jmcquown > wrote:
:Goomba38 wrote:
:> jmcquown wrote:
:>> David Scheidt wrote:
:>>> If your idea of "camping" involves a car, sure. If you have to
:>>> carry the stuff, no way you want to haul the stuff. It's heavy:
:>>> it's steel covered in rock!
:>>
:>> WTF are you talking about? What's heavy steel covered in what rock?!

Granite ware is steel. It's covered in enamel. Vitreous enamel is
basically glass, which is basically rock. So your pans are steel,
coated in rock.

:>>
:>>
:> Whoa! calm down girlfriend... He is right. The enamel ware, while
:> pretty and always shown as the ideal cowbow-on-the-range-cookware is
:> a lot heavier than folks might want to hand carry in that cute lil'
:> picnic basket. If you're using your car as your "picnic carry
:> basket" and driving up to the picnic table or meadow where you're
:> going to drop your blanket then it doesn't matter?

:Sorry, but my enameled granite ware isn't heavy (to carry). Maybe if I were
:hauling a whole chicken with gravy and dressing in the speckled roasting pan
:to a picnic... yeah It's not cast iron.

:I have a number of these sauce pans (which I highly recommend for ease of
:cleaning and the ability to go from stovetop to oven if needed). I can't
:see having a problem carrying the plates and cups to serve up a picnic
:lunch. I can definitely see how "cowboys" on the range in the late 1800's
:would have carried something like this for serving up supper.

An enamel ware plate weighs about 10 oz. An aluminum plate 3 or 3.5,
a titanium plate 2. Which would you rather carry for a week or two?
Or even on a short 5 mile hike?

Oh, yeah, when you step on that enamel plate, the coating cracks, and
it rusts. When you step on a plain metal one, it bends.