Thank you so much for the word at the end. Everyone needs to hear to Fear Not... Plus I love the cast iron. I have a lot myself and I need to redo all of it but it is so intimidating. i need to start now. I also have some corn cornbread stick plates too. I even need to do those over too. Well may be I just need to watch all of your stuff again and just do it. I will fear not. thanks again
Another great video! I have learned so much about cast iron cookware in the last month since I found your channel. I appreciate all the information you share with us...I've been bingeing on your videos...lol...and can't wait for the next one!
Thank you so much. I'm really surprised to see that there's not a whole lot of TH-cam channel dedicated to cast iron. There are a few good ones on here but there are still too many out there giving bad information. Hopefully that'll change as more people are getting interested.
I really enjoy your channel and the history on cast iron in general. What tops it off is your reading of Bible Verses at the end. God Bless. Steve here in Indianapolis.
good video brother! I have a red mountain BSR #14 like yours. I used it the other day for a fish fry. keep the videos coming, and hope you and your family have a good resurrection Sunday,,,,,,,,,,,,
Thank you Steven for helping spread the Cast Iron Virus...Eric (& others) are carriers too. I've had it for years as well. A very enjoyable vid, hopefully 1st of many. We are blessed indeed. Happy Good Friday.
Such an enjoyable video to watch! I just scored a large block slant logo Griswold “Erie” skillet #8. Over 100 years old and no wobble or warpage. Don’t know how many hands it has passed through, but it was well taken care of. Have a great Easter holiday. Stay safe!
Someone who loves their cast iron collection as much as I do mine. I grew up with my mom using cast iron and I inherited her collection when she passed. I have a massive collection of cast iron and I LOVE it.
Another great video, I love seeing your pans displayed. Can I ask you how you address the weight? I have decided, in all my new spare time, to bring my pieces out of hiding with a (finally!!) serious push toward permanent display. I have way more than I thought and remembered your hook and hole wall behind you that I admire so much. What's it made of and how did you reinforce it? I've found (in my old age) that if I look into it online, I'll find every answer under the sun. Hopefully you wouldn't mind discussing it one day. Thank you so much for taking the time to post these videos and to answer so diligently. You're the MAN!!
Thank you. I put a furring strip on top of every stud which are on a 16 in spacing. I used long, pan head screws that go all the way through to the stud wall to hang the pegboard. I try to to put the heavier pieces closer to the studs and so far I've had no issues whatsoever. Everything is staying nice and flat with no bowing.
@@castIroncookware Thank you. It's a great look. You have the best backdrop on the web as far as I'm concerned Lol ! You have quite a sweet collection there on display. Very impressive, Sir! The other day I started out all gung-ho with getting mine off the floor and out of the spare downstairs room. I quickly realized how cumulative weight is probably the biggest obstacle of mine, and it's one I can't believe I never thought of before. I was always going to display everything nicely "one day". Aside from a few users in my kitchen, in absolute dread of rust I've kept mine in the house spare room on the floor, used pairs of my old jeans to buffer them from one another, and would move them around from time to time to admire them (it felt like I was some miser hoarding his gold - Haha), ...but it was always on the floor until the other day. Then, as I brought pieces out and absentmindedly set them together all on one small table, I realized "Yikes! I could squish my little dog!!" And the handles looked soooo fragile. Suddenly the table was suspect at best. Now I'm over-thinking everything. I think they call it "Analysis Paralysis". Oh well, at least the cast iron is patient, right? Take care, stay healthy Sir
Will you kindly share advice on a cast iron with slight mold in it. Is it recoverable and safe for use? Thanks in advance for your insight and tips. 2nd request ☺️
Yes, it is recoverable. A good thorough scrubbing with dish soap could take care of it. I would suggest after a thorough scrubbing to apply extremely thin layer of oil, wiping away is much excess as possible and baking in the oven at 500 degrees for an hour.
