But those bygone brands (Wagner shuttered in 1952 and Griswold closed up shop in 1957, right around the time Teflon was popularized), along with most antique cast-iron cookware, have grown ...
By the mid- to late 1800s, three leading American manufacturers of cast iron cookware had emerged: Griswold Manufacturing (from Erie, PA,) Wagner Manufacturing (from Sidney, OH,) and Lodge ...
That's a relatively new thing, compared to the sturdy utilitarian cooking approach of early American cast-iron cookware companies such as Griswold, Wagner, and Lodge, founded in Tennessee in 1896 ...
Learn more› By Lesley Stockton, Sharon Franke and Michael Sullivan A cast-iron skillet is great ... century by now-defunct companies like Wagner and Griswold has skyrocketed.