Posted on 07/30/2023 7:52:58 AM PDT by SMARTY
According to their son, they fought constantly and made the kids miserable. But then, the sarcastic type comics are often really unhappy people. It’s the cynicism that causes that, IMHO.
My nother-in-law used to put her cast iron skillets over a metal trash barrel and light off a fire underneath. Burned off all those bumps and flakes over the next few hours. Or she’d put them into a camp fire for a while.
I wish I had my mom’s old cast iron chicken fryer she had through many years in the old farmhouse. It had sustained a crack up its side before my time and had been successfully bronzed-brazed back into use. The high yellow bronze seam was like a thick scar running up its side. It never failed through all the years. The key to working with cast iron is to preheat the cast iron, braze it while it’s hot, and then bury it quickly in fine, dry sand so it will cool slowly.
Interesting. Between you and Texas Fossil above. I will rethink what I was taught.
Admittedly I was taught by a mechanic who dealt with all sorts of cast, from iron to aluminum. The needs for an engine and for cookware do differ.
Thanks!
I have my grandma’s, then my mom used it, now I use it, The big one you fry a whole chicken in.
In 1978, after a stretch in Vietnam and two wives, I still had them and used them almost daily. Wife #3 (the Keeper, a true gift from a merciful and gracious God) moved in. Third weekend she was there, we drove to Dallas to visit friends. When we returned, I discovered that she had put them in the dishwasher before we left. You know, so everything would be clean when we got back!
We spent several days, maybe a week, doing what my mother and grandmother recommended, and yes, we’re still using them both today.
That said, today I’d just buy two new skillets!!
I forgot my cast iron skillet on the burner and now it’s blistered. Do I have to get rid of it??
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It all depends if you blistered it on a gas stove. If you did, then yeah. Get rid of. The gas stove, I mean.
(think of the erf!)
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