I've had enough. No more at all. The problem is I sit down with a glass of wine and my ipad and it's easy to buy something. I found this pan online a few weeks ago, and finally got it cleaned up. And wouldn't you know it...cracked. I paid $60 too, which is the most I've paid for a cast iron pan.
It's a VERY OLD pan. It's one with a "gate mark" where they pour the cast iron into the mold from the bottom. Most places think these pans are from the 1800's, but some places I saw said the Gate Mark can be found on pans up into the 1930's. Either way, it's old. Very smooth inside, very light weight, and cracked.
Here you can see the before. This was the condition all over. So there was no way to see the crack.
And cleaned up, as much as I'm going to do anyway.
The pan is pretty cool, and yeah, I could use it for baking or something, But it would still bother me to have the crack, just knowing it's there.
These old pans had raised size numbers on the top of the handle.
The crack... It's so terrible too. Because the pan isn't warped or anything. It wobbles because of the gate mark, but from what I understand, that is to be exptected.
The quality of the pan is pretty impressive. The thin walls help with the weight, and it's so smooth, yet it wasn't ground down. Just smooth like that from the mold. I guess they used better quality sand or something.
I've also read where back in the day, people treated these pans like disposable, "throw away" items. Which is so funny. I don't know if they thought their kids and grandkids would want to have old stuff or not. Like today we think about keeping things around and passing them down to future generations, like revolvers etc. Surly they must have given some thought to saving things for grandkids, or great grandkids... Maybe?
It's a VERY OLD pan. It's one with a "gate mark" where they pour the cast iron into the mold from the bottom. Most places think these pans are from the 1800's, but some places I saw said the Gate Mark can be found on pans up into the 1930's. Either way, it's old. Very smooth inside, very light weight, and cracked.
Here you can see the before. This was the condition all over. So there was no way to see the crack.
And cleaned up, as much as I'm going to do anyway.
The pan is pretty cool, and yeah, I could use it for baking or something, But it would still bother me to have the crack, just knowing it's there.
These old pans had raised size numbers on the top of the handle.
The crack... It's so terrible too. Because the pan isn't warped or anything. It wobbles because of the gate mark, but from what I understand, that is to be exptected.
The quality of the pan is pretty impressive. The thin walls help with the weight, and it's so smooth, yet it wasn't ground down. Just smooth like that from the mold. I guess they used better quality sand or something.
I've also read where back in the day, people treated these pans like disposable, "throw away" items. Which is so funny. I don't know if they thought their kids and grandkids would want to have old stuff or not. Like today we think about keeping things around and passing them down to future generations, like revolvers etc. Surly they must have given some thought to saving things for grandkids, or great grandkids... Maybe?
