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  3. Thanks for the laugh. My father found a teddy bear cast iron pan for cornbread at a farm auction decades ago and it is a treasured possession. My pre-teen boys already know cast iron does NOT go near the dishwasher. I do add a Tbsp of sugar but I am Canadian so it is ok.

  4. Hilarious! I am so impressed by creative people. The writing, acting and production are all spot on. Thanks for sharing.

  6. I’m laughing so hard after watching this. Thank you!

    The Yeti tumbler met its doom along with the skillet. Yikes!

  7. So I do have my great-grandmother’s cast iron skillet and I use it for cornbread. Apparently I need to upgrade my recipe, although I’m not Southern. And sadly, shortly after I remarried, my stepson sent the other cast iron skillet through the dishwasher. He was young. ????

  9. Mmm!! Cornbread! Warm with butter and homemade strawberry jam. Breakfast, lunch or supper. Or snack.
    My mother made baked carmel dumplings in her cast iron pan. Warm with real whipped cream. I had a very good childhood!!

  10. Very timely as I am in the process of RE-SEASONING my skillet after my nephew put mine in the dishwasher. ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!

    • My sincere condolences. I hope he’s helping you to restore them as a learning experience? Because they are really a pain to reseason!

  11. It’s called corn bread not corn cake. I have a large and a small cast iron skillet. I guess it’s not really a southern thing. Yea Canada. I make a good corn bread but my jalapeño bread yuck. Even I won’t eat it. I have tried a lot of recipes for it. There must be a trick.

    • See I think adding jalapenos to cornbread is an abomination …but then I’m not from the South.

    • I have a great recipe for cheddar jalapeño cornbread, but…

      It has honey….

      I too am Canadian, be glad it isn’t maple syrup

    • The peppers need to be lightly cooked in the microwave, or singed a little in a greased skillet before adding to the cornbread batter. I just use canned chopped green chilies when I am in a hurry.
      Yes, I used to live in the south, but now in SW.

  12. I’m laughing because my mother told me and my sisters that her skillets are coming to me! The words that came out of my sister’s mouths….. #truelife.

    P.s. must be a Canadian thing –I also add a bit of sugar 😉

  13. It was very funny. 🙂

    My daughter gave me an iron skillet. I never could figure the thing out so it just hangs there on the rack. 😀

  14. ????????????????????
    Never, ever, ever…
    I have several old cast iron skillets, various shapes and sizes, and they are the best.

  15. I literally gasped when they opened that dishwasher and I saw the skillet.

    And then again when they showed the tumbler in the top.

    LOL

  16. My mother was born and raised in Texas – no sugar in the cornbread!! I add some though lol Putting the skillet in the Dishwasher- that’s just sacrilegious. Thank you for making me smile! Happy Monday everyone.

  17. Despite my terrible defect of being British that was funny. I was a bit shocked granny had a dishwasher though – the equivalent UK grannies I know would never allow such a machine in the house!

    • My mother in law uses her dishwasher machine as extra storage.. AFTER the dishes are gandwashed!

      • Sounds about right! My brother to this day hand washes his dishes before putting them in the machine – it drives his wife mad. But we never grew up having them and our nans were/are so traditional in the kitchen besides. He often talks yearningly of our deceased nans rock cakes while I filch his grandma’s roti even though she did say I’ve gotten round as a teacake!

      • My grandma does that too, to dry them… And then the poor dishwasher has to be cleaned thoroughly because of the stagnant water ????

      • Our dishwasher broke when I was a kid, so it became the place to store canned goods. I remember wanting to get big enough so I could help wash dishes. If that isn’t the perfect example of kids not knowing everything, I don’t know what is.

        (For the record, I never once said I wanted to get big enough to pick weeds, but somehow I got stuck doing it anyways.)

  18. This was entirely too accurate! lol.. No one messes with my cast iron pans and I have some that are handed down and are 60 -70 years old too!

  19. I’m hysterically laughing over this – they hit EVERY taboo about iron skillets and cornbread!! ‘She puts SUGAR in her cornbread!!!’ The absolute worst way to make cornbread in my family. ????

