Cooking and Dining

[shafnutz05]

Tif--you should aspire to this look:

[the wicked child]

I was certain that would be someone else entirely...

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

I thought you were 45?

*sigh*

I am.

I shouldn't really say anything I'll likely be missing most of my hair at that point.

[tifosi77]

Tif--you should aspire to this look:

There was (well, is) a guy at PlayStation that looked sorta like him. He's one of the founding fathers of hackerdom and basically invented Chuck E. Cheese for Atari in the 1980s. He gave a cross-functional talk to the Legal team about the history of video games (since he was largely responsible for much of it), and he opened his remarks like, "If I hear 'George Lucas' I am walking out that door right now." So I gather he gets that a lot.

Funny dude, Jerry Jessop is his name.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

Who would have thought a George Lucas look-a-like would be the least offensive part of a photo.

[Dickie Dunn]

Dude on the right looks like he has a massive sweat mark in the middle of his shirt.

[shafnutz05]

Man, he *is* a Lucas lookalike.

[count2infinity]

Fun little weekend of cooking ahead of me. Tonight I'm making black beans and rice with a blackened tilefish, pineapple/scallion/jalapeno salsa, and grilled asparagus.

Have some challah bread drying for french toast tomorrow morning. A buddy of mine is coming over with his girlfriend and I'm making breakfast. Making a bananas foster and a lemon blackberry compote for french toppings, served with some bacon.

Was at the farmers market this morning and grabbed a lamb shank that I'm going to braise and mash some potatoes, roast some carrots, and I got some rainbow chard to make up on the side.

[count2infinity]

Meal one... backed out of the blackening stuff and just seasoned it and pan fried it. Would have been alright with the blackening as well:

[tifosi77]

Exhibit A for why you do not use water to wash your cast iron:



Mrs Tif assures me she feels badly, and has learned her lesson.

[DigitalGypsy66]

I’ve used water for the ten years I’ve owned my cast iron. I do not use soap, and I oil it after each use. Am I doing it wrong?

[Dickie Dunn]

I always use water as well. Just dry the **** off and it’s good as golden.

[MrKennethTKangaroo]

I just got done using the cast iron to make some chops. Imo I did gr8

Tif are you going to pitch that or try to rehabilitate it to it’s former glory

[skullman80]

Ditto with washing with water with cast iron and never any issues as long as it's dried well. A quick wipe with Oil would take care of any issues like above as well.

[blackjack68]

Exhibit A for why you do not use water to wash your cast iron:



Mrs Tif assures me she feels badly, and has learned her lesson.

Wife knows not to touch my cast iron, but I do rinse it with water, dry it, oil it and cook it off after each use.

[tifosi77]

I shall be loading up on Brillo pads this week.

[Viva la Ben]

Does your oven have a self cleaning cycle? I’ve seen how well that works.

[tifosi77]

It does, but I've never used it. How would that work in removing the rust?

[blackjack68]

I shall be loading up on Brillo pads this week.

Regular steel wool or soapy Brillo pads?

I never use soap on the cast iron.

[tifosi77]

Steel wool. I sometimes get confused easily.

[blackjack68]

Attaboy.

[blackjack68]

The irony of this article is that it says Steel Wool, the video shows steel wool (and then some mild soap, not for me) but the accompanying article photos show a Brillo/SOS pad.

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-restor ... chn-203086

[count2infinity]

I used my enamel coated cast iron this weekend... love that thing.

[Viva la Ben]

It does, but I've never used it. How would that work in removing the rust?

I don’t know how but it does, probably something about the polymerized seasoning burning off loosening the surface rust.
I also read somewhere you could use an electrolysis tank....there you go.

[mac5155]

I bought this thing for scrubbing my cast iron and I love it:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01H1AQGVI/re ... 5941095488