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A Rave Review of Tom’s Cast Iron Pan

Food writer Leslie Kelly raves about Tom’s cast iron deep fryer pan with skillet lid on Amazon’s Al Dente blog.

(Note: photo from Al Dente blog)

March 10th, 2010

7 Responses to “A Rave Review of Tom’s Cast Iron Pan”

  1. bruce Says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    Stove top roast chicken? How do you do that?

  2. ShelleyL Says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    Well I know Tom puts some fat in the pan and puts the chicken in, then puts the “skillet lid” on top of the chicken upside down, so it’s similar to “cooking under a brick.” After a certain amount of time, he flips the chicken over, puts the upside down lid back on and continues cooking until the chicken is done. I’m not clear about how much time this takes. The pan is not all that big, so you have to use a smallish chicken.

  3. ShelleyL Says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 3:34 pm

    Also, he uses medium to medium low heat so you don’t over-brown the chicken during the “roasting” time.

  4. bruce Says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    Well we have the official pan so will give it a try!

  5. Robyn Says:
    March 11th, 2010 at 12:05 pm

    I love to roast chicken in this pan by throwing it in a super hot oven
    for an hour, succulent inside, crispy skin on the outside!!
    Easy as can be – I plan to try it on the stove top soon and compare
    the two!

  6. CB Says:
    March 14th, 2010 at 9:35 pm

    stovetop video here:

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/mD6ZY5RK7NDTZ

    looks like that’s how you do it.

  7. ShelleyL Says:
    March 15th, 2010 at 10:30 am

    Having watched this video, I want to point out- looks like Tom has a pretty small chicken, maybe less than 3 pounds? I tried this technique once. My chicken was probably a bit bigger than this one and also I did turn it once halfway during the cooking time. After 35 minutes (Tom says in the video that his chicken took only 25 minutes), my chicken was still not completely cooked- took another 15 to 20 minutes of cooking- almost an hour total. So see what you think when you try this. Look for a small chicken and check to make sure your bird is cooked through, may take longer than Tom’s bird took in this video.

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