i should really hone my blacksmitty skills. frenzy for a skillet.
 

i just got an email from a friend.

you could win a lotto position to buy a pan, OR jump into the mosh-pit of skillet shopping on the 17th. get your high speed internet warmed up. :D

this is unbelievable, but fully supports my theory; if you do something..do it extremely well and people will follow.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1526403095.jpg


https://bluskilletironware.com/

i should buy an anvil and a big hammer.

Vashware ;)

They're excusive, dontchaknow.

no way. rarefied air for me.

Funny how it works, a $230 pan becomes $350 after Cooks Illustrated reviewed it.

hahaha..

To me it's still a $50 pan irregardless of how much someone else will pay for whatever reason.


Notice how I stuck an "irregardless" in there? Pretty sneaky. :D

I have been thinking of putting myself in for their Lottery. I just have bigger fish to fry at the moment...

Bourgeat Matfers makes a Carbon Steel skillet that will do everything that a Blu Steel one will do...for around $70.00. Just not as pretty.

There is also another company I believe in VA that makes carbon steel pans for about the same money as the Blu Steel ones. I posted the links on this stuff once before...https://blanccreatives.com/store/

What makes em expensive is that they are hand made by artisans..and not mass produced economy of scale conforming units.

After figuring out that more expensive golf clubs don't make me a better golfer, same goes for cookware. I like my old cast iron and other implements, practice makes perfect. Besides, Tabs will probably find one in a Vegas thrift store for $10 bucks and go on and on about it.... :)

thanks Tabs!!
my favorite thing about those artisany web-stores..(pans, knives, whatever) are the fantastic websites. the images are excellent; and nice to look at. so good:



http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1526417718.jpg

A buddy of mine rents a space in that building... i'll have to ask him about them.

Remember when "artisan" meant home-made by hillbillies or rednecks?

or the Amish. now it is Bespoke..and that is more expensive.

I have been looking...

go TABS!!

personally, i would hesitate to even use a $250 hand hammered pan. i know what it would eventually look like. just like my $50 carbon pan. :) black and nasty.

I'm just worried that will be the fate of my Cen Bros wok, kids won't know what they have. I'm going to keep a note stored with it just in case. SmileWavy

Damn good anvils right here.

Nimba Anvils – anvils made in the USA, double-bick blacksmith anvils, Italian-style anvils: Gladiator Anvil (450lbs), Centurion Anvil (260lbs), Titan Anvil (120lbs)

I wasn't trying to knock it, but offering a comment on how much has changed.
There was a time when home-made was out of necessity and people dreamed of having quality store-bought stuff.

Now we've come full circle where manufactured goods are less desirable to some.

It probably has to do with how our search for affordable products has created lower quality disposable goods with a limited useful life.

By Kachi I do say you have something there. The Chinese in particular do not want handmade they want bright shiny and uniform...

I told my Chinese friend that in the west we have have had machine made uniformity for 150 years and now we desire the artisan handmade. The Chinese are now being able to afford factory made. Take a look at China they are tearing down the old and putting up the new.

As the economy of scale grinds on the product life cycle becomes shorter so that you have to come back and purchase again and again and again. Artisan made takes time and skill and as such costs, economy of scale reduces the amount of time to manufacture to a minimum where the unit cost comes down...

Artisan has personality something of the makers soul into it...the personal touch,character. Factory is pressed out by the thousands in a soulless uniformity.

You all see that egg spoon Alice Waters had made? It took off too! Hammered carbon steel. It’s cool, but no way.