Hit the Cast Iron Jackpot
We moved MIL into a retirement village she picked out. They don't cook in their suites, so she gave us all her cast iron.
Some of it was in sad shape, having been used directly in the campfire and never had the ash scraped off, or left out in the garage where it rusted and mud daubers made nests on it.
After a frenzy of cast iron cleaning in the self-cleaning oven, we've got the cleanest oven around and re-seasoned cast iron of all sizes and shapes -- and I'm out of bacon fat...
One skillet is almost as large in diameter as my grandfather's chuckwagon DO, so they both hang by each other on the laundry room wall. If we ever get out of this draught, we'll use Grandad's DO for beans or cobbler in a campfire. The 14" skillet will fit on the outdoor grill, so we can use it more often.
All the other pieces fit just fine in the kitchen.
The really cool thing is now we have such a variety of stainless and CI to choose from when we take the RV out. We gave up on the separate cookware sets for RV and S&B long ago, just taking the few items we knew we'd need on each trip. Works out just fine, and will be even better with the increase in CI choices.
I feel rich right now...
Some of it was in sad shape, having been used directly in the campfire and never had the ash scraped off, or left out in the garage where it rusted and mud daubers made nests on it.
After a frenzy of cast iron cleaning in the self-cleaning oven, we've got the cleanest oven around and re-seasoned cast iron of all sizes and shapes -- and I'm out of bacon fat...
One skillet is almost as large in diameter as my grandfather's chuckwagon DO, so they both hang by each other on the laundry room wall. If we ever get out of this draught, we'll use Grandad's DO for beans or cobbler in a campfire. The 14" skillet will fit on the outdoor grill, so we can use it more often.
All the other pieces fit just fine in the kitchen.
The really cool thing is now we have such a variety of stainless and CI to choose from when we take the RV out. We gave up on the separate cookware sets for RV and S&B long ago, just taking the few items we knew we'd need on each trip. Works out just fine, and will be even better with the increase in CI choices.
I feel rich right now...
