Cast Iron Beckerheads, Sound Off!

A little Wally World $25 special! What!? Yes! $25! Early Father's Day gift to myself, much to my wife's chagrin, as she said she prefers to BUY gifts herself, oh well!
What's that you ask? Of course I bought the only 2 they had! I was planning on keeping one NIB but after just now seeing FCFER's post, I'm thinking otherwise. This is my first Dutch oven so I'm going to plaster my ass on the couch for the remainder of the evening and read the included Camp Dutch Oven Cooking 101.

Going on a 4 day camp out Memorial Day so she'll see her first job(s) then. Wish me luck!
 
That's a good score, Slice! :thumbup: I look forward to getting my new Dutch oven out here in the next few weeks.


I also really like the small Dutch oven Dex has.
 
I just don't take pictures when I'm cooking.
Used the little lodge skillet last weekend to saute some onions while cooking a tri-tip over a wood fire on a campout. It was awesome. Since we cooked, a different family cleaned. I mentioned to my wife afterward that someone had cleaned it with soap. Oh well, I'll keep using it with extra fat for a while and see if I don't need to re-season it. She tells me "it was me! They told me to stop, but it was too late..." Ah, well. Dinner was fantastic that night.

I didn't do dessert - a different family did peach cobbler in their cast-iron dutch oven, covered in coals. Yum!
We sure eat well when car-camping.

I used it again this morning for swedish pancakes on the stove. Didn't stick! What was weird was how much faster it cooked than the porcelain over iron, hard-anodized aluminum, and non-stick aluminum pans. Different sizes, but all were on medium heat. Recipe said 1-2 minutes per side. The large non-stick saute pan over a large burner - which pre-heated the longest, and had the thinnest film of batter - took nearly 20 minutes total. Lodge was ready to flip in a minute. Burned the first one because I just wasn't expecting it. The porcelain one was on target at about 3 minutes per side; one-inch-larger aluminum one gave me about 5 per. I guess the recipe was done for cast iron. I know it's effective at getting the heat into the food, but I was shocked at the difference in cooking times.
Breakfast sure was a hit, though!
 
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Burgers with soy sauce, Worcestershire, honey, ginger, olive oil, garlic and balsamic vinegar.
Portabella mushrooms in olive oil.

Sorry, I have no leftovers.
 
protourist said:
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Burgers with soy sauce, Worcestershire, honey, ginger, olive oil, garlic and balsamic vinegar.
Portabella mushrooms in olive oil.

Sorry, I have no leftovers.
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Damn that looks good. Always good to see this thread bumped up. :thumbup:
 
Is there any other way to cook? Cast iron forever, makes *everything* taste better

Take eggs from my pastured, free range, backyard chickens, with nearly flourescent Orange yolks
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(Actual un retouched photo, the color is really that intense) and scramble them up, no milk, no additional ingredients, and make either scrambled eggs or French toast, amazingly good
 
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Damn that looks good. Always good to see this thread bumped up. :thumbup:
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Those burgers were beyond belief. The portobellos could have replaced a steak. I wish you could have tried them.
 
NCSlice said:
A little Wally World $25 special! What!? Yes! $25! Early Father's Day gift to myself, much to my wife's chagrin, as she said she prefers to BUY gifts herself, oh well!
What's that you ask? Of course I bought the only 2 they had! I was planning on keeping one NIB but after just now seeing FCFER's post, I'm thinking otherwise. This is my first Dutch oven so I'm going to plaster my ass on the couch for the remainder of the evening and read the included Camp Dutch Oven Cooking 101.

Going on a 4 day camp out Memorial Day so she'll see her first job(s) then. Wish me luck!
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Dude, forget the cast iron............that BK9 mod is sweet. Great work! What's the OAL and the blade length?
 
Now in the right thread!

Hot Italian sausages with grilled red peppers. The BK15 in the foreground is quite possibly the best steak/sausage knife around!

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Lookin' good Gus. I never did get that grill I have going, haha. Started it, and never finished. Probably has more rust now than it did when I started.
 
I was wondering what ever happened to that grill!

If you ever get tired of looking at it, I know someone that can give it a good home!;)
 
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^ jealous of that griswold I've heard they are the best. Or at least some of the original...
This is me today, roasting up some chicken legs for my wifey. She told me she's never had roasted chicken before so I obliged! Bk16 too, threw the ferry Sparks to start it up
 
That blonde lady that keeps me in line snagged one of these the other day from a yard sale:

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Anyone ever seen or used one of these?
 
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