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How Cast Iron Pans Are Made How to Make It

How Cast Iron Pans Are Made How to Make It

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On today's episode of HTMI, chef Katie Pickens is at Roloff Manufacturing Company, learning the whole process of making cast iron pans. David: I know our family is going on it's 5th generation (at least) using cast iron skillets. I have 2 large pots with lids also but oddly have never used them. Seem like a camp fire thing and I just never go. I'm actually curious about cooking a stew in one over a fire. Mom (age 86) has her grandmother's huge cast wash pot. We wonder if it's even older. They were poor share croppers in Arkansas so I doubt they could have bought a new one. It was probably handed down or bought used. Thanks for the educational video!
Date: 2020-05-20

Comments and reviews: 9


One of the things I like about being an over-the-road driver was occasionally seeing how things are made, packaged. I've seen things like mobile homes, cars, cigarettes, furniture made. I've also seen various food products made and packaged. I've even had the chance to sample some that were freshly made. Most of the ones I got to taste were good but one or two stick out that weren't. If you got it at some point it was in or on a truck.
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I know theres more details to this, but as far as the main components go? How its made? Its literally in the name: CAST IRON. I did think that first womens comment was interesting though its not just iron, we also use things like railroad stakes in metal But Ive seen railroad spikes that are iron? Is it not iron? Is it a steel railroad spike? Then why not say we use iron and steel or whatever the metal/alloy is in that stake.
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Please wear some kind of hand protection so your hands don't turn black. Grinding metal products and letting it stain your hands and be absorbed by sweat or skin pores is dangerous. Especially if you constantly do that. There's other metals and chemicals that your body doesn't need when you grind those pans. Nice work though.
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I've actually cast Iron at my engineering school. Then we had a barbecue over the coal/coke from the blast furnace (not a real blast furnace but I don't know the English name for it)Then I got drunk and crashed mom's car on the way back home. Just regular college life but I did cast iron.
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Their process leaves out annealing which makes the iron harder. I worked at a foundry and they wouldnt cast iron pans because they didn't have the equipment/space to anneal the iron after pouring. The older pans annealed and milled their pans after casting. It is why they are superior pans.
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Great upload! One question though, cast iron is soft? Since when? Cast iron has more carbon content than steel and it's known to be brittle and that means it's quite hard. I was hoping for a bit more information about the cast iron used. Cheers!
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Of course this is a special, one time pan. A production line cast iron ban is made the same way, but it's all done by automation. Humans just want to much money to perform the same boring job over and over 80 times a day.
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The other beauty of Cast Iron pans, is that it transfers Iron to the food cooked in them, so they can actually help to prevent iron deficiency anemia by enriching the food with natural Iron in them. cheers!
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They just made a wall hanger. Not very practical or even useful in that shape. Would make a great door stop, wheel chock or even a boat anchor. But it is made in Merica so everyone should own one! Wooo. MERICA!
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