Tips and Tricks for Cooking with Cast Iron
Cooking with cast iron cookware is easier than many people, considering it without actually trying it, would think. Here are a few ideas and techniques that we’ve found make it easy and worthwhile. Before cooking, check your pan’s appearance. If it appears dull, be ready to add oil for cooking. If it’s shiny, it should [...]
How to Clean Cast Iron Cookware
The trick to cast iron cooking is maintaining the seasoning. The good news is that maintaining proper seasoning generally means less work to clean up! As you cook in cast iron, the various oils you use will add to the patina, the seasoning. This is why you should never wash cast iron cookware as you [...]
Cast Iron Cookware – Seasoning a Skillet
On our homestead, we love old fashioned cooking with cast iron cookware. Cast iron implements used to be very common, but new technologies, many of which are proving to be unhealthy, have usurped them, being lighter and seemingly easier to care for. Properly seasoned cast iron implements work very well. They distribute and hold heat [...]
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