A community for cast iron cookware. Recipes, care, restoration, identification, etc.
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This is a nickel plated griswold. Nickel plating is something they did at the factory on some skillets because there was some section of the population back then who were obsessed with nickel plating.
As far as the center logo being gone, there was a time when natural gas piped to the home wasn’t as refined and still had sulfur in it and during combustion it produced a minute amount of sulfuric acid which over time caused pitting in the bottom of skillets
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Thank you so much! It's a crime how inactive this board is with how high quality the correspondence is!
Welcome to Lemmy. Give it time. The quality content is here, as you said.
If you're not already aware, nickel is toxic. You should look up care and use of nickel cookware.
It seems like the FDA has approved nickel plating for cooking, with the worst of it being for those who are allergic to nickel (like myself!). I am going to put at least two layers of seasoning over it. I imagine it shouldn't be a problem, but at the very least I'll talk to the customer about it before I sell.
Can I just say you guys are amazing for identifying a pan, of all things, from this.
I've got a lodge. If anyone ground off the logo - I'd never be able to tell!
I’ve been at this for over a decade and while I’m am by no means an expert you’d be surprised at how quickly you’ll start noticing subtle differences and eccentricities in pans from different manufacturers.
This pan for example is definitely a griswold. One can tell from a mile off from the letter typeface on the handle which is classic griswold. Seeing the bottom text and typeface sealed it. Hope this helped :)
It definitely had its seasoning completely removed. It also looks like someone gave the handle a mirror finish? Who did this to you?
Got any pics of the bottom? That would help a lot in identifying it. It’s probably so shiny because it’s been polished for some reason.
