Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 12, 2021

What can I say? Your average plugger knows quality and buys things that are built to last (such things are not easy to find these days but they’re there if you’re willing to put in the effort).;-D

if taken of correctly, something cast iron will last for years and years (did that there plugger get the skillet from her great-grandmum?)

A hillbilly came into town and saw a hardware store with the sign “Cast iron sinks.” “So what?” he said. “Everyone knows it does!”

My mother bought most of her cookware at flea markets and garage sales at a fraction of what it would cost new.

You’re a plugger if you and your ancestors have inherited kitchen items that are two hundred years old.

We don’t need no iron supplements.

And those cast iron skillets work great with induction cookware !

I kind of wish I could have one of those frying pans to cook out of but I am the black sheep of the family, while I have a taste for vintage and old fashioned stuff, my family likes All things contemporary

Problem is and it is a small one…all my cast iron cookware gets heavier with age. Mine not it’s.

ours came from Ireland..100 years or so ago….

And it takes a Plugger to know how to keep it properly seasoned and cook in it so it is ‘non-stick’.

I have a Lodge pan of unknown vintage. Picked it up at a garage sale about 40 years ago.

Some things are best in an iron skillet. Breakfast foods are superiour cooked in iron (i like my scrambled eggs firm, just a bit butterburnt and the bacon/homefries crisp up much better, imo)

DANG RIGHT!!

Now THAT’S broken in!!

For EDC around the home, nothing beats an 8" cast iron skillet, I would not try to take out a home invader with my wife’s Teflon coated aluminum cookware; however, I have bashed a bad guys wrist and hand as it came through the kitchen window [summer in the city… screen in window to vent heat while cooking], using my mother’s mother’s mother’s cast iron pan from Scotland. Crushed 4 of 5 knuckles missing only the pinkie…

Exactly!

Not surprised today’s strip is from Amish country here in PA. It is a rare day we don’t cook in cast iron. Made us a turkey pie in cast iron today. Yum!

Those anti-stick pans only last a couple of months at best and the bottoms warp so they don’t work well on those glass topped ranges. Pluggers know that and stay with what works for years and years.

Almost all of my paternal great grandmother’s cookware was cast iron, and all the cooking and baking was done on a wood-burning stove. Only on the really hot days of summer did she use the propane stove that sat on her enclosed porch. But, that was not very often in northern Wisconsin.

This is bringing back some good memories. Making me a little sad. You have to be Irish to realize “good and sad” go hand in hand.

Brand new induction cook top, well less than 5 years old, 10 inch cast iron skillet that came out west for the Gold Rush of 1849, 8 inch that was bought during the Depression of 1939, and finally the 12 inch was purchased about 10 years ago at a Williams-Sonoma in San Francisco. Made cornbread in the 12 inch last weekend and sautéed the steak and onions for the chili in the 10 inch the night before.

family heirloom, right?

Don’t EVER back talk a woman who has been cooking on cast iron for 20 years, ’cause that hangy down stuff on her arm is NOT fat. She will take that skillet, slap you upside the head and you will wake up in the next zip code!

My Big Lebowski coffee mug is seasoned. I never wash the inside. Just rinse it out. Has a great patina!

I have three. Two of them were my grandparents.

love my cast iron pans

Took mine with me when I was stationed in Saudi Arabia. TSA went through my bags before boarding and gave me an odd look. Told them, how else can I make decent cornbread without it.