Thread: Cast iron?

Well can't blame you, waffles and sausage great comfort food in a storm. I wish I could eat some myself, but I,m thinking with all the guys making syrup right about now. I might have to send a care package to save your life my friend! If nothing else even a jug of Costco pure maple syrup. Tc

Today I cooked a noon time meal for one of my old widow women and her step daughter. Since meal planning is not my forte all I had to do was roll out my cast iron storage rack and one look at the Wagner dutch oven solved all my problems. Dutch oven baked chicken thighs smothered in onions, mashed taters, chicken gravy, vinegar string beans, and sweet pickles. A Wosty shave and a Wagner meal will score with the ladies every time.

I found a couple of turkey legs at the store and that started me thinking

So I picked them up (1.5 lbs ea) a large sweet potato and some stove top. I pulled some turkey broth that I had made out of the freezer and away we went.

The legs were too large to roast in my usual stove top dutch oven so I pulled out the Big Boy!



Here's the legs right out of the oven.



The sweet potato simmering in the butter/brown sugar sauce.



And the meal ready to dish up--the legs were in the glassware only to keep warm while I finished everything else.



Benz, please stop drooling on your key board.

Yer killin' me Roy. How many pounds of cast iron are on that stove top?

Originally Posted by Benz

Yer killin' me Roy. How many pounds of cast iron are on that stove top?

I'll try to figure that out for you my friend. I will say that I immediately noticed that my 'new' Wagner' #8 was about the same weight as my #6 my Lodge. Since reading your question I weighed them. The Wagner is 3#'s 15 oz and the Lodge is 3#'s 9oz.

Here's an interesting article:
https://thepan-handler.com/2014/04/w...ern-cast-iron/

I should weigh this thing to see how much it actually is. Weight is the main reason it sits in the top of my garage. That and size. One of my friends has a similar sized one that he loves to take on group camping trips for an excuse to use it!

Just for the fun of it I grabbed three #10 skillets and weighed them for comparison.
1. Griswold large logo 4 1/2 pounds.
2. Griswold small logo 4 3/4 pounds.
3. Wagner 6 3/4 pounds.

The Wagner is my work horse for most breakfasts. The sides are almost as thin and graceful as the Griswold but the bottom is thicker. This thing makes the best hash browns and potato pancakes. I think it's because of the thicker bottom.

Then I weighed up my Wagner dutch oven with the Lodge lid I use........a whopping full 10 pounds.

I don't own a scale that would weigh my cast iron. But according to Lodge that 12" campfire Dutch weighs 19 lbs with the lid.

My Wagner Dutch is a 10 incher.

I weighed my cast on a kitchen scale. Just for the fun of it why don't you weigh it on your bathroom scale?

Originally Posted by Benz

My Wagner Dutch is a 10 incher.

I weighed my cast on a kitchen scale. Just for the fun of it why don't you weigh it on your bathroom scale?

Would if I could! However I don't own a bathroom scale. My kitchen scale only weighs to 5 lbs and that lid for the 12" Dutch has to weigh 8-10 lbs alone.