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- Joined
- Dec 31, 2009
- Location
- Hernando,MS
This is a cornbread stick pan I stumbled across today.The larger one is a regular pan.Just thought it was interesting.Cleaned it up and have it seasoning in the oven now.
I'd love to stumble on to one or two of those
I have the standard sized one, and I see the mini ones on eBay from time to time. I can't believe the mini ones are to conserve corn meal, but I wonder if they are sized for children? Like part of a 'kids meal' from 1850?
Ha! Good perspective.I believe they are made as a novelty or they are perfect for just 2 people.Sticks are about index finger size.Who knows? Just thought it was interesting.I do love collecting strange CI cookware.
Yeah, I could see that, and they would cook much faster too. Do you have a Griswold egg skillet in your collection? They are sized just right for fried egg sandwiches, the white is the perfect thickness. Someone really put some thought into these molds.
I have been searching but have not come across an egg skillet yet.I have seen yours in previous posts and it piqued my interest.
eBay prices have goon through the roof for the unique CI pieces, garage sales and 2nd hand stores are probably a better bet. I found and restored a Wagner breakfast griddle and gifted it to the farmer I get my eggs from, it's big and heavy but his family uses it a lot.
I just put one in my eBay cart, got ready to pay and realized I don’t need a very cool square pan to fry eggs for sandwiches badly enough to pay what they were asking. I will keep an eye out for yard/estate/garage sales though - finding something like this for a song & restoring it will make it more valuable to me anyway.
I agree with you, many of my vintage CI was passed down from my Grandma, one griddle had to be from my Gr.Grandma because it had a bail instead of a handle, and pit marks from a wood burning stove. Garage sales are the best because the asking price might be $2.
On the other hand, some eBay items are in really great shape and they have already lasted one lifetime.... when you buy it, it now has another lifetime of service. I also use my egg skillet for slow roasting heads of garlic and melting small amounts of butter, toasting spices and little jobs like that. And you can scramble one egg in them too, like you get on a breakfast sandwich.