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Offline Mike Bohannon

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Chef Skillet
« on: October 19, 2006, 07:45:50 PM »
Can anyone advise on a good 'user' chef skillet?  The only ones I run accross are the later Griswold/Wagner marked ones and they seem, well,  the lesser quality like the rest of the double marked pieces.  What should I be looking for?  Thanks, Mike
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2006, 08:59:33 PM »
Hi Mike,

I really like my Wagner and Wagner/Griswold marked 9" chef skillets.  If you are just looking for a good user, I would sure recommend these skillets.  Once they get a good seasoning on them, they are great.  Griswold made a chef skillet also, but I don't own one, so I can't compare them for you.  I believe it is p/n# 43.  You see them on ebay occasionaly, but I've never won one of them.  I did finally win a 10" Wagner chef skillet, so now I guess the only one left to find is the 11" Wagner.  Like I said though, the 9" chef skillets are great users.

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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2006, 10:51:40 PM »
Mike, the older Wagner marked chefs skillets in the 9" size seem pretty plentiful to me so that's what I'd look for.  The much older ones with a regular skillet type handle are very hard to find but I like them best.  Lodge I think makes a new chefs type skillet.

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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2006, 10:59:42 PM »
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the older Wagner marked chefs skillets in the 9" size seem pretty plentiful to me so that's what I'd look for.
Steve, Are those the ones with the thumbprint handles?  I see a lot of those but I never see the earlier ones with the regular skillet type handles.  I'd love to have a set of those... me and everyone else I'm sure.
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2006, 11:31:32 PM »
Yes, the ones I said were somewhat plentiful are the thumbprint handle ones marked WAGNER and Sidney -0-.  They may not be as common as the unmarked similiar ones that are later but I see them around several + per year.

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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2006, 07:50:19 AM »
Wagner  made 3 sizes with the thumb rest handle and stylized logo 9,10,11,that are good,and get all 3 for a set. I use the older 1384, 1386, 1389, that are unmarked, thay are 7.5'', 9.5'', 11.25'' a little lighter and as smouth as glass. Still trying to get a marked set of this 1930 chef sk. page 22 of the red book.There are outhers that are hard to find and that is Griswold 2708,2705,2703 with the bake like handle that are not in the books (check this out Steve)I believe that thay were made in the Wagner ware factory. Has anybody got a chef sk. with a gate mark on the bottom? I am looking fo a gate marked chef sk.
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2006, 12:08:08 PM »
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There are outhers that are hard to find and that is Griswold 2708,2705,2703 with the bake like handle that are not in the books (check this out Steve)I believe that thay were made in the Wagner ware factory. Has anybody got a chef sk. with a gate mark on the bottom? I am looking fo a gate marked chef sk.
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Clark, those Griswold bakelite handled pans were made in Erie at the end of production.  Nice pans.  I took a box of the original bakelite handles (with permission) from the old foundry in 1984 and had the set.  The trademark is the late, large TM like is on some No.3 grooved handle skillets, the square skillets with handle on the side and many casserole dishes.  That's all very late Erie production and genuine Griswold.  I think my set of the bakelite handle pans is in the first L-W Griswold book.

I have two bottom gated skillets that are very close to a chef's type pan, neither marked and maker unknown.  One was porcelainized on the inside and the other is somewhere in my stack of pans so I don't remember exactly what it looks like.

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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2006, 04:01:51 PM »
Thanks Steve, I have here two photos, photo #1 Griswold 2703 chef sk.and a aluminum that reads Magnalite Sidney, Ohio Chef Skillet 8 inch 4507. there is a 4509 also. Made by Randle ? or GHC ? at the Wagner factory. The handles are very different and bake like.
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2006, 04:05:19 PM »
Close up of handles.
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2006, 09:41:59 PM »
Thanks to all!!  I haven't paid much attention to chefs skillets, so glad to see the discussions and pictures!  Clark- thanks for the pictures.  Post more pics of your chef skillet collection if you have time.  Thanks, Mike
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2006, 10:27:30 PM »
Clark,
I have not seen that Magnalite chefs skillet and no knothing about it.

Steve
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2006, 08:23:55 PM »
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Clark,
I have not seen that Magnalite chefs skillet and no knothing about it.

Steve


Steve, that has to be the first thing you ever admitted to not knowin nuthin about.  ;D
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2006, 09:01:03 PM »
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Steve, that has to be the first thing you ever admitted to not knowin nuthin about.  ;D
Perri, sooner or later something had to come along that would stump me.  I can't believe it took 62 years to appear.

Steve
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2006, 09:37:25 PM »
Thank you Steve & Perry, I injoyed that very much. clark  :)
P.S. would that be bake lite handle?
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2006, 09:54:28 PM »
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Steve, that has to be the first thing you ever admitted to not knowin nuthin about.  ;D
Perri, sooner or later something had to come along that would stump me.  I can't believe it took 62 years to appear.

Steve

It didn't.  ;D
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2006, 08:54:42 PM »
Here's the photo of a gatemarked chef style skillet that was porcelained. Hard to tell, but the bottom appears that it was porclained as well. Bottom View
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #16 on: October 22, 2006, 08:55:13 PM »
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2006, 10:09:02 PM »
Dwayne that is a nice looking gate marked sk. A good skillet for the family.
I am looking for the missing link between the wok and the chef skillet.And that sk just night be it. I suppose that if it was cast iron it would have that  old gate mark on the bottom. Just where did the word Chef Skillet come from?I am sure that it did not come from out west and from the buffalo hunter.  ;D
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2006, 10:57:21 PM »
If memory serves me correctly, Steve has one that looks like this one as well. As far as the name, it would be interested to know how and when it came about. Does anyone know about what year the term "Chef Skillet" came out in catalogs?
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Re: Chef Skillet
« Reply #19 on: October 23, 2006, 01:33:02 AM »
Dwayne, your memory card has all its ones and zeros intact.  My pan is even in such terrible "mint used" condition.  Even though these pans are close to Wagner's chefs pans the bottoms are flatter and wider.  Still they may be considered chefs skillets?  I don't know.  Close enough I guess.  Isn't that a goofy looking handle but it's as comfortable as any handle I think.  Neat pans but funny ones at that.

Steve
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