Love your videos just found your channel I’ve been power watching you for a couple hours New subscriber here! Anybody that uses the word hanker’n is my kind of people😊 Take care God bless Bryan (Little Art)
I'm still looking for a reasonably priced Handy Dan. I do have the Eddie Bauer version. I have been wondering if BS&R made it also. It looks as if the pan was made in 1992, maybe a little earlier. BS&R went out of business around that same time. Do you think Eddie Bauer might have had an agreement with BS&R before they went under and Lodge ended up making them? I'm not sure that Lodge would have converted the pan that soon after acquiring the patterns.
Most of my Dutch ovens are Lodge and Birmingham Stove and Range. I do have a few Griswold skillets. I'll be showing them on my next video in a few days.
Cast Iron Cookware I’d love to see an episode on your Lodge and BSR ovens? In my experience good Dutch ovens with their lids are hard to find. My first was a Wagner 1268 B with its original dome lid (which I cracked a day after I got it). Fortunately found a welder that fixed it fairly well and it is my kitchen user. My second unmarked Wagner did not have a lid but I bought a Lodge 10 flat lid and it fits perfectly. It is now my camping oven. Enjoy your videos. I’ve learned a lot from them and have visited most of the antique stores featured in your early Cast Iron in the Wild videos. Thanks.
I have the 8 wedge cornbread skillet.l really love cornbread made in those. I hope people listened to your message. We all need it even when times are good.
@@castIroncookware Well David rural New Mexico is funny in that everything, EVERYTHING USED from tack to firearms to cast iron gets used till it's just plumb used up. PS I have a BSR 8 wedge patent pending corn bread pan, yard sale find $10
There's no documentation suggesting the exact year BS&R put the MADE IN USA mark on their corn bread skillet and removed the pat pending, though it seems likely it was a period of a few years rather than one year. There are a large number of those pans out there with the PAT PENDING mark, quite a few more than you would expect for one year's worth of production. Also, the #3 sized six-wedge cornbread pan was only made with the PAT PENDING mark; it was discontinued and never had a MADE IN USA mark.
Yes, I do believe that the patent pending lasting more than a year on the 8 wedge. At least two for sure. It would not surprise me if some of them even went down the assembly line alongside of the USA pieces.
Market availability seems to ebb and flow with most collectibles, so I'd say that's very difficult if not impossible to tell. Plus, depending upon which collection(s) have been recently divested at any given time, or what has been picked, many fresh items can come around - sometimes more than once. (Sadly, my kids are cursed with 5 ton "inheritance". Hopefully not TOO soon LoL!!). I remember "Patent Pending" being on half the stuff around me when I was a little kid. It was everywhere on everything. I imagine that if there's no legal obligation to change once you receive your patent, most companies would opt for the economics of not retooling, especially if their butt was still covered by the "pending" markings. So maybe companies less vain or less fiscally healthy than others weren't so quick to update. I don't know, just guessing. But really, when you think on a nationwide level, there were thousands and thousands of practically every piece you can think of produced year after year. Most people viewed them, and the rest of their daily tools as purely utilitarian. We're lucky to have any of it!! I thank my cheapskate parents and grandparents, and all the others just like them!!
@@bobhughes9628 yes, there were so many factors involved. I am sure the economy of continuing to use a form until it was absolutely unfit to use came into play as well. For a couple of years the cornbread Skillet was the biggest seller for Birmingham Stove and Range and may have played a part of them staying in business a little bit longer. There is no telling how many they made during that time. When you get a hot item like that, you turn out as many as you possibly can to make it count before the demand drops or others copy it.
I do not currently have one but I do plan on picking up one the next time I get a chance. I suppose they are seasoned but I will have to do some investigating and experimenting to find out exactly how.
I'm finding out this is a cast iron nerd joke because nobody gets it. I was checking my local thrift store when I found a unseasoned Lodge corn stick pan. Normally I wouldn't have gotten it but someone had tried to make cornbread in it. Needless to say it stuck really bad and it was only used once. I know you can cook in unseasoned cast iron though I haven't tried. I gave $4 and came home laughing but no one got it. I had fun and that's all that really matters. :)
Thank you for sharing the Word. It is a blessing.
