Recent content by Bob H.

heat rings Master Chef, I would say that you are absolutely correct as to the glass top cook stove. The heat rings would not make any difference at all. My thinking is that the quality of ore used back in the 1880's into the 1940's was better than the latter years. in general the cookware was...

pizza stone I don't have an Allclad anything simply due to the $$$$$$ of the cookware. I do have a ceramic grill which is perfect as a pizza oven, as it gives me the charcoal or wood flavors. For a pizza stone, I went to a store that sells items for pottery handcrafts and purchased a 16 inch...

heat rings Bubbler, usually the presence of a heat ring on a skillet would indicate that it was from 1940 or older. the purpose of the heat ring was for use on old time wood burning cook stoves to even out the heat. Once modern stoves came about the heat rings disappeared. The older skillets...