> 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.  Sometimes that's a benefit, sometimes it's not, but
> sometimes you want even cooking over the ability to heat/cool quickly.
>
> 2) you have to work very, very hard to render a cast iron skillet
> unusable.  You have one, you have a skillet for life.  That appeals to
> my chea^H^H^H^Hfrugal side.
>
> nate
>
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