Cast Iron Skillet

The most important thing to remember when using a cast iron utensil is not leave the food in the vessel. Always shift the food to your casserole or something as soon as its cooked!

Do you have a flame burner or coil burner? I am also looking for a cast iron skillet. Did you get it from India?
Its very good nutrition wise.
I used it regularly on my flame burners in India but can't use the same here in US coz of flat coil burners..

Cheers!!

 

1) Never leave cooked food in Iron pans.
2) After you wash (with/without soap), wipe it with a cloth/tissue, smear a drop of oil on both outside and inside and again wipe it with the tissue paper and leave it in open air (to prevent rust)

 

You're welcome,
Again, the answers are the same - sambar, rasam you can boil, and serve it in another vessel immediately.
but if you're making dry sabji with tomato or tamarind, better to avoid it or else try to use more oil !!!

They are best for yummy crisp dosas and parathas ... roasted veggies is also good but try and avoid gravy dishes.

Keep the pan "well seasoned" - check google on this !!!

For the rust, try scraping and give the "wipe with oil" treatment for a day or two - if it works you're lucky !!!

I have seen "how to"s on Google to remove rust from cast iron - they've done it for pans that have been in the garage for decades - so it is not impossible to remove - but it is hard work - just google and check

 

You can still make yummy crispy dry sabjis

 

Hi Khanaksmom

You can buy cast iron skillet from amazon. check lodge or nordicware cast iron skillet in amazon.com. I bought lodge product recently and I am pretty happy with it.

 

Is cast iron skillet only for fries and not curry dishes?I opted to buy lodge skillets but I dont have any knowledge about cooking in cast iron...till now I have been using nonstick...please suggest what all can be done apart from frys,dosas