I did breakfast potatoes in my Griswold 12" today. We rarely cook breakfast at home any more. Always seem too busy, gone fishing or something else. But today wife is home preparing taxes and I have a leisurely day of cleaning the garage and watching the Wild play the Anaheim Ducks later.
Anyhow for those of you who do breakfast potatoes (American fries) in cast iron do you start frying with raw potatoes or do you partially microwave them first. I started with raw and they started to brown on the outside within minutes. I figured they would be burnt black by the time the potato's cooked through.
I removed them from the pan put them in a bowl and microwaved on high for 3 minutes. They came out cooked nearly through I could have cut it back to 2 minutes probably.
Anyhow I returned them back to the cast iron and finished browning them up adding onions the last 5 minutes. Turned out awesome.
Now ironically as I sat down to eat Trisha's Southern cooking was on and she was making a breakfast skillet. First thing she did was throw raw potatoes in a cast iron skillet to fry them to a golden brown. Of course 30 seconds later they showed her removing perfectly golden brown potatoes from a cast iron skillet without a word of explanation how she achieved that.
So I defer to the experts here on what your methodology is for cast iron potatoes!
Anyhow for those of you who do breakfast potatoes (American fries) in cast iron do you start frying with raw potatoes or do you partially microwave them first. I started with raw and they started to brown on the outside within minutes. I figured they would be burnt black by the time the potato's cooked through.
I removed them from the pan put them in a bowl and microwaved on high for 3 minutes. They came out cooked nearly through I could have cut it back to 2 minutes probably.
Anyhow I returned them back to the cast iron and finished browning them up adding onions the last 5 minutes. Turned out awesome.
Now ironically as I sat down to eat Trisha's Southern cooking was on and she was making a breakfast skillet. First thing she did was throw raw potatoes in a cast iron skillet to fry them to a golden brown. Of course 30 seconds later they showed her removing perfectly golden brown potatoes from a cast iron skillet without a word of explanation how she achieved that.
So I defer to the experts here on what your methodology is for cast iron potatoes!
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