But those bygone brands (Wagner shuttered in 1952 and Griswold closed up shop in 1957, right around the time Teflon was popularized), along with most antique cast-iron cookware, have grown ...

and Wagner Ware are a few of the manufacturers to look out for. Identifying logos and other markings can help you determine if cast-iron cookware was made by one of these companies. If you've ...

That's a relatively new thing, compared to the sturdy utilitarian cooking approach of early American cast-iron cookware companies such as Griswold, Wagner, and Lodge, founded in Tennessee in 1896 ...