You know you are primal when... page 105

[Earthy Mama]

Yes. I love stumbling to the kitchen in the morning, seeing that the pan I used yesterday morning to cook eggs is still on the stove with a good amount of fat in it, and thinking "great! one less thing to do this morning!"

Exactly. This morning I woke up to a pan that hubby had cooked some ham in. I threw in a piece of bacon and then some pork chops LOL!

[valmason01]

Non primal thought: concerned about turning rancid/sick? I never know if I should wash it out first!

Yes. I love stumbling to the kitchen in the morning, seeing that the pan I used yesterday morning to cook eggs is still on the stove with a good amount of fat in it, and thinking "great! one less thing to do this morning!"

[Urban Forager]

Non primal thought: concerned about turning rancid/sick? I never know if I should wash it out first!

I do this all the time and I've never gotten sick, but our kitchen is very cool at night.

[Kata]

You know you're primal when you see marrow bones at the grocery 5 minutes from your house and squeal like a small child.

[valmason01]

Mine is too so I am going with it...makes life easier and yummier

I do this all the time and I've never gotten sick, but our kitchen is very cool at night.

[MamaGrok]

Non primal thought: concerned about turning rancid/sick? I never know if I should wash it out first!

A few things to think about
- My grandmother (and all her generation) kept a jar of bacon grease on the stove all the time. I do the same. It takes months for good fat to go bad at room temp, even in the summer in GA.
- People used to preserve things in fat, like duck confit & pemmican. Yumyumyumyumyumyum. (My farmer still does!)
- You just cooked everything in that base of that pan to an extremely high temperature.
- On our first long family trip driving cross-country & hitting national parks, we cooked on a camp stove with cast iron every morning (& eventually, dinner, too). We discovered that if we never washed the pan, it got more and more seasoned. It's hard to do otherwise at home now that we know we don't have to!
- We've been doing it at home for four years now. Not dead yet.

We rarely wash our iron. My mother would keel over just from knowing that. Even my bacon-grease grandma would have. She was from the Hygiene Generation and washed her dishes in Clorox. !!

[Earthy Mama]

we never washed the pan, it got more and more seasoned.

...washed her dishes in Clorox. !!

and *gag* lol

[namelesswonder]

You have your apple and banana with peanut butter because it's there and you ran out of almond butter, but it tastes gross.

[Drumroll]

You go for an hour long walk outside in 30 degree weather in jeans and a t-shirt and don't even realize you forgot your jacket until you reach your door at the end of it.

[naiadknight]

You play fetch/ ball with your dog (fed grain free), the neighbor kids, and their dog, and realize you last longer than all of 'em.