Cast iron pans

[moparedtn]

I've got a set of three skillets that are easily three quarters of a century old, passed down from my mama -
who in turn got them from her mama, etc.
I learned how to cook in those as a teenager - but I haven't used them in years, due in no small part to
the advent of glass top stoves (and a lack of anything but electric appliances up here on the ridge).

I know you can use them on those glass top jobbers, but it will destroy in short order the finish on them -
and I ain't having any of that, so....
We own a set of pricy American-made stainless pans with non-PTFE nonstick, but mostly I just use my
commercial type griddle (think: Waffle House griddle).
I miss cast iron though. Stuff is just better out of them.

 

[halfafish]

Hunny Bunny has suggested I have a problem with cast iron. I disagree. I find good cast iron, I buy good cast iron, no problem! I'm up to 22 and happy to add to the club.

These are all Griswold and Wagner except the 13" which is a Lodge. The oldest is the dutch oven on the bottom shelf. It's over 100 years old and was my great grandmother's.

 

[F4R/T]

Cooking on cast iron is also good for women’s health as it absorbs the iron they lose naturally. Or so I was told.