MJHill

Griswolds retain slightly less heat, but also heat up quicker. My 10” weighs 3lb 12oz, the Lodge is 6lb 2oz. That makes a big difference if you use it to sauté. They are a true joy to cook with. If they weren’t a superior product you wouldn’t have to pay over $1,000 for some of their skillets.

You need to start looking for some Griswold. Lightest cast iron I’ve ever owned. Garage sales are your best bet for scoring them at a decent price. Any reseller knows what they’re worth and that ain’t cheap.

I polished an 8” Lodge skillet a few years back and decided to work smarter. Took my random orbit 5” sander, taped some weight on the top palm rest, put on a 120 grit mesh, placed it in the pan and turned it on a low speed. It worked like a roomba hitting the sides and spinning over the pan. I needed more control as it was spiraling. I tied off the power cord to a nearby bench so the cord was fully taught at the far side of the pan. Now the sander could swing side to side without spinning. Whenever I was home I turned it on. Changed to a finer grit after the first 8 or so hours and again after another 8-10hrs.

All told that ran for 6 days, maybe 30 hours total. Got a finish as fine as my Griswold now.

Congestion will increase with the added car lane. And that’s a fact, Jack! Every added lane to highways everywhere has attracted more car traffic and resulted in no commute time improvement. All of us need to start electing politicians who know things and understand or can at least comprehend how the world of common people actually functions!

EXCUUUUSE ME! This has everything to do with Billionaires! I was a kid in Concord touring the prototype BART cars before they had even built the first mile in the late ‘60s. And I was in Law school when Ronald RayGun’s “ Tax Simplification” act doubled the number of pages of the 1954 Tax Code it replaced. It’s always about The Billionaires and Trillionaire Wannabes! Capitalism only successfully exists when well regulated and taxed to support the infrastructure that allows it to exist. I always dreamed of an oceanside clifftop home North of Bodega Bay - settled for a hilltop 130 miles inland. But still had faith in our Country’s promise of the ideals of The New Deal. We have failed to continue the middle class progression of the post WWII economy.

Fascists play a looooooooooooong game. They were defeated in past Wars, but never expunged. And they have infiltrated and assaulted common society for Centuries.

I thought the French decapitated enough of them to teach them all a lesson.

But no. They continually crawl forward, increasing the population of uneducated to fall in line with their Victimhood propaganda.

So, yeah. It’s about Billionaires!