Cast iron? how many fans?

 

  I know a few of you use cast iron when camping, how many of you use it at home?
I have a small  Lodge 6" skillet I used to cook cans of chili in, it's packed in my camping gear. (Not pictured)  In the house my wife has started to use a pan I got from my mom about 20 years ago, it was her fathers, it a Griswold,#8 704 3 nickel plated, Extra finished, from Erie PA. from the 1940's at least 74 years old / seasoned!  (Sorry for the grimy sides, wife has been using the crap out of it lately.)  I need to clean it's outside, pretty her up again! The minute I laid eye's on this pan some, I wanted it!
  She also uses an 8" grill to cook meats, (Sliders, pork etc..)now.  Clean up's a breeze, toss on stove outside and cook till it till it smokes!  Dump the crud out, oil, let cool.
  Show off your cast iron.

 

Love mine....have lodge same size as ours and a smaller one that we use for simple/small. We also have a stove top dutch oven (no legs and a domed lid)  We also have a traditional oven that lives in the camper

huge fan. I use a 9" lodge mostly.

also have a griddle, a small tripod bowl (mostly for melting butter on the woodstove), and the old standby grilled sandwich/pie maker for car camping.

Cast iron has been part of my cookware for decades. I'll be passing my collection onto my children, who also love it. You have some treasures there.

i have my grandmothers cast iron that she passed to my aunt when she got married and who passed it to me in 1988, easily over 70 years old, that i use all the time at home, from making homemade flour tortillas to searing meats to hashbrowns for breakfast. the pan is well seasoned and well traveled, cameron

I have an OLD Wagner Ware 1058 D that I picked up at a garage sale many years ago.  Once I learned to cook steaks in it I've had a hard time going back to the grill!  It's got a bunch of built up gunk on the outside I probably should clean off at some point...

I like cast iron

Love them. Use them camping and at home. I just found a $10 fish pan I can put on BBQ. Cast iron in the shape of a fish.  Novelty, but still cool. If I see old ones at yard sales I pick them up.   Wife even bakes awesome bread in the cast iron pots. My favorite is camping cobbler. 

Love using cast iron i have a couple of no names.

CGN-38,  that 74year old one you have is a beauty. I wish i would grabed the one my mom used to fry all my Bard perch in home cooked all my food in

I'm new to the cast iron skillet game.  Working on seasoning my new skillet by cooking lots of fatty goodness! 

Cast Iron cornbread rocks! Same with cast iron homemade chili.

Too heavy for my wife but I use it for camping.  Non stick once seasoned.  I also use my home made Discada a lot.  Good stuff

I have a couple of 40 year old Lodge pans that get used on the stove and on the grill.  I also have a Le Crusset enameled cast iron Dutch Oven that I have recently been using to bake sourdough bread.  I think the Dutch oven is around 30 years old.  Nothing conducts heat better.  The crust on the bread is nice and crunchy like the stuff you can by in San Francisco.  I have never made cobbler in it but it works great for Coq- Au-Vin. 

Lets see use them at home... I have 10 inch and a 12 inch dutch oven I use in and outdoors, another dutch oven without legs, a two burner griddle I use all the time (love that thing), a 6", 8",  and 12" inch pan (the 8 is a wagner , the 12 is a Lodge) and lastly a little flat pan that was given to me. 

For cleaning up old rusty cast iron good old cooking oil and Kosher salt (large crystal) works wonders.

Smoothing out cast iron you can beata die grinder and a Scotch brite rolo disc to smooth them out if they are new have course cast bottom.

Cast iron to avoid, people who had electric stoves, over time the cast iron gets "warped."  It gets over heated on electric plates and warps, place it on a flat surface, if it wobbles a lot it most likely spent time on a electric stove.

For cleaning up old rusty cast iron good old cooking oil and Kosher salt (large crystal) works wonders.

+1. We got a medium sized flat bottomed dutch oven for free (they wanted one with feet for camping) that my wife cleaned using this and it makes all kinds of good stuff.
 biscuit topped chicken pie is my current fav item that the pot has kicked out.