Cast Iron Collection & Fire Cooking

[Lily&Me]

I think it might be a potato cooker, for baked potatoes?

Have found similar UK items like this, but without the long handles.

Their pics show potatoes cooked in very similar items on top of wood stoves.

But you could certainly bake a small loaf of bread in this.

Maggie

[kposey]

Ooohhh, that would make a good crispy bottom for potatoes. Now I'm hungry!

[Lily&Me]

These potato cookers are the closest I can find, but no long handles.

[OTRA15]

Spudz proprietary pan in Leucadia CA?

https://thecoastnews.com/potatoes-ta...ghts-at-spudz/

The link at the end of the 2014 article is NG FYI.

OK . . . now this inquiry is a hot potato comin' at ya . . .

CATCH!



PS -- Maggie's image, saved to desktop, and then used for a Google Images search-by-file.

[Lily&Me]

Wow, Peter, and thanks for finding that.

I don’t know how to do an image search.

Proprietary pan explains why I can’t find even a picture like this anywhere else.

Wonder if they would sell one.

Maggie

[OTRA15]

https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en

Other possibilities here:
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...w=1440&bih=731

. . . but they look flatter. Aren't there some pie cooker CI posts here? [edit -- nothing like your photo, hinged with handles]

Looks like Spudz is no longer in business IMO.

[Lily&Me]

Reading the article you linked, looks like they had this purpose built to their specifications.

It’s a cool item, and would be fun to play with, tho I have plenty of cast iron pieces to play with.

Maggie

[OTRA15]

Yup looks that way . . . proprietary . . . and probably out of business . . .

Later . . .

[Lily&Me]

Doug and I found this bottle opener at an artisan blacksmith shop out west years ago.

Made out of an old, hand-hammered railroad spike.

When I was at Bodie with HistoriCorps two summers ago, someone found in the deck area they were rehabbing a handmade/hand hammered door hinge.

Holding a piece of history in ones hand.

Maggie

[GCinSC2]

Maggie,

Gonna need a Dr Pepper, Nehi, Vernors or a PBR to test it with?

Looks cool.

Gary

[Lily&Me]

Oh, it works just fine!

Doug was the beer drinker in our house, so it has laid dormant as decor only for awhile, now.

Going to give it to my sweet son in law...he will put it to good use.

Maggie

[OTRA15]

Just came across Kent Rollins's site and YT videos:

https://kentrollins.com/
Cast iron: https://kentrollins.com/category/cast-iron/
Weekly shows: https://www.youtube.com/cowboykentrollins
Horseshoe trivet in store: https://kentrollins.com/shop-1/Horse...ivet-p84994751

Scrambled eggs:

[click on URL at top for Full Screen etc. options]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhL9c3v4bG4

Entertainment for this "Covid Camping" phase of life . . .

[Lily&Me]

Thanks for that, Peter!

I had a handled trivet with legs made for me by a blacksmith in NC some years back.

It’s in the Interstate, or I would share a picture.

Maggie

[OTRA15]

His horseshoe trivet seems great, because it has both long legs, and sort legs, which unscrew and can be stored efficiently in a flat-ish container/bag. I also like the overall horseshoe pattern -- like a large three-leaf clover or something!

Hmmmm . . . I could OD cooking something in a DO on this HT . . . just from the sheer pleasure of it . . .

[Lily&Me]

The biggest piece of cast iron in my personal collection is this wood stove in my living room.

I could not love it more, and it is my most favorite, most beloved inanimate object.

It provides heat, ambience and comfort, both physically and visually.

Just looking at the glowing red coals, and feeling the radiant heat...priceless.

[rmkrum]

Nothing quite like a good wood stove. We used to borrow a small cabin up in the mountains east of San Diego. The only heat was a small wood stove, and a pile of wood.

We went there only in the winter, DW and the boys all loved the warmth and lovely sound a wood stove makes. So old school, but so nice and comfortable in the snow.

Our Volvo station wagon was in its element. I had the back hatch fully open, the engine running, and the heat on full blast. I was walking around in shirtsleeves putting the chains on inside a bubble of heat near the rear of the car. Flat out amazing. It was below freezing in the early evening at 9,000 feet up in the mountains.

Back in those days life was much simpler.

[OTRA15]

. . . also . . . many good memories of wood stoves . . .

Enjoy them while we can . . . as they may be yet another fossil fuel "dinosaur moment" in human evolution, while we deal with increasing air quality issues IMO.

Remember burning large chunks of soft coal, to supplement the heat, in a wood fireplace back in the 50's?

Or peat in Ireland . . . ?

[Lily&Me]

Doug and I traveled in Ireland I think 5 times.

One of our favorite things was the smell of peat fires in the mornings.

Peat...such a unique thing, which we don’t have here.

Looks like a large clod of dirt, feels like a chunk of oak.

“We go out in the bog and cut it”, say the locals.

Sigh.

Maggie

[OTRA15]

They have a special small right-angled spade for that . . . I have done it . . . like dreaming about another era at this point.

. . . Sigh2 . . .

[Hittenstiehl]

Found a couple of #5 Lodge skillets the other day at a garage sale. $5.00 for the both of them.

They cleaned up quite well. Good size for camping cooking for two.