Monday, December 6, 2010

Crazy about cast iron cookware

I recently purchased a cast iron stove top frying pan. It is flat on one side and ridges on the opposite side. The pan I bought was already seasoned in the sense that it was greased and baked in the oven until the surface is stick resistant. I love this stove and use it as often as I do.

Cast iron cookware is ideal for a variety of reasons: 1) control has spread only pans, the heat across the cooking surface uniformly excellent, 2)Not least because it is expensive in time, you're a long life, 3) can fat-free cooking oil in the pan cook ever, 4) can be cast iron stove for cooking surface and vice versa versa, and 5) cleaning the cast iron is now as easy to rinse with warm water, washing and drying.

Only a few culinary tools are better with age. Voted works of iron pots, because every time you use to heat the pan, season even more. My grandmother Southernused his iron pan for almost everything they do, and the man was a joy to eat their food. Did the killer cornbread was sweet and whole grains in it. I've never been able to get the recipe before he died, unfortunately. I tried to copy it, but it is something that is not in my version.

If you love cooking, do yourself a favor and get at least a cast iron pan and grill. The pan is ideal forcorn bread baking, cooking salmon, creating one-pot meal, cooked meat, then the need to go brown in the oven for cooking are made, and yes! Cook Deep Dish Apple Pie. The pan is evenly toasted bread and pita bread, huge fluffy pancakes, and ham steaks and grilled vegetables to perfection.

Perhaps you prefer seasoned cast iron because the work is already done for you. The cost is more than unseasoned pans for this reason. If you are a plainPiece of kitchen utensils, is not that difficult season itself, it only takes a little 'time. Here's how I did:


Set the oven temperature to 300 °.
Coat your cooking with lard. If you do not want to use vegetable oil because it leaves a film on the pan, not non-stick.
Pans in the oven and after 20 minutes, wipe off excess grease with a clean dry cloth.
Return the pan in the oven for 2 hours.
It helps to repeat the processagain. forgotten your cast iron cookware is more welcome, hot fat and fatty acids, the more you get hardened, and it works like a dream for the food that requires no cooking oil.

You can search the web before unseasoned cast iron pots and seasoned in the kitchen, the best places to look, etc. The flea markets and street markets. They may be a bargain. Do not be afraid if you have a pan, a little 'rust was to be found. This simply means that the previous ownerlet stand in water and ruin the flavor. You can buy food for pennies on the dollar, at home, heat for a few minutes away on the stove then put in hot water and scrub the grill with a Brillo pad. Once the rust away, follow the instructions to season cast iron. Season 2-3 to a good, solid coating on the plate once, and you can start to enjoy the cast iron plate.

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