So my wife is on this kick where we do most of our cooking with cast iron skillets. There is supposed to be health advantages supposedly. I do love how evenly it distributes the heat and also is a lot more temp consistent. Once seasoned they are fairly Non stick. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Yep I have an old cast iron pan from my grandparents house, and a cast iron dutch oven too. I use my stainless stuff more.
Aluminum does a better job of distributing heat than cast iron on stovetop or over an uneven heat. It's a popular misconception tho'.
Aluminum gets hot and cools off so much faster. Cast seems so much more even keeled. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I do all my cooking on cast because my girlfriend doesn't trust me to use her teflon pans lol Nothing taste better in my opinion, and the ease of use is always a plus.
We cook on cast alot too. Something about being entirely heat soaked really gives food an balanced taste to it I think. We do not wash cast with soap so a light fat buildup is on the surface. I can't see a health benefit.
Mm mm. Mm moms milk gravy with cooked with jimmy deans hot sausage over homemade biskiets 3 am opening morn of deer season. I would be maybe nine years old at the time. 1971
I don't think there are any health benefits, although the non-stick coatings on other utensils are supposed to be bad for you as they wear off. I use two cast iron woks and a couple of cast iron skillets. I think they're great. And for my cooking, they don't move around as I'm tossing stuff in the wok. They are pretty much non-stick if you treat them right. But sometimes I have to use a copper scraper. Then I just recoat with oil and tuck it into the oven to re-season. You never want to use soap. I have a regular iron wok that I use if I want to heat one up quickly for some quick soup. We have a cast iron dutch oven which my husband uses. He makes a really good pot roast and stew. He also makes delicious oven fried chicken in the cast iron skillet. These are some rare treats. I do over 90% of the cooking, although our daughters are beginning to take over. Of course we also have the usual set of regular pots and pans. You need them to heat up soup or boil yams or potatoes, etc.
I do almost all my cooking on cast iron. I have my Great Grandmother's cast iron skillet. It is one of my most prized possessions.
I use my set of cast iron skillets, pancake skillet, dutch oven and two different griddles anytime I cook. The wife found a cast iron griddle that literally takes up the entire 4 burners on our stove top. I love using that because of the different "heat zones" I can create with it. I think the supposed health benefits is some residual iron from the cookware that get attached/infused into the food.... I don't really buy it, but that is the argument. Oly
I use a cast iron pan on occasion, its has its uses. My choice of cook wear is determined by what I am cooking. I have cast iron, Copper, and copper lined...not to mention non stick and aluminum.
Once cast gets hot it stays hot much longer than aluminum skillets. This helps with the cooling of the fire over time. When camping with 10 people cooking takes a while and the cast has worked best for us. I just bought our first cast skillet two years ago. It seems much better than the aluminum we used to use. We have never used it cooking at home though.
Cast iron dutch oven is used alot at our campsite. My wife will use her cast iron skillet every once in awhile here at home too. I use a small 8 inch cast iron pan for my wood chip pan in my smoker. Works great!
I've got two cast iron skillets and a dutch oven. I keep them seasoned and they work great. Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk 2
A good stainless/aluminum skillet will hold heat too. It is the thickness of the pan that holds the heat. Cast iron harder to melt into a blob than aluminum though, so there's that. (have witnessed the blob thing) I use cast iron too but some people think it has magical properties. I used to buy and sell used cast iron. There are plenty of people who think a #10 Griswold will suddenly make up for their poor culinary skills.
