cast iron

[boneaddict]

a guy can learn alot on here.  If I pick up a set, I know who to ask for help.

[WDFW-SUX]

I use a cast iron skillet for corn bread, Fillet, New yorks, backstraps, Tenderloins works awsome!

[boneaddict]

I have the skillets, though never used them, they were given to me.  I might just have to play with them a bit. 

[WDFW-SUX]

Just get them smoking hot put some butter in. Next season your steak and place in pan.  Sear the bottom to desired level then flip over and place in 350 degree over until done.  I like to Finnish with blue cheese on top and melt in the oven.

Other good toppings are crab, bacon, hollandaise, spinach etc.

Cast iron works great for scallops and fried chicken too.

[ICEMAN]

Bone, cast is awesome in the kitchen. Funny, people buy these top end non stick pans and then cry three years later when they start sticking, after the non stick stuff has faded into their food over the past three years or they touched a metal object to them and scratched the finish off............ others buy the top end stainless stuff, and crap sticks to them every time, they go grab their non stick stuff..... All expensive, all dont work real well, (they also do not hold a temp worth a crap, but they look nice. ) Cast Iron on the other hand can look sort of crunky....but works great. I really like the look a heavily used cast iron pan takes on once it gets almost glassy on the cooking surface....

[wadu1]

JBD,
I use it all the time and as said in another thread any rusty ones put them in a fire or heat them until they glow and then start over. I have about 45 different types and styles of cast iron I mostly use a 8", 12" frying pans a then 10" and a 14" dutch oven and one 10" flat bottom bean pot. To keep them from going sour on you make sure you have an air gap and wipe them with a mixture of vinegar and water (25v -1h2o)this will reduce the odor. If you still have the odor after storage wipe them down with the same mixture. I keep a spray bottle in my hunting gear and one on the kitchen counter to wipe down my butcher block prior to each use. This recipe has been used to counter bacteria since the Civil War and works great. I will also cut the blood from your hands after cleaning game.

[Huntbear]

I love cooking with cast iron.  Love my cast iron dutch oven too... makes great peach cobbler 

[rasbo]

me too nuttin better,we buried a dutch oven with a deer roast in one morning while hunting in Idaho,I came back to camp and one of the guys had a raging fire going in the pit.I asked if he pulled the roast out? we scrambled to put out the fire,total loss looked like a coconut

[bearslayer]

One of the things we do in camp for baking bread is using two large fry pans, one over the other. This makes a makeshift oven if you are trying to save space in your camp kitchen. With two pans I can cook for a large  crew of hungry hunters!

[robodad]

OK I know this is an old thread but I didn't want to start another one to ask a simple question.

Is it ok to use cooking sprays in your cast iron ?? (i.e. Pam, or store brand etc...)

[NRA4LIFE]

Robo,

Perfectly OK.  Make sure you heat the pan up first though.

[littlebuf]

bacon grease is how i season my cast iron, over charcoal

[NRA4LIFE]

I have been an advocate of cast iron for a very long time, especially for game meat. I always wondered growing up why the steaks and burgers tasted so much better at the deer shack back in WI.  Cast Iron, that's why.  The best game burger you'll ever taste is to cook them in a little oil, salt, pepper and Lawry's in a cast iron skillet along with a huge pile of thick sliced big yellow onions.  YUM

[spin05]

I use a dutch oven from time to time and also season with crisco...........

[littlebuf]

i just pulled out some venison t bones because of this thread  cast iron is the only way to cook