A skillet isn’t a term ordinarily used in English cuisine, but along with cups and sticks of butter, often appears in recipes from across the pond. Encouraged by a good friend to teach him some new cooking techniques, I ventured out and acquired this new piece of kit.
I have heard how real cast iron lasts a lifetime but since the cooking disasters of my youth, I’ve kept well away from lifting these weights. I was surprised how difficult proper cast iron was to find in the UAE, cast aluminium seemed widely available which looks like cast iron but is covered in a non-stick finish. I finally found the Lodge brand at Ace Hardware, Dubai Festival City and was surprised how reasonably price the range was.
Shockingly, one of the main benefits of using cast iron was actually about the detrimental affect that non-stick coated aluminium has on our health…