[TheForge] Re: Putting neu handles on old skillets

[Roy Wilson]

======= On 2005-07-30, at 15:05:41 GHS wrote: =======

>Ever since this thread started I have been trying to remember the 
>details of a handle that my mom had for her various pots .
>
>One handle  for several pieces of cookware.
>It was more or less like picking up a cup by sticking your thumb into 
>the cup and putting your index and little finger under the bottom.
>
>Perfectly stable when load bearing and pops right off when the pan is 
>set down and the end of the handle lifted up and toward the pot.

	I've got a few of those.  I just looked to see how they worked - bloody simple solution.

	Just a length of 1/4" roundbar a bit over 2x the length of the required handle.  Bend at center so you've got two ends, wye out the open ends, bend down ~1/2" from the ends to hook inside the pot/pan.  The ones I have use a triangle made out of Pyrex to hold the handle and wedge to the outside of the pot, but there's no reason not to use any other material that won't get heat damaged.

	Hades, use doubled 1/8" round bar and fold/twist the entire thing as a single piece.



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Roy Wilson - rwilson9 at twcny.rr.com
2005-07-30