this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
59 points (96.8% liked)

Cast Iron

2016 readers
1 users here now

A community for cast iron cookware. Recipes, care, restoration, identification, etc.

Rules: Be helpful when you can, be respectful always, and keep cooking bacon.

More rules may come as the community grows, but for now, I'll remove spam or anything obviously mean-spirited, and leave it at that.

Related Communities: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

I picked this up at a yard sale and reseasoned it. There are no markings on it. Any idea what brand this is?

top 11 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it doesn't have one? people might slap a logo on everything nowadays but it's never been a requirement for a product to be quality. Looks like a nice cast iron to me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For a very long time, metal workers have been leaving markings on their works. As in, thousands of years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Of course they have been, but we have been mass producing simple items like these for well over a century or two. I'm simply saying I wouldn't be surprised if this specific style of pan was sold/manufactured by more than one brand if not unbranded altogether.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Unmarked pieces are also not unheard of. It could have been a white label product that would have been sold by a retailer under a store brand's name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Take notice that I will not accept any copper from you that is not of fine quality.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most likely you're looking at a pan that is 200 to 100 years old small production. I'm guessing sand casted based on the handle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The rim is an uneven thickness and has some jagged spots which made me think it might have been cast by hand.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Probably impossible to know without some markings, absurd media reach, or access to a museum expert.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ah, the good ole' SOUTHERN MYSTERY SKILLET!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This looks exactly like the set my grandparents gifted me. They were in a large wooden box from Costco that was bought YEARS ago! Came with a cast iron skillet and 2 more smaller cast iron pans. I would bet that it's from this set.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Interesting, do you have photos?