Pie Iron Sandwiches with Jimmy Kennedy
Pie irons are a great tool to have when cooking outside over a campfire. Jimmy shows three great options for sandwiches including a dessert option.
We’re going to cook something up that’s going to warm everybody. And I don’t know if you’ve ever used these before or not. They are pie irons these are used for camping mostly. I see a lot of guys, RV and stuff, and you just hook them, you put your bread and whatever else you want in their fold them up, put them right, you latch them, put them right in the fire.
And it only takes about five or 10 minutes and you got a great sandwich. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Snack, anything you could do. Like frozen waffles in there with little syrup and apples or anything. Breakfast. And I think what we’re going to do today is probably are three or four different sandwiches. So we’re going to do a pizza and I got some pizza crust, pepperoni and mozzarella.
We got some ham and cheese, maybe a quesadilla with that. And then one of my favorite peanut butter and jelly with the banana. So you can do dessert in here as well on these pie irons. And we’ll get to it and we’ll show you how easy this is.
All right. We got two sandwiches prepped. We have a pizza. The pizza crust store-bought, pizza crust, pepperoni and mozzarella. And then we got some really good homemade bread with some peanut butter, jelly and bananas. So we got a pizza for main course and we got a little dessert. And these go right in the fire. And that’s one of the main things you want to do, I found, is you want to season these really well give them a good rubbing down with some oil, get them in the fire, get them good and hot first and always butter the bread or crust wherever we use it because it makes them come out a lot easier and they cook
better. They look better? The cool thing is you can go right in the fire with these doesn’t take long either.
See what we got here, folks? Oh, yeah. Oh, that’s all it is to it. So that’s with peanut butter and jelly with bananas that thing is looking so good. Yeah.
Easy, greasy. They’ve only been in the fire like 5 minutes. And this cast iron and once it gets hot, it’s good to go. You can cook a bunch of see what else we got.
…… this is the pizza. Oh, that’s perfect. Oh, yeah. It looks so good.
Peanut butter and jelly with bananas grilled in the pie iron beautiful. They make things square like this, and they also make them round. I like the square ones. Cut the bread like this really works really well. Let’s see what this pizza looks like.
Oh, yeah. That’s good right there. Yummy.
Cooking With Pie Irons
I think it’s fair to say that pie iron cooking is more of a technique than a particular recipe. It’s like having a panini press, a waffle iron and a cast-iron skillet all on a metal stick, which I guess is exactly what it is. Pie irons are a relatively new way of cooking for me, but I’ve become a true believer only after a few uses. It’s as easy as everyone says, and there’s really no limit to what you can cook in them. To me, it’s like an omelet in that you can fill it with pretty much anything.
The first, very important, step is to season your pie irons. It’s a good idea to season the pie irons inside and out but especially the inside. First, wash the irons with soap and water and dry well. When the irons are completely dry, rub or spray canola or vegetable oil all over the cast-iron pans. Next, put the irons into a hot fire and let “cook” for ten to fifteen minutes. After that, remove and let cool, then lightly coat the pie irons with oil again.
When you’re ready to cook, butter whatever kind of bread you are using and place the bread buttered side down on the cast iron. Fill with whatever ingredients you are using and close and latch the pie irons. Place in the fire and cook for 5 to 7 minutes.
Another thing about the pie irons is that you can check how the cooking is going. Just carefully open and take a peek. When it is toasted and golden brown remove from the fire, unlatch and open up the pie irons. Carefully remove the sandwich, pizza, quesadilla, pie, dessert or whatever else you might be cooking. Enjoy and welcome to pie iron cooking!
Some Ideas To Get You Started
(these are just basic ideas and each can have many variations)
- Breakfast sandwiches with waffles or pancakes for the bread
- Cheese quesadillas
- PB&J and banana on white bread
- Grilled ham and cheese on sourdough
- Pizza using bread or store-bought pizza crust
- S’mores
- Apple pie using piecrust or bread
- Tacos
- French toast
- Rueben
- Grilled pimento and cheese
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