Due to health concerns about polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), we have decided to stop using our non-stick Teflon cookware. Who wants to cook with something that might cause cancer or does bad things to the environment?
For months we have been researching and no cookware set satisfied us 100%. We finally came to the conclusion that we did not want a non-organic coating on the inside of the pans. Why take chances? We finally decided to go with stainless steel with copper bottoms for our main set. I grew up with it and loved it for cooking most things – except frying. For that I decided on the old standard, cast iron. It is sturdy and if treated well, will last us a lifetime, unlike many other sets. Plus there is the added benefit of the pans leaching small amounts of iron into the food – always a positive for anemics.
We bought some cast iron pieces today and so far are very happy. The Rogue really needs to learn the proper feeding and caring of cast iron – the big skillet already needs to be reseasoned. Oy!
She who wields the cast iron skillet rules the house! Bwahahahahaha!
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I blame the Boy Scouts of America. The leaders always said you could do whatever to them, you can’t hurt them. Then when we royally screwed them up, they just coated them in oil, chucked them on a fire, and re-seasoned them.
You just wanted to play with fire, didn’t you?
No, what really sucked was until my last year in scouts, the adults did the re-seasoning. When I was 17 they finally let me do it. We only did it once or twice a year because we only went to a place where we could have a big spread out fire, like we needed, three times a year and February was not the time to be doing the re-seasoning.
Mmmm… a really well seasoned cast iron pan. It takes a while to get a new one seasoned and seeing as mine went with the ex… guess who’s getting to do the whole process from scratch in the semi-near future? I cringe every time I watch my mother ‘clean’ her’s…*shudders*
I’ve always thought that some of the “older” methods of living and items that were used were often the best. Copper pots & cast iron skillets have always appealed to me.