sf wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:38:05 -0500, pltrgyst > wrote:
>
>> On 1/9/14, 10:19 PM, Steve Freides wrote:
>>
>>> Just did a quick Google - looks to be vintage cast iron, but also
>>> looks a lot like any other cast iron skillet. We have exactly one
>>> of those, 12", I think - I don't know the brand but I'm sure it
>>> will outlast us. ....
>>> Does it cook better, or is it a vintage kind of thing, or some of
>>> both?
>>
>> As the OP said, it's a Griswold, and Griswold went out of business in
>> 1957. Griswold is pretty universally acknowledged to have produced
>> the finest cast iron pans ever made.
>>
> I'm with Steve. I have cast iron that came to me via my mother who
> got it from my grandmother and I wouldn't be surprised if it came from
> great-grandma. There's no name on it, but it's easily 75-100 years
> old. Cast iron pans don't need to have a brand name stamped on them
> to cook well and to last.

We have one 12" cast iron skillet, have had it forever, take lousy care
of it - wash it w/ soap and wash, almost never re-reason/oil it, and
it's still fantastic. I'll have to go look and see what brand it is.

The Griswold thing is cool to know about though - I didn't know there
was such a thing as a collectible cast iron skillet, but I'm fine w/ the
idea.

-S-