  20. My Texan hubby would like my cornbread to be sweeter, but I prefer it with just a hint of sweet. He takes loving care of all of our cast iron gems. Mom used to make cornbread to go with her great northern beans & ham hocks, up here in Minnesota (no Southern Card). Thanks for the chuckles.

  22. Hilarious! I’m not from the South, but even I know about the cast iron skillets!

  23. Truth. The man I used to be married to used my mom’s cast iron skillet to blacken fish. Damn Yankee. Ex-husband.

  24. Oh my heart. When he said don’t let anyone in unless they’re grandma or Jesus I nearly died.

  25. I find it very amusing that my grandmother, who was born in Tennessee and lived most of her life in Texas, made her corn bread on a cookie sheet. It was made without eggs and never lasted more than 30 minutes after it finished cooking when I knew her.
    There was no sugar in the ingredients of corn bread, but she put it most of her vegetables – peas, corn, carrots, etc.
    (I did understand from my father that, when she was cooking for 6 boys, a husband and farm hands, left-over corn bread happened, since his favorite snack was Mama Penny’s corn bread crumbled into a glass which was then filled with cold milk or buttermilk and eaten with a spoon.)
    There was no recipe. Mama Penny basically took a bowl and dumped ingredients into it until it “looked right”, melted some shortening in the “ancestral corn bread pans” until it was almost smoking hot, and poured the batter into the pan. It baked for a few minutes and came out with crispy edges and soft centers.
    You could put butter on it, but I usually had a piece for dessert w/ jam.

    The bread pans were actually rimmed cookie sheets, which got a quick rinse in hot water to get any left over oily bits off and were immediately dried off. (No bugs in her kitchen!)

    My dad referred to the kind of corn bread in the clip as “cake”. It’s a good thing he liked it, too, because it was all my mother could make.

  26. Hah!
    I’ve used cast iron pans for decades – fry a bit of bacon in the pan, drain of the fat, and pour the batter in. We also use them for cooking hamburgers/fish burgers, and, most importantly, for Irish Soda Bread.

  28. I confess to liking sugar in my cornbread but that woman desecrated that skillet.

  29. ROFLOL. Thank you, Ilona Andrews for the post and video.

    I am southern USA born with an ancestry on both sides of family back to pre American revolution. I have my paternal grandmother ‘s iron skillet and next sibling in line has maternal grandmother’s iron skillet. So I totally got this episode of “Slaw and Order”. Thank you. Well acted.

  30. Love this funny Southern group. The mug in the dishwasher, lol. Their Southern Olympics video was darn funny.

  31. LOL. My grandmother gave me one of my great-grandmother’s cast iron skillets (and I am no longer all that young) – the older they are, the smoother the surface from all the scraping of the spoons as everything under the sun has been cooked in them. Poor rural Southerners don’t have many heirlooms to gift down the generations – part of the reason the old skillets are treasured, food is family/comfort. I grew up using cast iron skillets (scrambled eggs, sausage gravy, biscuits, cornbread, even meat spaghetti sauce all taste better with one) but had to teach my husband how to care for them. Re-seasoning a skillet (or a new skillet) is a pain – I have rescued a couple from thrift stores to scrub out and redo. I bought a set of new cast iron skillets and seasoned them up while sharing an apartment during training – when I moved out, my roommates begged me to buy the seasoned skillets (I had pity).

    They do make the best cornbread – though from Louisiana, my Mom likes just a hint of sugar in hers to help it brown, my Dad wants no sugar. Though will say the cake like texture (too much flour compared with cornmeal), and way too much sugar of the Northern versions is always odd to me.

    I do like my fancy new ‘chainmail’ scrubber – it does a good job with the pans.

  33. My friend’s fiancee put all of her cast iron pans in the dishwasher… She still married him… There’s just no helping some people!

  34. That was hilarious! I have a #5 cast iron skillet from my mom. Everybody in the house knows how to care for cast iron.

  35. LOL. I’m a yankee, not from Canada but I also add a spoon of sugar to my cornbread. My husband likes it that way too. My family acts like its sacrilege. Told me it’s cake not cornbread! The fussing stopped when I sweetly returned it to MY kitchen, tossed a loaf of bread on the table and started with the sister who still makes runny fudge….

