It's a lump of iron that you have to try to fuck up to make it irreparable. Whoever formed the church of perfect cast iron maintenance needs to take a chill pill
Would you rather have one million dollars or one million cast iron pans?
a year ago by SnokenKeekaGuard to c/wouldyourather
CobblerScholar 7 points a year ago
FancyPantsFIRE 14 points a year ago
Fun thought experiment that I’m going to over analyze.
Near me iron seems to go for ~$180/ton at scrap yards. If we call the average pan weight 8lbs, that’s about 4k tons so scrap value on the lot is ~$720k. The question would be how likely you could sell these not as scrap and net beat the $280k spread. The scrap value per pan would be ~$0.72, so if you can sell each pan for more than a dollar you’d theoretically come out ahead, but to make it worth while you’d probably want to target $10 or more because processing, storing, and moving that many pans isn’t going to be free. Budget new pans go for $20-30, used can be lower or higher than that depending on quality and condition.
tl;dr: Depends on the condition and quality of the pans and it sounds like a lot of work but I’d say the optionality is skewed towards taking the pans if you were willing and able to put the time in to make it a business/job for yourself.
Personally I don’t have the time and I’m doing well financially, I’d take the money.
CanadaPlus 3 points a year ago
Thank you, saved me the work. Although what I did read makes it sound like the scrap yard near you gives a good rate.
Rivalarrival 2 points a year ago
The IRS is going to take a big-ass chunk of your $1 million.
They're not going to get nearly as much from the pans.
HubertManne 6 points a year ago
Even if the dollars are singles they would take up much less room and even better if it can be a higher denomination or just money in the bank. I have absolutely no where to store a million cast iron pans so they would cost money before they made any. I feel this is a too easy on honestly. I mean without some additional things like free storage and a business and such the pans make no sense.
RisingSwell 3 points a year ago
A house and a car? There goes most of it
quediuspayu 3 points a year ago
Give the money, my house is cluttered enough.
testfactor 8 points a year ago
Yeah, but it'll take forever to see that money.
Even if you could sell/ship 100 pans a day (which feels high to me), it'd take you over 27 years to get rid of them all.
SnokenKeekaGuard 6 points a year ago
Pretty tough selling a million of those. Gonna have to start an entire business
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Dollars. Getting rid of the pans sounds like a nightmare as does all the people telling you you're seasoning them wrong/modern ones can be washed because our soap doesn't have lye in it/etc.
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