My family used to own a restaurant back in the early 1900s. This was handed down to me, and I wonder if it was used when they ...

Learn more Cast-iron cookware manufacturers are a dime a dozen, with new brands hopping on the heritage-cookware bandwagon seemingly weekly. But when a legendary name like Wagner passes by, it stops ...

And don’t believe the myths — cleaning and maintaining a cast-iron pan isn’t all that hard. If you haven’t been lucky enough to inherit a generations-old Wagner or Griswold cast iron ...

By the mid- to late 1800s, three leading American manufacturers of cast iron cookware had emerged: Griswold Manufacturing ...

But there are others (particularly cast-iron nerds and collectors) who swear by the superior quality of their vintage pan ...

You could search for vintage pans like Griswold and Wagner at antique shops or on eBay, though there’s risk you’ll run into cracks or rust. New cast iron can still provide that excellent ...

The value of an antique cast-iron skillet largely depends on the manufacturer. Due to rarity, names like Griswold, Wagner (recently rebooted) and Favorite fetch higher prices on the secondhand market.