Kitchen

[SydneyH]

Oh Lacey, you are enabling me lol. The reason I asked about configuration is I'm really only interested in a 10 inch skillet for frittatas and such and a dutch oven for my bread baking. Currently my bread is baked in a Pyrex covered casserole, but it's beginning to stain. I can't seem to find any pieces at consignment stores so I'm going to buy a couple of reasonably priced items.

[Lacey1]

The Lodge dutch oven ,(L8DD3) is $30 with regular free Amazon shipping on Amazon. It's usually about $50 with $$ shipping. Makes great bread. I line it with parchment paper for superclean up.

[SydneyH]

I didn't realize the griddles came that large. How's your pizza crust when you use this item? Thin, crusty?

[Lacey1]

Preheat your oven to 450 degrees, then preheat the griddle. I wipe the surface with either vegetable oil or Crisco, as they can take high heat. Form/roll the crust on another surface, have your toppings ready. Transfer the crust to the hot/greased griddle, top it and put it in the hot oven. 8 to 15 minutes depending on thickness of the crust. Just be super careful as this will be a very hot piece of iron, it may set the smoke alarm off, so turn on the oven fan. The crust should come out a nice crunchy, golden brown.

If you get the Fleischman's Instant yeast for pizza, there is a good recipe on the back. Or, you can use the refrigerated pizza crust in the tube can.

Check out YouTube for more ideas. Good Luck!

[SydneyH]

Score, I just found a 10 inch Lodge skillet at Marshalls for $12.99. It was the only one on the shelf.

[chickenbutt]

Lodge cast iron is really good.

I used to use veg oil, per the instructions I got. But I found that the veg oil would get somewhat tacky. I changed to Crisco and get a much better result.