Pie Iron talk

[Cody]

Having seen a melted alum pie iron personally I will say this...

If I were to be cooking up a scrumptious, beautiful--godsend of a food such as the bacon wrapped mushrooms pictured earlier and my pie iron happened to melt into a puddle in the process I... well... I just don't know if I could handle it mentally :-\

There are 3 things in life you should never do:

1. Don't tug on Superman's cape
2. Don't overheat a 6.2L diesel engine
3. NEVER waste a perfectly good strip of bacon.

For me the alum pie irons are just not worth the risk :-\

Well, luckily some of us have the sense not to try to cook on a fire that is hotter than 1,220* . Having made bacon more than once in my life, I can say with a reasonably degree of certainty that temperatures around that range are not ideal bacon-cooking temps--alume or iron.

Having seen a broken cast iron pie maker, I would say it would be just as awful to have you set down you heavy, old-fashioned, and technologically outdated cooking apparatus on a rock and have it split open thus sending your greasy, bacony, goodness all over the fire.

For me, iron just isn't worth the risk.

 

[jeep-N-montero]

I just added one to my camping list, but didn't see any of the "Rome" brand at Cabela's, ebay has them though.

 

[Hickey]

Amazon sells them too.

 

[1\4elliptic toy]

I grabbed a double pie iron and a single round from sportsman's tonight, they carry a decent selection of Rome brand. 17.99 for the double, 12.99 single. Mine are seasoning as i'm typing.

I have a couple ideas about what would make pie iron cooking easy around the campfire, the prep work seems like it could be done easily at home for the most part.

What does everyone use as the cooking spray? I assume spray butter would be a must have? Any tricks that anyone would care to share for easy prep and cleanup?

 

[Brian P]

Cooking spray, I use "I cant belive its not Butter" Spray.

And yes, I little prep at home goes a long way, I think the key is K.I.S.S.(keep it simple stupid)

 

[Brian P]

BTW, I rocked some Chili Verde burritos in my double wide Rome at the EU summit last week, Good times!

 

[Skylinerider]

BTW, I rocked some Chili Verde burritos in my double wide Rome at the EU summit last week, Good times!

We may need a pie iron cookbook, this sounds delicious.

 

[Brian P]

We may need a pie iron cookbook, this sounds delicious.

Agreed!
and yes, I thought it was awesome! I managed to make 4-5 IIRC, Even Cody had one.

 

[MOODY]

Agreed!
and yes, I thought it was awesome! I managed to make 4-5 IIRC, Even Cody had one.

They were foodgasmic.

 

[Cody]

I use cast aluminum to keep things from sticking.

 

[Rot Box]

I found this link very informative and appropriate for this thread

http://www.pieiron.com/proscons.htm

 

[Raleigh]

I have an aluminum and plan to get a iron just to see the difference.

I like the aluminum very much, mad some yummy breakfast burritos this last weekend.

 

[KWight]

Okay so I read this thread a couple of weeks ago and wanted to buy one but the $20 price tag and my skinny wallet prevented me from doing so. This past weekend I found a double pie iron for $2 at a garage sale and bought it.

Later that day I found a Zodi Hot Tap shower for $45 at another garage sale. They said it had only been used once and I offered $20 with them countering at $25 and I ended up taking it home

These in combination with the 16' Teepee (poles, cover and liner) that I bought for $150 last weekend and I am in hog heaven.

I love getting great gear at garage sales

Kevin

 

[trackhead]

I guess now that I'm using a 4x4 instead of must a moto, I have enough space to carry a pie iron and not just an "BAMF" Big ass metal fork. Great thread!

 

[cruiseroutfit]

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/food/3-health-reasons-to-cook-with-cast-iron-2574645/