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  • Can you use soap on cast iron? 3 cast iron myths – GF Video

    Can you use soap on cast iron? 3 cast iron myths – GF Video

    Can you use soap on cast iron? A HUGE debate in the world of cast iron cooking, watch our video to find out the answer:

    Can You Use Soap On Cast Iron

    Yes. Here’s why:

    When you apply a thin film of vegetable oil, ideally flax oil or sunflower oil, to the pan, and then heat it, the oil polymerizes. Polymerization is a chemical process where oil becomes a plastic like finish. The oil dries out, and is no longer an oil.

    Dishwashing soap breaks down oil. Since the oil you applied, has been heated & dried, it is no longer an oil, the soap doesn’t dissolve it. So the mindset of soap ruining the finish on cast iron doesn’t apply here. The cast iron pan seasoning is now a polymer. Any food or cooking oil will get cleaned out by the soap, but the seasoning stays.

    How To Care For Your Cast Iron

    Use enough oil to cook your food, and when done, wipe out the pan with a towel. If there is food sticking, or you made a curry or some fragrant dish, put a little soap in the pan and clean out the pan. Set the pan back on the burner, heat it up to dry out the water. Apply a very thin layer of vegetable oil, ideally flax or sunflower oil, wipe out the excess, and allow the pan to cool off.

    That’s it! Here’s the best how to season cast iron video:

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    A conversation in the YouTube comments of this video says a lot about this question, can you use soap on cast iron:

    The Real Jim Guy: “I season my cast iron the old fashioned way with lard and i tell you from experience that dish soap strips the finish right off it to where everything sticks like glue.”

    John B: “I believe that’s because lard doesn’t polymerize they way that olive oil or flax seed oil does under heat. so it remains soluble to the effects of the soap.”

    Galanie: “True, unhydrogenated animal fats never dry really and won’t polymerize the way that seed oils do.”

    Brrag: “I have washed my cast iron skillets with dish washing detergent for 40 years. my mother and grandmother washed theirs the same way. i once heard you weren’t suppose to use soap on them so just started cleaning with hot water. they got so nasty smelling, i went back to the soap again. Using soap does not change the taste of your food. On the other hand, not using soap will change the taste of your food; it will taste like you cooked it in rancid oil.” (Probably the best argument on can you use soap on cast iron)

    Pappy: “You make so much sense… used to be called common sense but it’s not very common any more. I have a cast skillet that is at least 80-90 yrs old. My grandmother got it at Montgomery Wards (remember them?) Anyway she and my mother after her used this pan daily, washed it in soapy water, dried it, heated it and put some Crisco or bacon fat on it and that was it. It has a glass smooth bottom and cooks like a dream and is pretty much none stick. I admit it had gotten pretty grungy over the years so I cleaned it up, got most of the gunk off it and reasoned it. I don’t regularly wash it in soapy water because it cleans up beautifully with just water and a scrub brush but if it gets particularly dirty or I forget it overnight I don’t worry about soaping it up. The flax seed oil characteristics you mentioned are spot on from what I’ve also read. Once seasoned well with it you don’t need to only use flax seed oil tho, any oil will do to maintain that finish. Good video, thanks…”

    If you want to buy cast iron pans, I suggest finding them at yard sales and restoring them. You can get good cast iron on amazon here. (This is an affliate link, it helps us make more GardenFork!)

  • Bean Hole Beans Recipe, Dig A Hole, Start A Fire, Cook – GF Video

    Bean Hole Beans Recipe, Dig A Hole, Start A Fire, Cook – GF Video

    A while back I read an article about an artisanal bean hole beans recipe, and then and there decided to make the GardenFork version. In other words, the done is better than perfect Bean Hole recipe. Watch the video:

    Any project that involves open fire and food is a good one. Growing up, we would camp in the backyard, and boil crayfish we caught in the quarry pond over our campfire. Fire, coffee can, crayfish = good. Same thing with beans, bacon, and a hole in the ground. Its wicked simple, and fun to do on the weekend, especially in the fall.

    What is a bean hole beans recipe?

    Cooking food in a hole in the ground, as a cooking method, has been around for a long time. Probably since humans learned how to use fire to cook food, or shortly thereafter. But the Bean Hole Beans we are talking about started with the Penobscot Tribe in Maine. They cooked their beans in a clay pot with bear grease and maple syrup.

