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What non-standard sizes do you use? (lemmy.world)

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Was just browsing Lodge cast iron, wondering if there are some pieces I should splurge on. Are there non-standard pieces people actually use? Normally it’s just me for dinner but my two teens are back summers

I have the three standard skillets that I use frequently, with lids I use occasionally. I got the small Dutch oven thinking it would be good for beans, veggies, maybe a small bread loaf, but have to admit I’ve never used it.

What about

the minis, like 5” or 6.5” - do you actually do like individual apple crisp or anything? Which size is actually useful? How many?
tall frying pan - I’ve been afraid to try frying, but is this significantly safer than the regular skillet, for fish or something? Or should I just stick to the air fryer? Do people use this?
does anyone like the baking pan or cookie sheet? Do you use it enough to be worthwhile?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like a 6 inch for baking banana bread, the larger sizes are too big for a loaf (If I had metal bread pans they would be better - but I have a 6 inch cast iron pan and not metal bread pans). Once in a while I'll put it on the grill for onions. However it is mostly too small. Even where it will work, the 10 inch almost always works just as well.

For dutch ovens, the small one is good because it stacks on the large one. However this is only useful if you are cooking on a campfire where you want to cook different dishes at the same time for a large group. I've never heard of them used for anything else and wouldn't expect them to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You like a 6” what? 🤭. You make individual banana breads or tiny banana breads? I’ve only seen it in loaf form, but now I’m picturing individual servings hit from the oven in mini cast iron skillets with a heaping scoop of ice cream

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I find a loaf pan worth of batter fills my 6 inch skillet. So not individual size.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, does not seem like they’d be at all similar!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I just checked, the pan might be 8 inch, hard to say without a ruler which I don't have handy, it isn't much smaller than my 10 in lodge (it is an unlabeled off brand I got years ago - my memory is 6 inch but my memory isn't perfect)