I'd say it broke from excessive heat. That is a clean looking temperature break..maybe the macaroni was cold and the pan hot? And incidentally, look at how that teakettle has been.
Excessive heat never hurt it. Hell, the cast iron exhaust manifolds on my ride routinely get glowing red hot. It's not the heat, it's the sudden temperature change.
Looks like that pan may be not be cast iron there is no coarse grain structure to it like you would see normally. The food shows clear indication of having been in that pan for a while. My guess is that it was an existing defect that propagated an internal crack due to thermal cycling that finally failed from mechanical or thermal shock.
Given the pan's location and the spillage of the contents, if I had to guess, the user picked it up to transfer it to the back burner without protection and dropped it at an angle so the mechanical stress completed the existing crack. Alternatively, the cold burner caused differential contraction of one end with the same result. I could also be totally wrong.
Starker here, the break in the pan looks more like ceramic. It may be a decorative "wall hanger". But, that blued kettle leads me believe that this is an abusive cook. I have a cast iron griddle that was used at our family's cabin for decades. It has had a crack for the 20 years that I've used it on my gas stove. That crack hasn't grown at all.
I was a cookware buyer for several large department stores over 25 years and then I was a sales manager for several cookware manufacturers...that pan was abusively over heated. So much so that it most likely got "cherry red" at 1,000+ degrees. Since it appears to be made of aluminum, (not cast iron) ... no wonder it split in half.
Thermal shock. Hot pan, cold 'stone' benchtop. Been there,done that.
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I'd say it broke from excessive heat. That is a clean looking temperature break..maybe the macaroni was cold and the pan hot? And incidentally, look at how that teakettle has been.
ReplyDeleteExcessive heat never hurt it. Hell, the cast iron exhaust manifolds on my ride routinely get glowing red hot. It's not the heat, it's the sudden temperature change.
DeleteRuined a perfectly good cast-iron skillet for a stupid meme.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the tea kettle has been boiled dry more than once too.
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Good catch, Nemo.
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Thank God they weren't using a gas stove, think how much worse it would have been!
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, that doesn't look like cast iron to me. I've cracked cast iron. Something's off about that pan.
ReplyDeleteAluminum for sure...
DeleteLooks like that pan may be not be cast iron there is no coarse grain structure to it like you would see normally. The food shows clear indication of having been in that pan for a while. My guess is that it was an existing defect that propagated an internal crack due to thermal cycling that finally failed from mechanical or thermal shock.
ReplyDeleteGiven the pan's location and the spillage of the contents, if I had to guess, the user picked it up to transfer it to the back burner without protection and dropped it at an angle so the mechanical stress completed the existing crack. Alternatively, the cold burner caused differential contraction of one end with the same result. I could also be totally wrong.
"That's why I don't cook" says one person .... judging by what I see, one should not eat either.
ReplyDeleteStarker here, the break in the pan looks more like ceramic. It may be a decorative "wall hanger". But, that blued kettle leads me believe that this is an abusive cook.
ReplyDeleteI have a cast iron griddle that was used at our family's cabin for decades. It has had a crack for the 20 years that I've used it on my gas stove. That crack hasn't grown at all.
I start with a frypan in one piece not two. Try that.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if this has any relevance, but does cast iron work on induction stoves?
ReplyDeleteI use cast iron on mine. You just have to be very careful when you put it down on the surface.
DeleteProlly not a Lodge skillet.
ReplyDeleteI was a cookware buyer for several large department stores over 25 years and then I was a sales manager for several cookware manufacturers...that pan was abusively over heated. So much so that it most likely got "cherry red" at 1,000+ degrees. Since it appears to be made of aluminum, (not cast iron) ... no wonder it split in half.
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