Loved your reading of Scripture. God bless you and yours. 😇🇺🇸
Thank you. The Word is always very encouraging to me.
good video
Amen
Well your full of knowledge and thought me a lot thanks.
Thank you so much. It is very encouraging to me to know that I'm helping.
Nice collection. God bless you 🙏
Thank you and God bless you as well.
Thank you so much for the word at the end. Everyone needs to hear to Fear Not... Plus I love the cast iron. I have a lot myself and I need to redo all of it but it is so intimidating. i need to start now. I also have some corn cornbread stick plates too. I even need to do those over too. Well may be I just need to watch all of your stuff again and just do it. I will fear not. thanks again
Thank you so much. I have a few that I don't use very often that need attending to and yes it is a little bit intimidating to get started.
That 007J was probably the James Bond series :)
That's what I was thinking when I read it. I should have mentioned that. LOL
@@castIroncookware I thought that was so funny and was surprised you didn't say something about it. :)
Thank you
Another great video! I have learned so much about cast iron cookware in the last month since I found your channel. I appreciate all the information you share with us...I've been bingeing on your videos...lol...and can't wait for the next one!
Thank you so much. I'm really surprised to see that there's not a whole lot of TH-cam channel dedicated to cast iron. There are a few good ones on here but there are still too many out there giving bad information. Hopefully that'll change as more people are getting interested.
Curious how y'all store your cast iron, what's the best way
The best way for me is hanging it on the wall.
I really enjoy your channel and the history on cast iron in general. What tops it off is your reading of Bible Verses at the end. God Bless. Steve here in Indianapolis.
Thank you so much. I wanted to do something that was encouraging but not sound preachy. Nowadays a little bit of encouragement can go a long way.
@@castIroncookware Thank you Steve for your reply, I enjoy watching , and especially the reading of the verses . God Bless.
I love the last pan but, I don’t think I would be able to lift 😢
Thank you for sharing these special pieces in your collection. They are some nice looking pans.
I plan to share a little more every now and then. I did not want to try and cover all of them at once. That would be a terribly long video.
1:23 I found one of those at a good will before the covid stuff started!
I can't wait to be able to go back to thrift stores.
good video brother! I have a red mountain BSR #14 like yours. I used it the other day for a fish fry. keep the videos coming, and hope you and your family have a good resurrection Sunday,,,,,,,,,,,,
Thank you and hope that you and your family have an awesome Resurrection weekend as well.
I love cast iron. I have a hard time cleaning and restoring my 8 wedge corn bread pan please help
The corners are what give me a hard time
Thank you Steven for helping spread the Cast Iron Virus...Eric (& others) are carriers too. I've had it for years as well. A very enjoyable vid, hopefully 1st of many. We are blessed indeed. Happy Good Friday.
You are so very welcome. Eric's Channel Cast Iron Chaos played a big part in me getting hooked as well.
Great stuff and, as always, very educational. Hope you keep them coming. Your affection for cast iron cookware is contagious.
Thank you so very much. Hopefully I will keep them coming and thank you for watching.
Such an enjoyable video to watch! I just scored a large block slant logo Griswold “Erie” skillet #8. Over 100 years old and no wobble or warpage. Don’t know how many hands it has passed through, but it was well taken care of. Have a great Easter holiday. Stay safe!
That is an awesome find! If that ban could talk, the stories I could tell. Have a great and blessed Easter as well.
Love your story Stephen at the end on your large skillet and how it all started for you..thnx for the video.
You're absolutely welcome. I really enjoyed telling that story.
Thanks so much for sharing your collection. Thanks for the wonderful Scripture.
Someone who loves their cast iron collection as much as I do mine. I grew up with my mom using cast iron and I inherited her collection when she passed. I have a massive collection of cast iron and I LOVE it.
Another great video, I love seeing your pans displayed.
