/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Yeah cast iron is always great due to having more mass for more even and longer heating. Don't have to worry about them warping either.
I have a pullman loaf pan which is basically a loaf pan with a lid, I can make my own square sliced bread

>>18978245
Cast iron make for great bakeware. Unfortunately Lodge’s bakeware lineup is a mess.

>>18979193
What's missing?

>>18978245
>perfect release

Gotta have my release

>>18979241
It’s not just whats missing, it’s what they decided to sell instead. They’ve got no square cake pan, round cake pan(skillet is not the same), 9x5 loaf pan, ramekins, mini muffin pan, jumbo muffin pan, flat cookie sheet, only one size of sheet pan. Now I’d be fine if they didn’t have everything on that list, a lot of companies don’t, if it wasn’t for some of the crap they decided was more important. A wedge pan, holiday wreath pan, skull shaped mini cake pan, corncob pan. They have similar meme pans in their other cookware categories too. I see they now have a standard size muffin pan. Their previous one was halfway between mini and standard. Only took them a couple of decades to get that right.

>>18979370
>9x5 loaf pan
Isn't that what's posted in the OP >>18978245?

>>18979370
Bunch of fat girls with nightmare before Xmas tattoos bought this shit

>>18979377
That one is 8.5x4.5. Which is still a standard size, it's just not the most common size.

>>18978409
Cast iron is shit at heating evenly though. It's only good at retaining heat.

>>18979370
>round cake pan
>flat cookie sheet
>different size loaf pans

https://www.netherton-foundry.co.uk/shop/baking-tins

>>18979385
I'm aware that there are other companies that make some of these pieces but I'm an ocd faggot and I like my cookware to match.

>>18979383
Cont.

I actually own two of those 8.5x4.5 loaf pans, mine are the older design though. They’re nice. That size is commonly used for quick breads like OP’s banana bread. A lot of regular bread recipes are designed for a 9x5 though and the size difference is enough that your loaf will come out mushroom shaped if you bake it in the smaller pan.

>>18979437
>A lot of regular bread recipes are designed for a 9x5 though and the size difference is enough that your loaf will come out mushroom shaped if you bake it in the smaller pan.
Fair enough, but couldn't you just, I dunno, make like 10% less bread?

>>18979384
Everybody says this but in practice it literally doesn't matter at all

>>18979470
On a stovetop, you really can notice it. On electric, the hot spot is in the middle of the pan. On gas, the edges are much hotter. If there's a draft in the room, one side might be hotter than the other.

In an oven, assuming you preheat the pan, it's a nonissue. And even if you don't preheat the pan, it's probably a nonissue.

>>18979485
Yeah, this is exactly what I mean.. you're showing me fancy heat graphs and talking about how a drafty room will make half the pan cold, blah blah blah

I use a cast iron skillet all the time. Never an issue.

>>18979496
No, you are just not observant. I'm using an image to help you notice.

>>18979370
>Who The Fuck Asked For This?
People throwing Halloween parties.

Back when I use to live in town I would use silicone moulds like pic related to make a bunch of chocolate bones to give out to trick-or-treaters. I'd fill the mould with white chocolate, but leave the center hollow. Once it set, I'd fill the hollow center with a chocolate gnash that I'd added red food colouring to, to make it look like bone marrow.
One year I also tried to make chocolate skulls the same way. Except instead of having chocolate "marrow" I put raspberry lollies into the head to give it a "brain". I also filled the eye cavity with dark chocolate to make it look like they were empty.

>>18979485
>probably a nonissue
It was never an issue anyway

>>18979504
I'm familiar with the heating properties of cast iron, what I reject is that it makes any difference at all. Meat comes out evenly browned. Breads never burn in weird spots. Eggs fry up like normal. Bacon cooks evenly.

>>18979522
Well that's fine but they should get the basic stuff first, before the theme pans that only get used once a year.

>>18979531
But if there are a bunch of other companies and brands making the basic stuff, why not focus on speciality items?

>>18979461
Sure if you don't mind a smaller loaf and don't mind adjusting all the quantities. Personally I just use a different pan. I got a glass one I use, Anchor Hocking I think, it works pretty well if I butter and flour the inside. It's mildly annoying for me and it cost Lodge a sale.

>>18979575
>and don't mind adjusting all the quantities.
Leave 10% of the dough in the mixing bowl. No math required

>>18979561
If they did that with their skillets they'd have gone out of business years ago.

