What's In Early American Kitchens? - Colonial Cookware

I wanna speak to the guy in the white hate I have what I believe to be a large hearth griddle that's got an ornate handle. I believe it's colonial and made in the valley of Virginia

the guy look like Benjamin Franklin

On a personal note; I only purchase cast iron cookware myself.

The results are just phenomenal, and cleaning them is easy and never involves dishwashing liquid. And I don't like the idea of having the food I cook in close proximity to chemicals invented by Dupont and 3M either.

Very interesting

Seen a similar hook before it was used to hang animals.

I'll be the first to admit I don't know everything about seasoning oils but this has been working for me and it makes a durable, nice looking, finish. I mix 4 even parts of grape seed, flax seed, virgin olive, and avocado oil in a squirt bottle. I squirt and paint brush the first coat of oil on after they come out of electrolysis and put them in a plastic tote to drain until I have an oven full. I've heard the footed bowls called camp ovens as they were designed to sit above the fire. Dutch ovens were not designed to sit in the fire. I wouldn't have known what those pot hangers were. The earliest pieces I have are mid to late 1800s. I have some waffle irons that won't flip over unless they are setting on a wood stove with removable eyes. I thought that was old. lol I don't see a lot of super old pieces and when I do it's cheaper than early Griswold or Wagner. This certainly isn't based on age but supply and demand I guess.
For anyone cleaning one of these camp ovens it's been my experience to often detect the presence of lead. These come from the time where people poured their bullets and many of these pieces have become shop pieces as newer cookware was developed. I can bring myself to drill a hole in these beautiful pieces but I do clamp a tag on to the handle so it will be know.

George foreman’s ancestors made these

This was a really great video and watched with so much interest!

Made my first frypan the other day. Turned out pretty good 👍

What an awesome collection! Congratulations.

I wonder if the lifter that has the "heat sink" was mostly to provide a larger handle to grip with.

Thank you love watching and learning where do you go and find old cook wear and cooking tools I know Blacksmiths can build tools and trivets but the special griddles

That's really cool stuff!

Logger head? Yea I pushed one out this morning. Certainly would not want to cook with one.

Very expensive stuff these days

My mother would season her cast iron skillet with bacon drippings. If you use the cookware everyday, it doesn't go bad. If you're not going to use the pot or pan everyday, then you probably want to use an oil/fat that isn't going to go rancid, but you sacrifice flavor.

If you take care of your cast iron cookware, your kids will be passing it down to their kids. These are heirlooms.

Methinks you need a smithing lesson. Ask a blacksmith how to make a pan of iron red-hot over a wood fire. As addendum, I appreciate your efforts with the canoe. You should've employed a lumberjack, would've done it in half a day. But you didn't. Kudos.

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Love this! I’d like to see an episode on how cast iron objects were cleaned and polished in the 18th century

This was so interesting…..I learned so much about how they used these early cooking tools

Very interesting 🥂💟 love it

Absolutely awesome.

I always wash my cast iron skillets but always dry them and then put them in a warm oven to be sure any hint of moisture is gone. Some cast iron that isn’t used very often I put a very light coat of oil on and then put in a paper bag to store.

This was awesome! When Michael was talking about being a steward for that simple lifter thing ( I forget what it was called, lol), it was such a beautiful sentiment. Antiques like that, still in use, still having life, what a connection that must be to the people of the past.

I've been replacing all of my cookware with cast iron and it makes me happy to know I'm purchasing the last of those items I'll ever need.

I went to a historical site in Oella Maryland where there was a small cottage with a root cellar, kitchen garden, and a big hearth where the docent was cooking dinner while we watched. It was very interesting.

Many of my cousins in my reserve have old pots n pans from the bygone freedom days

Great episode. I love cast iron.

Nowedays you are lucky if your pots and pants hold up even 5 years

When I had it, and it needed it, I used to love seasoning or re-seasoning my cast iron and carbon steel cookware. Now I only have a carbon steel wok. It is my favorite go to piece.

I would love to see how these were made

Wonderfully interesting.
Could you kindly remove that fiddle music? It’s very sharp and also sickeningly repetitive.
Thank you so much.

no joke i just cook bacon in my cast iron to season it. never had an issue with rancidity.

This is especially useful when you're looking through 18 century estate inventories (I as I recently needed to) and see certain terms. Thanks. :)

can people cookin' the pots and pans you seal at Townsend today's time ? I do not wish to make people sick

I love this channel it is so genuine

The answer is to accept help from the native population of America, after destroying it and driving it into reservations and then celebrating "Thanksgiving Day" every year, bingo!

Awesome

Remember, the kitchen WAS the heart of the house...hearth may well be connected.
So much so, the fireplace was huge but folk could actually sit inside it.
This brought the size of fire required down thus saving fuel.
Trivets were introduced because of pots having round bottoms, the triangle accepts and stabilises simply.The first trivets were 3 stones and is simplicity itself.

Excellent!!

Not trying to be a smart slick but round bottoms….are meant for scooping sauces with spoons and are far easier to clean…

Tremmels are still present in german language. When you want somebody to hurry up you tell them „leg einen zahn zu“ literally meaning ad a tooth as in get the pot closer to the fire to cool faster

The salamander actually still exists in modern kitchens. It is sortof like an oven with heating just from the top

O, those iron pans! 🍳
My grandmother, in her girlhood, cooked alongside her mother for the biggest, most well-known logging camp in the northwest. Men would travel from Wyoming, Idaho, and eastern Montana to work in their camp, because the food was known to be the best and the most plentiful. (The men once went on strike because the owners decided they'd save money by cutting the pies 🥧 into five pieces instead of four.)
Her cast iron was as beautiful as a sunny day. I am fortunate to have inherited it and I cook with it almost every day.

What no microwaves unreal!!!

The background music is sometimes so repetitive as to render the video unwatchable for me :/

Does he sell any of these?

Thankyou :)