  36. I inherited my mother-in-law’s grandfather’s “Goat Pot.” It’s a huge cast-iron Dutch oven from 19th-century Hawaii. Her grandfather used to hunt goats and bake them in “The Goat Pot,” buried in an ember-filled hole in the ground. I use it now for stir-fry, like a wok. My mother-in-law gets this look on her face…

  37. I have watched this several times and it’s still true. And yes, I put sugar in my cornbread. But then I was raised by a NYC Yankee and even she knew the right way to treat cast iron.

  38. {sigh} Stupid corporate blocking the video. I’ll have to check it out tonight from home.

  39. I just showed this video to my mum who was reminded of a similar incident from years back. My baby brother (who was a surprise to all coming 11 & 15 years later than me & middle bro) was always trying to keep up with us elder siblings and act like a grown up. At about 8 years old he decided to “help” by washing up after dinner. He took a metal Brillo pad scourer to her favourite le creuset* casserole dish but was unable to get it clean despite his extreme rubbing (he broke through the enamel!). He’s still forbidden from touching her best pans!

    *Le creuset are an expensive range of enamel coated cast iron cookware. They last forever with the proper care but if the enamel coating inside is damaged. . .

    • Oh my gosh! Breaking through that enamel takes some extreme scrubbing. I don’t blame your mum from banning him from touching her best pans.

      I, too, have Le Cruset pots and a few pans. I would have banned him from even looking at them. ????????

    • On the other hand, you’re supposed to be able to send Le Creuset’s back to the manufacturer if it’s damaged and they’ll fix or replace it for free. I haven’t checked to see if that’s still true, but mine has a crack so I need to look that up.

  40. Once upon a Christmas, my partner asked for and received a set of cast iron skillet and frying pans. They look nice, but I’m not strong enough in my hands to handle them safely, so that same Christmas I got a dirt cheap but very functional IKEA frying pan from my in laws with a wink and a smile. It goes in the dishwasher and has to be replaced every three years or so because those things aren’t made to last, but that’s fine for what it is.
    Guess which pan actually gets used by my partner on a daily basis… ????

  41. LOL Grandmamas skillets are the only ones I use! But I also know how to fire em and season them. Mom taught me! I think one of them may even be Great Grandmas skillet. My mom does make a mean southern skillet corn bread. I still haven’t quiet mastered it. mmm. Now I want bean soup and cornbread..

  42. I literally shudder at the thought of sugar in cornbread. Bless your hearts.
    (As my friend says, that’s Southern code for “you’re so stupid.”) I mean that gently, in jest.

    But the absolute best use of my skillet is what are called Dutch Baby pancakes in my part of the country. A recipe from my German relatives (I think Dutch is a bastardization of Deutsch) they’re thin, gooey on the inside, crispy on the edges pancakes baked in the oven and served with lemon juice and confectioner’s sugar. Sometimes blueberries.

    • Actually, we had Dutch pancakes in Amsterdam about 23 years ago (September 1998). Of couse, that doesn’t mean that the Germans don’t have their version of the recipe. The two countries aren’t that far apart.

    • Sounds like what Grandma Called “Holland babies” 😀 Lemon juice and confections sugar on half with cream cheese and blueberries or cherries on the other was my fav way to eat em!

  43. I remember somebody posting a challenge on Facebook to start a fight in five words or less. Someone submitted, “I washed the cast-iron skillet.” I died.

    • Another one could be “I don’t like sweet tea”. I don’t like it. I will spit it out and get a very disgusted look on my face. ????

      • I bet another one is something like “you mount the toilet paper roll so it rolls over the top” (or “…under”, if you’re a heathen).

  44. I LMAO ????! Good video. The minute she opened the dishwasher and I saw the skillet even I gasped! Oh and I put sugar in my cornbread! Pfft! I don’t care what anyone says. Try and take my southern card see what happens!

