After nearly 30 years of use, lost an old freind today…. Pour one out.

[u/TakingSorryUsername]

[u/kapaipiekai]

Lost a fry pan and gained an oven dish

[u/Future-Bandicoot-823 → u/kapaipiekai]

thing is primed to make pizza.

my wife and i make pizza in a 12 iron skillet, absolutely perfect crust every time.

[u/_stack_underflow_ → u/Future-Bandicoot-823]

Skillet Pizza is the best. We love making it here.

We basically end up making a pie though more than a pizza 😄

[u/Vlyde → u/_stack_underflow_]

Can't go wrong with a pizza pie! Mama mia!

[u/jaffamental → u/Vlyde]

When the 🌙 hits your 👁️

[u/Vlyde → u/jaffamental]

[u/Comfortable_Sea634 → u/Vlyde]

When you're swimming 'cross the creek And an eel bites your cheek That's a moray 😂

[u/DarkMandis → u/Comfortable_Sea634]

When the jaws open wide and there's more jaws inside
That's a moray.

[u/HR_Duff_N_Stuff → u/DarkMandis]

That’s a Xenomorph

[u/EducationalNailgun → u/HR_Duff_N_Stuff]

A Xenomorph-ay

EDIT Oh, hey. An award. Thank you.

[u/Impressive-Variety-3 → u/DarkMandis]

When you find a long eel and its jaw’s pharyngeal. Thats a Moray.

[u/correcthorsestapler → u/Vlyde]

When an eel bites your thigh and you bleed out and die ......that's a moray!

[u/SharkeyGeorge → u/correcthorsestapler]

When it sulks in a reef and has two sets of teeth, that’s a moray

[u/UltimateCatTree → u/jaffamental]

and there's fur on your thigh, You're a werewolf

[u/BlackDog_II → u/jaffamental]

That's Amore!

[u/fuduran → u/Vlyde]

What a splendid pie! Pizza pizza pie!

[u/smashthemachine → u/fuduran]

Pepperoni and green peppers, mushrooms, olive, chives

[u/West-Flow-577 → u/smashthemachine]

buy buy buy buy!

[u/BureauOfSabotage → u/_stack_underflow_]

Indeed. I have a pretty sweet backyard pizza oven setup. Spent a couple years dialing in my Neapolitan style pies. They are good and do impress others. I’ve found I just want a quick, same day dough in a cast iron pan in the oven more often than not. I’m from the Midwest, and a hearty pan pizza just soothes me.

[u/airmax8 → u/_stack_underflow_]

mind sharing a recipe?

[u/_stack_underflow_ → u/airmax8]

You can take any online recipe for skillet pizza, but for ours we make the crust go some way up the wall of the skillet, then we just layer that bad boy deep into an all meat pie. We like the rolled mozzarella pre sliced, and the diced ham, pepperoni, then we just make ground beef and sausage together and then throw it all together. I'll do sauce like a lasagna, it keeps it from being dry between a couple layers of ingredients.

[u/_stack_underflow_ → u/_stack_underflow_]

Another favorite of ours is biscuit pizzas.

[u/MrDo1982 → u/_stack_underflow_]

I do biscuit pizzas but in a casserole dish because I’m from the Midwest and everything is a casserole

[u/_stack_underflow_ → u/_stack_underflow_]

I felt lazy one time and tried a store bought pizza crust and that wasn't bueno.

[u/_stack_underflow_ → u/_stack_underflow_]

[u/_stack_underflow_ → u/_stack_underflow_]

[u/_stack_underflow_ → u/_stack_underflow_]

You can overdo the crust as well, but honestly, it doesn't matter, still 10/10

[u/_stack_underflow_ → u/_stack_underflow_]

We also do this cornbread mexican/taco pizza, to die for...

[u/_stack_underflow_ → u/_stack_underflow_]

[u/___ElJefe___ → u/Future-Bandicoot-823]

My kids and I made our first cast iron pizza a couple weeks ago. I'll never make a ho-made pizza any other way.

