Iron Man

I love iron cookware. There's just something manly about iron, especially after being blackened and smoothed from frequent use. Over the weekend I picked up two more pieces of iron cookware, a 12 inch and 15 1/2 inch skillet if you must know. I believe the 15 incher weighs at least 12 pounds and is probably closer to 15 pounds. The main reason I've decided to do this is the difficulty in caring for and maintaining the other non-stick pans that we have. All our other cookware is now warping and the non-stick surfaces are all scratched to hell and back. This could be because we're using low quality cookware, as our large open french skillet is still just fine. Our electric griddle is also failing, which is why I decided to go with the 15 inch iron skillet. Even if you have a terrible electric range like ours you can still control temperature pretty well with iron.

There just something manly about a black 15 inch skillet that weighs more than your 8 month old child.

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  1. AdrianApril 3, 2008 at 4:03 AM

    Your eight-month-old child weighs 15 pounds? Max went to the doctor yesterday and weighed in at 18 lb 1 oz. Phoebe must be tiny.

    Spencer also loves his iron. Alas, our stove here, one of those bogus flat top ceramic ones, doesn't heat even regular pans very quickly and can't do anything with his beloved cast iron. Thus they are packed away in the basement until we can get a place with a better stove. I've tried to talk him into replacing this stove (the oven is also wonky) but he's afraid of violating our renter agreement.

    When I'm typing comments, the text doesn't wrap. I think this box has no right side. So I keep hitting enter so that I can see all the words I've typed so far.

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  2. BJApril 3, 2008 at 6:13 AM

    Yeah. There's a formatting problem with Internet Explorer 6. It does the same to me if I make a comment from. Since I don't pay attention to grammar or spelling, I hardly ever read what I wrote and just let it disappear behind the sidebar, until it wraps way at the end of the page heh. I can fix em for ya.

    Phoebe is that small. She is TINY.

    You can get some heat diffusers for your stove top.

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