On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:39:13 -0500, "Jessica V." > wrote:

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>>>> jim
>>
>>
>> You missed the point, katra, about iron by talking about Griswold. I
>> could care less about what cast iron you use. It was about using iron
>> cookware, REGARDLESS OF BRAND.
>>
>> My question still stands on whether or not there is a relationship
>> between the decline in the use of cast iron and the rise of iron
>> deficiency in women.
>>
>> I am very happy you have a lot of iron. Can you say the same for all
>> other women? Not a chance. The rise in iron deficiency predates the FDA
>> stance on meat by many, MANY, years, so I don't think meat is the
>> primary cause. Could be, but that is after the fact.
>>
>>
>> I could care less about the Griswold. If they are lighter, then they are
>> thinner, are they not? And one of the very best things about cast iron
>> is that it is a great heat sink, especially if you are frying. Your
>> Griswold would be inferior in that capacity to the old Lodge stuff I have.
>>
>>
>> jim
>
>
>Try a Griswold before you make anymore statements like this Jim. They
>realy are good pans. Better than Wagner and exponentially better than
>Lodge. A good old Griswold pan is not thin but it is lighter in weight
>than the mammoth has to be huge, heavy and cheap pans that Lodge sells.
>
>Cooks don't spent the upwards of $1000 for certain Griswold pans because
>they are inferior to Lodge.
>
A contrary opinion here. I have an old Griswold and an old Wagner,
both smooth inside. I also have a new Wagner that had the rough
inside. I smoothed it with a disc grinder.

The Griswold is nice to look at, and works ok, but it is in no way
better functionally than the Wagners, except that my wife can't lift
the big Wagner and tilt it controllably after deglazing.

The thinner bottom doesn't conduct heat as well as the thicker bottom,
just as physics tells you. And, iron doesn't conduct heat as well as
copper or aluminum at the same thickness.

I would always try to find old iron skillets if possible. I found my
big Wagner in an old hardware store by going down to the bottom of a
dusty stack of pans. It was probably there for many years. I don't
know when they stopped smoothing the insides.



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