I cooked to beautiful fillet steaks this evening on one of the $5 cast iron frying pans I mentioned earlier.
That sucker was smoking hot, before I added any oil. When the steaks were done, I cooked an egg in the same pan & it slid straight off. Dave (I love this list. One day were arguing about TV, the next we're discussing pots & pans. :-) At 10:46 PM 20/12/2006, William Robb wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Paul Stenquist"Subject: Re: Please everyone set up an email filter > > > > Cast iron is good for a lot of things, but you can still get hard > > anodized aluminum as well. Calphalon sells both; hard anodized and > > teflon coated, Some stores might stock only the teflon, out of > > ignorance. Paul > >I haven't found anything that cast iron isn't good for. >I have a set of pans that I got as a gas station promotion almost 30 years >ago that is still some of the nicest cookware I have used, and a couple of >big Woods cast iron pans, I think 18 and 22 inches or somthing. The big one >is heavy enough to make my wife complain if I leave it on the stove. >I have no use at all for teflon pans. >Apparently if you get them too hot, they emit a gas that is toxic to birds. >Something to think about if you keep them as pets. >I had a small Calphalon pan that I used for eggs many years ago, it was a >wonderful pan. > >William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