Can I ask you how you address the weight? I have decided, in all my new spare time, to bring my pieces out of hiding with a (finally!!) serious push toward permanent display. I have way more than I thought and remembered your hook and hole wall behind you that I admire so much. What's it made of and how did you reinforce it? I've found (in my old age) that if I look into it online, I'll find every answer under the sun. Hopefully you wouldn't mind discussing it one day. Thank you so much for taking the time to post these videos and to answer so diligently. You're the MAN!!
Thank you. I put a furring strip on top of every stud which are on a 16 in spacing. I used long, pan head screws that go all the way through to the stud wall to hang the pegboard. I try to to put the heavier pieces closer to the studs and so far I've had no issues whatsoever. Everything is staying nice and flat with no bowing.
@@castIroncookware Thank you. It's a great look. You have the best backdrop on the web as far as I'm concerned Lol ! You have quite a sweet collection there on display. Very impressive, Sir! The other day I started out all gung-ho with getting mine off the floor and out of the spare downstairs room. I quickly realized how cumulative weight is probably the biggest obstacle of mine, and it's one I can't believe I never thought of before. I was always going to display everything nicely "one day". Aside from a few users in my kitchen, in absolute dread of rust I've kept mine in the house spare room on the floor, used pairs of my old jeans to buffer them from one another, and would move them around from time to time to admire them (it felt like I was some miser hoarding his gold - Haha), ...but it was always on the floor until the other day. Then, as I brought pieces out and absentmindedly set them together all on one small table, I realized "Yikes! I could squish my little dog!!" And the handles looked soooo fragile. Suddenly the table was suspect at best. Now I'm over-thinking everything. I think they call it "Analysis Paralysis". Oh well, at least the cast iron is patient, right? Take care, stay healthy Sir
Kind of reminds me of my ukulele group. There is always room for one more ukulele. Whether it will be used or not is immaterial.
That is so true.
Richard Walker 😂😂😂😂
Will you kindly share advice on a cast iron with slight mold in it. Is it recoverable and safe for use? Thanks in advance for your insight and tips. 2nd request ☺️
Yes, it is recoverable. A good thorough scrubbing with dish soap could take care of it. I would suggest after a thorough scrubbing to apply extremely thin layer of oil, wiping away is much excess as possible and baking in the oven at 500 degrees for an hour.
Love your videos just found your channel I’ve been power watching you for a couple hours New subscriber here! Anybody that uses the word hanker’n
is my kind of people😊
Take care God bless
Bryan (Little Art)
any of your forsale..????
It's really hard for me to sell any of my pieces. LOL. I do when I have duplicates but at the moment I do not have any.
I'm still looking for a reasonably priced Handy Dan. I do have the Eddie Bauer version. I have been wondering if BS&R made it also. It looks as if the pan was made in 1992, maybe a little earlier. BS&R went out of business around that same time. Do you think Eddie Bauer might have had an agreement with BS&R before they went under and Lodge ended up making them?
I'm not sure that Lodge would have converted the pan that soon after acquiring the patterns.
That does make a lot of sense to me. There were a lot of complications involved between BSR Inn lodge during that time frame.
Enjoyed seeing your collection. Sure would like to see an episode on griswold and Wagner Dutch ovens.
Most of my Dutch ovens are Lodge and Birmingham Stove and Range. I do have a few Griswold skillets. I'll be showing them on my next video in a few days.
Cast Iron Cookware I’d love to see an episode on your Lodge and BSR ovens? In my experience good Dutch ovens with their lids are hard to find. My first was a Wagner 1268 B with its original dome lid (which I cracked a day after I got it). Fortunately found a welder that fixed it fairly well and it is my kitchen user. My second unmarked Wagner did not have a lid but I bought a Lodge 10 flat lid and it fits perfectly. It is now my camping oven. Enjoy your videos. I’ve learned a lot from them and have visited most of the antique stores featured in your early Cast Iron in the Wild videos. Thanks.
@@moderntentcamping as soon as this whole virus thing is over, I plan on doing more Wild videos and in a wider area range.
I have the 8 wedge cornbread skillet.l really love cornbread made in those. I hope people listened to your message. We all need it even when times are good.
