Cast iron cookware

[jakethesnake]

I like the double burner. What brand is it?

This is it. I got it for 35$ on TikTok. You don’t wanna bang it around like drop it or anything. The casting is cheap but it’s also inexpensive cheap. I really like it for cooking out of the house. I like to put in the garage as wind messes with propane burners

I’d recommend it You might have to clean up a casting flaw or two. Mine was minor issues to get the bolts in the legs. It’s got more power than my stove inside

 

[jakethesnake]

There’s enough hose to stack two coolers on top of each other to make up a makeshift stand for it to sit on. Unless you wanna lay on your belly to cook you need something. The other night was just a card table with some cardboard thrown down to catch the spatter

 

[ammoaddict]

View attachment 488405This is it. I got it for 35$ on TikTok. You don’t wanna bang it around like drop it or anything. The casting is cheap but it’s also inexpensive cheap. I really like it for cooking out of the house. I like to put in the garage as wind messes with propane burners

I’d recommend it You might have to clean up a casting flaw or two. Mine was minor issues to get the bolts in the legs. It’s got more power than my stove inside

Thanks for finding it.

 

[jakethesnake]

Thanks for finding it.

It’s actually on sale in tik tok shop I think it was 30$. And you’re welcome just needed a moment to dig around.

 

[jakethesnake]

30.79 $

 

[Philbert]

Local Goodwill had a lot of cast iron today!

Picked up this Lodge, deep, Dutch oven (8CF), with lid, in good shape, for about $13.

Looking it up on their website, it is currently on sale (!) for $10 (no lid) or $20 (with lid)!



Still did good, avoiding shipping costs.

 

[ammoaddict]

Local Goodwill had a lot of cast iron today!

Picked up this Lodge, deep, Dutch oven (8CF), with lid, in good shape, for about $13.

Looking it up on their website, it is currently on sale (!) for $10 (no lid) or $20 (with lid)!

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Still did good, avoiding shipping costs.

Nice find. They are much more expensive than that, like 3 times more. I think you found a fake lodge website. Double check it and if cast is spelled with 2 t's. It's something like lodgecasttiron.info. It is a scam website. Don't order from there. I almost fell for it.

 

[Philbert]

That WAS the address!

Thanks!

Now I feel even better about my purchase!

Philbert

 

[jakethesnake]

Nice find. They are much more expensive than that, like 3 times more. I think you found a fake lodge website. Double check it and if cast is spelled with 2 t's. It's something like lodgecasttiron.info. It is a scam website. Don't order from there. I almost fell for it.

Good catch!

 

[Hinerman]

Nice find. They are much more expensive than that, like 3 times more. I think you found a fake lodge website. Double check it and if cast is spelled with 2 t's. It's something like lodgecasttiron.info. It is a scam website. Don't order from there. I almost fell for it.

This happened to me on a different site (Darn Tough socks). The fake site was amazingly accurate and identical to the real site.

 

[legdelimber]

There's a speaker driver that I'd like to find. Amazing how many bogus websites are out there online.
Some of them seem to designed to catch search terms and simply generate a fake page for your item.
One of the hints is when you way too many disparate things listed on the site.
Google SELLING search rankings, doesn't help any with avoiding them.

The sites don't answer email queries with anything human sounding.
Or answer at all.
AI has mostly screwed us there now.

I've hit some sites that show a bogus inventory counter.
Say they have 14 in stock and number drops while you look through web page.
Click back later and the stock number is changing in (seemingly) random looking count numbers each time.

Safe shopping gents.

 

[Wilhelm]

Burning my raw cast iron BBQ grate clean



Then angle grinder wire brush the ash off and wipe down with a layer of sunflower oil.


Ready for some meat

 

[Philbert]

I attended a demonstration / promotional event for Made In cookware, at a local store.

Normally, I think of the Made In brand for clad, stainless steel cookware. But they also have a line of carbon steel cookware; enameled, cast iron cookware, made in France; and a new line of more conventional cast iron cookware *made in the USA*!



They wouldn’t tell me where in the US.

Their products are made in many, different countries, and their website is somewhat confusing: I got different results with different ‘search filters’.

And they didn’t have any of the USA cast iron there to see, smell, lick, taste, etc.

But I thought some of the folks here might find this interesting.

Lodge is still the largest manufacturer of CI cookware in the US, but no longer the ‘only’.

Lodge www.lodgecastiron.com
Made In madeincookware.com
Field fieldcompany.com
Wagner wagnercastiron.com
Smithy smithey.com
Lancaster lancastercastiron.com
Fredericksburg www.fbgcastiron.com
Finexhttps www.finexusa.com

Philbert

 

[ammoaddict]

They are pricey

 

[Philbert]

They are pricey

Yep.

Have not seen, used, or compared them all. But, a lot of folks say they want stuff like the old Griswold and Wagner stuff, and made in USA, so I posted these.

Philbert

 

[Wilhelm]

They are pricey

Buy Croatian made CI cookware if You want affordable in pricing & cheap on quality...

 

[Wilhelm]

.....a new line of more conventional cast iron cookware *made in the USA*!

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Philbert

The insides look post processed by turning/polishing.
That raises the manufacturing cost not only due to the additional processing step, but also due to increase of rejected pieces when porosities/gass pockets open.

 

[Philbert]

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[Philbert]

Buy Croatian made CI cookware if You want affordable in pricing & cheap on quality...

When you have posted pictures of your cast iron cookware, I realized how parochial we are, by only defining the brands made or sold in the US.

Even ones made in Asia for the US market, ‘look’ like ‘our’ cookware.

The only, other, styles / designs I have seen for sale here, were briefly at IKEA.

That raises the manufacturing cost not only due to the additional processing step, but also due to increase of rejected pieces when porosities/gass pockets open.

Hey, I’m a sucker for a deal on ‘cosmetic seconds’!

But, I think there is also the definition of ‘cast iron’, which includes a range of types, alloys, casting procedures, etc. That contributes to finer grain, and smoother surfaces. Usually, at additional cost.

Like working in a glass plant, many defects can get tossed back into the melt.

Philbert

 

[Wilhelm]

But, I think there is also the definition of ‘cast iron’, which includes a range of types, alloys, casting procedures, etc. That contributes to finer grain, and smoother surfaces. Usually, at additional cost.

Like working in a glass plant, many defects can get tossed back into the melt.

Philbert

Grey cast iron is purified pig iron (scrap steel molten down into ingots) with minimal additions of other alloying elements, and it is usually sand cast.

The more alloying elements You ad the more You change the properties of traditional Grey cast iron.

By reducing the molds sand grain size You get a smoother surface, but the mold breathes less and the cast will have more gas bubbles and surface porosities.

By alloying Your regular Grey cast iron and utilizing finer sand for Your molds You can get a near smooth surface with next to no surface porosities/defects.
But You can't post process those surfaces because shallow beneath what we at work call "crust" is a plethora of retained gas bubbles that get opened by removing said crust.

Yes, steel/iron can be molten and recast nigh indefinitely, but the more scrap per batch You have the higher You have to set Your products pricing.
Electricity for induction smelts is not free.