Wagner Ware Sidney -O- Bacon and Egg Breakfast Skillet
Wagner Specialty & Variant Collection, Sidney-Shelby County Ohio, Specialty Cookware, Museum Collection Steve Thaman Wagner Specialty & Variant Collection, Sidney-Shelby County Ohio, Specialty Cookware, Museum Collection Steve Thaman

Wagner Ware Sidney -O- Bacon and Egg Breakfast Skillet

Everyone has dealt with bacon grease flooding into eggs. Wagner's answer was to cast the solution into the iron — a square divided pan with separate compartments for bacon and eggs, one burner, one wash. The most immediately charming piece in the SSC collection.

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Wagner Ware No. 8 Round Roaster
Wagner Ware, Wagner Specialty & Variants, Ohio Foundry Heritage, Ohio Foundry Corridor, Specialty Cookware, Cast Iron Lids and Sets, Pre-1959 Cast Iron, Sidney Ohio, Patent History Steve Thaman Wagner Ware, Wagner Specialty & Variants, Ohio Foundry Heritage, Ohio Foundry Corridor, Specialty Cookware, Cast Iron Lids and Sets, Pre-1959 Cast Iron, Sidney Ohio, Patent History Steve Thaman

Wagner Ware No. 8 Round Roaster

Four United States patents. Five years of engineering. All of it cast into the iron of a single lid. The Wagner Ware No. 8 Round Roaster with Drip Drop Baster lid is one of the most precisely dateable artifacts in the SSC collection — a complete, pre-catalog-number piece from the narrow 1922–1924 window that documents Wagner's most important technological innovation in its original, fully evolved form.

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