Article: CAST-IRON WOOS NEW GENERATION GRANDMA'S HEAVY-DUTY SKILLET HASN'T OUTLIVED ITS USEFULNESS

The time may come when American cooks say, "Grandma left me her All Clad MasterChef2 collection," or "My sister got the sideboard; I took the Caphalon."

Until that day arrives, however, the culinary tool most likely to have been passed down from one generation to the next is the cast- iron skillet. Cast-iron would seem to be an unlikely heirloom, what with competitors offering features like non-stick silicon interiors, sandwiched aluminum alloy construction, and celebrity chef signature designs.

Once you start looking for it, though, cast-iron is more coveted than cast-off.

"I know several people with $100,000 collections," says David Smith, cast-iron collector and author of two books and a ...

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