Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Carol" Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Smithey Ironware Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 00:41:58 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <8088741aca231165599d00a1cca4b9d7@www.novabbs.com> <2643d9b6-d482-f543-d345-14d8e0cbb36c@example.net> <0652d1a74b3f52e94455a2999a2c53b9@www.novabbs.org> <6e3252a439a67cc68fca62dd5dbf7190@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 01:41:58 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2b39082f18d4439da279d2e756d32eae"; logging-data="658046"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX186m918Lpz3uPVQZ1JS7baG" User-Agent: XanaNews/1.21-f3fb89f (x86; Portable ISpell) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DI/iN+vChD5vCCvgGUXzbnlbsQE= Bytes: 2351 Dave Smith wrote: > On 2024-11-02 5:28 p.m., jmcquown wrote: > > On 11/2/2024 5:15 PM, Carol wrote: > > > > Umm, Jill I've posted so many times on my cast iron pans including > > > cooking for fun in the fireplace here.  Mine gets used 3-4 times > > > a week though less for the cast iron ovens due to being hard for > > > me to lift now. > > > > Umm, Carol, I was reacting to your reply to David (dsi1) and his > > comments about cast iron.  He sounds about as ill educated about > > heat conduction and multi-faceted uses of cast iron as Sheldon. > > > > I had not bothered to engage him on that. There are things I like > about cast iron. Among them are being able to get them smoking hot > that they retain heat. They don't suddenly cool off when you through > a slab of meat in. The cast iron is my pan of choice for pancakes. Yes and some of my recipes are designed to use that residual heat.