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Cast Iron Cookware – First Choice of Gourmet Chefs
Cast iron cookware has been dubbed “America’s Cookware.” It’s been used by crusading American pioneers for centuries because of its durability and excellent heat retention and distribution. It was proudly passed down from generation to generation as part of inheritances.
Not only American chefs prefer cast iron cookware as their cooking utensil of choice. Gourmet chefs around the globe prefer cast iron for a number of reasons. Besides lasting forever and obvious heat retention and distribution features, cast iron is also stick resistant and can be used either on the stove top or in the oven.
There’s no other cookware that meet those criteria – and, chefs can use any utensil with cast iron. Wooden spoons, metal spatulas and rubber or plastic can all be used interchangeably with cast iron products.
Cast iron cookware should be seasoned to ensure that foods don’t stick on the bottom during cooking. It’s very easy to season a cast iron utensil. Simply wash your new cookware (including the lid, if applicable), apply a coat of oil or shortening to the inside and outside and bake (upside down) in an oven preheated to 350 degrees for an hour or so.
After seasoning, simply rinse your cookware in warm water and dry thoroughly with a paper towel. Never put your cast iron cookware in the dishwasher as it will remove the seasoning process and possibly rust the finish.
There are new, enameled coated, cast iron cookware products on the market today and they’re proving to be just as efficient and durable as the original cast iron cookware products.
The Lodge Logic Pre-Seasoned 12-Inch Skillet: The Most Important Pan in Your Kitchen
If you could only choose one pan for your kitchen, let it be the Lodge Logic Pre-Seasoned 12-Inch Skillet. It’s cast iron — the crème de la crème of gourmet cooks and premiere chefs. When you cook with cast iron, you’re cooking with a pan that evenly retains heat and its non-stick qualities ensure that half the food you cook in it doesn’t remain in the pan when you attempt to remove it.
Most of the time, you’ll need to season cast iron, which means that you rub it with oil and bake it in your oven (upside down) for about an hour. If you inherit a cast iron pan that hasn’t been taken care of, you’ll need to scrape the gunk off before you season the pan. But, when you purchase a Lodge Logic Pre-Seasoned 12-Inch Skillet, no seasoning on your part is necessary.
The Lodge Logic Pre-Seasoned 12-Inch Skillet is the perfect pan to bake the most delicious Pineapple Upside Down Cake you’ve ever put in your mouth. The cake’s edges are crisp and the cake inside is so moist it will melt in your mouth. And the topping? The sweet, caramel blending with the tart taste of the pineapple makes it a cake that your friends and family will ask for again and again.
Frying, roasting or baking, the Lodge Logic Pre-Seasoned 12-Inch Skillet will become the one you reach for when you want to create a perfect dish.
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