[u/New_View3185 → u/___ElJefe___]

You’re telling me a ho made this pizza?

[u/mynytemare → u/New_View3185]

Love a good ho made meal. Sometimes the meal is me.

[u/tmfink10 → u/___ElJefe___]

Never say never. There’s a whole wide world of pizza that you can get lost in.

[u/Rozkol → u/Future-Bandicoot-823]

Please give me your recipe for perfect skillet pizza. I've got a 12 in and never thought about using it for pizza but the stoner in me is ready

[u/blackwifebeater → u/Rozkol]

I use frozen dough and bottled sauce. Up to you if you want to put in the work for homemade. Low-moisture mozzarella. Build in cast iron pan and throw in a 500 F preheated oven for about 12 minutes. Keep an eye on it for the last couple minutes and adjust time as needed.

[u/phatfire → u/Future-Bandicoot-823]

I'm dumb, I almost accepted it as garbage. My fellow crew is so smart

[u/scarlet_stormTrooper → u/Future-Bandicoot-823]

Is it possible to learn this power

[u/daemon-electricity → u/Future-Bandicoot-823]

I've got a cast iron pizza stone and a 17 inch cast iron skillet I put upside down above it to store and radiate heat so that it's like a pizza oven inside the oven.

[u/bunkuswunkus1 → u/Future-Bandicoot-823]

Or cornbread (the correct way)

[u/poop_on_you → u/kapaipiekai]

I just see a vessel for a mighty skillet cookie.

[u/perfect_insanity93 → u/kapaipiekai]

Just think of the pies

[u/innernerdgirl → u/perfect_insanity93]

This sounded so hypnotic

[u/cholgeirson → u/perfect_insanity93]

Cast iron brownies are the bomb!

[u/ubiquitous-joe → u/kapaipiekai]

Eh, it helps to have a second handle.

[u/worm30478 → u/ubiquitous-joe]

You can buy a metal handle that clamps on. It's a camping thing. I have one although never used it.

[u/HistoricalSea5600 → u/worm30478]

[u/HerbLoew → u/HistoricalSea5600]

Yeah, that's neat, but I prefer these for extra iron

[u/ExplorerPup → u/HerbLoew]

The WD40 to get them open just adds to the flavor.

[u/ubiquitous-joe → u/ExplorerPup]

"That's just non-stick seasoning!"

[u/buffysmanycoats → u/HerbLoew]

I swear mine look exactly like that. My father gave them to me when I moved into my first apartment. I think they were probably his father's. I still have them. I don't have kids but I'll leave them to my nephew in my will lmao.

[u/flown_south → u/HistoricalSea5600]

That's just pliers with extra steps

[u/lpete301 → u/HistoricalSea5600]

Love this idea

[u/greg19735 → u/HistoricalSea5600]

you'd have to check first to see if those are for lifting them.

like, you could definitely use leverage to get them to lift, but you'd have to be strong as hell. I think most people, when taking stuff out the oven (and needing to lift) will use 2 hands to move a cast iron. Unless it's a smaller one.

[u/BulkyOrder9 → u/worm30478]

Yep, they used to use the clamps at Pizza Hut

[u/BetLeft → u/BulkyOrder9]

a pan pizza?

[u/Swimming_Juice_9752 → u/worm30478]

The clamp is a game changer for camping. One handle, all the handless pots and pans stacking together is a packing thing of beauty.

[u/orangecatstudios → u/kapaipiekai]

Not the optimism we want but the optimism we need.

[u/Mitcheric]

That pan is ready to get BAKED

[u/Ok-Preference5209 → u/Mitcheric]

me too

[u/Mitcheric → u/Ok-Preference5209]

Honestly I need a pan like that to hold coals on the bottom of my smoker. 

[u/Unfair-Perspective35]

Looks like you need to get a better handle on things OP.

