Thread: Cast Iron Skillet Advice

Unless you find some really good old ones you can't beat Lodge preseasoned cast iron products.

Are you planning on deep frying alot of fish ? Mine holds a gallon of oil and plenty of room to spare. But if your pan frying a shallow skillet is better and like sawman53 said. Lodge are good unless you can find an old one at a yard sale.

I have a couple of the Lodge skillets. There not bad. I have to tell you though. I inherted my Great Grandmothers set when she passed. She passed 2 days shy of her 105 birthday. The amazing thing to me was. Up till the day she died. She lived on her Own. I remember her 100 birthday, I asked her. What is the secret to living to be 100 years old. She told me her secret was to not take naps and be in bed by 8:00pm:D She used these cast iron skillets almost daily for if I had to guess..70 years. They say Wagner on the bottom of the skillets. They are seasoned like no cast iron skillet I have ever seen. You can almost see your reflection in these. I got 7 skillets in about 5 different sizes. I was told by a friend of mines father. That I could easly get $500 or more for the set. He said there is quite the market for old cast iron cookware. That has been takin care of. I would sell my lodge skillets but, I think I will hold on to these and pass them along to my kids. I still use them to cook fish,chicken,hamburgers,bacon. You can't beat chicken in a cast iron skillet. Anyway, I would check Ebay for some older ones that have already been seasoned well.

If you are looking for something to cook in, its hard to beat a Lodge. They are easy to season and easy to keep seasoned but they are heavy and don't overlook Birmingham Stove and Range. They were Lodges main competitor before they went under in 1993. I prefer the old Lodges circa 1920-1930, and old Erie skillets which are pre Griswold..they are much lighter than todays Lodges. Of course, I use a lot of different ones but I have settled on a small logo Griswold size 9 for my everyday skillet. I use a old 1920-1930 Lodge one notch chicken fryer for fried chicken, nothing beats it for fried chicken. And I use a Lodge dutch oven for beans, chicken stew and bigger meals. I buy and restore old cast iron...not bragging but there is not much about cast iron cookware that would fool me. When I have time I restore the cast iron and resell certain ones to finance my search for more cast iron. The last pictures shows just a few of my one notch Lodges circa 1920-1930 that I have restored. I have several hundred pieces of cast iron including quite a few of the old "Wagner" that PININTHEPIGPEN is speaking.

Poppop you don't have an iron skillet do you ? lol

Those are just about a third of what I have....but I am always looking for more Flyroblures...

Gee wiz thats a lot of iron !

Dang man,you own an iron mine or what!!!!