>>18979591
But then you have to throw that out, what a waste.

>>18979612
It's 10 cents worth of flour and water.

>>18979561
You're right, they should focus on their guitar shaped mini skillets.

>>18979397
>I'm an ocd faggot
not our problem. take your mental issues to /adv/

Here's another item that I'm I'm sure is more popular than a cookie sheet.

Everyone needs an antler trivet.

>>18979485
>it's probably a nonissue.
it's absolutely a nonissue.

Hell, you're practically a misogynist if you don't buy this Rosie the Riveter commemorative frying pan.

>>18979380
...And let them RUST to shit.
For me, it's All-Uppercase PYREX.
I do appreciate good cast iron- Have a few inherited Griswold dutch ovens, and the standard Lodge nesting 3.
I've made perfectly good loaves in the thin steel classics too.
Truth is, you don't even need a pan for good bread--bakers know...
I have to wonder how different their synaptic function is when it comes to sandwich creativity.
>Thinking outside the "square"

>>18979612
>But then you have to throw that out, what a waste.
OR
You could go next level with your breadmaking and make a pinchback starter.
A truly good cook wastes NOTHING.

>>18979736
>pinchback starter
I'm not sure what that is but I find it strangely arousing.

>>18979739
lololol...
You simply keep a designated bowl with an ongoing yeast starter...like Amish friendship bread starter.
Take the 10% you didn't use,(although I'm asking myself WHY didn't they just make a little freestanding loaf, now,) add more water and a little more flour, cover and you'll have a starter sponge for next time. It's really only good if you bake all the time, since you have to treat it like a little pet, or tomagotchi, if you prefer--check and feed it every day, etc.
I'd be more inclined to wrap the dough around a sausage or two, then baking it off after the bread's done.

>>18979720
>For me, it's All-Uppercase PYREX.
I always had problems with food release in my "pyrex." Is there really a difference for bread baking if it's made in the USA or in the EU?

>>18979561
>But if there are a bunch of other companies and brands making the basic stuff
Square baking pan, round baking pan, flat cookie sheet - I'm not aware of ANY other company doing a cast iron square baking pan, and very few doing cookie sheets or round baking pan casty bois

>>18979634
>You're right, they should focus on their guitar shaped mini skillets.
>>18979672
>Here's another item that I'm I'm sure is more popular than a cookie sheet.
>>18979677
>Everyone needs an antler trivet.
>>18979695

Yeah, why not? If there are people who want it and will buy it and no one else is making it, why not?

How many other companies sell guitar shaped skillets? Or weird triangle pans/tins/skillets/whatever that is? Who else makes antler trivets? Or Rosie the Riveter pans? At a guess, I'd say very few, if any.
Now how many other companies sell cookie sheets or regular stuff? Continuing guessing, I'd say dozens, perhaps even hundreds (if there are hundreds of cookware companies). They've cornered their little market and have little, if any, competition, where as if they made regular cookware, they might not even get a look-in amongst customers because there'd be so many other brands.

But why are you so fucking salty about it? Why are you so pissy that they make weird shit? Are their products like really really good quality or something? And you're mad that they don't make regular stuff with the same high quality? If that's the case, then I kinda get where you're coming from. But if that's not the case, if they just make regular quality stuff, then why the fuck do you care? Buy from a brand that makes good quality regular cookware and ignore the basic bitch stuff that's making weird shit.

>>18979823
>Is there really a difference for bread baking if it's made in the USA or in the EU?
The difference is the old uppercase PYREX is the borosilicate glass that withstands thermal shock MUCH better..
The chinese bought the rights to the name, but they don't use the old formula--with the usual expected results.
I have been making bread weekly now since All my old go-to store breads have gone GMO, soy filler, and sneedgoyl, and I'm NOT paying $7 a loaf for bullshit I can make at home.
I started out buttering, and flouring the pans, but after the 2rd batch, just started buttering alone, and they released just fine.

>>18979868
>>Is there really a difference for bread baking if it's made in the USA or in the EU?
>The difference is the old uppercase PYREX is the borosilicate glass that withstands thermal shock MUCH bette
M'kay, so....no difference for bread making.

>The chinese bought the rights to the name, but they don't use the old formula--with the usual expected results.
I have literally no idea what this statement is supposed to mean. All the "pyrex" bakeware I own is made in the USA.

