a bad ass meal with some exceptional bottles of wine that one/we would normally not spend $ on etc.

That's awesome.

When my last grandmother passed a couple years ago, I got her cast iron stash, including a little 10-inch Griswold. That's by far my favorite. The quality is night and day different from what you buy today.

She gave me an 8" Griswold skillet already. I don't know or care about the brand of the dutch oven, I'm just glad it will get some use.

Grandmas are pretty awesome.

If it's old, it may take some cleanup, but it'll be a better pan than you can get new, that's almost a foregone conclusion.

No wiser words have ever been uttered.

**** it, my cast iron pans are better than, and more loved, than half the women I ever dated (one night stands or otherwise!)....

Me, too.

Bump for Blowfish

Found a couple OLD little 4-inch CI skillets from my grandma... they're in rough shape, but working on getting them re-seasoned.

Thinking if I get them all nice and pretty again, they'll make excellent egg skillets.

Pfffffffffft, put them in your undies the next time Mrs. FMB spanks you!

LOL

I don't even know what you're implying.

"Cover your butt"! You know, when you tell her that certain other woman is now single and has her eyes on you...

Oh, ROFL

:thumb:

Amazon has a cast iron wok for sale for 19.99 with Prime shipping...

I bought one and two of my friends had me order them one too, it's a pretty nice piece of cookware, easy to make good stir fry in it because it retains heat well.

Mr. Bar-B-Q 06106X Cast-Iron Wok << search that on Amazon

Sure would be nice if you'd have included a link.

here

http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Bar-B-Q-061...=cast+iron+wok

I'm a huge fan of cast iron... I think everyone here knows that. But I don't see the draw in this case. Carbon steel is the way to go, IMHO.

"Well you can tell by the way I use my Wok, I'm a Chinese Cook, No Time to Talk...."

I made chili in my iron skillet last night. Excellent results. Good stuff on a cold night too.

Anyone made the plunge into ceramic? We are thinking of the zwilling line.

http://youtu.be/m77mz_uxWw4

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mr.-Bar-B-...n-Wok/17164809


http://i5.walmartimages.com/dfw/dce0...fb66206.v1.jpg

WOW, this was VERY Q!!!!!

A local store is having a big clearance sale on Lodge cast iron, so I'll be grabbing a piece or two. I'm just debating whether to leave the Lodge seasoning on or to start from scratch.

Start from scratch you never know who touched the ****ing thing

America's Test Kitchen is working on a cast iron cookbook.

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/d...ps1bac024a.gif

Instead of reading through all of this, here's my deal. Have a cast iron skillet in which everything is sticking to.

How do I go about re-seasoning this and make it easy!?

It's got Martha, it's got Crisco, what could go wrong?

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Throw it out and eat out.

Sounds like solid marital advice...

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

Martha's kind of hot in a different kind of way.

Stop cleaning the piss out of it?

I don't! I scrub grits out with salt and paper towel. Then run water in it. Then dry it. That's it. It's a pre-seasoned lodge and I never seasoned it. I bet that's my problem.

Prolly. Once you do you'll be super happy.

:eek:

Just start seasoning. Heat on high for 5 minutes, 1 Tbsp. Canola oil, smear all over with paper towel so all you have is a very thin layer. You do NOT want drops or any areas of thick oil. Back on the burner (high) for 10 minutes. It will smoke. This is good.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Do this every time you cook in it and soon you'll have that thing in awesome shape.

I got one I use all the time on my grill but the first time I used it last year I made a mistake and grabbed it by the handle before it cooled off good enough. OUCH THE **** OUCH. Got to make sure the handle is cooled off before grabbing it.