The REO Lounge - Part III
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My Doufeu is is enameled cast, I love it. It is similar to a dutch oven, but has handles of the same material as part of the lid instead of the wire and no legs. For steak and chops nothing beats a great cast iron skillet to sear then just throw in the oven to finish. Love my cast iron!
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Exactly so. But he wants to reseason it entirely, and in order to do that he needs to clean it first which is why he was going to put it in the self cleaning oven? Which would become unnecessary if he just uses hot water and soap
To really strip it down you have to get everything off so the base layers are really good when you season it. Its done either in a self-cleaning oven, a really hot fire for hours, easy off oven cleaner in a bag for days or with electrolysis. A moderately or fairly decent pan you could probably scrub it with soap and then season but this is beyond doing that.
Of those options, I agree, use the oven
But do take the racks out, if in doubt refer to your oven's instruction manual. I am female, so I read mine. We just got a new oven not so long ago at the house
Cast iron pans make great offensive weapons as well. You can sear a steak, stick it on the bbq, throw it in the oven and whoop your anoying better half up side the head. I bet in the latter part of the 19th century as many people were killed in the kitchen by cast iron pans as were killed with knives. This type of assault had gone down in the past 50 years as people have moved on to aluminum and steel. I know someone must have a graph of this decline somewhere. I think the intersection of knives to cast iron assaults was probably around 1951 post world war two cause you couldnt make fry pans out of steel because you would not be supporting the war effort. THen Joseph McCarthy would have a senate hearing on you and you would get blackballed from the kitchen, not unlike Trunker.
Your doufeu is beautiful, Val!
I have a stack of cast iron skillets (nothing enameled yet) but only regularly use two of them, so a few of them could use a re-season. It has been at least a decade since I first seasoned them and it seems like after using the heat & grease method, I did a dry burn of heat with spices & herbs in the pan. Have no idea which herbs, how long to heat or if it really happened.
Good afternoon, REOvil!
I have a stack of cast iron skillets (nothing enameled yet) but only regularly use two of them, so a few of them could use a re-season. It has been at least a decade since I first seasoned them and it seems like after using the heat & grease method, I did a dry burn of heat with spices & herbs in the pan. Have no idea which herbs, how long to heat or if it really happened.
Good afternoon, REOvil!
Thank you. Before DH turned it up above medium, it was a nice cream colored inside. Now it is an off color, but you all heard about that. I am still angry every time I see it. But, I did see some on Ebay that were even worse, literally black, so I should count myself lucky he didn't do that much damage!
You should reseason the pans yearly (according, again, to Alton Brown) though I do it whenever it is needed. I use the conditioner you buy for it though because I tried vegetable oil and wasn't happy with the results, and didn't have crisco or lard at the time. I keep lard around now though, so when I run out of the conditioner I won't buy it again and will use good ol' pork fat.
And on another note, the stinky dog got her bath today and her white patches are white again. I let her out to roll in the grass after, and for a second there she was so happy I thought she had found some dog crap to roll in
Luckily, it wasn't. But my poor heart about stopped when DH said it was! He is a mean old man I tell ya! It finally got warm enough I could let her go out wet to do the grass roll
Thank you. Before DH turned it up above medium, it was a nice cream colored inside. Now it is an off color, but you all heard about that. I am still angry every time I see it. But, I did see some on Ebay that were even worse, literally black, so I should count myself lucky he didn't do that much damage!
You should reseason the pans yearly (according, again, to Alton Brown) though I do it whenever it is needed. I use the conditioner you buy for it though because I tried vegetable oil and wasn't happy with the results, and didn't have crisco or lard at the time. I keep lard around now though, so when I run out of the conditioner I won't buy it again and will use good ol' pork fat.
And on another note, the stinky dog got her bath today and her white patches are white again. I let her out to roll in the grass after, and for a second there she was so happy I thought she had found some dog crap to roll in
Luckily, it wasn't. But my poor heart about stopped when DH said it was! He is a mean old man I tell ya! It finally got warm enough I could let her go out wet to do the grass roll
After I use my cast irons I heat them up and rub a tiny bit of Crisco into them and get 'em good and hot. Cool, then put away...so I think I keep them seasoned. I just pulled out the ones I don't use and only one has rust (not bad considering I haven't even looked at them in a couple of years).
My Grandma passed mine to down me, so I will be cleaning the rusty one up and putting them all back into rotation. Lots of good bacon, eggs, biscuits and cornbread came out of these skillets.
Most of all good memories.
Congrats on the clean dog. Mine smell like fritos.
How on earth can your dogs smell like Fritos?
That wouldn't be a bad smell on a dog at all!
That wouldn't be a bad smell on a dog at all!
Good afternoon, Reoville!
it's Sunday. i guess i'll be good today for a change...
Blasphemy I say! lol
How on earth can your dogs smell like Fritos?
That wouldn't be a bad smell on a dog at all!
Their feet smell like Fritos.
I don't know why it happens, but it does. I know this because the bed hogs like to stick their feet in my face while fighting for pillow space.
Val send me that dofooo and I'll hit it with my sandblaster and make a good castiron oven outa it
Val send me that dofooo and I'll hit it with my sandblaster and make a good castiron oven outa it
Hell no! That is old and well loved. It makes the best braises and stews and roasts and all kinds of lovely things low and slow with nice even heat. Mine is an original Cousances, who were bought out be Le Creuset in the '50's. Now Le Crueset uses their designs. Cast iron simply wouldn't do at all for what I want my Doufeu for. Nor would my doufeu be used for the best of what I use cast iron for
But thanks for offering, as misguided as it was.
My Doufeu is is enameled cast, I love it. It is similar to a dutch oven, but has handles of the same material as part of the lid instead of the wire and no legs. For steak and chops nothing beats a great cast iron skillet to sear then just throw in the oven to finish. Love my cast iron!
ETA: this is my doufeu
I like the smaller one hanging from the ceiling much better!
Hell no! That is old and well loved. It makes the best braises and stews and roasts and all kinds of lovely things low and slow with nice even heat. Mine is an original Cousances, who were bought out be Le Creuset in the '50's. Now Le Crueset uses their designs. Cast iron simply wouldn't do at all for what I want my Doufeu for. Nor would my doufeu be used for the best of what I use cast iron for
But thanks for offering, as misguided as it was.
Not at all misguided and the offer wasn't to send it back to you I'd love that in cast if its real cast underneath and not aluminium I know how upset you are with DH for darkening it so I was looking out for him too
pots gone no more issue right
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Good Evening, Reoville!
the little wind-sprinter upstairs has just returned from whatever Sunday Satanic outing that engaged him for the last few blessed hours, so i may need to renege on my earlier statement about being good today...
the little wind-sprinter upstairs has just returned from whatever Sunday Satanic outing that engaged him for the last few blessed hours, so i may need to renege on my earlier statement about being good today...
Would a cast iron skillet help?. How about ear plugs or headphones? Would talking to them help?
since i'm unable to climb stairs without probable consequences, talking to them has been elusive. headphones aren't much of an option for various reasons.
and i gave away my cast iron skillets around the time i gave away my guns. two decisions that i may learn to regret...
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