I love my cast iron and just added a Wagner ‘chicken fryer’ to my collection, BUT I am having issues with fried eggs. We have chickens and there nothing like home grown eggs. I have a Griswald round griddle and eggs stick UNLESS is use a non-stick spray. Olive oil ect doesn’t work. If I spray with the non-stick sprays – no problem with sticking BUT I don’t really care to eat the Lecithin and Dimethyl Silicon. A main attraction to CI is that you not taking in aluminum or PTFE’s etc. Call me crazy, but I am convinced a lot of our health issues are due to the chemicals we take in from our food. Problem is the non-stick sprays really do work!
As an experiment, I tried my corn bread pan to fry eggs. This is a no-name pan but black as night and slick as snot. Oiled it up good with some olive and eggs stuck like crazy to it. So, unless, ya’ll can give me the secret (not involving a cup of lard) I may just have to go to the dark side and spring for a SS and ceramic non-stick pan for my eggs.
