## Years and years of personal experience cooking in wood fire ovens, over wood cookstoves, camp fires and you name it...even grinding my own grain and baking bread in a 'found' 5 gallon steel bucket imbedded in rocks and mud.
Ode At 12:31 AM 12/13/2005 -0700, you wrote: > >That is very interesting information. Do you have a source handy? > >TIA, > >Jim > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ode Coyote [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 4:27 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: CS>Aluminum cookware > > Both cast aluminum and cast iron griddles work the same way. > They absorb oils and develop a black thick hard slick surface when >'seasoned in' that's sometimes better than teflon. It's nearly impossible >to dig through the seasoning layer with a steel spatula. > A well seasoned cast aluminum or cast iron waffle iron works MUCH better >than a teflon coated waffle iron. > No aluminum or iron is exposed to food. None. > > Never clean either till it's shiny. > Hot water is OK now and then..soap, not. > After that rare washing, coat with oil and heat till dry. It'll never >rust. > Lots of people kept their cast in the oven. > I've dug shiny clean and new looking waffle irons out of dumpsters because >people threw the plates in the dishwasher to get the waffles off the iron >because they couldn't make a waffle they could get off the iron...because >they kept cleaning the iron. >Neglect is the key. Wash it as little as possible. > Waffle stuck on? Soak it with oil and let it burn off. The next one won't >stick. > They only start working well after you can hardly tell what metal it's >made of by looking at it. > Grandma may have worked at it for years..then you toss her prize tool into >the dishwasher and wonder about that shotgun in her hands. > > Stainless is great for boiling. Teflon is OK for slow cooking eggs and >bacon/steak/burgers/chops and for bake ware. Teflon is almost a necessity >for poached eggs. > > But gimme ole nasty black looking cast aluminum or iron for pancakes and >waffles. The cruddier the better. > Ode > >At 11:24 PM 12/8/2005 +0800, you wrote: >> >>After roughly 30 yrs of warnings about the use of aluminum cookware, I >could >>not bring myself to use it ever again. I remember how tomatoes or any other >>acidic food would yield a shiny pot ---before cleaning it, that is. That's >>when I realized where all the "dirty" aluminum went-------right into the >>spaghetti sauce! But I'm still scratching my head over the idea that you'd > >>actually WANT to >>cook with aluminum! >> >> >>Rowena says: I was raised to have a horror of aluminium pots, drinking >cups, >>anything. My mother a bit ahead of her time again there. Over sixty years > >>ago she knew this. Plastic also she avoided. >>Some twelve years ago, I was given a griddle, I suppose it would be called. > >>For cooking pancakes or whatever when camping. A kind of round slab of >>aluminium with a folding handle. As I have read in the past that aluminium > >>is fairly safe if used for cooking with FAT, I did sometimes use it to make > >>that sort of food. Okay, dangerous behaviour, yup. >> >>When I started using virgin coconut oil, I made some pancakes on this >>gadget. The coconut oil cleaned the aluminium - right onto the pancakes in > >>layers. Aluminium paint, basically, I suppose. >> >>Threw the pancakes out, also the griddle. >> >>Now I use a flat SS electric frypan. Should have used one all along. >> >>By the way - after years of assuming glass was the highest form of cooking >>receptacle, I came across a comment that after all, there turns out to be a > >>problem with it. I can't remember what that problem was, and can't find >any >>reference to it in a search. But I know it was severe enough to make me >>feel pretty disappointed. About something or other being released into the > >>food. 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