    This bean hole baked beans recipe was adopted by the logging crews in Maine. One story I read told of how they used this method while transporting logs down the river to the harbor. The cook would ride down the river one day ahead of the logging crew. He would dig a hole and start a pot of beans, mark the spot, and then ride down the river another day, and do the same thing. The loggers would arrive at the camping spot, and dig up the beans for dinner.

    I’m not sure of the veracity of this story, but its certainly plausible to me. And what’s not to like about pulling into camp to find dinner ready?

    Bean hole cooking is the original Crock Pot cooking method of its day, the pre-electric version of the slow cooker. Plus its one of those low and slow methods, which we now know as a braise or BBQ.

    How To Make Bean Hole Beans

    This cooking method, is more than just cooking, its an experience. And it is great. It embraces the two mantras of GardenFork:

    Done is better than perfect.

    Use what you got.

    Here’s what you need:

    • Cast Iron Dutch Oven with a handle, and ideally a rimmed lid.
    • Wood to burn or chunk charcoal. Not large pieces of wood, btw.
    • Used clay bricks or rocks. Don’t use rocks that break when heated.
    • Sheet metal of some sort.
    • Chain, or heavy wire, or coat hangers.
    • Aluminum foil.

    You will need to dig a hole in your yard. I have found its easiest to do this in a raised vegetable garden bed. Its much easier, but dig where you are allowed. THINK about where you are digging, before you dig, OK?

    Bean Hole Beans Recipe

    Your hole is at least 6″ wider than the dutch oven and at least a 12″ deeper. Line the hole with used clay bricks. I don’t think one needs to use firebrick.

    Start a small fire in the hole with small pieces of wood. This will take longer if you use big pieces. Use small pieces. Add wood to this fire to build a larger fire.

    Let the fire burn down so the wood is starting to turn to coals. This is subjective, but you want a good base of coals to surround your dutch oven. There can be some wood that has not become coals yet. If you wait for everything to be burned down to coals, you’ve probably waited too long.

    Clean the center of the fire pit

    There are many bean hole beans cooks that par boil their beans before putting them in the dutch oven – to me this a waste of time. The beans are going to be cooking a long time. It’s great to brine beans before cooking, i do it all the time, but for this recipe, you don’t need to. OK? Good.

    Bean Hole Beans, the GardenFork recipe

    One 1 lb bag of dried northern beans – not soaked (other white beans work fine too)

    2 TBSP Mustard

    One small can of tomato paste

    1/2 cup maple syrup

    One chopped sweet onion

    4 slices of bacon.

    1 tablespoon kosher salt

    6 cups of water

    – again, use what you got, you can add other stuff to this recipe

    Put all the ingredients in the dutch oven. If your dutch oven lid does not seal well, place one or two layers of aluminum foil between the dutch oven and the lid.

    Cover the outside of the lid with aluminum foil to keep any dirt from getting in to the beans.

    Remove half the coals and move the rest to the sides. Lower the dutch oven into the hole, add back in the hot coals. Cover with the tin and then dirt. Be sure to lay the chain so its outside the fire pit.

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  • Cleaning Cast Iron With A Battery Charger – GF Video

    Cleaning Cast Iron With A Battery Charger – GF Video

    Cleaning cast iron with a battery charger, aka cleaning cast iron with electrolysis, makes it super easy to remove rust and crud from rusted cast iron. Watch this video I made, then we’ll step through the process.

    Caution! Use the setup outdoors and away from open flames. Don’t smoke while doing this. Restoring cast iron with electrolysis produces hydrogen and oxygen. Use this info at your own risk, OK?

    Cleaning Cast Iron With A Battery Charger, Step By Step

    Cleaning cast iron with a battery chargerAbove is what my setup looks like for cleaning cast iron with a battery charger. Let me walk you through the process.

    Cleaning cast iron with a battery chargerYou will need a battery charger with a MANUAL mode. This is important. The first one I bought said it was manual, but it wasn’t. It should have a switch on it for manual. Here is a link to the battery charger I bought, it works well.

    Cleaning cast iron with a battery chargerFor the metal plates, I used two old baking pans. I used a wire wheel on my drill to remove the coating on the pans to expose the bare metal. DO NOT use stainless steel, bad chemistry will  happen. I used a self tapping screw on each pan to attach a 12 gauge copper wire to them, as well as the wire that goes from the pans to the battery charger.

