Cast Iron cooking on the grill...I want to get going !

[Michelle]

I recently purchased a cast iron skillet after wanting one for a long time. I am combing the internet for ideas for it. I loved a blog called black iron dude. This guy is nuts for cast iron. Anyway, what I loved is that he makes lots of things on his grill in his skillet. Do any of you have recipes for grilling? I was going to bake with it. I have a glass top stove and do not want to use it on top of the stove to preserve the top.

[CHILI]

Hi Michelle,
I have a few cast iron cooking tools myself. The thing I like to make in my skillet is breakfast. I chop some fresh vegetables like carrot,red onion,pepper(hot or bell) I like banana and bell,celery,tomato,green bean. I put about 2 or 3 table spoon of grape seed oil in the skillet on med low or med. let the oil get hot and put the carrot onion celery pepper in and just spread in thin in the bottom of the pan. Lit it cook until the onion and pepper start to turn soft. Then add the tomato(seed removed) cook that,at that time I heat a wheat soft taco shell on a splatter screen on top of my pan, then I add vegetable to the soft taco shell an roll it up sometimes I add a little grated cheese sometime I add a scramble egg sometimes I will roll a little fresh greens in also . I just use what ever I have as far as vegetable goes. I have a glass top stove and it has not hurt my stove or my pan (keep the heat high enough to cook but do not smoke the oil).
Regard's
Chili

[Rob Farkas]

i don't see the point of grilling with a cast iron pot. you don't get the char or the wood or charcoal flavor.i guess you could smoke stuff in it, but usually when you smoke a hunk of meat you want the fat to render, melt and drip away, not for the meat to sit in it. also, if you leave it on a grill with the top down the handle will get awfully searingly hot and you'll most likely forget that and grab it barehanded at some point and experience a level of pain only recently achieved by certain guests of the US government. cast iron is great. i say use it on your glass stove top, just be careful and don't bang it around. its really good to sear a steak in a cast iron pan, both sides, throw in some butter and olive oil, some herbs, salt, whatever...and then immediately stick it in the oven at 400 degrees until its medium rare (the way i like it..). you could baste it with the brown butter in the pan while its in the oven. use grass fed beef and butter from grass fed cows if you can find it.