[TheForge] Re: Putting neu handles on old skillets

[Jerry Frost]

Right, this would be like the lid lifter/pot hooks you see with wood cook 
stoves.

Almost too simple. <grin>

Frosty
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it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
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Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "Roy Wilson" <rwilson9 at twcny.rr.com>

>
> ======= 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.
>
>
>
> "Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris." - Xanthippos
>
> Roy Wilson - rwilson9 at twcny.rr.com
> 2005-07-30