New Toy!

Posted on | October 15, 2008 | 6 Comments


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Originally uploaded by Phisch

After waiting and searching, I finally found a beautiful Lodge cast iron griddle to make pancakes with!

My dad had a really nice, well-seasoned griddle like this and it was always so neat to watch him make pancakes on Sundays. You could make eight at once on that puppy which was always impressive to me.

My dad, a firm believer in better living through modern chemistry, was known to make his own artificially-flavored and colored syrups (yes, of course with high fructose corn syrup or invert sugar as he always told me it was also called). We’ve also had things mixed in the batter: corn kernels, canned corned beef, corn meal, cheese, mashed fruit. Good times! Of course, it was so hard to sit still in church after ingesting all those things.

Now I have a grill of my own and it’s good old Lodge no less. I’ve already enlisted it in making quesadillas for lunch as you can see.

Unfortunately for my SIL, I will care for this according to package instructions which means we won’t clean it with soap, just hot water and a scouring brush or pad. Anna had expressed displeasure at the thought once. Hehe. Actually, if I remember correctly, you can use a folded up cheese cloth filled with sea or kosher salt to scrub which would ease the germophobes among us I think.

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6 Responses to “New Toy!”

  1. John Carney
    October 15th, 2008 @ 10:28 pm

    I got to tour the Lodge factory eight or nine years ago for a news story. They have a great outlet store right in front of the factory — good prices even on first-quality merchandise, and great prices on “factory seconds” where you would be hard-pressed to figure out what the flaw is supposed to be. I’ve shopped there numerous times, most recently this past May.

    (They also have an outlet store in the touristy area near Dollywood in East Tennessee — but that store only has the first-quality merchandise, not the factory seconds.)

    The factory is in a county where Mountain T.O.P., a short-term missions group in which I’m active, used to do a lot of work, and I did a devotion in camp once about how a seasoned cast-iron skillet becomes more and more valuable as it is exposed to heat, tying that in to the verse from James about how the testing of our faith produces endurance.

  2. phisch
    October 15th, 2008 @ 11:31 pm

    Now that you mentioned it, this sounds familiar. Did you mention that tour on your blog once? Thanks for sharing the tie-in to James!

    I wonder if they have outlet stores elsewhere?

    I was so happy to find this at Target along with a few other Lodge products. I’ll be getting skillets next so I can do grilled cheese a la Alton Brown. I’d love to get rid of the last remaining Teflon pans we have.

  3. Anna
    October 16th, 2008 @ 1:54 am

    It still grosses me out when I put my Pampered Chef stuff away and have only rinsed it with hot water.

    But, I love my stoneware too much to let it stop me :-)

  4. phisch
    October 16th, 2008 @ 1:18 pm

    Anna, don’t forget, the oven does a decent job of germicide ;)

  5. Julie
    October 16th, 2008 @ 5:54 pm

    I love the cast iron skillets and griddles. We have one of both and we clean them the correct way… no soap!

  6. phisch
    October 17th, 2008 @ 12:13 pm

    Yay, Julie!

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