Cast iron frustration

[Southpole]

A friend of ours is a hardcore iron man and that's what he did with his skillets, ground them until smooth as a babies butt.

[DaveMonti]

Best bacon I've ever cooked myself was on my grill.  Put a cookie cooling rack on the grill and tend the bacon, it will cook fast.  The grease smoking adds a great flavor.  My old grill used to get pretty messy with the grease, but the new Webers really manage grease well. 

[Okanagan]

Will add that a tip I read from Ted Trueblood some 40 years ago was to lap the lid on a Dutch oven.  I follow his recommendation to put medium valve grinding compound on the rim and lid and turn it back and forth and around and around.  It is a slow process to smooth the fit (I never figured out how to rotate it with a motor).  I set the Dutch oven on newspaper on the floor beside my computer and for three or four days, just turn the lid once in awhile for a minute or two till my fingers/hand get tied.  It removes the sand cast pebble bumps and makes a much tighter seal to hold steam etc.    It made the rim knife sharp in places, so I took off the sharp edge with a whetstone.

I came up with the idea to grind and polish my cast iron smooth, and then discovered that it is an old idea.     Many others have done it and there is info on YouTube on smoothing cast iron. 

[magnanimous_j]

Best bacon I've ever cooked myself was on my grill.  Put a cookie cooling rack on the grill and tend the bacon, it will cook fast.  The grease smoking adds a great flavor.  My old grill used to get pretty messy with the grease, but the new Webers really manage grease well.

+1 for this.

Try threading the bacon like ribbon candy on a metal skewer and then cooking really low on the grill

[JimmyHoffa]

Best bacon I've ever cooked myself was on my grill.  Put a cookie cooling rack on the grill and tend the bacon, it will cook fast.  The grease smoking adds a great flavor.  My old grill used to get pretty messy with the grease, but the new Webers really manage grease well.

+1 for this.

Try threading the bacon like ribbon candy on a metal skewer and then cooking really low on the grill

Bacon wraps on the grill are good.  Take a bunch of slices all in line with a skewer.  Then toss in a few onion slices and jalapenos.  Wrap everything tight with more bacon and pin in place with toothpicks.  Grill.  The outermost bacon is crunchy, the innermost is still soft.

[JDHasty]

We have old Wagner & Griswold frying pans, griddles, corn bread pans, dutch ovens, deep frying pans and I don't know if I could get anything to stick to them if I wanted to.  Never let anyone anywhere near them with Dawn or it may take lots of effort to get them right again though.

[KFhunter]

last batch of bacon I made was on the treager, with some brisket rub.  It wasn't ordinary bacon though, it was home made thick cut, brine cured, and mildly smoked from an older sow.