What's Cookin? beat up phone chargers edition

I have 4 CI skillets a griddle and a Dutch oven and use them (one I bought at a garage sale for a dollar because it had hardened tar in it so I threw it into a bon fire one night)

I just finished cleaning the one I made breakfast with

A friend of my wife cleaned one of mine with an SOS pad and proudly showed me how clean she got it and I almost cried

 

I throw mine on the grill get it really hot and sear steaks in them

 

I met a Canadian chef that told me she would love to use cast iron but the health department would require her to put it in the dishwasher

 

I agree about the cornbread, but there’s not much I don’t cook in cast iron. Even eggs. It wipes clean.

 

Definitely over easy eggs just use enough butter

 

At least it’s not ruined. Just cook with it and it will be good as used in no time.

 

I throw steaks in the sous vide and then sear in cast iron. Perfect temp every single time.

 

Even scrambled

 

When all of that Teflon etc stuff wears out where do people think all of that Teflon goes

And Teflon should never be heated above 400 degrees which everyone does when preheating

 

I cook scrambled eggs differently

I use a stainless pan with a lot of butter cook on way low and gently fold the eggs with a rubbery spatula

No sticking easy clean fluffy

I have two great copper clad pots I dragged back from a Paris chef supply store they aren’t even made anymore to the weight I have

 

I’ll warm it up with whiskey if it stings too much.

 

Oh yeah

That was many moons ago

Amazing what a ribeye in it on a hot grill will do

Grease/Seasoning flying everywhere

 

African Peanut Butter Soup. Vegetable broth, onions, fresh garlic, peas, carrots, crunchy peanut butter. First fed to me by a lovely Nigerian woman long ago. Super easy, made in the crock pot.
Pistachio pie, cheesecake banana pie, Irish Cream coffee.

 

And then ruin it until you get it seasoned again.

 

Since ice cream and tissues worked out well last week, I'll stick with it.

 

Soup does not sound like football food and I'm wondering about a group of men slurping it during a football game

 

We have cornbread with our chili. The boxed stuff is way easier.

 

Went to Walmart yesterday morning (that's when they clear out the meat here).

Got some NY strips and a bunch of ground beef.

Probably have steak and eggs this morning.

And chili for dinner.

Maybe make a loaf of bread for the chili.

 

Right
Like there would ever be a soup company want to have chunky football players promote product

 

Yep.

Not only does it cook well, but it's cheap and will last forever with a bit of maintenance. For < $200, you can have all the cook ware you need (but if you're like me, you'll probably still buy more...).

Lodge stuff is made in the USA too (except the enameled stuff...which I think is US CI but enameled in China).

My favorite / most used CI is our Lodge 10.5" cast iron griddle. Much better than our skillet for eggs (which we have most mornings) because of the small lip. $25 bucks. We have 2 of these (along with a host of other things).

I took one of them with us when we took the kids to Disney World because we were staying in a suite to cook our own food and didn't want to use whatever BS non-stick pan they had there. No problems on the flight there. But on the flight back they confiscated it. Apparently they'd been watching a little too much Tangled and thought I was going to take over the plane with my CI pan. Not hard to replace, but takes a week or two for a new one to get a good seasoning.

 

And let it get hot before you put stuff on it.

 

we have a cast iron skillet that my wife had when we got married 36 years ago. it was our camping skillet the thing takes two men and a boy to lift. it's 18 inches across. you could cook for at least 4 people in it. haven't used it in a few years. will get put in the will. we have our favorites we use daily. when we got married we bought good stainless heavy duty cookware. it will also last but the CI is the go to.

 

Hearty soups

Ours is taco soup and beer is involved

So slurping belching and farting

That’s more football like

 

Forgot all about that and when I had a younger stomach I liked the Chunky soup.

 

It's rye season and there are some really good ones out there right now.