Tell me about your cast iron!

[Wannabefree]

I have 3 lodge and one no name. 2 are yard sale digs for $5, two were gifts. The dutch oven lid fits the two skillets, and the big skillet I have a glass lid that fits it. One of the 10 inch skillets is JUST FOR CORNBREAD, i should prolly engrave that one the bottom It's the no name skillet, but it makes a mean pone of bread I love my cast iron, and pretty much use it exclusively for frying sauteeing baking cornbread and biscuits and such. Some if not all is used daily in this house. My favorite is the big fry pan though, it gets tons of use. I have had it about 2 years, and I have probably used it at least 600 times already. Hardly a day goes by it doesn't get used, so it has a permanent home on the back burner of my stove.

 

[ORChick]

I have 2 muffin/popover pans from my grandmother, as well as 2 corn stick pans (one a Griswold) also from her. And I have collected various pans from garage sales/thrift stores - - even though I truly don't need anymore, I always look, and sometimes find ... and then buy, because ... well ... they obviously need love . Best buy was a 12" pan, very well taken care of and seasoned, found at a garage sale - parents moving to assisted living, and kids getting rid of all the old stuff - 50 cents! Sort of sad, actually. My mother gave me a set of *no-name* pans, saucepans etc when I was first starting my own household - I have kept and use regularly the two different sized frying pans, the Dutch oven, and the small roasting pan (exactly the right size for my recipe for Yorkshire pudding). The 2 saucepans I finally gave to the Goodwill, I just never used them (after 15 years they were still gray, which shows how often they came out of the cupboard ). The round griddle I should probably give away; it has always had a tilt to it, whatever sort of stove top I've used it on - on the gas stove I used to have, and even more so on the glass top I now have. It would probably be fine over a campfire. And I found a decorative muffin tin at a second hand store; makes muffins with ridges on the sides. And then I have a small Le Creuset frying pan, and a smaller Lodge pan which I use, as stated above, mostly for toasting spices, or nuts, or coconut.

 

[Wannabefree]

Oh i have one of the fajita pans too. I have never used it though maybe I should drag it out and finally find a use.

 

[i_am2bz]

My most recent addition is I guess what they call a fajita skillet. It's round with barely a raised lip around it. I still haven't used that one though.

That's the next one I want to get; I want to make my own flour tortillas. I found one in the Agri-Supply catalog, but the shipping is as much as the pan. :/ Haven't been able to find one at a local store.

 

[terri9630]

My most recent addition is I guess what they call a fajita skillet. It's round with barely a raised lip around it. I still haven't used that one though.

That's the next one I want to get; I want to make my own flour tortillas. I found one in the Agri-Supply catalog, but the shipping is as much as the pan. :/ Haven't been able to find one at a local store.

Check your local hardware stores. For some reason a lot of them carry cast iron cookware.

 

[i_am2bz]

My most recent addition is I guess what they call a fajita skillet. It's round with barely a raised lip around it. I still haven't used that one though.

That's the next one I want to get; I want to make my own flour tortillas. I found one in the Agri-Supply catalog, but the shipping is as much as the pan. :/ Haven't been able to find one at a local store.

Check your local hardware stores. For some reason a lot of them carry cast iron cookware.

I actually found my dutch oven at TSC but I think that was a "limited time offer" thing. I don't even think my town has a hardware store! :/

 

[moxies_chickennuggets]

Griswold...#8. bought at an antique store in South East KS...back in 2003.....mebbe. I had the cheaper korean stuff, but tossed it back in the 90's. I love the griswold. The pores are much smaller and smoother. It cooks like a cast iron skillet should cook. It is the only one I have too.

 

[StupidBird]

Had a no-name big skillet for ages - then ds took it camping and warped it over a propane burner. And it would not hold season after that. Oddly enough, right after that another scout parent wanted to donate his mother's small collection. Knowing these cherished pieces would meet a terrible fate at the hands of camping boys, I bullied them into accepting a nice cash donation in exchange for these nasty old pots.

 

[baymule]

I have several skillets of varying sizes. I have a few Wagoner skillets and I love them. I have 3 cornbread stick pans that look like corn on the cob. I have a round flat iron, i guess for pancakes, anyway that's what I use it for. I fry in them, stir fry, scramble eggs, grill cheese sandwiches.....you name it. If you cook in cast iron, you won't be anemic as enough of the iron leaches into the food. I want dutch ovens too. Hmmm, Wal Mart now carries Lodge......I think I feel a shopping trip coming.

I always have burnt my cast iron in fires. Not a roaring fire, but the coals, such as a leftover branding iron fire, or a fireplace that has burned down to coals. The iron is gray and looks brand new. Season and get to cookin'!

 

[moxies_chickennuggets]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the antique corn bread pan I have. I believe that one was my grandmothers. I grabbed it because no on used it at home...my mom or sisters. I seem to be the only cornbread eating fool in my family