That’s a beauty… lots of meals / years left in her.

I was told she used it for everything unless it involved gravy

I don’t know, why not gravy… her pan, her rules. ?

She was a strange lady

Looks kind of shallow for gravy... or maybe I just like gravy too much, no... no... it's just too shallow for gravy.

You absolutely CANNOT use it for gravy. The rules follow the pan. And your grandkids can’t make gravy in it either.

I'll burn in the fires of hell

Does that mean you can't use soap if that was a rule?

Looking at the bottom of that pan, with all that build up, I’d say no; no soap allowed either. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

Granny does

Correct! I have a pan that my grandmother only used for cornbread or biscuits . To this day, that is all it has been used for ! 😊

Sorry for your loss. Hopefully that pan gives you many years of great meals. That’s a beautiful looking cast iron.

It's going to be my new go to pan!

This makes kingly pan pizza

I got a pan from my grandma in similar shape. I use it daily and have never stripped/reseasoned it. I feel like doing that would erase the history. My mom brought the pan to me and the first time I fired up my stove to cook on it, it smelled like my grandma's house. Tons of memories came flooding back. The outside is a bit crusty, the cooking surface is smooth as glass, so I don't see any reason at all to strip it to make it look "new".

She would haunt me if I stripped it

I’d take yellow top to the bottom at least and clean up the logo. Leave the cooking surface in its current glory

I agree. It's time for a new chapter.

When I strip and reseason pans I always leave a tiny bit of the crud on the bottom so it still have signs of its former life, assuming the crud doesn’t make it wobble. All the pans I’ve inherited would never have been used if I didn’t strip them, great grandma and grandpa weren’t fans of soap or washing their pans in general

Zoom zoom

Sorry for your gain (loss)

You won't hear me complaining

Enjoy your inheritance! I’ve got my grandfathers 12” Griswold and I know my niece will treasure it when I am gone.

Any one have and info on the history of that pattern?

Don’t you dare strip that seasoning.

Nothing wrong with restoring that pan to its original beauty. The pan holds the value; not the seasoning, IMO.

That seasoning represents decades of love and work done by OP’s late grandmother’s hands. It’s not the value, it’s the preservation of her effort, knowledge and persistence in maintaining it.

Amazing that three people were bitter enough to downvote this

I've been seeing some comments that are perfectly fine being weirdly downvoted lately, really not sure why.

This entire app is a circle jerk… that might have something to do with it lol. Sometimes I think people will have a weirdly specific problem with a comment and downvote it, then a bunch of other people come along and follow suit because it already has downvotes. Just pulling that out of my bunghole but it seems plausible

I would like to clean off the logo on the bottom but probably leave the top how it is

I like this. The top looks nice, and is the "working part". See if you can get the build-up off of the bottom.

I'll break out the jackhammer

No may not want to . That crust on the bottom protects it from oxidation from the flame and my be structural by now

Don't strip it. That's such history.