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Consoom Pots and Pans 🍳 (media.scored.co)
posted 1 year ago by USSDefiantJazz on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +49Score on mirror )
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USSDefiantJazz on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 2 children
I have a Le Creuset cast iron frying pan I bought for pennies on the dollar at the Thrift store. But once I know I will be settling down in a place to stay, I will buy myself a set of Field cast iron.

https://fieldcompany.com/products/field-cast-iron-skillet
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MI7BZ3EW on scored.co
1 year ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror )
Iron is iron. If you really need to, you can resurface your pan with a grinder or sand paper. But I have never needed to.
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WhatWouldMountainDew on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
I'm sure it's nicer than a Lodge, but IMHO it's not $100 nicer than a Lodge. You're paying a "machined" cooking surface which is something you can get (or exceed) from any piece of cast iron with some elbow grease.

That Le Creuset was a steal though.
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USSDefiantJazz on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 2 children
The reason the Lodge is cheap is because it's really difficult and expensive to make a cast iron pan thin and smooth like in the olden days. The $165 for a brand new Field is dirt cheap when you consider that a vintage Wagner or Griswold would cost over $200.
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GoneViking on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
WHAT!? where in the country are you? I have piles of Wagners, Piqua Favorite, and Griswolds that at most I paid $30 a piece for. Antique stores around here have old name brand skillets stacked to the ceiling for cheap. But, both Wagner and Piqua Favorite did their manufacturing within 10 miles of here, so maybe that affects supply, even many years later.

Also, finishing is the real difference between quality and junk. I have taken several junk Chinesium cast iron pans and went to work on them with a wire wheel, then seasoned them. They cook excellent once worked a bit.
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USSDefiantJazz on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 2 children
Dude, how far out in the sticks do you live? Go check eBay and it will confirm my pricing is correct. If you have a ton of these vintage cast iron pans bought for $30 each, you've done well.
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Beebenheimer on scored.co
1 year ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
Most antique stores don't know what they actually have. I picked up an 8 inch cast iron for 20 bux from an antique store. They were selling it as a display piece.
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GoneViking on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
I checked ebay, a lot of the vintage ones that are high priced seem to be either unusual/collector ones, or they've been restored. But there are plenty of usable good ones (i searched for Wagner skillets) on there for less than $40. You'll need to clean and season them, but I'd do that anyway with any used cast iron. The antique store ones often are rusty or sometimes have been spray painted to be display pieces. Throw them in the campfire, it'll clean the paint or years of gunk off. Finding Dutch ovens with matching lid is tough to do at most antique stores, but they'll have skillets for cheap.
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WhatWouldMountainDew on scored.co
1 year ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
I'm not going to argue with you about skillets. If you want to pay that much, go ahead. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll find a used one for pennies on the dollar and wait to get blown away by the performance of thin cast iron.
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