It’s funny to see Chad loving things I never thought he’d be interested in but he loves old cast iron cookware. He sent me this picture of a Griswold skillet he recently found.
He told me to look them up on ebay so I asked him how much he paid for it. He told me and then said:
I said “So now you have your own “cast iron guy”?
Some of y’all remember Chad in high school. You probably never thought he’d be collecting cast iron cookware, did you? Never give up on your kids!
Joyce says
That’s funny…”my cast iron guy”…I know you enjoy the man he has become!
Liz says
I bought some of my best skillets at some flea markets or “antique stores” in Guthrie, OK. They were a good price since they needed to be cleaned and re-seasoned. So, I have a nice variety of sizes and depths of pans
Becky Louise Rhodes says
I remember as a kid when I washed the skillet it got dried by lighting the burner and letting the fire dry it. I think we have one somewhere that my husband used when he was doing the cooking. I’ll have to start the search.
Judy Laquidara says
That’s how I dry mine except now it’s on an electric stove.
vivoaks says
I didn’t grow up using cast iron, but when I moved into the house where my in-laws had lived, it was full of cast iron. I needed to learn to use it! I’m still not great at it, but tonight I did a new recipe for sourdough that called for a cast iron skillet to be heated in the oven on the shelf under the bread, before adding bread to the oven, then adding a cup of boiling water to the skillet after putting the loaves in to bake. First time trying this, and when it was all said and done, my baking stone with the bread on it had broken in half and the cast iron skillet is totally rusty inside now.
So I obviously need to re-season the cast iron skillet and throw out the baking stone. The bread turned out ok. I don’t think it has a lot of flavor, but it was new starter that I just got in the mail yesterday… I’ll keep feeding it to liven it up and start handing out homemade bread to friends and relatives. 🙂
OH! And I recently bought one of those Danish hand dough mixers – wow, does that thing work nice!! So much easier and quicker than using a large spoon to mix the dough. I love it!! 🙂
Judy Laquidara says
I’m not giving advice to you but I would never pour water into a hot skillet. That can case them to crack, even though the water is boiling. Water and cast iron are NOT friends. I will use water and a brush with a little Dawn (though some people say do not use soap), then I rinse it, wipe it dry, put it on the burner to completely dry, then oil it, heat it to smoking, the wipe away any excess oil. Chad will let his pots cool, pour water in them, bring it to a boil, then scrub if needed. His pots always look better than mine.
Those Danish dough mixers come in at least two sizes. I have one that will fit into a wide mouth jar and that’s what I like for stirring the sourdough after I feed it. The other one is larger and will not fit through a wide mouth jar opening.
Linda Garcia says
My mother and maternal grandmother used cast iron, so I grew up with cast iron. I thought you were supposed to use cast iron. So when my DH and I got our first apartment together, one of the first things we bought was a cast iron skillet. I now have about 25 pieces of cast iron in various sizes. Some I inherited from above mother/grandmother and some I got at yard sales or thrift stores. I have rescued totally rusted and horrible looking cast iron and now use them regularly, so don’t let the look of a cast iron skillet scare you away. And I don’t ever put soap in my cast iron, my mother would have killed me!! LOL!
Rebecca says
This thread has me wondering who got my mother’s cast iron. I know she had a nice big skillet that she would heap with potatoes–don’t know how she managed to turn them!