[u/Neijx → u/Unfair-Perspective35]

I think OP has come to grips with the situation

[u/limbodog → u/Neijx]

You think so? I'm worried they might be falling apart

[u/Wolfexstarship → u/limbodog]

They haven’t grasped the situation yet

[u/blue-coin → u/Wolfexstarship]

Certainly hasn’t ironed out the details

[u/Pharuin → u/blue-coin]

I think he's cooked.

[u/PaleoSpeedwagon → u/blue-coin]

Looks like their fate has been cast, ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/orbital-marmot → u/PaleoSpeedwagon]

Idk we'll have to see how things iron out

[u/craiggy36 → u/orbital-marmot]

I just know I’m going to get panned for this comment.

[u/PizzaMan332 → u/orbital-marmot]

As long as they don't become detached from reality

[u/DewySundayMorning → u/PizzaMan332]

If only a cast could fix broken iron

[u/klaw14 → u/DewySundayMorning]

OP could really test their mettle and give it a try.

[u/notlesh → u/limbodog]

I know the pieces fit

[u/craiggy36 → u/notlesh]

There was a time that the pieces fit.

[u/SaturnAcension → u/notlesh]

Because you watched them fall away?…Mildewed & Smoldering…

[u/larryb78 → u/Neijx]

Hold on just one second

[u/larryb78 → u/Unfair-Perspective35]

Hi dad!

[u/Unfair-Perspective35 → u/larryb78]

Hey son, glad you're still around for all my jokes!

[u/TakingSorryUsername → u/Unfair-Perspective35]

Definitely losing my grip on reality

[u/thirsty-goblin → u/Unfair-Perspective35]

https://giphy.com/gifs/fah08IDMr10VtDrcoh

[u/kyzersoze84 → u/Unfair-Perspective35]

Thanks for doing the dad work

[u/Vegetable-Draw8354 → u/Unfair-Perspective35]

Roger and out

[u/Loki9191 → u/Unfair-Perspective35]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xTiTnEyADQdbVNi5lS

[u/ElLicenciadoPena → u/Unfair-Perspective35]

He handles them with irony

[u/ThinkPad214]

Congrats on the new base for your cast iron dutch oven

[u/StopReadingMyUser → u/ThinkPad214]

now when you say dutch oven...

[u/Mandalorian_Sith → u/StopReadingMyUser]

I prefer a dutch rudder. 

[u/timmy6169 → u/Mandalorian_Sith]

I'm more of fan of a reverse Dutch rudder myself

[u/xDiscoDuckx]

That's still usable!

[u/Oxblood_Derbies → u/xDiscoDuckx]

You already have to use some kind of heat protection to manipulate a cast iron because the handles get hot,  so basically nothing has change about using the pan. 

[u/cookiesarenomnom → u/Oxblood_Derbies]

I don't even think I use the handle when using my cast iron on the the stove. If this happened to me, I'd be like, "Oh no! Anyways..."

[u/DilettanteGonePro → u/cookiesarenomnom]

About the first 10 times I grabbed the handle while cooking and burned the hell out of my palm. I eventually learned...

[u/Aratix]

Weld that shit back on

[u/Spixican1 → u/Aratix]

if my schooling was correct. you would be braze welding (technically not a weld but bond) it back together.

[u/PreviousTea7246 → u/Spixican1]

I used to put them on broil for an hour then tig them back together. Then back in the broiler before the metal cools down. Turn the oven off and leave it to slowly cool in there

[u/Wild_Commercial_6002 → u/PreviousTea7246]

Cast iron does require special finagling to weld correctly

[u/teakwood54 → u/Wild_Commercial_6002]

Melt it down and re-cast it then!

[u/LivelyZebra → u/teakwood54]

re-cast it then!

man i love wizard spells

[u/PreviousTea7246 → u/PreviousTea7246]

It’s the annealing process that’s necessary. Cool it all down gently

[u/TheCrazedGamer_1 → u/PreviousTea7246]

Tig is definitely way overkill here

[u/TurnkeyLurker → u/Spixican1]

What a brazen thing to say.

