Cast Iron Cooking for Dummies Supply

Cast Iron Cooking for Dummies is for those cooks who may want to inject a little adventure and variety into their cooking. If you ve never even thought of using cast-iron cookware, or you have a few cast-iron pots lying around, you ll discover all you need to know about making great food using cast iron. 

In some cooking circles, cast iron gets a bad rep – people think it s old-fashioned, heavy, and hard to take care of. And really, how often do folks nowadays need to hitch up a mule and wagon and leave civilization and Teflon-coated sauté pans behind?

True, cast iron is old; it s been around since the Middle Ages. And it is heavy. No one can dispute that even a small, cast-iron pot has a heft to it that no other cookware has. Nevertheless, cast-iron cookware has a place in today s kitchens, and that doesn’t mean simply hanging on the wall for decoration. Cast iron has much to offer modern-day cooks; it s easy to use, easy to care for, economical, versatile, and durable, and let s face it, it has a nostalgic appeal that no other cookware has. But more compelling than all those reasons is that it s a great cookware that makes great food. In fact, most cast-iron cooks will tell you that food cooked in cast iron tastes better than food cooked in anything else!

Here just a sampling of what you ll find in Cast-Iron Cooking for Dummies: