185,00 USD
Primitive Maine 1800s Very Scarce Cast Iron 3 Legged Cooking Pot, Posnet, or Spider with early primitive heavy gate mark. Found in a massive bee hive oven fireplace in northern Maine. This spider cooking pan is a fine 1800s cast iron piece with well applied early little legs. This was made well back in the day, heavy and solid piece.
Condition - Professionally Cleaned and Seasoned Organically using only food grade products with Organic Oil.
Our seasoning starts with a cleaned to the bare cast iron metal. This makes all our Cast Iron Free of Rust, Layers of Old Blackened Baked on Grease, Food, and Oil, or Repairs at All. I believe that this pan had very little use during the years, or was taken care of. The cooking surface and inner walls are as smooth as you would want with an early used cast iron pot, there are some fine utensil marks which will even out with use and additional seasoning,
Very rare clean pan and ready for many more years with proper care. There was No Rust on this when found and No signs of abuse to this pan, ready for many more years of use, a beautiful piece. I would grade the cooking surface at Very Fine Used Condition with casting flaws when made being an early 1800s cast iron piece. This was made from a early sand type mold.
Markings - 10 in. marked on the handle
Size:
9 7/8" width
3 3/8" Deep
5 1/4" height
17 3/8" long, handle to rim
This was in my own personnel collection of early primitive 1800s cookware. This has been professionally Cleaned and Seasoned and is ready for use for many more years cooking. Perfect to use for culinary restaurant chef, outdoor pit cooking, camping, rare cast iron collector, country farmhouse kitchen decor.
A word about Cast Iron Seasoning; If you are purchasing cast iron which you have read elsewhere that has been all seasoned, that seasoning should not be sticky or tacky at all. That is Not seasoning.
A word about Color; The color after just 2 seasoning coats makes the cast iron cookware piece Black looking, Not Gray. That is a sign that the piece has not been seasoned properly. Before you season a piece of bare to the metal cast iron it is grayish in color from the cleaning. That is the color of clean cast iron grayish looking, lighter to darker bare metal. Also some pieces have the polished / milled cooking surface which can be shiner grayish metal before seasoning. The older the piece the darker it can be, no two pieces of cast iron are exactly the same color.
What did your Grandmothers cast iron look like? Black A good seasoning should have no runs, not be blotchy in appearance and have the same overall color.
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All our cast iron ships with Insurance. You will get a tracking # when it ships.
Note; Cast Iron can break if not packed right. We all know shippers can be hard on your packages for this reason we ship one piece in its own package at a time & very well.
This takes you to our cast iron cookware explanation of: "Professionally Cleaned and Organically Seasoned". There are a lot of ways to clean and season cast iron. We have chosen to only use Organic and Food Grade cleaning and seasoning products. As stated above, you are what you eat. We also collect and use cast iron cook ware, it is cleaned and seasoned the same way that we offer it to you are customer. There is a very time consuming process to cleaning and seasoning cast iron. There is the science and the chemistry behind the process and the products that one uses. You never just throw cast iron into a hot fire, good way to warp or crack it. There is chemistry at work in the products that one uses in cleaning and seasoning. You have cleaners that have high metals in them and are carcinogenic inside your body. You also have hard and soft oils, you need to know what polymerization is and so you need to start with the right cleaning products and finish with the right oil. We use an Organic Oil that is an Omega-3 Supplement.
Our care instructions will be included, how to use and care for your cast iron for years to come.
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