Sharon Shuman
Member
Last Saturday night, my elderly stove suffered a failure of the oven burner. What a bummer!!! When I discovered the problem I was in process to make a pizza, with the crust dough already made and ready to use. What to do... It was a night cool enough to require having a fire in our wood heating stove, so I decided to try a campfire cooking method for the pizza. I heated my #12 LBL Griswold skillet, and pressed the dough into it. I have only one Vollrath piece of CI, and it is a large and very heavy lid. The lid sits down about 1 inch into the #12 skillet, so I determined to use it in my experiment. In the skillet with lid on, on the stove top, I heated the crust, then added sauce and heated some more. I added toppings and returned the pan to the stove top. Amazingly, I got an edible pizza by this method! I don't recommend it, and the whole process needed careful watching to avoid scorching the crust, but the ingredients did not go to waste! I mean if you can cook on a campfire with a Dutch oven, I thought this might work, and it did! The happy end of this tale is that on Tuesday a very talented and dedicated stove repairman reattached the burner to its correct place, and my oven is in great shape again. Losing the use of it was a true nightmare; finding that there are still workmen who will rescue a veritable antique was exhilarating!