MY FRYPAN

Well it's still raining, some very heavy showers coming through.  The only good thing for me is, it's not very hot only 26c so the temp is great.  Oh damn England just took the last wicket in the Ashes test,  what a marvelous team they were and a very impressive win.  Now every man that can't even play cricket will giving his expert opinion.  Heads will roll, new plans for the next one.  GOOD ON YOU POME'S well done.

THE FRY PAN

Got my new fry pan for Xmess a carbon steel one made in Australia a dinky di Aussie one.  For my friends in other countries, anything you can fry in is a fry pan mine is actually a skillet.  The difference to those that don't know is: Fry Pan = flat bottom straight sides.   A skillet flat bottom curved side, so most of what we call fry pans are actually skillet's. Now we have informed the world of the subtle difference I will move on.

http://www.southern-metal-spinners.com.au/camping-page.html

I have a 12 inch skillet made of spun carbon steel.  About the same weight as a cast iron one but if you drop it, it won't break like cast iron does.  This is the makers story about how some of  their wares first started:

The Bedourie Camp Oven is manufactured from spun steel with a lid that fits over the top, and was originally made for the Bedourie Station. This station found that when the cast iron camp ovens fell off pack horses, or were dropped, they often broke, so they invented the Bedourie which would not break.


It serves the same purpose for cooking including bread, cakes or similar foods. To keep the heat in you had to half bury the Bedourie in hot ashes with some coals added to the lid and it would cook just as well as the cast iron camp ovens, The Bedourie has one more advantage over the cast iron camp oven, in that the lid fits down over the oven so there is no chance of ashes getting into the oven when you half bury it.

The lid also doubles up as a frying pan when you turn it over and use the handle provided in the kit.

(Station = ranch)  They can be seasoned in the normal way and once done become virtually none-stick.


With all the information available about aluminium and Alzheimer's and the the fact that Teflon flakes of in time I decided to go back to the tried and true old fashioned cast iron or in my case spun carbon steel.


Now the other really damned annoying thing I dislike about Teflon is you can't cook at high temperatures, that's the makers recommendation's.   Now I don't like stewed steak how about you.  My fry pan I can turn right up and it is for all purposes none-stick.

2011