    Cleaning cast iron with a battery chargerHere is a top view of how my cast iron cleaning tank looks. It is important that the metal cake pans, or whatever metal you are using, does not touch the cast iron to be cleaned. I have been told that you can also use several pieces of rebar wired together for the metal plates. Or visit a scrap yard. Again, do not use stainless steel.

    Turn On The Charger And See What Happens

    Cleaning cast iron with a battery chargerUse  a wire brush to clean off the handle of the cast iron where the negative (black) clip of the battery charger connects to the pan. I don’t suggest submerging your battery clamps in the solution, therefore, if you want to submerge the whole piece, wrap copper wire around the handle and attach the clip to the copper wire above the water line.

    Important Things To Keep In Mind

    • Use 1 tablespoon of Washing Soda per gallon of water for the cleaning solution.
    • Red clamp from battery charger attaches to metal pans in the tank, Black clamp attaches to item to be cleaned.
    • Wear gloves while doing this, OK?

    Cleaning cast iron with a battery chargerIf you’ve got the rig set up correctly, you will see bubbles start to rise from the solution almost immediately. Let it run for several hours, so all sorts of stuff will have time to bubble off. Most of all, make sure the cast iron pan being cleaned does not touch the metal plates.

    Cleaning cast iron with a battery chargerEvery few hours, pull out the cast iron and clean off the crud with a dish scrubber. Flip the pan 180 degrees in the solution every time you pull it out. Finally, depending on the age and how many layers of seasoning are on the piece, you may need to use steel wool to remove some of the last bits of the material. Learn how to season cast iron here.
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  • Easy Maple Baked Beans Recipe Video

    Easy Maple Baked Beans Recipe Video

    We just finished the maple syrup season, so its time for our easy maple baked beans recipe. You can use canned beans for this or cook some beans in your pressure cooker. There aren’t a ton of ingredients to this, but the few ingredients combine to make this perfect for a BBQ side dish.

    A viewer suggested the other day that our homemade maple syrup evaporator could be used as a DIY meat smoker, and that provided the easy connection to make baked beans with maple syrup.

    I’ve been to plenty of BBQ places across the U.S.A., and some of the baked beans I’ve been served are not great. I want them to be slightly sweet with some baked tomato flavor, and not too soupy. I’ve seen and eaten a wide range of them, and my easy maple baked beans recipe reflects what I like in a baked bean recipe.

    A good potluck dinner recipe, these beans should be served on a paper plate in your friend’s backyard on one of those red stained wood picnic tables. Or at least one made out of pallets… ( more DIY pallet videos coming )

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    I baked these beans in a seasoned cast iron dutch oven. Learn how to season cast iron here. I think its the perfect vessel for this dish. Its got a nice carrying handle, and the thick walls keep the heat even. And drop that puppy on a potluck table and it looks so much better than those plastic food storage containers, right?

    A lot of recipes call for molasses or brown sugar, or both. I am not big on super sweet beans, and the maple syrup works well, I think. 1/2 cup of syrup does well for me. I would not suggest adding any more, but again, its a personal thing. The canned beans are cannelini beans, but any white bean works here – you could even use lima beans – which has now got me thinking about a lima bean baked dish.

    The small can of tomato paste stands in for ketchup. I LOVE ketchup, especially on meatloaf, but these beans are better without it.
    Here are a variety of cast iron dutch ovens to check out:

     

    Easy Maple Baked Beans Recipe Video
    Author: Eric Rochow
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    A perfect segue from the Maple Syrup season to the BBQ season, baked beans work in winter and summer, perfect potluck dinner recipe or just because you love baked beans like I do.
    Ingredients
    • 2 29 oz cans of white beans – northern, cannelini, small whites.
    • 1 6 oz can tomato paste
    • 1 medium onion chopped medium
    • 1 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
    • 2 tablespoons brown or good deli mustard
    • 1/2 cup real maple syrup
    • 5 strips of bacon, thick cut is preferred
    Instructions
    1. Drain the liquid from one of the cans of cooked beans.
    2. Roughly chop the onion.
    3. Cut or Slice 3 of the bacon strips into 1/2″ pieces. Cook in a fry pan while preparing the dutch oven.
    4. Put about 2 tablespoons of the bacon fat or vegetable oil in the dutch oven on the stovetop.
    5. Add in the onion and cook, you want the onion to start to brown and be kinda clear.
    6. Put in the two cans of beans, reserving the drained liquid from one of the cans.
    7. Add the tomato paste, Worchestershire, mustard, maple syrup.
    8. Add in the cooked bacon and mix together the ingredients.
    9. At this point, see how much liquid is in the pot, the liquid should not be above the beans. The top layer of beans should be just above the liquid.
    10. Add more bean liquid if the liquid level is too low.
    11. Lay the remaining uncooked bacon across the top of the bean mix.
    12. Set the oven to 350F and cook covered for 30-40 minutes. Check at 30 minutes, if its not bubbling, cook a bit longer.
    13. Take the lid off the beans, turn on the oven broiler, and put the beans about 6″ below the broiler for 10 minutes, when the top starts to brown, its done.
  • Best Cast Iron Seasoning Instructions – GF Video

