Del Cecchi wrote:
> "Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
> .. .
>
>>"Viviane" > wrote in message

>>Rapid heating or cooling will do it. The interior is porcelain lined. It
>>is like glass coating on cast iron. If you heat it rapidly on a high
> burner
>
>>is even possible to crack the entire piece and have it break in half. All
>>cast iron is vulnerable to cracking under extreme circumstances, steel
> pans will usually warp.
>>
>
> Cracking under extreme circumstances? And what might be the circumstances
> that would crack plain cast iron? Hitting it with a sledge hammer? Filling
> it with water and putting it outside my door in january? They make engine
> blocks out of that stuff. Never heard of anyone cracking their skillet.
> Now coating it with something with a different coefficient of expansion
> makes the thin coating vulnerable.
> del cecchi

Ummm, a cast iron griddle over a campfire will break into many pieces if
it is squirted enough times with a squirt-gun. Or so I've heard ;-)

Pete Stryjewski
pstryjew at att dot net