I think it’s this model.
I would honestly prefer to switch to electric if I could for exhaust/environmental reasons. I also want to upgrade our vent hood.
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You and me both. Love gas.
Of course.
My old CI is a Wagner, but not old enough to fetch zillions, at least as far as I can tell from casual research.
Haha, I saw $100-200 and thought that was pretty good for a freebie.
it would be very difficult to “make things right” after such an episode. I hope your electric kettle is now safe!
Probably an SK.
She’s been gone for many years now but I don’t have fond memories of her. I particularly did not like her working in my kitchen. She scrubbed my carbon steel wok down to a shiny surface and left it to rust one night after I had cooked a stirfry for dinner. She and I were from completely different planets…she made it known that she disapproved of me and I let it fly that I really didn’t care. I was fortunate that her son could always blow her off, as well.
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In PA: a vintage Griswold that I restored and use a lot.
In NYC: nothing.
I just looked at some images, and a WagnerWare with identical markings to mine - no Sydney but made in USA and 10 1/2 inches just sold on eBay for $60. Not enough for me to retire on …
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Both of mine are Wagner 8s, and date to 1920ish. Im now the 4th (maybe 5th) generation to cook in them, and I love feeling that continuity. What meals have come from those skillets, and what the conversations and moods were as my grandmothers cooked. Those humble pans have heard conversations of wars, weddings, babies, funerals, traveling by horse, visiting the moon, good times and bad, arguments and love.
They’d have to be worth a lot for me to part with them.
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Beautiful. This encapsulates the fantastic value of heirloom cookware and cookery: meaning and one’s own sense of place in the world. True wealth.
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I agree. I have many kitchen things from my grandmother and mother - my estate may pitch them out, but they’re not leaving here as long as I draw breath.
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I’ve always got a skillet of some sort on the stovetop. Part of it is inertia and because it’s a daily use item.
The other thing is the pull-out cabinets where I store pots/pans is full enough with disparately shaped/sized pans that I’m the only person in the house who can manage to Tetris the stuff in there and get that last pan in.
And sometimes I forget which goes where in the Cabinet Tetris Game, and waste 5 minutes relearning it. So stovetop residence for at least one skillet is just too easy to pass up.
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One of these is on our range top all the time.
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A thing of beauty! I’d love seeing that every day…but we switched to an electric kettle for heating water for pour over coffee and starting pasta and boiling veg. It’s very efficient.
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It looks like medieval armor. Awesome
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We’ve used an electric kettle for many years. Can’t live without one. Only use gas stovetop to boil water when the power goes out.
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You’ve been in my pot cabinets!
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That’s cool. My law partner had one of those. I wish I had it as a reminder.
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