    Best Cast Iron Seasoning Instructions – GF Video

    The best cast iron seasoning instructions, hands down. First watch the video, then read more about our easy step by step process to restore cast iron.

    At the end of this article are links to how to remove rust from cast iron and how to remove the seasoning from cast iron, where to buy cast iron, and cast iron videos.

    So you have a brand-new cast iron pan you just bought or you have an older pan that you just strip the seasoning off of. I ruined the seasoning of one of my pans awhile back, and is one of the reasons I created this cast iron seasoning and care video series. While we show a skillet, this process works for how to season a cast iron dutch oven or griddle as well.

    Our cast iron seasoning instructions are based on a blog post by Sheryl Canter, who did a lot of research into this and saved us all from having to do that same research. The secret to cast iron seasoning is you want use an oil that is called a drying oil. When drying oils are applied to a surface like cast iron and heated, the oil goes through what’s called polymerization. The best edible drying oil is Flax oil. You have to buy this in the health food section of a food store and it has to be kept refrigerated, as it can go rancid fairly quickly. Flax oil is the food grade version of linseed oil,  I would not suggest you use linseed oil to season your cast iron pan.

    But a more affordable and easier to find oil that works well is Sunflower Oil. I have found its great. And if you can’t find any of these oils, regular old vegetable oil or Crisco does just fine.

    Best cast iron seasoning instructions

    For this cast iron seasoning method, the more oil application and heating cycles you do, the better the seasoning. Our cast iron seasoning instructions are based on Sheryl’s, I modified it a bit. This process is for new pans, or pans that have had all the previous seasoning removed, watch our video here for how to remove cast iron seasoning.

    Cast Iron Seasoning Instructions

    1. On the stove top, heat up the cast iron pan. This makes sure the pan is dry and opens up the pores of the metal a bit.
    2. Add in a tablespoon or two of oil into the pan. Use a paper towel to coat the whole pan, inside and out, with the flax oil.
    3. Grab a new paper towel, and wipe out excess oil. You only want a thin film of flax oil in the pan. No drips or globs of oil.
    4. Turn the oven to 500F and place the pan – you can do more than one, stack them if you want- into the oven.
    5. Heat for one hour, turn off the oven, allow the pan to cool.

    Repeat the oil coating and heating 2-3-4-6 times. Whatever works for you.
    The more you do this initial seasoning, the better the pan will be.

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    The outdoor gas grill is great for cast iron seasoning.

    The cast iron seasoning process puts out a bit of smoke, so I’d suggest using your outdoor gas grill. Turn the grill burners on high, close the lid to heat it up, put in the pans. My gas grill will not get to 500F, but it got close, and that worked well for me.

    I oiled and heated one of my pans 4 times and it looked great, more and it is even better.

    I think new cast iron is just as good as old cast iron, but there are many arguments about that. You can get good cast iron on amazon here. This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but I earn a commission from. Thx!

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  • Best Stove Top Pizza Recipe – GardenFork Video

    Most fry pan pizza ain’t great, but this stove top pizza recipe is truly the best. Why? Its a thin crust pizza with a nice snap, and it can be made in about 5 minutes, and you don’t have to make pizza dough the day before.

    The key ingredient to this pizza is tortillas. Who knew? I’ve seen many recipes that say to use a pita bread as the pizza crust, and its real underwhelming. The torilla is already thin, and it crisps up nicely in some oil in a cast iron pan. You can also use a Calphalon style pan, but it has to be oven proof.


    But where to get tortillas? In your grocery store. From what I can tell, they are now sold all over the country. Yes you can use those tortillas that you have to cook first, just cook the top side bit first, then flip it and add your sauce and toppings.

    The pan does not need a lot of oil, as the excess oil can smoke when you put this in the broiler. Learn from my experience. The ideal tortilla is one that covers the bottom of the fry pan, mine did not, but it wasn’t a big deal, it still tasted great.

