I have a small metal skillet in my kitchen cabinet that I mainly use to cook things like quesadillas or fried eggs or sausages. Here are three pictures of it.
I don’t know how old it is. It came into my possession about 13 years ago when an old roommate moved out and left it behind. Compared to modern day skillets, it’s considerably heavier and the surface seems to get hotter much faster. It’s pretty non-stick if it’s oiled; if it’s dry it sticks more so than a Teflon pan would, but less so than a generic modern-day skillet. I don’t think it’s cast-iron; in all the years I’ve owned it I’ve never had to re-season it and I’ve never seen a trace of rust on it, and rather than being a single molded piece of metal, the handle (which may or may not be a different kind of metal) is bolted onto the pan. The underside of the handle is imprinted with three groups of letters and numbers; “GP”, “6”, and “C-20”. There appears to be an NSF mark on the underside center, but it and any accompanying text has been worn to to the point of illegibility. There are no other markings I can find on the skillet that indicate who made it or when.
Does anyone possibly have any idea how old this skillet might be or what it’s made of? The “GP 6 C-20” seems to be the best clue to go by, but my Google-Fu hasn’t lead to anything. Just kinda curious as to how long this thing might have been tooling its way around the kitchens of America before I wound up with it.