RobHerrington
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My favorite skillet, for its size anyway, is a large slant logo Griswold #4 I bought on ebay for about $90, I think. It came in last year, well packed and looking beautiful, from a guy and his son that do a lot of these. It is conspicuously free of wear, which seems odd, but what my wife says is the clincher is this:
I accidentally knocked it off the wall, where it was hanging maybe 6.5 feet from the floor. It fell onto a wood parquet floor in the kitchen, right on the tip of the handle, and the handle broke off along with about one inch of the skillet wall. I should have stuck my foot out to break its fall. The seam where it broke looks very clean. It can even be glued back together to serve as an ornament if nothing else.
I really didn't suspect anything but my wife, who is Chinese and trained in science, asked "Is cast iron supposed to break when it falls on a wood floor? I think that's a Chinese fake."
Thoughts? Thanks.
I accidentally knocked it off the wall, where it was hanging maybe 6.5 feet from the floor. It fell onto a wood parquet floor in the kitchen, right on the tip of the handle, and the handle broke off along with about one inch of the skillet wall. I should have stuck my foot out to break its fall. The seam where it broke looks very clean. It can even be glued back together to serve as an ornament if nothing else.
I really didn't suspect anything but my wife, who is Chinese and trained in science, asked "Is cast iron supposed to break when it falls on a wood floor? I think that's a Chinese fake."
Thoughts? Thanks.