My Cast iron fish fryin' duties... Have had it for several years, I've been using it more here lately.
Love fried fish. My wife won't feed it to me. She does have a nice crispy recipe that she does in the oven. She says it is egg , milk, salt and pepper, corn flake coating then into a 500 degrees oven for 15 minutes. We usually use haddock. So good. Left over seved cold in a sandwich with mayo. Taste very similar to cold lobster.
Wife has been making taco 'shells' out of provolone slices. Amazing. And there is so much fat that comes out of that cheese that the griddle stays well lubed. She thinks it's weird when I take pictures of what's cooking, so sorry about that. She left early this morning
Here's a couple pans I aquired that needed to be cleaned, I started them last Saturday and there looking good. It's a small #3 Wagner and a #7 Birmingham. I use the "cheap" over cleaner but it works really well! Instead of using easy off at $5.00 a can, I get this at big lots for $1.99. I think most places like Menards or dollar stores carry it. Some folks use a trash bag, I find it easier to get a cheap plastic container with a lid and go that way, it's easier to scrape off the crud…
The stuff you want in an oven cleaner is lye, sodium hydroxide. Most of the 'low odor' cleaners don't use sodium hydroxide as the active ingredient. I think Easy-Off clings better than cheaper brands, but I use generic as well. You can buy lye if you look for it. It's not as easy to find since Red Devil isn't available anymore.
Here's my couple. #10 wagner, 6 1/2 "K" wagner. 6 1/2" usa, and some square usa. no markings on the spoon rest/ashtray.
I love the square one the best. wish it were a tad bigger. the #10 wagner came from my uncle and it works well, but I think it is warped ever so slightly, because on a glass cooktop it will rock slightly. I also got the cute little ashtray/spoon rest from his estate too. never seen another one other than someone else here posted a pic of one. I still need to clean that one up.
That may very well be a Wagner ware "unmarked" made in the 60's or a Lodge made in the 50's and 60's. Those companies made them for dept stores such as Montgomery wards, Grant's, and Woolworths just to name a few. They were "exceptional quality", I have a lodge one very similar, but you have the lip at the base of the pan, Mine don't, which indicates it's not as old as the one you have. Your's is a pricey piece so to speak.
Oh my, that looks so good. ESP those hash browns. Are those the frozen ones, or did you prep them yourself? You did better than I did. All I got was a toasted bagel with butter and one coffee. I noticed you have a white glass top stove. So do I. Never again!
cool... I'm not interested in selling it though... lol The 6 1/2" wagner "k" has the 1891 wagner logo and seasoning instructions "stamped" in the bottom. thought that was sorta cool.
who makes frozen hash browns? homemade, red potatoes, onions, a little of my own seasonings. yes, the white glass top SUCKS... hopefully in the next year or two i'll redo the kitchen to black or SS/black. seriously though, before I started using cast iron, making hash browns was horrible on non stick pots/pans. no flavor, and took forever. I rarely made them. Now i start them with some oil as I heat everything else up, and then they are done when everything else is.
And you shouldn't! The Wagner is a newer pan with that logo. Here are the results of the pans I had soaking in the oven cleaner. "remember" they have been soaking and scraped nearly every day for a week now, but it was well worth it. I seasoned the # 7 first last night and I'm working on the little Wagner as we speak. I hand dried her and she went into the oven at 300* for a half hour to completely dry, the I'll season it.
just went a checked it out.. there is a "D" stamped into the bottom sorta where the handle meets the pan, other than made in USA, nothing else stamped/cast on it.
so just soak, scrap, soak scrap until the gunk is gone and then wash and season? I need to do that little wagner and the little ashtray
Yup! Use a "plastic" putty knife "don't use metal on this application for now, you don't want to make any unnessesary scratches in the pan while cleaning. After it's seasoned a metal spatula is fine.
humm, so no wire or SS brush? I wanted to wire wheel the bottom of the wagner, but I also don't want to ruin anything.
Brass! and if it is a pan you love, do it by hand! Nearly any hardware store will have a brass brush, www.Rubbermaid.com pot and pan brush!