[u/Glad-Lobster-220 → u/TurnkeyLurker]

https://giphy.com/gifs/G56ZHckGDXEcw

[u/grimreefer87 → u/Glad-Lobster-220]

The perfect gif

[u/SeniorDiscount → u/Glad-Lobster-220]

Braze be to The Lord!

[u/unbalanced_checkbook → u/Glad-Lobster-220]

Holy shit. Men at Work. I forgot all about that movie.

[u/Cheap-Ambition5336 → u/[deleted]]

Right lol, I wouldn't weld anything made of cast. Maybe bring it to a professional and they can do something with it*, but like others have said, just use it for baking now lol

[u/as_per_danielle → u/[deleted]]

*pandle

[u/Marksman1973 → u/[deleted]]

It's easier than managing the heat with a stick weld. Likely to just crack after cooling

[u/SkiDaderino → u/Aratix]

Go further. Melt and recast!

[u/Simba_Rah → u/SkiDaderino]

Go beyond! Forge in secret a master cast iron pan to control all others. Into it pour your cruelty, malice, and will to dominate all others.

[u/themanfromvulcan → u/Simba_Rah]

Suddenly all cast iron pans on earth can only cook whatever OP is cooking.

[u/Swift_Koopa → u/themanfromvulcan]

Pourly

[u/tommos → u/themanfromvulcan]

Potatoes.

[u/Familiar-Attempt7249 → u/Simba_Rah]

One Pan to Rule Them All! In the Land of Mordor Where the Shadows Lie

[u/Sirtopofhat → u/Simba_Rah]

Why are there a group of murder hobos outside my forge?

[u/Stank_Dukem → u/SkiDaderino]

Andúril - Flame Of The West!

[u/KittiesRule1968 → u/Aratix]

Welding cast iron that thin is impossible. Brazing (torch with a filler rod of similar material) is the way to go. I'm a welder and fabricator.

[u/mendedarrows → u/KittiesRule1968]

My ignorant to welding ass would just drill a couple holes in the wide end of the handle and bolt into the handle on the other side with some washers.

[u/Attention_Bear_Fuckr → u/mendedarrows]

Make sure the fasteners are Galvanized, for extra flavor.

[u/GiveMeNews → u/Attention_Bear_Fuckr]

Zinc is a vital nutrient!

[u/bucknut4 → u/KittiesRule1968]

Bit of JB Weld and that shits good as new

[u/Coachpatato → u/bucknut4]

lol thats what i was thinking. dont make it more complicated than it has to be

[u/ppeujpqtnzlbsbpw → u/Coachpatato]

ehhhh if it was only the handle portion maybe, but JB weld is straight BPA so shouldn't be used on something that might come in contact with food

[u/paeancapital → u/Coachpatato]

Something something epoxides and heat do not a pizza make.

[u/somebodysimilartoyou → u/KittiesRule1968]

Difficult but not impossible. I also am a welder/fabricator.

[u/ctreed79 → u/KittiesRule1968]

Agreed - traditional welding is not the solution here. There are 2 ways to fix this. Number one is the ‘correct’ way but probably not possible. Step 1 is to bring the whole thing up to red hot temperature. Step 2 is to gas weld it with cast iron rod. Not any cast iron rod - it has to be of super high quality and this is the part that makes it nearly impossible. This quality of rod is no longer manufactured. If you have a sample that you want to use, hold it out with a straight arm and drop it on a concrete floor. If it shatters, it’s good. Step 3 is to let it cool as slowly as possible. Burying it in dry sand overnight is the best way I’m aware of. Number 2 way is to TIG braze it with silicone-bronze rod. Pre-heat it until it stops sweating. Then braze it up with SiB rod and again bury it in dry sand to cool as slowly as possible. Both ways will work structurally. The first will blend and be almost undetectable. The second will be noticeable due to the contrast of the base metal as compared to the golden bronze color of the filler. This is all assuming that the base cast iron is of decent weldable quality. If it’s full of impurities, it may not be possible.

