Thanks for the warning. I did find it but at $10 a taste what I'm doing seems to work just fine...and probably did for the last century.
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Thanks for the warning. I did find it but at $10 a taste what I'm doing seems to work just fine...and probably did for the last century.
I use Crisco on all of mine also with good results. There was a guy at our deer hunting camp some years ago who fried up some chicken and his cast iron skillet was really slick and black and wiped out easily after frying the chicken. I asked him and he told me he used PAM on his to season, and every once in awhile, sprayed on a coat after cleaning.
You mean hominy?
Boiling dried corn in water that has lime, lye, wood ashes (or water steeped through wood ashes) to raise the pH enough to soften the skins of the kernels and free up the essential nutrients.
Thursday and Friday is CI days at garage sales.They are always gone by the weekend.I always ask if they have any CI and once in a while,she will go in the house and bring a piece out.Normally the answer is that it sold the first day.Did score a double print Griswold/Wagner Dutch Oven last year for $15 bucks.
CountryBoy19
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Believe it or not, my best cast iron score ever was at an auction (where the prices would seemingly go high). My mom works for an auction company as a 2nd job, she stands by the auctioneer recording the bidder numbers and prices so she doesn't miss anything. 4 cast iron skillets, 2 of which are my most prized (for their light weight and uncommon branding) for $13... I sold the other 2 skillets for ~$30 or so, kept the 2 I liked best... and profit!
Back in the early 1980s, my wife and I had gone to Kentucky to see some of her family. Her one great-aunt had some things that had belonged to my wife's grandmother, who had died some years before, and she gave them to my wife. They included a stack of five or six cast iron skillets ranging from about 6-inches in diameter to a really big one that seemed bigger then a trash can lid.
I didn't care about those things back then, and we lived in a tiny little house, so she ended up keeping one of the skillets, that we still have, a 12-inch or so Griswold, and she threw the rest in the trash, thinking they had no value.
And, I wish I could say that was the dumbest thing we did as youngsters.
The three I keep are Griswold,Wagner,and Wopak.I gave a friend a lightweight called Puritan.Man do I miss that skillet.It was the best finished one I ever saw.My wife did sell all my iron at a garage sale 25 years ago.........and it has took me this long to somewhat recover.
The skillet marked Puritan is a Griswold skillet made for Sears Roebuck & Co.
You forgive, but you don't forget.
Sooooo....stopped by a local yard sale today, sale said HUGE so thought I'd give it a try. After looking at all the tents full of stuff I stop and talked to the nice lady's running the sale, and they asked my why I was leaving without buying anything. I said I was really looking for cast iron cookware.
The lady said...I have some but I didn't want to put it out because it's really nasty...do you want to look at it? Why yes, yes I do. minutes later she arrives with two skillets that are stuck together...$2 and you can have them both. No one has used them since grandpa....here let me wrap them for you.
So, two number 8 Griswold cast iron skillets for two bucks...I guess it helps to ask. They were obviously heavily used over a wood stove, the carbon buildup on the bottom is much heavier than on the insides...they were stuck together with generation old bacon grease...I got it warm and it scooped right out. They're out soaking in the garage right now...might put them to good use as early as tomorrow. Yee freaking ha.
The lady said...I have some but I didn't want to put it out because it's really nasty...do you want to look at it? Why yes, yes I do. minutes later she arrives with two skillets that are stuck together...$2 and you can have them both. No one has used them since grandpa....here let me wrap them for you.
So, two number 8 Griswold cast iron skillets for two bucks...I guess it helps to ask. They were obviously heavily used over a wood stove, the carbon buildup on the bottom is much heavier than on the insides...they were stuck together with generation old bacon grease...I got it warm and it scooped right out. They're out soaking in the garage right now...might put them to good use as early as tomorrow. Yee freaking ha.
I hate you sooooooo much right now....
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Still having withdrawal from the cast iron you sold off a few years ago?
Nice score!!!! What are you soaking them in?
Yeah, and at what location? And what hours are you at work?
No, never, why would you think that? I'm fine, really I am....
Lets get back to the location of the unattended pans shall we?
Citric Acid, seems to be working fine. It's a bag of the stuff I've had since I did a coat of the garage floor. It was to clean all the grease and oil off the concrete before application, since it was new I never used it. Thought I'd give this a try...
I work at home, I'm always here...unless I'm not then my family is always here and good shots...we are paranoid about our cast iron and firearms....but really, you're always welcome...no really...
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