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Consoom Pots and Pans 🍳 (media.scored.co)
posted 1 year ago by USSDefiantJazz on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +49Score on mirror )
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MI7BZ3EW on scored.co
1 year ago 8 points (+0 / -0 / +8Score on mirror ) 2 children
Once you learn how to season a cast iron pan, you will never need anything else.
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Weematanyeh on scored.co
1 year ago 8 points (+0 / -0 / +8Score on mirror ) 1 child
I dont like doing creamy sauces and soups in cast iron, and it will absolutely ruin marinara sauce with a horrible metallic taste.
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MI7BZ3EW on scored.co
1 year ago 5 points (+0 / -0 / +5Score on mirror )
We do marinara in our cast iron pan all the time. My wife suffers from low iron and rather than take iron pills she just cooks something acidic in the cast iron pan.
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USSDefiantJazz on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 2 children
I have a Le Creuset cast iron frying pan I bought for pennies on the dollar at the Thrift store. But once I know I will be settling down in a place to stay, I will buy myself a set of Field cast iron.

https://fieldcompany.com/products/field-cast-iron-skillet
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MI7BZ3EW on scored.co
1 year ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror )
Iron is iron. If you really need to, you can resurface your pan with a grinder or sand paper. But I have never needed to.
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WhatWouldMountainDew on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
I'm sure it's nicer than a Lodge, but IMHO it's not $100 nicer than a Lodge. You're paying a "machined" cooking surface which is something you can get (or exceed) from any piece of cast iron with some elbow grease.

That Le Creuset was a steal though.
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USSDefiantJazz on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 2 children
The reason the Lodge is cheap is because it's really difficult and expensive to make a cast iron pan thin and smooth like in the olden days. The $165 for a brand new Field is dirt cheap when you consider that a vintage Wagner or Griswold would cost over $200.
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GoneViking on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
WHAT!? where in the country are you? I have piles of Wagners, Piqua Favorite, and Griswolds that at most I paid $30 a piece for. Antique stores around here have old name brand skillets stacked to the ceiling for cheap. But, both Wagner and Piqua Favorite did their manufacturing within 10 miles of here, so maybe that affects supply, even many years later.

Also, finishing is the real difference between quality and junk. I have taken several junk Chinesium cast iron pans and went to work on them with a wire wheel, then seasoned them. They cook excellent once worked a bit.
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USSDefiantJazz on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 2 children
Dude, how far out in the sticks do you live? Go check eBay and it will confirm my pricing is correct. If you have a ton of these vintage cast iron pans bought for $30 each, you've done well.
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WhatWouldMountainDew on scored.co
1 year ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
I'm not going to argue with you about skillets. If you want to pay that much, go ahead. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll find a used one for pennies on the dollar and wait to get blown away by the performance of thin cast iron.
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