>>18979878
>M'kay, so....no difference for bread making.
nah, not really.
just less chance of having it shatter on you.
Lowercase Pyrex is just sodaglass.

>>18979924
I'm curious where you get your information? Earlier, you said it was a Chinese product.

>>18979832
I’m a fan of cast iron. I’m a fan of American made products. I’m even a fan of many Lodge products. There are a lot of things that they could be selling that I would like to buy. Things that, by all logic they should be selling, that would have much broader appeal than some of the things they are selling; and yet they’re not. There aren’t many companies selling cast iron bakeware, and there is no company that I’ve seen that sells a full line of the stuff. They’re the largest producer of cast iron cookware in the USA. They should be leading the industry on this but instead they’re dicking around making meme pans. Maybe I’m being salty about it but it annoys me.

>>18979695
>tricking feminists into buying cookware used by 1940s housewives

umm based

>>18979944
That's a wall hanger, anon.

>>18979930
Sorry, I looked deeper into it.
I was wrong.
International Cookware group (in France,)acquired it in 2020, then it was sold off almost immediately to Kartesia according to Dunn and Bradstreet.
Someone had a thread here about a year or 2 ago about it, but I never looked deeper--Just goes to show, you ALWAYS have to double check any info you get online--especially here.
I think there was a slick looking video at the time that was convincing enough, which is why I didn't pursue it further.
I DO know that there was a change in the 80s from all their stuff being borosilicate, to mainly soda glass, with the obvious exception of their labwares. Right after the VISIONS™ COOKWARE flopped for the company.

>>18978245
Cast iron and tinned copper are the ONLY cookware.

>bro just buy this heavy, difficult to clean cookware that costs more than all other options

fuck you

>>18981295
cast iron should be cheaper than anything but thin aluminum sheet trash, if its not your dealing with some merchant

>>18981300
Why would you just blatantly lie to me like that

>>18981295
>bro just buy this heavy,
I mean, for the loaf pan, we're talking about a 4 pound pan without anything in it. Is that really so difficult for you to manage?

>difficult to clean
You're wrong. It's actually so much easier to clean than anything else.

>costs more than all other options
Huh? Stoneware is way more expensive than cast iron. Is $25 for a quality loaf pan really so unaffordable?

>>18981307
Why are you gay?

>>18979384
This retard has no knowledge of thermodynamics

>>18981397
>owned a cast iron skillet 10 years ago
>literally never thought about owning anything cast iron since

especially not bakeware, why the fuck would you want cast iron

>>18981575
>gets called out on lies
>changes subject
>forgets that the Op exists

>>18978245
>perfect release, perfect crispy edges, perfect baking all the way through, and literally the perfect banana bread.

It's non-stick, and does a great job giving banana bread crispy edges without burning all the way through. It is so much easier to use than pyrex or aluminum.

>>18979496
Does the cast iron pan have to be preheated while the oven is preheating too?

>>18979937
>There aren’t many companies selling cast iron bakeware
>there is no company that I’ve seen that sells a full line of the stuff.
>They’re the largest producer of cast iron cookware in the USA.
>Maybe I’m being salty about it but it annoys me.

Ok, yeah no I get why you're mad now.
I don't really pay attention to brands (and also I'm not American) so I assumed that they were just a smaller company and that the market was probably filled with other companies already making the basics. But no, if they're the big boys of the market and no one is making all the basics, then yeah that's understandably annoying.

>>18979522
If my kid brought some "bones" back that weren't in a wrapper, I would throw them into the trash where they belong
kys pedo

>>18981675
You are a dumb retarded nigger

Doesnt it mess with baking times?

>>18979522
>>18982650
This. I would assume there is a thumbtack or glass shards in them and interrogate the kid to hear where he got it from and then confront the freak who gave them out, with cops present of course

>>18983363
It seems to be pretty similar to ceramic.

>>18981675
Lmao, you shut the fuck up

>>18984360
Cry harder, faggot. Your tears are delicious.

>>18984373
No amount of cast iron will make you a better cook, maybe try seasoning your food with tears

>>18984395
Your tears make the best seasoning for my bakeware.

>>18979311
That is pretty much all I use my cast iron for is baking cornbread. Perfect crust and pops right on out.

>>18983363
Shouldn't appreciably change from the norm and it is better to bake to temperature instead of bake to time.