Sunday, 18 April 2010

The Cookware Our Ancestors Used - Cast Iron Cookware

The Cookware Our Ancestors Used - Cast Iron Cookware
By Dimas Heri Yulianto
For more one hundreds years cast iron cookware is once favourite type of cookware. A good place to begin searching this Cast iron cookware is in atique auctions, flea market and yard sale. Cast iron cookware still be choosed, although e new brand cookware is desired
Why most people still use Cast iron cookware ?. Many chef in restaurant, hotel etc still use this type, Cast iron cookware. Cast iron cookware have the composition to retain heat as well as distribution of heat on the cooking surface . Cast iron cookware can durable and endure extremes in heat . Cast iron cookware is non stick cookware and can be use for cooking like grilled sandwiches, burger.
Cast iron cookware can be season excellent. You can use the direction from the new cookware that you purchase from the retailer. A new cast iron cookware is coating with substances to keep from sticking.



By the direction, can keep the iron seasoned with use or handed down cookware
a. You can clean rust or scour out with steel wool in the cast iron cookware
b. Coat the cast iron cookware after use vegetable oil, lard, bacon fat, or hardened fat
c. You can put cast iron cookware in oven with upside down position, and give the tin foil to catch drippings and keep oven clean. Bake for a approximately 30 minutes until several hours in medium – high temperature
d. Moving your cast iron cookware from the oven upside and let cool
e. Fat and oil wipe out from the cast iron cookware
f. Repeat again
g. Put the lid of cast iron cookware
How to use cookware ?
Let the cast iron cookware be preheated before you entering the food. You can test the cast iron cookware, ready or not to drop the food by give some water and looks that the water sizzles. If it happens cast iron cookware ready to add the food.
If you want to clean the cast iron cookware, its easy done. You must done by hand. And don’t put the cast iron cookware in dishwasher.Give water scrub and dish soap in out the cookware, after that dryi it. Before store the cast iron cookware add light layer of oil when seasoning is start to wear off. Moving the rust in by giving the moisture leads. After remove food from the cookware, clean it. Cast iron cookware can seep into the food especially if cooks acidic type foods or tomato. So its not good for storage leftovers

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