Any Idea What Is In This Cast Iron Pot?
Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop
Cast Iron Cookware Clearly Makes Good Sense for Kitchen or Camping
We have exchanged e-mails with someone who has posed a mystery we cannot solve. We can only guess. Her last e- mail stated:
“I found a small 6 inch tall footed cast iron pot with a brass lid. Inside is a ‘tool’ that has a brass handle and a cylinder shaped composite piece 2 inch x 3 inch apparently for stirring. Any idea what it is”.
What do you say? Someone must have seen something like this before. Leave your comments below, even your best guess.
Mystery Object
CAST IRON COOKWARE ALLOWS YOU TO TASTE THE FOOD NOT THE COOKWARE
Cast Iron Cookware Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
Posted by Doyle Bailey for Cast Iron Cookware Shop
Cookware You Will Pass On To Future Generations
Sometimes my learning curve can be a little on the slow side. When it comes to cooking with cast iron pots and pans, there have been some lessons I have been slow to learn. Here are a few:
1 .My mother and my wife knew what they were doing when they cooked with cast iron cookware. They both refused to cook with the so called “non-stick” products offered them. I tried a few and discovered that the black flecks in my scrambled eggs were not black pepper but “stuff” that had flaked off the cooking surface. Who knows what that stuff really is? “Cast iron cookware allows you to taste the food not the cookware”.
2. When you share a meal with your spouse and friends, it sustains you in many ways beyond the obvious nutritional value. I have discovered that this type of “soul food” is best prepared in a cast iron dutch oven or my 12 inch cast iron skillet. The root meaning of “companion” is someone you share bread with in a meal. To me cornbread is the essence of breaking bread with someone you love, especially since that just happens to be her favorite food and I love to make it.
3. Always keep your cast iron cookware well-seasoned. It is not difficult to do so but there are no substitutes or short cuts that can replace well-seasoned cookware.
Corn Bread and Soup, a Hearty and Healthy Winter Meal (my 12' skillet)
4. Healthy and delicious meals need not be mutually exclusive. Meats and veggies cooked with olive oil or vegetable cooking spray are delightful, tasty and healthy. It took me a while, but I have learned to cook in a healthier manner with my iron pots, skillets, dutch ovens, grills and griddles.
I suppose this can be summed up by saying: listen to your mother, wife and persons of wisdom whom God has placed in your life. You will eat better, live more wisely and have fewer regrets. After all, it is the sign of a truly mature person who can do something, even though it is what their wife or mother wants them to do.
My Favorite Pan and Bread
Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven
Lodge Cornbread Stick Pan for Lots of Tasty Crust