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| 2021-09-05 |
| [Finex] This stuff is just too expensive. But they have done a lot of worthwile research into this important product and share that freely on their website. We tripped across this massive unmarked skillet while hunting for vintage cast iron the other day and it "accidentally" ended up in the ever growing FINEX collection. It is well over 20 inches in diameter and 3 inches deep and weighs in at a ridiculously heavy 36 pounds and 3 ounces. The casting quality is rough and it has a heat ring and a gate mark on the bottom of the pan. Besides being the largest cast iron skillet we’ve ever seen, can you even imagine the stories this skillet could tell? Did it keep a logging camp fed on cold mountain mornings? Did soldiers gather around this in the mess tent? One thing is for sure and that is that come Sunday morning we are going to make the mother of all blueberry pancakes in this beauty. |
| Posted by:M. Murcek |
| #5 that sized skillet is standard gear on our Middle Fork Trips |
| Posted by: 746 2021-09-05 10:54 |
| #4 More to getting protein in the field than eating the peanut butter in an MRE. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-09-05 07:41 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-09-05 07:39 |
| #2 Years ago at a KOA Kamp Store, they were selling a 36" skillet, but it was cheap pressed aluminum with a wooden handle and a coating that I'm sure would last beyond the first use. I have a 12" Lodge and had no trouble making 5 lb of taco meat in it yesterday. Looking at that skillet on the stove inspired the search that lead to this post. I'd love to own some of the Finex stuff, but I'd buy more Le Creuset product first. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-09-05 07:25 |
| #1 Our cook uses one of these at our Civil War reenactments. We once aquired an ostrich egg. It filled up the skillet. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2021-09-05 07:18 |