gary@rochester.UUCP (Gary Cottrell) (08/12/83)
I don't understand why you need a separate cast iron pan for things without onions and garlic. What doesn't have onions and garlic in it? Cast iron pans do come with wooden handles for those of you without hot pads to pick them up with. I see the rumor about getting iron from them has persisted - has anyone seen this in print (hardcopy)? To season cast iron, you can fill it with crisco and put it in a hot oven for a while, or, you can put some oil in it, put it on the stove, heat it up, and keep rubbing it with an oiled paper towel for a while - it should be kind of shiny when you're done. Then, don't ever use soap on it again. Lots of times you can just wipe it clean, or if something is stuck to it, I put hot water in it and clean it with a plastic "chore girl" (sic). Then I usually dry it well and put a coat of oil on it. (and maybe a fresh coat of garlic :-)). /gary cottrell gary@rochester rochester!gary
guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) (08/12/83)
The way I'd always heard to clean cast iron cookware, and the way I use, is
to dump some salt into it and scour with the salt.
Guy Harris
{seismo,mcnc,we13,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!guyptw@vaxine.UUCP (P. T. Withington) (08/15/83)
Next time you go to buy a "chore girl", you may be interested to see that it has been renamed "chore boy". Aparrently a marketing study (correctly) showed that greater sales would accrue to a more masculine scrubber...
grunwald@uiuccsb.UUCP (08/17/83)
#R:rocheste:-256000:uiuccsb:7000004:000:111 uiuccsb!grunwald Aug 16 14:35:00 1983 If you ever cook anything with tomatoes in a cast iron pan, you'll quickly realize that the iron comes out.