> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:31:18 -0800 (PST), Sheldon aol.com>
> wrote:
>

>>Nate Nagel wrote:

>>> Sheldon wrote:

>>>> Lou Decruss wrote:

>>>

>>>>>Sheldon wrote:

>>>

>>>>>>Kenneth wrote:

>>>

>>>>>>>I've used cast iron happily for about 50 years, but have
>>>>>>>always thought the whole seasoning thing to be, well, (for
>>>>>>>want of a better word), silly.

>>>

>>>>>>>In terms of sticking, I could not detect a difference
>>>>>>>between a brand new, unseasoned pan, and one that I had
>>>>>>>carefully seasoned for years.

>>>

>>>>>>>Then, a few years ago, Consumer's Reports tested cast iron
>>>>>>>cookware.

>>>

>>>>>>>Among other aspects of their testing, they asked staff
>>>>>>>members to contact elderly relatives to see if they could
>>>>>>>find generations old, super-well seasoned pans, for
>>>>>>>comparison.

>>>

>>>>>>>As has been my experience, they could detect no difference

>>>

>>>>>>Except the elderly could no longer lift them.

>>>

>>>>>That's how I got some of mine.

>>>

>>>>>>I don't know why anyone needs cookware from the iron age, it's a
>>>>>>kitchen for cripe's sake... you wanna pump iron join Gold's Gym.

>>>

>>>>>Maybe some of us are younger and stronger than you shemp. ?

>>>

>>>> Thanks for proving my point... those of us with real life experience
>>>> and measurable IQs don't need to work as fork lifts. My momma taught
>>>> me that no one pays much for jackass labor. That said I have no doubt
>>>> I can out muscle two of you.

>>>

>>>> The only reason folks buy cast iron cookware is because it's cheap,
>>>> and they are too poor or miserly to buy real cookware or they enjoy
>>>> playing pilgrim. It makes as much sense cooking with cast iron
>>>> cookware in 2008 as it does commuting to work in a cart with wooden
>>>> wheels pulled by a yoke of oxen. I've yet to see a professional
>>>> kitchen that uses cast iron pots and pans. Cast iron cookware makes
>>>> steel wheel roller skates and wooden golf clubs seem like state of the
>>>> art. Cast iron cookware went out of vogue before the Wright Brothers
>>>> flew at Kitty Hawk, before Edison's light bulb.

>>>
>>> Two advantages to cast iron:
>>>
>>> 1) thermal mass.

>>
>>Don't you mean your dense cranium... BTUs trump thermal mass every
>>time... buy a proper stove.
>>

>>> 2) you have to work very, very hard to render a cast iron skillet
>>> unusable.

>>
>>Bullshit. They rust, they crack, and if dropped they smash stuff...
>>what needs very hard work is to maintain their utileness.
>>
>>With quality stainless steel pans there's is plenty of thermal mass,
>>no special maintenance is necessary, and if one actually knows how to
>>cook nothing will stick to properly seasoned stainless steel.

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> Comedy GOLD!
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