No, I’m quite a distance from Peoria.
Good Goodwill if you’re ever up that way.
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They’re the Talenti ice cream containers of coffee cans
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Not exactly thrifting but I picked this up free from Craigslist, someone’s roommate moved out and left it behind. Super sharp.
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:::blink blink blink::: Beautiful! Especially for free!
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Score. Swedish steel.
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Yeah I’m stoked, I think it’s carbon steel and must have been freshly sharpened before they tucked it away
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Looks BA. Love it.
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I have the collector personality. I have a lot of hand-me -downs. I keep houseware gifts that relatives and friends gave me over the years. I still use things I bought 35 years ago.
I find many of my friends who had younger parents, and most of my millenial younger relatives, do not collect or reuse. They don’t have as many belongings but they’re also usually more wasteful.
Their houses are tidier. They send a lot to the landfill instead of thrift shops, or finding homes for belongings that are still useful, amongst friends.
I have one 30 yo cousin who thrifts with her husband, for housewares, toys, clothing. She’s the anomaly. I enjoy sending her stuff, because she appreciates things from the 1970s and 1980s.
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Daughter 3 was visiting some college buds and they hit a thrift store; she got this wooden-handled CI.
It was $10 and I think might be an 8-inch (haven’t seen it yet; maybe even smaller). She says it’s slick inside/not sand casted so she got it (I told her I was done sanding down cooking surfaces on crappy Lodge CI), plus she likes the wooden handle. I got a wooden handled LC ECI skillet from a fellow HO about a year ago, and she really likes not having to use a hotpad.
No maker’s mark so no clue where it’s from.
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Might. Be Japanese, as wood handles are common on Japanese pans…but of course I don’t know.
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I have one exactly like that. Mine is marked on the bottom 6 1/2 inch skillet Taiwan. Wonderful for frying my breakfast egg.
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Love it! Lodge is bumpy stuff. Sure looks like 8". Always wanted a wood handled CI. Good for her. Or you? Either way, you raised her right.
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My Ikea cast iron skillet that I bought in 1998 also has a wooden handle, too.
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Craigslist freebies. Wustof - the two on the right are heavy and super sharp - older model Wustof classic. The bigger one is also Wustof but lighter. Great set for my daughter to take with her to college next year.
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Wood handled ECI used to be fairly common, but LC and, as I recall, Dansk moved away from it. The Boston Pot Shop still offers wood handled aluminum omelette pans. If you find one, think long and hard before passing on it!
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That’s a find!
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This is a “Curtis Stone Durapan [ceramic coated] 12-inch Stainless Steel”. Got it today at the Humane Society thrift for $6.40, and it still had the sticky tag along the inside of the pan, obviously never used (especially when I washed it, I dumped out the rinse water and not one visible bead of water remained, always a good sign).
Apparently it’s a Home Shopping Network special that someone got then decided they didn’t need? Saw a headline when googling about it that HSN just launched it in May this year. They claim retail is $60 but are currently selling at the “special” price of $35 (which I suspect may be pretty much the regular price, other than jacking back to $60 every once in a while to avoid the appearance of a never ending sale, which used to be illegal and maybe still is(?). Or maybe I’m being unfair to HSN - I wasn’t even aware it still existed).
But for 6 bucks it seems like a pretty good pan. It’s got a decently thick disk (pan weight w/o lid is 1415g or a bit over 3 pounds) and the outer stainless rim is part of the unibody pressed part (at first I was afraid it was an add-on), and the lid is an exact fit all the way around, which is kind of not-usual for cheap pans. I’ll give it a whirl sometime soon and see how it does.
The only things that I don’t like is that it’s rather shallower than I’d like, 2.5 quart comfortable capacity and 3 quarts is too full to use (lid contacts the water) and the handles are tack welded (3 spots per connector) rather than riveted, so I’ll have to be careful to not let anyone knock it about.
Incidentally, I thought “Curtis Stone” was a corporate name, but it turns out he’s some kind of celeb chef from Oz.
But - six bucks! (*)
(*) P.S. Going to repost this post script to the “Silliness” thread, but…
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If one chicken costs a dollar, what’s the cost for 5 chickens?
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Buck-buck-buck-buck-buck!
(I thought it was funny, anyway. I’m feeling very dad-jokey at the moment.)
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Pristine! Nice catch.
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SOMEONE walked off or threw away my favorite potato peeler (nearly 50 years in my possession). I just loved that old school tool. I had a few minutes between stops yesterday and visited the Salvation Army resale store. Lots of kitchen gadgets and I picked up two very similar peelers for $1.98. The cashier gave me two pennies in change! Nobody gives out penny change anymore around here. The store has gone through a major renovation since I had been there a few years ago and was pretty much bare bones in all catagories. It was nice to see that all the cookbooks were housed together in one section near the kitchen wares.
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