Cast Iron On My Wish List

[Mexican_Hippie]

I'm not convinced he's Mexican

This again? ha ha

Younggun promised me drinks before I splain it all.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

This again? ha ha

Younggun promised me drinks before I splain it all.

splain it all
good cover

 

[London]

Cast iron is where it's at. Poopoo on all these 500-1000 buck cooking pans. I get even heat, a wonderful non-stock surface with cast iron.

It heats more evenly than aluminum or steel (because it is thicker), but the claim that it heats perfectly evenly is a myth. Fill one up all the way to the edges with pancake batter and let it cooker longer than you should. You'll definitely see a ring on the bottom of the pancake mirroring the heat source you used.

I'd like to plate the bottoms of mine with copper one day just to see what the difference would be.

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

That's why it works a little better on a broad base of coals than a burner.

 

[stdreb27]

It heats more evenly than aluminum or steel (because it is thicker), but the claim that it heats perfectly evenly is a myth. Fill one up all the way to the edges with pancake batter and let it cooker longer than you should. You'll definitely see a ring on the bottom of the pancake mirroring the heat source you used.

I'd like to plate the bottoms of mine with copper one day just to see what the difference would be.

Iol compare that to your pos walmarts pan of comparable cost (pre-hipster fandom)

 

[Army 1911]

I got my Iron from a vendor at First Monday in Canton. There are/were several vendors all with antique cast iron skillets. All mine predate 1910 and are smoother than the current made stuff because the sand molds used real fine grain sand. Mine as so smooth I can't see the texture.

 

[benenglish]

It heats more evenly than aluminum or steel (because it is thicker), but the claim that it heats perfectly evenly is a myth.

You say that like it's a bad thing. I have one of the original pattern Lodge woks that's a smooth curve on the inside with an extra amount of iron on the bottom to give it a flat bottom surface. It's sits perfectly on a standard, small electric burner.

And it doesn't heat evenly. It's designed not to. The center will smoke olive oil while the handle is still cool. That's perfect. I use a proper wok chan to scrap the food off the bottom and the least-cooked food then automatically falls to the hottest part of the pan. It's an incredibly efficient way to cook. Any idiot can, for example, scramble a dozen eggs at once with perfect results.

Yeah, even heat is a good thing for flat pans. Most of the time, though, I want the exact opposite.

 

[Vaquero]

Pots and pans huh?
Well, cast iron is a damned good weapon.

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

We've welded handles on old tractor disks and use them as woks on an outdoor burner. Cast iron.

 

[Vaquero]

We've welded handles on old tractor disks and use them as woks on an outdoor burner. Cast iron.

Horseshoes make good handles.
I've got a disk waiting to be converted.

 

[Ole Cowboy]

We've welded handles on old tractor disks and use them as woks on an outdoor burner. Cast iron.

Disks are not cast iron, they are in most cases mild steel or hardened steel. Cast iron is way to soft to use as a disk, nor does it weld very well, it gets very brittle at the point of weld for what is already a brittle metal.

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

I've been wrong at least once before.

 

[Ole Cowboy]

I've been wrong at least once before.

I was not trying to make you look bad or wrong, it was just and educational comment only...

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

I was not trying to make you look bad or wrong, it was just and educational comment only...

I know, I was laughing when I wrote it. No worries. No offense taken at all.

I've had a lot of good times standing around a disk frying up a little deer steak while we're making sausage.

 

[London]

Iol compare that to your pos walmarts pan of comparable cost (pre-hipster fandom)

Nov shmoz ka pop?

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

Nov shmoz ka pop?

Sir pee in the cup please

 

[vmax]

Go to the antique shops find nice ones cheap

hey dude, the words "antique shop" and "cheap" don't go together.

I've found older American made cast iron in some of these places and it is sky high. I have found some at flea markets too, but it is mostly Chinese crap

 

[vmax]

I've been wrong at least once before.

I thought I was wrong once, but it turned out I was wr...... oh nevermind

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

hey dude, the words "antique shop" and "cheap" don't go together.

I've found older American made cast iron in some of these places and it is sky high. I have found some at flea markets too, but it is mostly Chinese crap

Pffffffffffft logic does not come into play