  45. That was funny! I’ve been in Tx since I was six and folks are both Yankees. So I had to learn cornbread from various friends. Sometimes I make it more corn/crumbly, sometimes more cakey with a touch of sugar and sometimes with a can of creamed corn and jalapeños. Frankly, they’re all good! But I don’t use my cast iron skillet (apparently sacrilege, so I’ll have to try it the next time I make beans or black eyed peas lol). And I do wash and dry the skillet after use, then a touch of oil. And I season it maybe every other year.

    I don’t put any of my pots and pans in the dishwasher as they rarely come clean that way. But since my childhood chore was washing up, when we finally got a dishwasher, I never looked back. I hate hate washing dishes by hand!

  46. LOL, such a crime! I pretty much only use cast iron whether it is enameled or seasoned. My mom gave our daughter her cast iron (passed down from my dad’s family) when they became to heavy for her to lift. My daughter’s roommate scoured them clean the first time she used them…. Daughter called in a panic because all the seasoning was gone.

    As far as cornbread goes, I grew up in western Minnesota & mom made it in a cake pan as there were 8 of us plus whoever happened to have stopped in to visit. It had a little sugar in it and we ate it with butter & maple syrup. Sometimes that was all we had with big glasses of milk if mom was tired or money was tight. I still make it in a Pyrex baking pan as it browns well & I don’t have to fuss with spreading batter in a piping hot pan. My family always pulls out the maple syrup, even when we are having cornbread & chili.

  47. BAHAHAHAHA!!!! *you never turned that cup around?* *it’s a tumbler* *even your mama ain’t gonna take that call now*

    I can’t stop laughing!!!!

    Thanks!

  48. I love It’s a Southern Thing videos. They really do some great, hilarious work. This one was done very well to mimic Law & Order.

  50. Thanks for the laughs! We have a skillet and a Dutch oven cast iron that are wonderful to use. I will say I do like a sweeter cornbread versus savory.

  51. I’m gonna tell y’all: I’m from Florida. I use a whole cup of sugar per jiff box of cornbread. A whole cup, and I love it.

    • And everyone in the other Southern states gasped. ????????????????

  52. Cast iron skillets make great cake pans, too. But watch out for the addition of cinnamon to your cake batter. It leaches into the iron, and your next batch of breakfast burritos have a weird flavor. Then sometimes you have to use soap.

  54. Did I inherit a cast iron skillet that dates back to the civil war. Yes. Will I commit bodily harm to anyone who puts in a dishwasher? No one has dared to test me on that. And only a heathen would put sugar in cornbread. Folks, it’s not a desert. If you want cake, bake a cake. LOL I may live in Wisconsin, but I was raised in the South. No matter how hard I try, I am still southern at the core. Much to the annoyance of my kids and hubby.

  55. Wow, this hit me hard!

    As soon as I heard ‘dishwasher’ I just KNEW someone killed a CI pan seasoning in there. It’s heartbreaking – and I’m not completely exaggerating. My heart was racing as they reached for the door of the dishwasher.

    Now I’m a native New Yorker, and I DO put sugar in my cornbread, but no CI pan deserves that!

    All of my extended family and friends know to not touch my CI without my supervision. And not one of them even tries to clean them, they just put them to the side for me to deal with (and surreptitiously inspect).

    Thank you for sharing!

  56. I actually got caught up in the story and was waiting to see who the culprit was. Great parody!

  58. ???????????? Omg I died. That said I am now a master of skillet resurrection bc my moms cleaning lady lives to put the good cast iron in the dishwasher if we don’t hide it from her. ???? I’m sure it’s not as good as an 85 year seasoning but I can get it black and slick again in record time.

    That said I didn’t realize that my Grandmas traditional, deep southern cornbread made in cast iron was sin. It’s just a tiny bit of sugar. You don’t want it Sweet you just wanna enhance the corn flavor!

    • It really makes me laugh when I see all the comments that vigorously claim it isn’t cornbread if it’s made with sugar. Why? Because many of them will then drown their sugar free cornbread in honey!

  59. That is hysterically funny! Thanks for sharing. My stepmom is from Kentucky a d she had skillets that go back at least 3 generations and they are actually in her will. Sadly not to me. ☹️

  61. I will never forget the day my mom and I came home and my stepfather proudly showed us the cast iron pan he had spent several. hours. scouring. with steel wool because “it was very burnt”. The look on her face and his total hurt confusion cannot be adequately described. And we’re from Cal-eye-for-neya (as my cousins in Houston would say).

