802 Griswold Hot Plate

[midwestconnection]

I bought one at a Flea Market the other day, it's in great shape with porcelain handles. It's a two burner model with removable plates and a large catch pan that fits underneath the two burners. It's a table model without the long leg base that I see some have. Any idea of it's worth.

[midwestconnection]

Here it shows the 802

[midwestconnection]

While I'm at it here, does this look like I can use bottle gas propane and cook with this stove or does it need a propane orifice or something?

[Jeff Seago]

That one looks like it is in pretty good shape.  I haven't seen too many with the removable grates and when I have they have been cracked.  I would have to say that I would give $50 for it and I tend to be kind of cheap.  So I am going to throw $50-75 out there and see what the others have to say.

[Will Person]

Nice.   You don't see the 800 series much.   I am going to guess around $75 for this item.   The pan is original to this item.

Enjoy!!!


Will 8-)

[Will Person]

Jeff,  I see you put $50-75   I was thinking about $50 too,  but I think $50 is too low for a harder to find stove,  that is why I guessed $75   Like your upper guess.   I see the more common 202 stoves bringing $40-50 in nice shape.   That is just my reasoning.   I don't have a #802 stove.   I don't have any of the 800 series to tell you the truth.   If I saw it at a flea market,  I would give up to $75 for it.   I would have a hard time giving $100 for it.   but some here call me cheap!!!!! ;D

[midwestconnection]

Thanks guys, I'm thinking that with the pan and condition and being an 802 which is just short of impossible to find, the $100 plus mark isn't to much of a wishful thinking. There is nothing on the entire internet about this model. I only paid $25 and was bird happy right from the get go. I'm going to keep it and use it as my first piece in a collection of usable  Griswold cookware that I am becoming a buyer and seller and user of. It will also transport well for camping. What do we think about the health factor with the iron leeching into our food?

Does anybody know what I might need in order to hook this up to propane besides the basic hookup?

[Jeff Seago]

I think they are saying that getting iron in our diets from using cast iron is a good thing??  I believe someone on Oprah said that (Dr. Oz maybe  :-/).

[I. Gomez]

I think they are saying that getting iron in our diets from using cast iron is a good thing??  I believe someone on Oprah said that (Dr. Oz maybe  :-/).

I believe your right Jeff it was Dr. Oz.

[midwestconnection]

I have heard that too, but the last 100 years or so of cancer and other disease's skyrocketing leaves me in doubt to a lot of what is said. I can't find anything definitive regarding this.

[C. Perry Rapier]

I don't know about some of the dangers out there, but I do know that as Americans, we eat over a ton of dirt daily, and thats a lot, if you figure we live seven days a week.

[Sam Roberts]

Does anybody know what I might need in order to hook this up to propane besides the basic hookup?

Most of the older Griswold stoves were ran off of butane (city gas). I can't tell by looking at the picture if the valves on your stove are adjustable or not. If so the orfices will have to be adjusted to work with propane and the air intake vents will also need to be adjusted. I cant tell you how much to adjust either one but you will have to "play around with them" to get the best blue flame. It's a heck of a lot more work but best that you disassemble the valves, clean them up real good and then reassemble them using Plumber's Silicone Grease where ever you have moving metal to metal contact. The Grease makes everything work easy and helps seal the valves. It can be purchased in the plumbing department of Lowes. If your valves are not adjustable someone else will have to help.

[midwestconnection]

Thanks, I'll look into this. I'm guessing a common regulator from the propane tank to the stove is also needed. How about that main brass connection. Is that an orifice that needs to be propane and not city gas?

Does anybody know what I might need in order to hook this up to propane besides the basic hookup?

Most of the older Griswold stoves were ran off of butane (city gas). I can't tell by looking at the picture if the valves on your stove are adjustable or not. If so the orfices will have to be adjusted to work with propane and the air intake vents will also need to be adjusted. I cant tell you how much to adjust either one but you will have to "play around with them" to get the best blue flame. It's a heck of a lot more work but best that you disassemble the valves, clean them up real good and then reassemble them using Plumber's Silicone Grease where ever you have moving metal to metal contact. The Grease makes everything work easy and helps seal the valves. It can be purchased in the plumbing department of Lowes. If your valves are not adjustable someone else will have to help.

[Sam Roberts]

Go to any large hardware store and find the BBQ grill accessories. They sell the regulator and about a four foot hose already connected. One end of this hose will fit the propane bottle, the other end you will have to find an adaptor that will fit from the other end of your hose to your stove. These items you can also get at the department store.

[Paul Baker]

i have a 803 stove that we use a lot  i just hooked it up to a 10 lb. propane
tank and adjust the air on the front of the burnner

we haved used 3or4 differnt stoves at times some models have a adjestable
nut on the orifice just turn it a little at a time

[midwestconnection]

i have a 803 stove that we use a lot  i just hooked it up to a 10 lb. propane
tank and adjust the air on the front of the burnner

we haved used 3or4 differnt stoves at times some models have a adjestable
nut on the orifice just turn it a little at a time

Do you use  yours indoors? It seems to me that it would be the same as a common gas cook stove in the house, if it's burning clean.

[midwestconnection]

Go to any large hardware store and find the BBQ grill accessories. They sell the regulator and about a four foot hose already connected. One end of this hose will fit the propane bottle, the other end you will have to find an adaptor that will fit from the other end of your hose to your stove. These items you can also get at the department store.

Thanks, I'll look into that.

[midwestconnection]

I think they are saying that getting iron in our diets from using cast iron is a good thing??  I believe someone on Oprah said that (Dr. Oz maybe  :-/).

I believe your right Jeff it was Dr. Oz.

I researched this for a couple of hours just now through Google Search Engine. -- To much Iron is a serious health problem for our bodies and brains.

We in this craft/hobby/trade need to be aware of this. Stainless Steel and Glass are the safest. All cookware leaches to some extent. Cast Iron puts quite a bit of iron into our bodies.

[Chuck Rogers]

My personal opinion on the rise of cancers in the last hundred years is simply this. We have dumped so much into the air, onto the ground, and have added so many chemicals to our food in so many ways, that it is catching up to us. So many cancers that have never been seen, birth defects that can't be explained, and health issues of all types that are skyrocketing.

Most people are drinking water that has toxic chemicals that they don't know about. It was common place for companies to take all sorts of chemicals into the hills, or backwoods of this country, and dump it on the ground, or store it in steel drums that leaked.

The odds that cast iron is the cause of the cancer issues of today is highly unlikely. We've poisoned the earth, and are now paying for it.

Some believe that CI adds iron to the diet, but we all work so hard to seal the iron with seasoning to make it shine like black glass, and make it non-stick. I tend to believe that the iron added to your diet from CI is minimal at best. I've heard discussions for both ends of this. This is JMHO, but I'm always open to discussion. I don't have a one track mind.  :)

[Ray Benash]

I like it and I want to buy it! Did these come in a single burner with the removable insert (801)?  AFA iron in your food, that's still considered a good thing. Either way I wouldn't worry about this piece contaminating anything.

Question for the experts - when you remove one of the inserts, is the opening the correct size for a #11 waffle iron base to sit right  in place? Always wondered about that.