Magnalite Cookware

Q: Is this cookware still avaiable ? I was give a couple of peices form a friends collection after she passed away. I have looked around but no luck, It is very nice stuff and would like to buy more

A: I picked up a couple of Wagner cast iron skillets last summer for a buck or two each. Heck...someone had to take them off these kind people's hands. My brother took my mom's old cast iron. (It's all he knew how to cook with). I have to admit, the best tag sales I have been to, with the best "finds", are the ones that are held by people who are trying to sell the contents of their dearly departed parents' homes....you know the ones....when they just open up the entire house and say "Everything must go". I head right for the kitchen cabinets and pantry. Of course, I'm looking for vintage cookware and pyrex and corning ware. Now that people are collecting it, it's getting harder and harder to find at decent prices. I suspect the reason you saw boxed sets at walmart is that the company is out of buisness and walmart bought out the warehouse stock. Go back, if there's any left buy one and save it to pass down to your children. I wish I had my boxed set of Wagner cast iron now. It had everything from a 12" dutch oven to a 3" skillet and the dutch oven lid fit the large frying pan. You can't get them anymore and Wagner was arguably the best cast iron cookware on earth. I'm talking about back when the interior finnish was ground glass smooth. I bought the last ground finish Wagner frying pan (30 cm.) that the Meijer store here had. And it was a travesty of the old Wagner ware but still better than that pebbled finish crap they're trying to foist off as cast iron cookware now. It's sad that some of the best things in life aren't made anymore. I paid $12 for that Wagner frying pan and if there had been one like the OLD Wagner pans I would have happily paid twice that much. They're that good.

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