    Prior to that Mom used to make peach cobbler in the skillet. First on the stovetop and then into the oven. Mmmmmmm.

  62. Oh, my. We have four skillets in various sizes, a fajita iron and a Dutch oven—all cast iron; all second hand and collected throughout our 30-year marriage. We’re in Texas so no excuses for putting one in the dishwasher.

  63. I loved the parody. So funny.

    Being from Aussie, we don’t do cornbread, but that sure looked more like cake to me 😀

    We do do Cast Iron though, I’ve got a Le Creuset dutch oven passed down from my MIL.

    • And this is where we Aussies might show our ignorance. We prize our Le Crueset (mine was a wedding gift from my mum) but it is enamelled cast iron. (Don’t get me started on my husband scrubbing through the enamel when very sleep deprived after the birth of one of our kids.)

      The other commenters are referring to cast iron without the enamel that makes our quite non-stick. As I understand it all the seasoning is about sealing the pan and creating a non-stick layer. Maybe? I remember regular cast iron pans growing up but they were seasoned but washed up normally and then rubbed with oil. I’m interested in how US cast iron is cleaned. Just wiped out? Rinsed with hot water? I’m genuinely interested!

      • I was born and raised in Louisiana. I didn’t realize there were people in the world who didn’t know about use and care of cast iron until I moved to Pennsylvania. I don’t put sugar in my cornbread though I do use my cast iron skillet. As far as cleaning cast iron? Never use soap on cast iron. There are chain mail sponges available that work well if you have something stuck to the skillet. Otherwise, I pour salt into the skillet and rub it around with a paper towel. Then rinse in very hot water, dry and you are done.

      • I live in South Carolina and have learned through much trial and error about this. Now I just use a potato cut in half and salt to clean mine. If I do not have a potato, I just use a dry paper towel and salt. Scrubs it nicely and afterwards, I see if I need to put a dab of oil in the pan just to coat it from drying out.

  65. I read once that if a person wanted to dig through small town garbage dumps (a big if), lots of cast iron frying pans can be found in the depth area of the 1960s.
    because Teflon.
    sacrilege!

  66. 31 years ago my Nana my mums mum gave me a second hand cast iron skillet and I use it if not daily at least once a week. And I don’t have a dishwasher. Hahaha

  68. That was hilarious.
    I was rereading Blood Heir and I got to the Marten and Namtur scenes and then I remembered you mentioned somewhere that you like the leverage series. Do Parker and Archie inspire some of the qualities of Marten and Namtur?
    Also will you be watching leverage 2.0 ?

  71. the DRAMATICS. I’m not even american and even I was laughing out loud.

  72. OMG I’m DYING!

    And I’ve made sure I’m inheriting my great aunt’s Cast Iron – which is about 85 years old. Mines barely seasoned at 20 🙂

  75. I have a variety of cast iron skillets. All are carefully seasoned. I have to side with the “suspect.” Sugar in cornbread is criminal. No one deserves an inherited skillet who puts sugar in cornbread. Though a cast iron skillet in the dishwasher is a bit harsh. Great representation of southern idiosyncrasies.

  77. I’m still crying from laughter. Recently gave my grandmother’s Griswolds to my chef son. He understands the value and the history of them….knew not to use detergent on them since he was 6 yrs old. Learned to cure them soon after. He teared up and crushed the chromed extra large skillet to his chest…OMG THANKS MOM!! Am I weird for feeling relief that my beloved cast iron has a good home? Probably.

  78. I love it! My husband thought I was nuts at my laughter when they turned that Yeti cup around.

    And yes, I have several cast iron skillets, dutch ovens, and a 2 burner griddle, and my children have all claimed various pieces when I am gone.

  79. This was funny, I may be a born and bred Yankee but I know all about the cast iron skillet and what it means to a southern cook. It is to them what a 18th century Italian violin is to a violinist, they have a life of their own, get passed down from generation to generation.

