A black cast iron skillet

[23JAM00]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: loops</div><div class="ubbcode-body">totally agree with the poster than said you shouldn't wash them with soap....even if i have on occasion. I'm sorry, but sometimes...they just need a good scrub. After that, i just re-season them.

and i don't like to cook acidy, tomato based products in them, as the acid really picks up the iron taste in what you're cooking. </div></div>

True...no tomato in the iron...ick

[Jamaicamiss]

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I have an 8 inch one that I took to Jamaica. Ted was scrubbing away at it, and I literally screamed. I try to do the washing of it so the patina is not ruined. It has become his favorite cooking pan.

[goldilocks]

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I have a set of skillets, small, medium and large - well used and well seasoned. I would love to have a cast iron dutch pot!

[loops]

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we just bought a new cast iron dutch oven...it's for making bean hole beans at camp.

evah heard of bean hole beans?

[Marilyn]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: nanceejay</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: loops</div><div class="ubbcode-body">totally agree with the poster than said you shouldn't wash them with soap....even if i have on occasion. I'm sorry, but sometimes...they just need a good scrub. After that, i just re-season them.

and i don't like to cook acidy, tomato based products in them, as the acid really picks up the iron taste in what you're cooking. </div></div>

True...no tomato in the iron...ick </div></div>

Ya know I'm sure I've done this at some point in time and I don't remember it tasting funny or anything.

[Marilyn]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jamaica Miss</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have an 8 inch one that I took to Jamaica. Ted was scrubbing away at it, and I literally screamed. I try to do the washing of it so the patina is not ruined. It has become his favorite cooking pan. </div></div>

LOL poor Ted

[Marilyn]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: goldilocks</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I have a set of skillets, small, medium and large - well used and well seasoned. I would love to have a cast iron dutch pot! </div></div>

I'd bet the farm you could find one at Aschwabs here in Memphis on Beale St.

[Marilyn]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: loops</div><div class="ubbcode-body">we just bought a new cast iron dutch oven...it's for making bean hole beans at camp.

evah heard of bean hole beans? </div></div>

I'll bite nope

[loops]

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well not surprising marilyn, as i've just discovered that bean hole beans are unique to maine, borrowed from the native americans.

Bean-Hole Beans
A Local Legacy
What's a bean-hole bean? No, it's not a bean with a hole in it. Bean-hole beans get their name because they are baked in a hole. For hundreds of years, the Penobscot Indians of Maine cooked their food in a hole in the ground. The first thing you need to cook bean-hole beans is a shovel!
Recipe for bean-hole beans:
-Dig a hole in the ground 3 feet deep and line it with rocks.
-Build a fire in the hole and let it burn down to large embers and ash. (This can take half a day before enough coals are produced to cook the beans properly.)
-Use dry beans such as Great Northern, Yellow Eye, Jacob's Cattle, or Soldier.
-Other ingredients include onions, salt pork, ham hock, bacon, tomatoes, brown sugar and molasses.

Put the beans and other ingredients in a cast iron pot and cover with water and a lid. Place the pot in the hole, cover with a wet dish towel or burlap sack, shovel some of the embers and ashes on top of the pot, and then cover with dirt. Cooking time varies depending on which recipe is used but it can take as long as 16 hours. Then get ready with a shovel and a bowl!

[loops]

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we love doing this at camp. sitting around the campfire the night before, waiting for the hot coals to fill the bean hole, while my hubby prepares his beans.

once the hole is full, we dig out the coals, put the bean pot in, then throw the coals back in. then off to bed we go, when we wake in the morning...nice baked beans to go with breakfast.

[schultz]

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I never use soap on my skillets, each one has their own use, they make the best buttermilk cornbread ever! The other one is for fried okra and squash. Southern fe true.

[Marilyn]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: loops</div><div class="ubbcode-body">well not surprising marilyn, as i've just discovered that bean hole beans are unique to maine, borrowed from the native americans.

Bean-Hole Beans
A Local Legacy
What's a bean-hole bean? No, it's not a bean with a hole in it. Bean-hole beans get their name because they are baked in a hole. For hundreds of years, the Penobscot Indians of Maine cooked their food in a hole in the ground. The first thing you need to cook bean-hole beans is a shovel!
Recipe for bean-hole beans:
-Dig a hole in the ground 3 feet deep and line it with rocks.
-Build a fire in the hole and let it burn down to large embers and ash. (This can take half a day before enough coals are produced to cook the beans properly.)
-Use dry beans such as Great Northern, Yellow Eye, Jacob's Cattle, or Soldier.
-Other ingredients include onions, salt pork, ham hock, bacon, tomatoes, brown sugar and molasses.

Put the beans and other ingredients in a cast iron pot and cover with water and a lid. Place the pot in the hole, cover with a wet dish towel or burlap sack, shovel some of the embers and ashes on top of the pot, and then cover with dirt. Cooking time varies depending on which recipe is used but it can take as long as 16 hours. Then get ready with a shovel and a bowl!

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I bet these are to die for

[Marilyn]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: loops</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

we love doing this at camp. sitting around the campfire the night before, waiting for the hot coals to fill the bean hole, while my hubby prepares his beans.

once the hole is full, we dig out the coals, put the bean pot in, then throw the coals back in. then off to bed we go, when we wake in the morning...nice baked beans to go with breakfast. </div></div>

They have baked beans for breakfast down at Fisherman's beach sometimes. Thanks for sharing Loops, I bet those are good memories.

[Laurel]

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I just love these stories ...

good fun ~

[Marilyn]

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Yeah
and don't forget how handy that black skillet came in a Madea's house in the movie Family Reunion