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Cast Iron Pan

August 24th, 2009

By Angela Yenni

A Correct Choice about Cast Iron Pans


For Your Catering Business


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If you want to build a business about catering, you may think what the correct pans for cooking many kinds of foods in one time. And most of people and professional chefs say and consider choosing the cast iron pan.

Why do they consider this pan? It is caused the cast iron pan has the dependable and ensure precise control of cooking temperatures. You can cook every meal without hot spots. You can use the cast iron on the stove top or in the oven.

There are many advantages cooking with the season cast iron pan. It can heat evenly and consistently. You can cook without sticky if you do the cast iron pan seasoning well. The cast iron pans can go from the stove to the oven, without the special utensils help. It is very easy to clean. The price is cheaper than other pans, and you can use it for a lifetime.

Commonly the new cast iron pans, skillets or pots have the protective coating on them from the factory. You should remove them before you use these pans. You can do it with a scouring pad and using soap and the hottest water when you wash them.

The new cast iron pan color is gunmetal gray or silver. But if you use them, they will start turning darker until they are very black. It’s normal and expected certainly.

You should avoid to buy the cast iron pans or skillet with wooden handles, they are useless when you cooking in oven. You can buy kits for your catering employees that educate on hand, finger and wrist safety.

A video program, motivational posters and employee booklets can be included in the materials of kits. Videos can include information on physiology of the hand, fingers and wrist, proper work procedures, tool use and maintenance cookwares like cast iron pan, enamel cookware, seasoning pans and equipments, identification of common hazards, using personal protective equipment, and more.

Some experts hold the contests which cover setting tables from various menus and resetting flatware. This contest will exercise your employees in the art of the table in speed and precision. It is very useful for your catering business.

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Cast Iron Cookware

July 17th, 2009

By Angela Yenni

Cast Iron Pans

Cast Iron Cookware Set

Cast Iron Skillet

Cast Iron Skillet

Le Creuset Enamel

Le Creuset Enamel

Ways for caring your cast iron cookware


Many cookwares that we use in our cooking experience like the cast iron cookware, is got from our older generation. But you will get the big result of your cooking with this cookware. You can get many tips to care your grants well.

I get my cast iron pans from my mother. My mother often uses it in her cooking activities. I always got my favorite fried potatoes from her cast iron pans. She fries anything delicious foods for our dinner with it. But I remember how she keep her cookware that until now they look good.  I often looked my mother washed it after has been used, and she dried it on the stove. Sometimes she coated them with some oil on their surface.

We call it, seasoned cast iron cookware. This act can retain our iron cookware set from rusty, and make it be a nonstick naturally. You can do it, even if you get the inherited cookware has been rusty, seasoning will be improve it. You should do the seasoning on the inside and outside your cast iron; even you need to do the seasoning on the lids. And then you will get the shiny old pan in your cookware. With fry the fatty meats or bacon, it can make your cast iron shiny again. You must remember if you do the seasoning faster, you will get the shiny non-stick cookware, soon.

There are many acts to do the seasoning your cookware, such as:

  1. You can wash it with warm water, soap, and a brush if needed.
  2. Dry and lay your cast iron cookware in the dry place
  3. Take a thin coat of shortening on inside and beside it
  4. Entry it in the oven which has been preheat in 350F, and lay a line rack that is covered foil to receive drips.
  5. You can lay your cookware over the upper rack in the oven, and bake it about 30-60 minutes
  6. After that, cool down it.
  7. Take and put it into the dry place, let the air dry it naturally
  8. You don’t use a dishwasher.

And remember, after you used the cast iron cookware set; wash it with warm water soon. And dry it evenly; don’t forget to do seasoning on it.

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