    The good news is the fry pan is not totally dead after being put in the dishwasher. It may have lost some mojo, but it an be brought back from the dead, matter of re-seasoning it. It may not be totally grandmas skillet, but it still has skillet memory, I promise *lol* Saw this guy who restores all kinds of things restore an 1800’s skillet that was rusty, found in a junk yard, and it came back really well.

    No self respecting southerner would put sugar in cornbread, that is a Yankee thing (known as a “Johnny Cake”, which is “journey cake” said by someone from Mass or Vermont. ). Not being a southerner, I therefore can enjoy it, I use a little maple syrup.

  81. Poor thing, bless her heart… My mama and her beloved skillets would have loved this! Come to think of it, so would my aunt, my grandma, my great-grandma… Our family had quite the collection of skillets all the way from a teeny little one to a dutch oven WITH A LID! And a corncob cornbread one. We must have been blessed. Heehee.

  83. I never let my mom forget that she put my grandma’s cast iron skillet and griddle in a yard sale. She never could explain it, either. The skillet was from 1880. ????

  84. Thanks for a great laugh…. But to be honest, we do take cast iron serious down here.

  85. I had to chime back in since I see all of the “Southern Cornbread isn’t sweet” posts. That is not true. There is a great divide in the south – mostly along racial lines. White Southerners don’t sweeten it. Black Southerners do. I’m from a small town in SC where I was in the minority (white) and I learned to eat cornbread as it was served in the local eateries where it was sweet – which is how I prefer it as it’s what I grew up with. I still prefer it less “cake” – but it needs a bit of sugar.

    I had to go find the really good article on this. It’s linked here, I thought many here would appreciate it and a bit of history….

    https://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/food-drink/article68763427.html

  86. There are some objects that only I use and care for: my cast iron cookware and my fabric scissors .
    My daughter made the mistake of cutting craft wire with my fabric scissors. My oldest son ALWAYS asks his wife if the scissors he wants to use are for paper. My husband took both of my dutch ovens camping with the Boy Scouts. The next time I went to use the dutch ovens I discovers they were covered in rust and other nastiness. It took hours of elbow grease, wire brushes and baking in the oven to get them back into shape. I own an 8 inch skillet that was my mother-in-laws and a 9 inch skillet that my father took with him to college.

  87. Snicker.

    I love cast iron. I only have two pans that aren’t cast iron at this point. And I do know how to care for it properly.

    As to cornbread, I was born and raised in Oregon, and I have always used the Alber’s recipe (it does call for sugar). I generally make it when I want something sweetish for breakfast. However, I absolutely love cornbread dressing, and when I make the cornbread for that, I leave the sugar out – it is insanity to use sweetened cornbread for stuffing.

  88. This is great and so true. I threaten my children when they want to use one of my cast iron skillets and I am from Alaska ( maybe I can get a “Southern Ak”) card

  89. You sent me down the “southernthing” rabbit hole – aren’t you sweet.

  90. The horror!!!! I may be from NJ, but I married into a Southern family and my Dad was from the rural Midwest. If someone tells me they’re going to put my ancient cast iron skillet in the dishwasher, them there’s fighting words!!! ????

  92. That cornbread pan is a a cornbread pan. Don’t use it for anything else and kill the seasoning, ma’am.

  93. Lmao this is priceless, y’all!! ???????????????? And, I must confess, I have put my daddy’s iron skillets in the dishwasher. Never. Again.

  94. I have a 45 year old cast iron skillet that was made in the USSR, it has a screwhead inbedded in the bottom. I always told everyone it was made out of an old Soviet tank left over from WWII.

  96. LOL! I proudly own/inherited (and use daily) cast iron pans from Canadian grandparents and southern in-laws. No sugar in corn bread but family’s favorite cast iron offering is still pineapple upside down cake or slow cooked New England Pot Roast. Like my sewing scissors, my family has been properly taught how to handle and care for our cast iron treasures. (And know that death would be preferable for he who misuses/abuses said treasures!) ????

  98. Oh my gosh! I may be a Yankee, but I am equally horrified – I have tried to help my family understand why I love and pamper my cast iron skillet, but they just scratch their heads and reach for the non-stick… I need to find someone Southern to share this video with who can appreciate it like I can 😉

    • ???????? I’m from Georgia and I laughed my ass off at that! Though there’s truth in parody because I might be willing to murder anyone who out either of my cast irons in the dishwasher, or even in dish soap. ????

