Cast iron bacon and eggs

[Billnpatti]

I'm mystified. I use cast iron skillets all the time to fry eggs and they slide as freely as if on Teflon. Even when I have fried bacon in the skillet before the eggs, they never stick. My skillets have all been well seasoned for many years (over 50 years) and seldom do I ever have to do anything to clean them than to thoroughly wipe them out with paper towels and then apply a light coat of olive oil and wipe "dry" with more paper towels.

My only guess is that your skillets may have one or more of three problems. One possibility is that during manufacture, the inside of the skillet was not made perfectly smooth. This is a manufacturing defect and would require some serious elbow grease and emery cloth top correct. The second possible problem is that your skillet may not have been properly seasoned. Thirdly, you may not have your skillets thoroughly clean before using them. If there is any tiny amounts of residual food left on the bottom of your skillet from simmering sauces or similar things in the skillet, this could account for the eggs sticking. Residual food will, over time, char on the bottom and leave a surface that is subject to sticking.

I would suggest starting over with the cleaning and seasoning process. www.youtube.com/results?search_query=seasoning+cast+iron+skillets
I think the self cleaning oven method is the best.

 

[tenngun]

Its just bacon and eggs that I get a stick with. With bacon and being careful to turn often I can get it off before it tears. Eggs I can scramble keeping it moving as it cooks. I cant get an omlet or sunnyside up. Never have trouble with anything else. I at a low carb diet and it a lot of stuff cooked in my cast iron..have a deep one and just made onion soup tonight. Make a lot of steaks,smotherd pork chops,stews, sauces ect. I make a low carb 'pancake' out of eggs and pork rinds ..no prob but my bacon and whole eggs slap me every time. The simi deep fry seems to work that folks have mentioned abovebut my eggs are a might greasy. I don't think I have a cleaning problem. just they are the only things that ever give me trouble :idunno:

 

[Billnpatti]

:hmm: Hmmmm :idunno: As our British friends say....I'm gobsmacked. :surrender:

 

[jferguson]

Its just bacon and eggs that I get a stick with. With bacon and being careful to turn often I can get it off before it tears. Eggs I can scramble keeping it moving as it cooks. I cant get an omlet or sunnyside up. Never have trouble with anything else. I at a low carb diet and it a lot of stuff cooked in my cast iron..have a deep one and just made onion soup tonight. Make a lot of steaks,smotherd pork chops,stews, sauces ect. I make a low carb 'pancake' out of eggs and pork rinds ..no prob but my bacon and whole eggs slap me every time. The simi deep fry seems to work that folks have mentioned abovebut my eggs are a might greasy. I don't think I have a cleaning problem. just they are the only things that ever give me trouble :idunno:

:surrender: You gave it your best shot. It must be a defective pan. Time to throw in the towel, and put the pan in the trashcan (don't shoot me if u see someone digging thru your trash tonite).

 

[sooner]

Before you cook your eggs sprinkle a little salt in the cast iron pan . you will have to chase the eggs to turn them as they will slide all over the pan . Tom :thumbsup:

 

[Rifleman1776]

Eggs I can scramble

When I scramble eggs I use a little milk. It does stick some but comes off readily afterwards. Straight eggs don't stick.

 

[gearheart]

:surrender: You gave it your best shot. It must be a defective pan. Time to throw in the towel, and put the pan in the trashcan (don't shoot me if u see someone digging thru your trash tonite).[/quote]
:rotf: :rotf: I had a young man in my Venture Scout group come to me and say "Scouter G. There is something wrong with this fry pan. It keeps burning the eggs." I almost choked and any talk of defective frying pans brings the moment back.

 

[tenngun]

i have a lot of that trouble, defective patching or targets screws up my shooting, defective tools screws up my wood work, defective pots screw up my cooking, I suffer with defective neddles, fire makeing equipment glasses slopes around my camp ect