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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 01:18 AM
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 03:31 PM
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You got some good pieces there. The griddle is great and very handy on the stovetop. I use mine for tortillas, grilled cheese and as a lid for my smaller skillets. The deep skillet looks like a chicken skillet. You’ll be using that a lot. Chili and spaghetti sauce love that pot. I bet it’ll make perfect fried chicken using that lid. That little shallow skillet would be my fried egg/fritata skillet. Congrats!
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 03:40 PM
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TexasLefty I like that small skillet!
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 03:40 PM
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Is the one you’re cleaning the top one in the first sideways pic? That’s a straight sided stew pot with a lid that you don’t often see. Chili, stew, beans and a deep peach cobbler belong in it. How deep is it? I might be looking at it wrong.
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 03:41 PM
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I will have to see if I can get some pictures of some of my older pieces ... my brother wanted several that my parents had, a big rectangular griddle that would stretch over two stove burners, probably 12x20 or 12x24 with handles on both ends, corn ear shaped corn bread muffin like someone posted earlier, several dutch ovens and a number of skillets in various sizes ... he got those but I got most of the guns since he hasn't hunted since the early 1970s.
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 03:44 PM
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This might be one of the Greatest threads ever!!!
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Re: Cast iron
[Re: Wburke2010]
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03/21/19 03:53 PM
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PMK reminded me. I have a big Griswald griddle too. Straddles two burners with a grease catcher on one end. Works great on the gas grill. I gotta dig around in the cabinets to find more of the lesser used stuff. I wanna show y’all my big skillet too.
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 04:03 PM
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Hey Cast, I always thought spaghetti sauce in cast iron wasn’t a no-no due to the acidity & long cooktimes - thoughts?
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 04:19 PM
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Hey Cast, I always thought spaghetti sauce in cast iron wasn’t a no-no due to the acidity & long cooktimes - thoughts? I say poppycock. My shiny chicken skillet has cooked many tomato based sauces through the decades. It always simmers all day. Chili too, and I bet that’s more acidic.
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 04:56 PM
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Cast, no sir. It’s the bottom one. I hate when they look right but they post sideways. The top one is definitely a No. 8-B (7) 10 1/4 Birmingham (BSR) and their lid too. I think the lid is older, could be wrong.
But look at the lid handles. They’re very similar but no markings on the bigger one in question. I thought maybe someone would recognize the Pan by the two dimple carry handle mostly. The big handle is kind of different too.
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 05:04 PM
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 05:07 PM
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Hey Cast, I always thought spaghetti sauce in cast iron wasn’t a no-no due to the acidity & long cooktimes - thoughts? I say poppycock. My shiny chicken skillet has cooked many tomato based sauces through the decades. It always simmers all day. Chili too, and I bet that’s more acidic. I agree. I grew up on every tomato based meal being made in Mom’s skillet. Spaghetti, chicken and tomatoes(you’ll have to try it, hard to describe but it was my favorite meal as a kid).
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Re: Cast iron
[Re: Wburke2010]
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03/21/19 05:09 PM
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I’ve been looking at handles like those and wonder why it’s welded on one end. There’s a bunch of them out there. Wait, I was referring to the loops on the lids.
The first skillet handle looks factory to me. The second one is special. That started out as a stew pot with two stub handles. Somebody made it a skillet by welding that handle to the original stub handle. It takes real skill and some special stuff to weld cast iron. Be skeptical of it. It probably won’t fail but just be aware.
Flip that top one over and pic the handle please. Interesting.
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 05:10 PM
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Hey Cast, I always thought spaghetti sauce in cast iron wasn’t a no-no due to the acidity & long cooktimes - thoughts? I say poppycock. My shiny chicken skillet has cooked many tomato based sauces through the decades. It always simmers all day. Chili too, and I bet that’s more acidic. I lived in firehouses for 34 years. In the older houses I saw the same cast iron skillets in use during those years and probably used as many years before that. One of them had a big crack that had been repaired by one of the guys with brazed bronze 30 years ago and was still holding strong when I left. Spaghetti sauce was cooked in those skillets many 100s of times over those years. Almost every time out of the 1000s of times used, they were cleaned with dish washing soap, dried on a burner, and a thin coat of grease, Crisco, or cooking spray applied then put up. They had a thick patina, but shined like glass on the inside with a deep dark black color. Every once in a while some rookie would come along and scrub the patina off then get razed for it, but it did not take long for the patina to build back up in use. Some of y'all overthink this stuff IMHO.
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 05:17 PM
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I almost bought a Chicken type pot but the inside bottom was pitted out (small holes) pretty bad so I passed.
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 05:20 PM
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I’d lowball the price, grab and grind if they weren’t too bad.
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 05:36 PM
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Here’s another random question - what would you cook in a no7 skillet? Seems to be an odd size to me (to large for small cornbread batches yet too small for family meals).
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 05:48 PM
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It depends on how you cook. I’ll usually have a couple of skillets cooking. I might be sautéing chili’s and/or onions in the small one. Corn or potato cakes. Lots of uses for a small skillet.
There’s only two of us to cook for, so I use a 4,6,8 set.
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 07:48 PM
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Cast, I put top and bottom pics
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 08:08 PM
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Those are both welded on skillet handles! I bet those are home poured with the optional add on skillet handles.
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 09:59 PM
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Those are both welded on skillet handles! I bet those are home poured with the optional add on skillet handles. So, crud?
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 10:36 PM
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Not crud! Old handmade CI pots. Blast and season them.
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 11:13 PM
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Not crud! Old handmade CI pots. Blast and season them. That an invite sir? Hear that TexasLefty!!!? You heard him, load the trailer for a blastin’ party!
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Re: Cast iron
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03/21/19 11:20 PM
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Re: Cast iron
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03/23/19 02:30 PM
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You might also check out Stargazer. A bit pricier than Lodge but the cooking surface it is already smoothed. They seem to get good ratings. http://www.stargazercastiron.com/I ordered the 10.5” skillet (unseasoned) yesterday. Will post some pictures once I get it.
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