Thread: Cast iron?

I use a genaric (Pam) spray when cooking eggs, works great. Nothing wrong with butter though

Yeah, the pan was coated with butter before I put the eggs in.

Did your eggs come right out of the refrigerator? If so they may have been too cold when you cracked them in the skillet. Next time let them get to room temperature before frying.

Here's a little tip for you guys with eggs. Use bacon grease for cooking, crack your room temp eggs in the skillet, use medium heat, and cover the skillet. Take a peek and when the tops of the eggs are still liquid but the bottoms are getting done, then put about 3 tablespoons of water in the skillet and put the lid back on. The steam from the water will finish the tops up for perfect basted eggs. No need to flip them and risk breaking yolks with this method. Enjoy.

Originally Posted by Benz

Did your eggs come right out of the refrigerator? If so they may have been too cold when you cracked them in the skillet. Next time let them get to room temperature before frying.

Here's a little tip for you guys with eggs. Use bacon grease for cooking, crack your room temp eggs in the skillet, use medium heat, and cover the skillet. Take a peek and when the tops of the eggs are still liquid but the bottoms are getting done, then put about 3 tablespoons of water in the skillet and put the lid back on. The steam from the water will finish the tops up for perfect basted eggs. No need to flip them and risk breaking yolks with this method. Enjoy.

Benz speaks the truth : However I usually use butter instead of the bacon grease. Also if the heat is too high your asking for trouble.

Now if you want to fry eggs like my dad did, you need about 1/2" of grease in the pan and then as they cook he'd use the spatula to splash the hot grease onto the top of the eggs to cook them and he never turned an egg.

Believe it or not Roy, as a kid, eggs and bacon were the first things my Mother taught me how to cook. She gave me her Dad's 6" Wagner cast iron skillet after he passed away. I was so short I had to stand on a stool to crack my eggs and reach the stove knobs. I still use Grampa's skillet and his razor.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Benz speaks the truth : However I usually use butter instead of the bacon grease. Also if the heat is too high your asking for trouble.

Now if you want to fry eggs like my dad did, you need about 1/2" of grease in the pan and then as they cook he'd use the spatula to splash the hot grease onto the top of the eggs to cook them and he never turned an egg.

That is how my Mom cooked eggs.

Originally Posted by rolodave

That is how my Mom cooked eggs.

Mine too .................

I did some work on these pans today. Scrubbed them a bit, then into the oven on self clean for about 2 hours, then scrubbed them some more. They are almost there.. still turning a little red when they dry but i think they cleaned up really well.

Originally Posted by MW76

I did some work on these pans today. Scrubbed them a bit, then into the oven on self clean for about 2 hours, then scrubbed them some more. They are almost there.. still turning a little red when they dry but i think they cleaned up really well.

Dey is ready for bacon and sausage from what I kin see !

Originally Posted by MW76

I did some work on these pans today. Scrubbed them a bit, then into the oven on self clean for about 2 hours, then scrubbed them some more. They are almost there.. still turning a little red when they dry but i think they cleaned up really well.

They look good! I wouldn't work on them any further, just start applying some cooking oil to them with an old rag, the rust will end up carbonized in the seasoning process.

Note: Years ago my youngest brother drug home an old cast iron pan and I don't know what was on the surfaces,it looked like hardened tar. He decided to use the self cleaning oven to 'bake it off'. Well after the smoke got so thick that neither he nor mom could breath he decided to just take it out of the oven and let it cool off outside.

THEN he called me and asked me how to clean it up. I had him set it on an old piece of concrete and build a fire in it and keep the fire going for a couple of hours. Then after it had cooled to use some coarse steel wool on it then start the seasoning process.

Last I knew he was still using that pan.