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Re: Cast iron frustration
« Reply #45 on: June 29, 2017, 06:03:20 PM »
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.
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Re: Cast iron frustration
« Reply #46 on: June 29, 2017, 10:16:43 PM »
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. 

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Re: Cast iron frustration
« Reply #47 on: June 30, 2017, 09:40:34 AM »
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.   :chuckle:  Many others have done it and there is info on YouTube on smoothing cast iron. 

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Re: Cast iron frustration
« Reply #48 on: June 30, 2017, 09:45:46 AM »
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

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Re: Cast iron frustration
« Reply #49 on: June 30, 2017, 09:57:05 AM »
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.

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Re: Cast iron frustration
« Reply #50 on: June 30, 2017, 11:13:53 AM »
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.

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Re: Cast iron frustration
« Reply #51 on: June 30, 2017, 09:44:24 PM »
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.

 


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