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    My tomato sauce is super simple. Quality pureed canned tomatoes are already cooked and only need some salt and I add a few tablespoons of italian seasoning mix. Done.

    For cheese, I used chopped up fresh mozzarella, and quality Pecorino Romano. Do not fill the whole crust with cheese, it will spread out nicely.

    For toppings, its really use what you got. I always keep a can of sundried tomatoes in the fridge, and I had some nice dry sausage that I chopped up.

    Best Stove Top Pizza Recipe

    1 can quality pureed tomatoes

    2 tablespoons italian seasoning mix

    1 bag tortillas that fit your fry pan

    1 chunk of pecorino romano

    1 ball of fresh mozzarella

    Few slices of quality dried sausage

    1 cup sun dried tomatoes

    Preheat the broiler

    Heat the cast iron fry pan on the stove top, add enough vegetable oil to coat the bottom of the pan. When it shimmers, drop on the tortilla.

    Spread the tomato sauce mixture lightly on the tortilla, and drop on chunks of mozzarella.

    Add dried tomatoes and sausage.

    Sprinkle romano cheese.

    By now the fry pan will be hot, so be careful. Take this pan and put it in the broiler, the closer the better to the broil element.

    Keep an eye on it, but in about 2-3 minutes, the top of the pizza will be melted and toasted.

    Pull out, let cool a bit, and cut into slices.

  • Pumpkin Cornbread Recipe – GF Video

    Pumpkin Cornbread Recipe – GF Video

    A cornbread recipe that adds in pumpkin to change it up. This will go great with chili, stews, or as a Thanksgiving side dish recipe. I love cornbread already, and when I saw pumpkin puree on sale at the store, I started to think of ways to use it, and there you go: add it to a cornbread recipe!


    A couple of key things here, I use a sectional cast iron pan for this, you can use a cast iron fry pan or an 8×8 or other square baking pan as well. A glass baking dish will make the best crust, I think. If you are using cast iron, put the fry pan in the oven and then preheat the oven and the cast iron. Do not oil the cast iron pan, just let it heat up. We will oil the pan just before we put in the batter, OK? You can buy the cast iron cornbread pan here. This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but I earn a commission from. Thx!

    If you are using a baking pan, put 2 tablespoons of butter in the pan, and put it in the oven to melt just before you are ready to add in the batter. Take care not to burn the butter, this is a bad thing. If the butter burns, get a clean pan out and start over with that process.

    This is basically a quick bread recipe, so take care not to over mix the batter, the milk helps everything come together pretty well, but don’t beat it into a mess. If you want more pumpkin flavor, add in more puree, and dial back on the milk. It will be an experiment, but I think it will come out fine. Let me know how you use pumpkin in the comments below.

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    Pumpkin Cornbread Recipe
    Recipe Type: Bread
    Cuisine: American
    Author: Eric Rochow
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    Cast Iron Corn Bread Recipe gets a flavor upgrade with Pumpkin for Thanksgiving or any time.
    Ingredients
    • 1 1/2 cups Cornmeal
    • 1/2 cup All Purpose Flour
    • 1 tablespoon Baking Powder
    • 1 teaspoon Salt
    • 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
    • 1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg
    • 2 Eggs
    • 1 cup Pumpkin Puree
    • 1/4 cup Vegetable Oil
    • 1/2 cup Milk
    Instructions
    1. Preheat the oven to 375F and preheat the cast iron pan if you are using one.
    2. Mix all the dry ingredients together in medium sized bowl
    3. Crack the two eggs into a small bowl and scramble them together, then add to the dry batter.
    4. Add in the puree, milk, veg oil.
    5. Mix the ingredients together, but don’t over mix, OK?
    6. If using a baking pan, put 2 tablespoons of butter in it, and place in the oven to melt.
    7. After butter has melted, swirl it around in pan and then add batter.
    8. If using cast iron, take pan out, swab vegetable oil all around and add batter.
    9. Bake for about 30 minutes and test for doneness. Its not the end of the world if cornbread overbakes a bit.
    10. Let cool for 1o minutes then pop out of the pan.
    11. This tastes great with maple syrup.

