Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Food, Cooking, and Game Preparation Cast Iron on Gas and Glass top stoves ?

I really enjoy Cast Iron - but I’ve always here don’t do it on gas and glass top stoves.

Is this true or BS ?

I’ve actually used them with Gas stoves before, but never my own, and I’ll be buying a new stove so now I need to know.

Work fine on gas.

Glass okay if pan has ground flat bottom.

Never had a glasstop. Plus, I despise electric ranges.

Works fine on gas. Guess I don’t understand the concern.

Don't see what the big deal is. Cast iron cookware was around long before gas stoves. A flame is a flame, heat is heat. Have a brother with an electric glass top, uses cast on it all the time.

I use cast iron on a glass top. You might scratch the glass though if you are not careful.

All we have at our fire stations is gas stoves. At a station I was at recently at they have three cast iron skillets.
They built the station in 67’ and moved in to it in early 1968.
Around ten years ago we replaced the cabinets in the kitchen and we found a receipt for all three skillets from a local hardware store. You guessed it, 1968.
Last night, at my station, I fried up some pork chops in an old cast skillet.
It looks awfully pretty all seasoned up setting on the stove. We always season ours with bacon grease.
As a matter of fact, we fry up bacon about once a week more for the grease than for eating it. Getting to eat it is a bonus.
We need the grease for frying eggs, frying potatoes, seasoning green beans and seasoning the skillet. Good stuff!

Use mine on gas and a glass top, just extra careful on the glass

Cast iron is great on a gas cook top. Glass tops I avoid when possible, cast iron or not.

I been using cast iron on both for years. Only issue I ever had was when I had an electric coil burner short out and it ruined a cast iron with an enamel coating inside. Burned a pretty good dent into that dutch oven. Enamel chipped off right where it burned the bottom.

If you can't use it on gas or glass top, what can you use it on? Old school electric or wood only?

Current house is a glasstop, and cast iron is about 90% of what we cook with on top of it. Would like to add a propane tank and run a line so I can get away from electric, but too many other things taking priority.

Mom and grandma only have ever had propane, and cast iron is what they always used.

Are you sneaking into people's houses and cooking on their stove or something?

Where are you encountering all these varied stoves?

Are you guys using porcelain coated cast iron or just regular cast iron...

I have a Wolfe commercial gas burner on my porch, when weather permits, for those nasty little frying jobs that cause divorces. You know the ones, fast and hot, clams, oysters, venison, rib eyes...that destroy a kitchen. Cast iron is the only way to go, the most expensive gourmet alloy pans distort under that much heat, bowing up in the center, the oil runs to the edges, and then you are cooking in a dry pan with predictable results. Porcelain cast iron is an invention of urban democrats in my opinion. Invented for white privilege women who like how it looks, with no thought to how it performs.

I use both.

True, wife won’t let me use black cast iron on her glass cooktop, enameled cast iron is ok though.

I've cooked at places other than home, even without sneaking in.

Do you take a pan with ya?

I have done so.

A real Galloping Gormet!

+ditto