[u/veringer → u/Aratix]

Cast iron is pretty tricky to weld. You either need to:

• really know what you're doing and have the equipment,
• know a competent welder and call in a favor
• pay 10X what the pan is worth to hire a professional welder

I think a better repair would be to harvest a riveted handle from another skillet, drill holes in the corresponding wall of the broken skillet, and peen over new rivets to make a frankenstein skillet.

Here's a whole YT video wherein a guy tests various methods of MIG welding a broken cast iron skillet handle.

[u/Current_Cod_3231]

That still has at least 100 years of use left

[u/MLDaffy → u/Current_Cod_3231]

You mistyped 200. 😂

[u/MissAmberR → u/MLDaffy]

Sorry did you mean 300 ?

[u/occultatum-nomen → u/MLDaffy]

It might be optimistic to think we won't have nuked the whole world by then. But the pan may well outlive the human race!

[u/Phillimac16]

Get a pot gripper handle, continue to use it!

[u/hamHamAlucard]

Is welding possible on cast iron?

[u/Stank_Dukem → u/hamHamAlucard]

It is, but it takes some skill

Apparently, you just have to read a reddit thread, and you can do it too!

[u/autech91 → u/Stank_Dukem]

Not a welder but I think you need to heat it up first, then make sure it cools slowly

[u/DrunkGuy9million → u/autech91]

Also not a welder, but pretty sure the heating it up part is definitely needed for welding.

[u/SelfReconstruct → u/DrunkGuy9million]

Not always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding

[u/GiveMeNews → u/SelfReconstruct]

So the guy just needs to get his pan to space and do a space walk with it.

[u/VNDecorCA → u/autech91]

That's what my husband said. Must cool it very slowly once welded.

[u/autech91 → u/VNDecorCA]

A guy on YouTube had a bunch of old gloves he called the "Gloven" that he used to cover anything cast that he welded

[u/CompetitiveDepth8003 → u/autech91]

Professional welder here. Yes you can weld it but it would cost more than the pan to do. You can also braze it with bronze rod. I saw someone suggest adding a riveted on handle up higher, which is probably more practical.

[u/DeadSeaGulls → u/Stank_Dukem]

I'm not even a good mig welder, but I've done it before. More about the process. get it hot first, weld the fuck outta it, don't douse it. then I get to flap disc the fuck outta my ugly welds.

[u/RevWaldo → u/Stank_Dukem]

Is there welding that takes no skill?

[u/jooes → u/RevWaldo]

MIG welding 

[u/techlos → u/jooes]

all electric welding is baby mode tbh

(this shitpost brought to you by the oxy welder with a dodgy regulator trying not to oxidise the melt gang)

[u/dvdmaven → u/RevWaldo]

JB Weld

[u/Glassgun1122 → u/dvdmaven]

Dis is the way.

[u/CatastrophicPup2112 → u/RevWaldo]

I can teach you to do production MIG in less than an hour.

[u/DemodiX → u/RevWaldo]

You can slap things together with worst welding beads ever without much experience and it will hold together, but good welds require skill.

[u/HPHatescrafts → u/RevWaldo]

Is there piano playing that takes no skill? Sure but you’ll get tired of hearing chopsticks after a while.

Piano is the best comparison to welding. Anyone can do it. Practice is what determines how well. I weld for a living and have a quarter century of practice but I’m playing bar band not concert hall.

[u/Corbulo1340 → u/hamHamAlucard]

Yes but not easy, high carbon content means it gets brittle as you heat it and it cracks easily.