  • Cooking Pizza In A Fireplace – GF Video

    Cooking Pizza In A Fireplace – GF Video

    Cooking pizza in a fireplace is not rocket science! No need to build a pizza ove, let me show you how to cook pizza in the fireplace. This is totally a “Use What You Got” GardenFork moment. I wanted to make pizza in our portable backyard pizza oven, but it was freezing outside, and staring at the fireplace, the light bulb went off in my head. I already had a built-in pizza oven in our living room.

    Cooking Pizza In A Fireplace, How To Start

    For this pizza oven method, you’ll need a cast iron dutch oven combo cooker, You can buy a combo cooker dutch oven here
    And a cooking or camping grate. you can buy the camping grate here

    We make our pizza dough – watch our pizza dough recipe video here – the day before and let it do a slow rise in the fridge overnight.

    Be very careful when working with the fire! Fire burns – don’t wear loose clothing, wear gloves and use fireplace tongs or other metal tools.

    After the fire in the fireplace pizza oven dies down bit, put the camping grate over the fire and preheat both parts of the dutch oven. You may need to adjust the height of the camping grate over the fire, I used bricks under the legs of the camping grate. Have all your ingredients prepared ahead of time, as well as the dough rolled out.

    Hardwoods make the best firewood, my wood shed is primarily stacked with oak and maple. The maple takes longer to catch, so I use a mix of what I have.

    Have you used your fireplace as a pizza oven? Let us know in the comments section below.

    Here are the links again to the combo cooker dutch oven and the camping grate:

  • Dutch Oven Banana Bread Recipe – Campfire Cooking – GF Video

    Dutch Oven Banana Bread Recipe – Campfire Cooking – GF Video

    Dutch oven banana bread recipe baked in a campfire or using charcoal, nice right?. Either way it tastes like the instant comfort food that it is. Watch the video and then read the recipe below.

    Head up: I now have 4 dutch ovens, and all are well seasoned at this point. You can see our  how to season cast iron video here. But I’ve never used a dutch oven for what they were probably originally designed for, cooking over a campfire. So today we use the cast iron dutch oven for what it is for, cooking outdoors. Watch and learn how to bake with fire.

    How to make the dutch oven banana bread recipe

    Whether for campfire cooking or backyard cooking, the dutch oven comes thru as a great pot for baking. Today we are going to learn how to use the dutch oven you have to bake or cook food outdoors, using charcoal or firewood. There are a couple of tricks here we learned from Gary of Cooking-Outdoors.com, like how to stack coals on the lid of a dutch oven, and how to use a dutch oven to bake breads and cakes.

    Update: Reading some of the great comments, I’ve learned that when fully fired up, each charcoal briquette puts out about 40-50F of heat. I will use this info as I experiment more with dutch oven cooking with charcoal and campfires. What fun.

    If you don’t already have them here are links to buy a cast iron dutch oven, a charcoal chimney, and heat resistant oven mitts.

    Some takeaways from this video and recipe, which was really fun to do.

    • Its not perfect. Is baking outdoors ever perfect
    • Use good pot holders and silicon oven gloves.
    • Charcoal is hot!
    • You will love baking outdoors.

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    Toad In A Hole Recipe
    Check out our Toad In The Hole Recipe, also made outdoors in a dutch oven.

  • Remove Rust From Cast Iron Video – GF TV

    Remove Rust From Cast Iron Video – GF TV

    I found a badly rusted cast iron pan, and wanted to show you all how remove rust from cast iron in this video. Rusty cast iron can be brought back from the dead, to clean the rust off the cast iron, it takes some elbow grease, and the pan will never be brand new, but old cast iron is great. [Note, I have posted some updated info below the video, thx!]

    Update: Use vinegar at full strength. If this method does not work, watch our video on how to strip cast iron using oven cleaner, or with a simple battery charger tank method. Plus it will be a great cast iron pot with a good story of where you found it. Let us know your tips for seasoning cast iron below the video.

    You can remove rust from cast iron, but it can take some time. Take it easy and it will work well. Check out our other cast iron videos, how to season and clean cast iron, and learn more about cast iron pots and fry pans, and all the great reasons to use them.

    We are  now using Flax Oil to season our cast iron, the result is a much harder finish than just using vegetable oil or shortening. so save the vegetable oil for the deep fryer. Watch our Best Way To Season Cast Iron video.

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    You can watch us use a cast iron dutch oven doing some campfire outdoor cooking in these two videos, the first is us making a banana bread recipe in a cast iron dutch oven over charcoal, then we made the classic Toad in a Hole cooked outdoors in a cast iron dutch oven as well.
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