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Juliette Goodwin's take on food knows no bounds. From the food on your dinner plate to the grub in your dog's bowl, Juliette offers an enlightening and informative view on all things edible.

The hungry squirrel’s guide to pumpkin consumption
A Post-Thanksgiving cleansing secret
Sexy, savory stuffing recipe
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday
Ten cents to despair
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    Cast Iron Can Save Your Life

    April 11, 11:35 AM
    by Juliette Goodwin, Baltimore Food Examiner
     
     
    One of the things that convinced me that my now husband and I should become permanently hitched was the fact that we both brought complimentary cast iron skillets to the relationship. I had a medium and an extra-large sized sized skillet, and he had a slightly larger medium skillet and a small one. All well-seasoned, all fit into one another in a perfect pile on the stove top. If that's not a sign, I don't know what is. Plus, we also had matching cats and no secret cat allergies. That was a big one, too.

    Cast iron cookery is no joke. You don't need or really, should even want any other kind of skillet. I suppose stainless steel is a close second, but you can't season a stainless, scrubbed pan like you can one made of cast iron. One old friend, sort of a Renissance man -- painter, writer, chef, carpenter, maniac -- comes to mind when the subject comes up. He schooled me in my youth on the nuances of how to clean a cast iron pan (let us refer to it as CI from now on) without ruining the hard-won seasoning that has been baked on from multiple uses.

    1. heat the pan
    2. pour a little salt into the pan
    3. remove from heat and scrub a little with a brush or towel, adding a little water if you like
    4. rinse
    According to him, the use of detergents or too much scrubbing will whittle away at the natural non-stick surface that has built up, plus, there's no need to introduce a bunch of soap into the complex flavor seal that has evolved on the CI pan.

    There are also the benefits of adding iron to your diet, and not adding questionable metals, like aluminum or even worse, the dreaded TEFLON non-stick surface, that inevitably, over time, breaks down and slowly becomes a part of your food, then a part of your body. Yuck. Get rid of it, it will kill you.

    I cook just about everything in my CI pans. Pizza, sauces, grilled cheese, sauteed apples. I re-heat my daughters' recurring elbow macaroni and peas dinner in the pans. Use them on the top of your stove, plop them in the oven. Take 'em camping. My crazy, afore-mentioned friend also reminded me that a cast iron pan can stop a bullet. CAST IRON CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE.
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