Dennis Powell and his Cast Iron Pans: A Manufacturer Comes to the AAM Craft Show
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2018
- While the Mid-Shore's Dennis Powell has agreed (and is honored) to be one of the featured artists at the Academy Art Museum's famed Crafts Show this coming October, he still recoils slightly at being called an artist or even a craftsman.
That's because his product, the simple American cast iron pan, is the result of an intensive manufacturing process that involves approximately 180 workers in a Pennsylvania foundry to produce his small run of some of the most remarkable cooking skillets in the world.
It also might be due to the fact that Powell started his company as the result of trying to solve an engineering problem rather than one of aesthetics. When his grandmother's skillet from the 19th century finally cracked in 2013, his journey began to recreate somehow an ancient process in manufacturing cast iron pans that would have a surface so smooth that scallops could be sautéed without seasonings or oil.
Dennis Powell has taken several years of study, and more than a few bucks, to follow this passion. With the support of an encouraging spouse, he started a project that would eventually bring a product of near perfection to market in 2016 as Butter Pat Industries, which offers for skillet sizes for some of the best-known chefs in America as well as "in the know" home cooks.
The Spy sat down with Dennis near his Easton Airport office to talk about cast iron, engineering, and the distinctive art and craft (Sorry Dennis) that comes with pan manufacturing. - Фільми й анімація
Would have been nice to see the whole interview
LOVE my Butter Pat Heather pan!! Cooks like dream with its smooth as butter surface and will be a treasured family heirloom!
What an inspiration this guy is. Growing up watching that could only have good outcomes
Grateful beyond words for this video. Thanks !
Dennis….THANK YOU for all the research, long hours, trial and errors, and for being persistent, in your quest.
Thank you, for deciding, to bring this product, /line of products, to the general public, and allowing us to benefit, from your labor of love.
I have just ordered a Heather, and look forward to many decades of meals made in it, someday I hope to get the Joan (my mothers name), as well as lids. 🥰🥰🥰
Calm down on the commas. haha. Your second line doesn't need any. Instead, you have 6.
love my Heather.
I want to see the Butter Pat logo from your website molded into the back of your pan. I already have more cast iron than I can use but that logo would make me buy a set.
Well, why didn’t he just buy another Erie ?
Nice pans, but I'll stick with my Wagner #10 made around 1915.
Shame they got sold to Yeti
Why are some brown and others black?
When you first get them they are almost gold. They darken over time with use as you build seasoning.
@@jknoll779 good to know. Thanks much.