We had a post a couple days ago about cast iron cooking pans, etc. I just thought I'd add a little to it. I hope the pics work. This stuff will last forever, like a good revolver, if taken care of. If my pictures don't come out, maybe use imagination!
Griswold cooking iron
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OP
The No. 32 gas burner I hook up to propane; just had to adjust the burners for the different pressure. The valve is very old; I took it apart, cleaned and re-greased it, painted the handle green as that is what it was originally. 5th picture has a No.9 pan with a No.9 Dutch oven lid (pic 4). The waffle iron is a PITA, but works nice. I have two or three other burners I'll get to eventually, but ya gotta be in the right state of mind so I don't half-a** anything. All made in Erie, USA!
Oracle
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Our elk hunting group has a three burner. A full size grill came with the three burner. We slide the grill over a bit and put a big coffee pot on a burner. The only issue was with the individual burner valves, wimpy and fragile, we put a different brand on and we are good.
Great old stuff! Thanks for posting.
Ivan the Butcher
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My best friend's wife (when newly married), had trouble with food sticking to all his cast iron pans. She had seen the miserable condition of all his fryers and bean pots, with a layer of oil or grease absolutely covering them! He told he it was "seasoning", but she insisted it didn't add any flavor! So she scrubbed them clean. About 2 years later, she saw a cooking show on how to properly care for Iron Pans, and has now been enjoying the experience.
But my oldest son gave up trying to explain to "The German Wife" and bought her "Non-Stick" pans that get replaced every 2 or 3 years!
Ivan
BTW: I have a Camp Chef propane 2 burner. It's pretty new, only 35 to 30 years old! (I must have paid too much, they are still $99 all these years later!)
But my oldest son gave up trying to explain to "The German Wife" and bought her "Non-Stick" pans that get replaced every 2 or 3 years!
Ivan
BTW: I have a Camp Chef propane 2 burner. It's pretty new, only 35 to 30 years old! (I must have paid too much, they are still $99 all these years later!)
DeathGrip
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My wife would tell her that you can't cook a schnitzel in anything but a cast iron pan. She was from Nurnberg and a great cook.
That is a wonderful collection of Griswold products. I have a replica 1918 Griswold catalog and that is a great reference book. I wish I could remember where I got it from but maybe it is available on ebay. It is amazing the number of products the Griswold Company made.
flagman1776
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We use our cast iron regularly. A Wagner drip-drop roaster and various Griswold pieces.
Love my Griswold skillet.
My neighbor has a two burner Griswold that actually has the German swastika stamped into the brass valves. I guess they were imported from Germany in the early years. We collected cast iron for years and the wife says she has thirty cast iron fry pans in the kitchen, not counting the dutch oven and three alloy pieces on top of the cupboard for display.
I like that #32 gas burner. Very cool!
OP
We had an aluminum tea kettle at our camp when I was growing up, and an aluminum meat grinder from Griswold. I have it down my cellar in a box. It's still in the original box, although the box shows its age. I spent many nights and beers down the cellar making that burner look and work good. I guess I got the bug from my dad, as far as Griswold. I'm gonna look for that book. Yeah, they made mail boxes, stove dampers, pretty much anything cast iron or aluminum I guess.
jcs266
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Griswold cast iron was perhaps the finest ever made. I use a set of 1930's Griswold pans daily and they DO NOT STICK. Very easy clean-up.
Griswold had the best finish of any of the manufacturers. Erie, PA and cooks everywhere were dealt a hard blow when they folded up their tent in 1957. And NO, you can't have mine.
Have a couple Griswold skillets and a Wagner as well. Even have to admit to having a Lodge skillet that I took out of a house I flipped. Have a Dutch oven of unknown origin that is great. Probably a Chinese junker, but hey it works.
Use two of the skillets daily and the Dutch oven when camping on my old camp chef.
When we were raising kids they would clean the kitchen but were banned from touching my cast iron ware. Today as adults they all own cast iron and will not use anything else.
Use two of the skillets daily and the Dutch oven when camping on my old camp chef.
When we were raising kids they would clean the kitchen but were banned from touching my cast iron ware. Today as adults they all own cast iron and will not use anything else.
I bought my #14 Griswold skillet at a collectables/antique gallery in Carlisle, PA. It was a part of a stack of Griswold skillets that were nested like Russian dolls in descending size order (probably without the very expensive #13). The #14 skillet I bought was very finely finished. I should have bought the stack.
