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Kitchen snafu
7/30/23 | Self

Posted on 07/30/2023 7:52:58 AM PDT by SMARTY

Is there a cast iron fix?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: castiron
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To: higgmeister

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.


41 posted on 07/30/2023 10:11:08 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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42 posted on 07/30/2023 10:38:10 AM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: spokeshave

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.


43 posted on 07/30/2023 10:51:55 AM PDT by rightazrain ("Suppose you were an idiot...suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself" -Mark Twain)
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To: texas booster

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.


44 posted on 07/30/2023 11:43:21 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: iontheball

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!


45 posted on 07/30/2023 12:12:45 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I have my grandma’s, then my mom used it, now I use it, The big one you fry a whole chicken in.


46 posted on 07/30/2023 1:14:30 PM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: SMARTY
When I left home in 1965 for my first apartment, I bought a Corning electric percolator and two cast iron skillets (9” for eggs, a big one for everything else, especially cornbread).

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!!

47 posted on 07/30/2023 5:11:37 PM PDT by umbagi (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it. [Twain])
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To: SMARTY

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!)


48 posted on 07/30/2023 8:30:15 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Tagline for sale.)
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