Very nice looking stuff! It's like a potato chip- you can't just have one 🤣🤣🍳
Five years ago, I would have never dreamed that I would be so caught up in this. It is a great Hobby.
I see some iron mtn up there.
I do have a couple of Iron Mountain pieces. A #7 and a #8. They are awesome pans. I'll be showing them on the next video in a few days.
awesome. department store brands are very interesting
and I thought I was the only one...
The hard part is not being able to get out and hunt during this whole stay-at-home thing.
@@castIroncookware Well David rural New Mexico is funny in that everything, EVERYTHING USED from tack to firearms to cast iron gets used till it's just plumb used up. PS I have a BSR 8 wedge patent pending corn bread pan, yard sale find $10
There's no documentation suggesting the exact year BS&R put the MADE IN USA mark on their corn bread skillet and removed the pat pending, though it seems likely it was a period of a few years rather than one year. There are a large number of those pans out there with the PAT PENDING mark, quite a few more than you would expect for one year's worth of production. Also, the #3 sized six-wedge cornbread pan was only made with the PAT PENDING mark; it was discontinued and never had a MADE IN USA mark.
Yes, I do believe that the patent pending lasting more than a year on the 8 wedge. At least two for sure. It would not surprise me if some of them even went down the assembly line alongside of the USA pieces.
Market availability seems to ebb and flow with most collectibles, so I'd say that's very difficult if not impossible to tell. Plus, depending upon which collection(s) have been recently divested at any given time, or what has been picked, many fresh items can come around - sometimes more than once. (Sadly, my kids are cursed with 5 ton "inheritance". Hopefully not TOO soon LoL!!). I remember "Patent Pending" being on half the stuff around me when I was a little kid. It was everywhere on everything. I imagine that if there's no legal obligation to change once you receive your patent, most companies would opt for the economics of not retooling, especially if their butt was still covered by the "pending" markings. So maybe companies less vain or less fiscally healthy than others weren't so quick to update. I don't know, just guessing. But really, when you think on a nationwide level, there were thousands and thousands of practically every piece you can think of produced year after year. Most people viewed them, and the rest of their daily tools as purely utilitarian. We're lucky to have any of it!! I thank my cheapskate parents and grandparents, and all the others just like them!!
@@bobhughes9628 yes, there were so many factors involved. I am sure the economy of continuing to use a form until it was absolutely unfit to use came into play as well. For a couple of years the cornbread Skillet was the biggest seller for Birmingham Stove and Range and may have played a part of them staying in business a little bit longer. There is no telling how many they made during that time. When you get a hot item like that, you turn out as many as you possibly can to make it count before the demand drops or others copy it.
Do you have a cast iron kettle? If you do, do you know how they are seasoned? Or are they seasoned?
I do not currently have one but I do plan on picking up one the next time I get a chance. I suppose they are seasoned but I will have to do some investigating and experimenting to find out exactly how.
It would be nice to know the rarity and value on some of those items. You only gave the value in the large skillet.
I will try to remember adding that on the next ones.
It would take me years, Stephen ,before I’d be able to use everything in your collection. lol. Impressive! 😉👍🏻🇨🇦
I have been using that beautiful McClary the last few days. It is an awesome pan.
I’m so glad you’re enjoying it!
i want to see you make a great big oven roast with vegs in that big skillet, if you have a lid for it.
Sadly, Birmingham Stove and Range did not make a lid for the #14. The largest one they made was a #12.
I'm finding out this is a cast iron nerd joke because nobody gets it. I was checking my local thrift store when I found a unseasoned Lodge corn stick pan. Normally I wouldn't have gotten it but someone had tried to make cornbread in it. Needless to say it stuck really bad and it was only used once. I know you can cook in unseasoned cast iron though I haven't tried. I gave $4 and came home laughing but no one got it. I had fun and that's all that really matters. :)
OK, we will go with Addiction it does fit, lol
Admitting it is half the battle.
Would you sell any of those cast irons to me
Is really hard to turn loose of any of them. I suppose I might be even considered a hoarder. LOL