Cast iron skillet

Sérgio

Sérgio

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So, cooking has become one of my main hobbies. I used to enjoy dining at restaurants but since the pandemic I lost that habit and cooking for my family became a joyful activity.

I recently started puting together a proper set of kitchen utensils, starting with a cowboy chuck wagon classic: the almighty cast iron skillet. Ordered two different sizes.

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After the mandatory seasoning, I fried some sausages with finely chopped onions, garlic and fresh parsley, nothing fancy but I wanted to start using these beauties as soon as possible:

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Can't wait to try some real recipes. A pretty decent professional chef's knife is in also in the mail.
 
Sérgio said:
So, cooking has become one of my main hobbies. I used to enjoy dining at restaurants but since the pandemic I lost that habit and cooking for my family became a joyful activity.

I recently started puting together a proper set of kitchen utensils, starting with a cowboy chuck wagon classic: the almighty cast iron skillet. Ordered two different sizes.

PSX-20240704-220211.jpg



After the mandatory seasoning, I fried some sausages with finely chopped onions, garlic and fresh parsley, nothing fancy but I wanted to start using these beauties as soon as possible:

PSX-20240804-141226.jpg


Can't wait to try some real recipes. A pretty decent professional chef's knife is in also in the mail.
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And yes. A quality chef’s knife is a must. No idea how we got along for so many years without one.
 
Sérgio said:
So, cooking has become one of my main hobbies. I used to enjoy dining at restaurants but since the pandemic I lost that habit and cooking for my family became a joyful activity.

I recently started puting together a proper set of kitchen utensils, starting with a cowboy chuck wagon classic: the almighty cast iron skillet. Ordered two different sizes.

PSX-20240704-220211.jpg



After the mandatory seasoning, I fried some sausages with finely chopped onions, garlic and fresh parsley, nothing fancy but I wanted to start using these beauties as soon as possible:

PSX-20240804-141226.jpg


Can't wait to try some real recipes. A pretty decent professional chef's knife is in also in the mail.
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Santana skillets are loaded with sustain. The best one by far.
 
Fun Fact:
Cow-boys and girls, and everyone else from that era who used iron to cook with did not suffer anemia...they may have sufffered a plethora of other nutritional maladies, but anemia wasn't one of them.

Now we cook with aluminum.
And if cooking with a metal that we know accumulates in the brain wasn't bad enough, we toss in a "forever chemical" (teflon) for that extra special something to pass on to our progeny...

We're smart.
 
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Sérgio said:
So, cooking has become one of my main hobbies. I used to enjoy dining at restaurants but since the pandemic I lost that habit and cooking for my family became a joyful activity.
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We started doing stay home date nights probably 25 years ago. Oldest was in college. Youngest HS and hanging out with friends. I’d grill a steak. She’d do some veggies an/or salad. Dessert. Even pre-pandemic we’d pretty much stopped going out to restaurants. Most of them just aren’t that good anymore.

Cool thing about home cooking. Less expensive than going out. It can be fun. In many ways it’s healthier. You control what goes into the food.
 
IMO a good cast iron skillet is one thing every kitchen should have. It's the original nonstick cookware, plus it retains heat in a way nothing else can. Simply the best for frying, and oven safe. Ideal for the two-stage method where you begin by browning on the stove, then add other elements and finish in the oven.

Old time cast iron is the best. Until the 1940s it was made using a process that's no longer practical. You can tell the good old ones by their smooth, shiny cooking surface. Until pretty recently you could find often antique cast iron for next to nothing at garage sales or Goodwill. Nowadays it's become collectible and is hard to find on the cheap.
 
eclecticsynergy said:
IMO a good cast iron skillet is one thing every kitchen should have. It's the original nonstick cookware, plus it retains heat in a way nothing else can. Simply the best for frying, and oven safe. Ideal for the two-stage method where you begin by browning on the stove, then add other elements and finish in the oven.

Old time cast iron is the best. Until the 1940s it was made using a process that's no longer practical. You can tell the good old ones by their smooth, shiny cooking surface. Until pretty recently you could find often antique cast iron for next to nothing at garage sales or Goodwill. Nowadays it's become collectible and is hard to find on the cheap.
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Kinda like this?

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SG John said:
I believe that my Dutch Oven is cast iron. It one of my most used cooking apparatuses. Every week, I bake a loaf of bread in it. All winter I am making stews, sauces, Rouladen, or Gulasch in it.
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We don’t have a cast iron Dutch oven….. well, I guess actually it is cast iron. Just has an enameled surface inside making it someone non stick. But we use it all the time. One of our best purchases too.
 
iblive said:
We don’t have a cast iron Dutch oven….. well, I guess actually it is cast iron. Just has an enameled surface inside making it someone non stick. But we use it all the time. One of our best purchases too.
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Mine is also enameled. It's one of my favorites. Even more so than my crock-pot.
 
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