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Had a cast iron skillet pop like that one time. I was frying bacon in it at Mom and Dad's on an electric stove. The only thing I could figure, was it had been hanging in a cold closet that butted up against the stairs into our unheated attic. Scared the crap out of me when it blew, I remember that for sure. Not trying to hijack your thread, but I've got a pressure cooker explosion story too. The damned safety valve blew and an entire chicken was blasted out through that little hole, bones and all. We were picking bone fragments out of the sheetrock for a week. Dad ended up ripping out the whole kitchen and redoing it. As for the pressure cooker, it became a glorified pot.

Gas weld with a carburizing flame, pre and post heat keeping the entire pan hot... stich weld using a coat hanger and when done bury in sand. will need some grinding an polishing and a lot of patience.

Phil

Yep, have one like this G #9, sitting in the easy chair waiting for it to come up to heat for tortillas and heard a loud pop, I assumed it was the glass top stove or the griddle and it's now missing a 1.5" x .75" chunk of the rim.

Ya beat me toit, Wabbi. This^^^^.

Ive heard those tops get too hot too quick.

Yes fellows it was on an Ele, glass top stove , I hate it and will never buy another one! A lady I no told me she had heard that the glass tops get to hot to quick to use cast stuff on.!

The REASON they crack/break is that cast iron needs to be brought up to temp a little more gradually than just cranking it on high...

We have a glass top. Wonder if a slow warm up would be better.

Our electric glass top stove has three different size burners -- two small, one each - medium and large. May be that because of the size of direct heat contact surface of a cast iron griddle, it could possibly crack if heated over a too small burner on an electric glass top stove due to the smaller area of quick, intense heat buildup.

Edit: Also, our electric stove has a black glass top which makes it difficult (for me) to tell if a pot or pan is centered directly over a burner. And as glass tops are so slick compared to traditional open top burners, the slightest bump can cause a pot/pan to slide off center of a burner.

I have a pre 1900 Griswold that developed a crack. Small, but if I used it, it leaked grease. It's a wall hanger now. A REALLY good welder that knows cast iron can repair it, but for me it wasn't worth it.

That would more than bum me out.

I have a 24"x12" griddle which rests across 2 burners & stays on the cooktop at all times. We cook 90% of our short order grub on it. I would lament its loss.

I also have a very large griddle that covers all 5 burners on my 30" cooktop. It weighs about 35 lbs & it has been responsible for many large family feedings.

Yes mine will be a wall hanger too about a 5" crack. its square about 10" across with about an inch side walls! realy liked it! but from now on im going heat the rest of them up slower! as I had it on high and had just turned it down to med. a min. before the POP!