If you can find a Griswold Double Skillet, you would have everything cast iron you need for home or camp. The bottom half is a tall chucked fryer and the top is a regular sized skillet. They are hinged and being flat on both top and bottom, you can use it as a regular Dutch oven using coals

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It's the one I carry in the woods and when I was a hunting guide.

Pap

Here in deep east Texas back in the day, "rich folks" had electric ranges and "working class folks" had gas ranges.

My better half and myself were raised in the "gas range" group. So when we set up housekeeping several decades ago we wanted an electric range. It had steel coil burners and worked OK with cast iron skillets if not as good as a gas range.

Now "rich folks" have restaurant-grade gas ranges and "working class folks" have electric ranges. Which is OK too until the electric range needs to be replaced.

Since we use cast iron skillets, griddles and comals (look it up non-Texans) we can't replace our electric range with a glass top range.

Have you tried to buy a decent non-glass top electric range?

Ok, rant over. I'm going outside to fry up some chili rellenos on my gas grill.

Nothing beats cooking on a gas burner, nothing.

Pap

I ender up with a glass top range and so sold all of my Griswold and lodge. wife wanted a glass top range so that is what we got. I would prefer a gas range but the glass top is in to good of condition to get rid of. The wife has passed on so I don't cook much anymore.

Gas range sure works better for lighting your cigarette.

I cannot cook at all with electric range. I seem never to get the heat just right.

At the house it is a gas range but up north at the cabin in Maine,it is electric and I have to learn to cook all over again.

Wayne

Just buy a cheap outside gas grill with propane, then all your cast iron works. Of course, the Dutch ovens work just fine in an electric oven.

Pap

Here are a couple of pics of a stove that I had our shop guys build here at school. The stove stays in my shop. The 2 burner end was designed so that my Griswold #911 griddle will fit perfectly.

The other side will accommodate my Griswold #20 Skillet. We do breakfast right when we have all the kids & grandkids in for Christmas.

Wow, a Griswold #20!! I have had 4 of them over the years, but sold all of them. A #20 can cook a lot of fried chicken. Very nice set up there.

Pap

Thanks Pap.
I got the #20 and a #13 dutch oven when I was in college at Stephen F. Austin. The big truck stop on HWY 259 between Nacogdoches & Lufkin burned down one night. A man came by the athletic dorm and said he'd pay $10 an hour to anybody that would help clean it up. $10 an hour was a LOT of money in those days. I went with him and found the #20 and the #13 in the ashes. I take some pics and post them when I get home.

I once fried 40 eggs at once in the #20.