Grandma’s Kitchen Wisdom: What You Should Never Cook in a Cast Iron Pan

As I listened, I realized this wasn’t just a lesson in cookware. It was a lesson in care. In respect. In the kind of slow, intentional stewardship that turns ordinary things into lasting ones.

Now, whenever I reach for her skillet, I don’t just see iron. I see her hands, her patience, her stories. I remember that preservation takes effort, and that the things we value — whether cast iron or connection — endure only when we treat them with attention and grace.

Her pan taught me how to cook. But more than that, it taught me how to honor what’s been handed down with love.