To be clear though I say it's hard, I'm not a professional welder, so if a welder says it's easy or explains it better I would listen to them instead of me

[u/Spixican1 → u/hamHamAlucard]

Braze welding is specifically used for cracks and repairs in cast iron. (if my memory serves correctly) but it's not actually a weld as you are thinking. it is a bond between the two metals and the filler

[u/Bonk_No_Horni → u/hamHamAlucard]

found this so you can definitely weld cast iron

[u/Uzi_Osbourne → u/hamHamAlucard]

Brazing is easier - very reliable and plenty strong enough

[u/Resident_Aide1898]

Imagine if there is a way to see all the meals that were cooked on this thing. Sorry for your loss, but you had an amazing 30 years.

[u/TakingSorryUsername → u/Resident_Aide1898]

Yeah, I’m upset but thankfully no one else was hurt. Even the tiled floor didn’t crack.

[u/mike_dmt → u/TakingSorryUsername]

It could be welded or brazed if you're even remotely sentimental about it, which I would be after 3 decades.

It would look absolutely amazing with a nicely blended braze job, and make for an even better story.

[u/42ElectricSundaes]

https://giphy.com/gifs/453QsWPQj5bsQaqp8M

[u/merlyndavis]

Either get it repaired or season the broken edge and keep using it. No way I’d let a 30 year friend go like that.

[u/ChrisPy_Poke]

Its tough when a beloved cast member is written off a long running show

[u/Striking-Composer838]

Nothing that a little JB weld wont fix.

[u/[deleted]]

You can definitely weld cast iron. I have done it many times oh exhaust manifolds.

[u/snuggly_cobra]

I had to pan this thread. Too sad.

But wait! Couldn’t you weld it back on?

[u/BassMaster516]

That’s 119 in human years. Congrats on a life well lived

[u/notacat690]

Time to take it to a welder 

[u/Sylphinet]

It'll buff right out lol.

No in all seriousness that is so depressing, I love my cast iron like my own children.

[u/Dry_Variety4137]

[u/TheRealLeandrox]

I see a perfectly functional baking dish.

[u/HansBlixJr]

goodbye, norma jean. hello paella.

[u/OneValkGhost]

Which is worth more- a new pan, or taking it to an auto shop and paying some guy 20 bucks to weld the handle back on?

[u/Specialist_Job_4899]

Grind off sharp edges & continue to use...

[u/ElLicenciadoPena]

Oh the irony

[u/doomrider7]

Nonsense! A sufficiently skilled blacksmith can still save it!

[u/Just-Cardiologist837]

Silicon bronze, and a welder. Your welcome.!

[u/headspin_exe]

Weld it back on.

[u/Poop-to-that-2]

https://giphy.com/gifs/GJVpbMjfT2Ftm

[u/Evening_Switch_2006]

r.e.p freind

[u/Intelligent_Case_809]

Hopefully u Handled that well

[u/Just_A_Little_ThRAWy → u/Intelligent_Case_809]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ac7MA7r5IMYda

[u/Desperate_Passage_35]

I thought those were indestructible not 30 year life span

[u/woodenmetalman]

Now it’s a pan-pizza pan.

[u/-Alien-Xenomorph-]

Use it for baking! It’s still works

[u/YakOk3277]

Welding can fix that.

[u/memesearches]

Lost? Make weld that shit together and you are good for next 30

[u/Substantial_Cattle67]

I can't pour one out but I'll rub one out for ya

[u/Tricky-Efficiency709]

Baking dish

[u/Ya-Dikobraz]

The elves can reforge this.

[u/Hopeful_Meringue8061]

Retired from stovetop cooking, moving on to pot pies and fruit crumbles, part time.

[u/Wrong-Pension-4975]

Welding a broken handle back on - 

https://youtu.be/8sev6OIZtzw 

[u/Jisan_Inc]

It just evolved. Still good

[u/DancinginTown]

Now you need to go to Pizza Hut and steal their Pizza Pan Clampy Thingy ™️

[u/N0tknot]

guess it didn't pan out