Next message: Lew Hodgett: "Re: lv-ab: Silicone rubber bake pans"
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> Sounds like you need an update on the handling and using of cast iron
> cooking equipment.
>
> Once a C/I pot has been cleaned and "seasoned", you don't ever need
> water to clean it again.
>
> You simply wipe it out, I use a plastic pot scrubber, re-season, and
> you are ready to use it again.
>
> They provide the best heat distribution of any cooking material, thud
> you actually use less cooking fuel than with other materials such as
> clad S/S or Aluminum.
>
> To paraphrase somebody else, you can pry my C/I chicken fryer from my
> cold dead hand. It is about the only cooking appliance I use<G>.
> Reply;
> I know the ways to use cast iron, coming from a family that used them
> traditionaly, but even so, if the stuff is stored on my boat it rusts
> and then needs to be re-seasoned, a PITA. And although cast iron does
> provide good heat distribution, it is not true it is the most
> efficient material for fast fuel efficient cooking as it conducts heat
> much slower than others and also has a high heat mass per item, so as
> I have found it takes almost as much heat as glass baking stuff. The
> silicone rubber stuff will be faster I am sure but prob. not as even.
> So far it has worked well though.-Ken
>
>
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