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[ByN8ureHomstead]

I use cast iron too. The very best ones I have, MGSU got for me at an auction - 4 pans for $5! They are pretty old and nicely seasoned. The newer ones I got are Lodge, except for one Cabellas, which I really don't like. It isn't seasoned well and doesn't have the nice smooth surface which the old ones have. Maybe just need 20 years to wear in (I'll be dead by then)!

Dutch oven bread is the best. Oh, and if you get your stainless burnt, did you try BKF? It's what I use on mine and works a treat. But then, don't know how bad your DH burns yours! Sometimes, all it takes to get it off is to put water in it, and let it simmer for an hour.

For our pans (we have 11) we use Lodge cast iron, For our peg legged dutch ovens we have 1 Lodge, 2 Cabelas and 1 Camp Chef. We use the Cabelas dutch ovens the most. The Lodge dutch oven I only use when my sister is over for dinner its gluten free.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

I have several brands, with Lodge being my most un-favorite.
The Lodge pans seem to have really large particles of iron...very coarse & seem to be forever to get smooth.
The most favorite I have is "Wagner" of Sidney, Australia. These are very smooth, so much so that with barely a spray of OO, I can fry eggs in it & they will not stick.
I also have quite a few that have no markings on them at all, except size #, and they are all very smooth.
Sanding down the cook surface before you season a Lodge may help it be smoother.

I have never used any other cast iron pan other than Lodge. I need to find a Wagner and give it a try.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

Crapola, I never tell anyone !
It ain't nobody's business but our own!!!!!!!!
Something we should NEVER have to ask permission to do !!!!!!!!!!
EVER !!!!!!!!! It is our constitutional right to bear arms and protect our families & property!
There are also laws that forbid any one or anything to "prevent one from earning a living" in so much as repossesers cannot reposess TOOLS or TRUCKS needed to preform a person's JOB.
They can take your car, but they cannot reposess your tools & equipment needed for you to earn a living.
I know that law has been kicked aside lately, as well !
Taking of or killing of one's livestock is exactly that...taking our way of making a living, however small or large that may be, my birds are essential to our living.
Living on disability is impossible without livestock or creative thinking & gardening.
Let the country people survive !!!!!!!!!

Hey CL are you on APN site?

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

OK I am a wee late but MY feelings on the CI is most any is good but IF it says made in (forgive me) made anywhere other than USA . Break it and it goes in the scrap. Just because too much nasty stuff in the foreign iron. JMO

I agree

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

Is there a way to enter a page number to read old posts? I'm tired of tabbing back and waiting for pages to load; but I want to read all I missed this past week.

Oh Oh Oh! I know, I know! You scroll over the three little dots where the page numbers are and click.Then you can type a page number in the box.

 

[Kaneke]

The DW (Rikke) has a "Magnolia grandiflora" growing in the front rose garden. I'm impressed it even survives this far north.

there are several in the Olympia area too -- but then that has a considerably more "maritime" climate than here further up the river

edited to add: I see Stumpfarmer noted the M. grandiflora at the YMCA; those were the first ones I had noticed too, since I had become fond of them while living in San Carlos (California Bay Area) where they fronted the elementary school; come to think of it, there are some of them also planted outside the Museum of Flight on Boeing Field in (industrial) Seattle

I'll have to go out and see if our dwarf apples survived the snow and ice; they're still quite small though 15 years old now; the pears and Mongolian apricots succumbed during the last long icy saga --- they sit on our side line right next to the evergreen "hedge" our neighbor planted (have yet to identify the type, some sort of hybrid hemlock I think); his apple and pear trees are just on his side of that bordering hedge ... that hedge and the trees would be full sized except he keeps whacking off the tops to keep them all about 10-12 feet high

 

[RedReiner]

So.....going back to our whole "Baytril" discussion from a while back....one of our veterinarians just got back from a conference, where she went to a lecture about backyard chickens.  First of all, I just have to say how AWESOME it is that they had a backyard chicken lecture!!!!  And even more awesome that she went!  (She usually calls me when a chicken comes into the clinic and I'm not there to get my input). 

ANYWAY...a tidbit from the lecture, is that it is ILLEGAL to give backyard chickens Baytril and/or any cephalosporin drug because of possible resistance and how that could affect the commercial poultry industry.  

Just thought that it was interesting....  

hmmm.... wonder where I could find that particular law, be the first I ever heard of such a thing.

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: You did??




I left a message.

I think you must have misdialed. I'm sorry i missed your call.

 

[hallerlake]

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Is that the 'Little Gem'? I had it in Federal Way. Frozen rain/or heavy wet snow broke it repeatedly.

 

[hallerlake]

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What Mr H wants is the Magnolia macrophyla, Big leaf magnolia. There are a couple in my neighborhood. They have enormous leaves with silvery undersides, and humongous flowers. It is deciduous.