  99. ???????????? That whole thing was freakin’ HILARIOUS!!! Except for the cast iron skillet in the dishwasher. That really is grounds for jailing somebody.

  102. About 2 cups of self risin’ cornmeal (Logan Turnpike Mill from up in N. Ga. way), a cup and a half of quality buttermilk, a couple of glugs of quality corn oil and that’s it. No sugar, no flour — we’re not baking a cake here. We’re looking for a certain consistency — what we don’t want is a bunch of standing liquid on the top after the batter is thoroughly mixed. Pour the batter into a 9″ cast iron skillet, well greased with Crisco. If it sticks, that means you wimped out when you greased the pan. Try not to do that again. Bake @ 400-425 for 30-35 minutes. Golden brown is the appropriate phrase here.
    Y’all know that short of a stick of dynamite, these pans can take whatever you dish out, right? They should be seasoned at least twice a year, and prior to seasoning they should be scrubbed with hot soapy water and a stainless steel pad. The gunked up ones you buy at the flea markets need to be coated in Easy Off and set to soak for a day or so.
    No, don’t put them in the dishwasher, but the world is not gonna end if that happens.
    Funny as hell vid, though.

  103. I’m a big fan of “It’s A Southern Thing.” No matter how many times I’ve watched this episode, it never gets old. ????

  105. I follow them on Facebook and it’s feels like home. Love it. My husband put one of my skillets in dishwasher and I about killed him. I have lots of iron skillets, passed down through family.
    Cut up her Southern Card????????????

  106. Love this! I have a cast iron skillet my mother in law gave me for Christmas the first year of our marriage 37 years ago. I also have my grandmother’s which was passed down to me. Both are priceless to me. My husband and son both know they are not allowed to use for any reason. I like cornbread sweet or not depending on what I am serving it with.

  107. I managed to unseason my cast iron skillet and cannot for the life of me get it back to rights. I’ve done the grease-it-up-and-heat-it-in-the-oven thing multiple times. No joy.

    While I’m miffed at myself, I don’t consider it to be a grave sin because the skillet isn’t a family heirloom. It’s a $30 Lodge skillet from Bed Bath & Beyond purchased a couple years ago. Also, I am The World’s Most Mediocre Cook, so I’m not surprised that I messed up my skillet.

    I like my cornbread unsweet and slathered in melted butter. Or crumbled up in stuffing.

  110. OMG! This is so damn funny! I sent it to my grad school friends and teachers. Thank you!!!

  113. Funny! My hubby is the cast-iron enthusiast in the family. He’s trained everyone NOT to put his skillets in the dishwasher–or the sink–or anywhere near soap. We clean them with hot water and stainless steel scrubbers, then wipe them down with oil. Same for the dutch ovens.

  115. OMG! This is so funny. So when I was in college my roommate (who did not cook) put my cast iron skillet (that I got from my grandmother) into the dishwasher. I just about used it to brain her when I found out. We still laugh about it today (many many years later). She is now a great cook and cringes when she thinks about it.

  116. Even for a Scot based in the UK, that was funny. We don’t have a cast iron skillet in my family, but we do have a cast iron girdle for pancakes and scones, made by my great grandfather, out of a piece of 1 inch thick, mild steel armour plate. It’s a circle, sawed out for a porthole, on a pre WW1 battleship, rather crudely rounded off at the edge! It has a heavy steel handle, with a pointy bit in it so you could hang it from the hook over the kitchen fire, on an old black leaded range. It weighs a ton, and is cleaned off with a bit of kitchen paper and some oil while it is still hot. My sister has it and it is used regularly despite it’s weight. It makes wonderful pancakes and scones, but you need to leave it over night to cool off.

  117. omg…that skillet is destroyed! lol….my skillet is 51 years…you just can’t beat a well seasoned skillet and I am not Southern. Thanks for sharing!

  118. Thanks for the laugh! While my father says I’m not southern anymore, at least nobody took my southerner card, LOL!

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