As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
My children from the original blog know that I’m a cast iron snob. I do not like Griswold, I’m a Wagner collector when I had the few dollars years ago, and I have some generics the mother had which served us well in being cheap American manufactured from the 1950’s.
I got some of those Chinaman cast iron as it was cheap, 3 pans for 8 bucks, but I discovered they took twice as much heat to cook, did not hold heat well and are typical of all things China in being inferior and a waste of time. They have poor smelting processes and have inferior metals lumped in from the United States.
So as I had all the cast iron I would want, when Lodge came out with their Chinaman stuff, I just turned up my nose at more shit from China. Lodge on the pictures I saw said it is manufactured in America, perhaps it is and that is perhaps why I was wrong about it………..
As JYG’s brother had a frying pan in the junk pile, so I took it. He saw me do it, but did not chase me down, so I brought it home, as I dislike things being destroyed. I brought it in, washed it up as it was dirt dirty, and it sat over by the stove for months as I was swamped in trying to get things done for winter.
As we were coming out of a HAARP cold weather terrorism, I was moved one afternoon to mix up some pancakes and see how this thing would compute.
I used olive oil, though prefer hog lard to cook with in cast iron as it is better.
The first cake kind of stuck, but I got it turned. Oh you should know when I say we live in a shack, we live in a shack. The kitchen is some shed or barn or something put next to the house built around 1880. It slants, even after they put cement under it, so the oil in the frying pan always runs to the far corner. So you have to relube the pans each time by tilting it back. The parents never leveled the stove nor did the person who put it in….so that is how I cook.
I got 10 pancakes, that is #4 above and you can see they are nice sunnyside pancakes from this lodge, even with a cup of sugar in a cup of flour.
Might as well give the recipe, as it is a shot of milk, shot of vanilla, one egg, tsp of salt, tablespoon of baking powder and enough water to make it a batter. No real measuring except the flour and sugar.
I was impressed with this pan. The metal seems to have a bit more aluminum quality to it as the handle gets hot in it evenly distribute the heat. It heats up well on little flame and it holds heat pretty good. It is not 1950 American manufacture blow furnace quality, but for a pan I thought was going to be more stuff that you would not care if you left it by the campfire, I would definitely come back for this girl or find a retard to carry it for me.
I never get any freebies from any of these companies for telling you something is good to have around. Mine was kind of free, as things are free unless I have to stop and pay for them from the brother, so the price was right.
I tend to cook in nonstick mostly. That German Wolfgang Puck stuff, got that out of the junkyard for free too. Just makes things easier in clean up as sometimes cast iron sticks due to water content and chicken is a bitch for water content, including eggs unless you have these pans tuned up.
So most of my cast iron is packed away or not in use. I regret that but I have no time to play with my pans, and this cast iron was just an experiment, but I will keep it around for maybe frying fish or pancakes.
I don’t know why people throw things away. I know most people are not bright enough to cook with cast iron, like they are not bright enough to cook with non stick as I see gouges in pans and the nonstick burned off. Probably watching too much soap opera or texting like the mother who burned loose the copper double plate on some very nice Indian stainless steel I had. No apology for that either. More time passes the more I shake my head in anger over that woman.
So if you see a cheap lodge or a free one, they are not bad. I know I have some generic from the brothers too out in JYG’s shed laying there, needing to be cleaned and derusted. Never have time for that, but I would like to as cast iron has a sweet spot in cooking and if you go with the ebb and flow it will treat you right.
Ok that is about it for cast iron. Ordering stuff from Ebay is another story in good and bad delivery, and Amazon has UPS drivers who stuff snow rake braces into the postal mail, but this time was not confiscated and held hostage, as either the gal missed it, or she was being kosher in she screwed up in delivering the wrong mail to me, and I never said a word, just put the flag up and the US government never knew a thing about it.
Nuff Said
agtG
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