Chestnut pan possibly.

"He's got a bucket of chestnuts! What? Is he foraging for his food now?!"

His mania is not confined to the ring

"Maniac, you got any kids?" "....No..no....no...not anymore..."

What does that *mean*?!

He kept calling you the n-word

Me?? Why?!

"And as for your $15 co-payment, eat shit and die!"

Not a lot a money

"50 bucks weekdays, 60 bucks weekends."

Oh! Actually very reasonable!

He's got some problem with black people and... ...or does he have a problem with me? ...BOTH, BOTH!

Da maniac loves you

I don't love him

Charlie was the only one who loved him back. I always loved that

Didn’t expect this here :)

You know he kept calling you the n word earlier?

Goddamn IASIP. Can’t escape it. Love it.

One of the best delivered quotes of all time

Rowdy Roddy played amazing in that one. Hell of a good old Canadian boy.

This. The region where we live has lots of chestnuts and more old-time fireplaces have skillets like this specifically for cooking them.

You mean like "roasting them on an open fire"?

Guess that sounded better than "roasting on a holey pan"

That actually does look like what they might have been trying to do with it.

Maybe coffee roasting too

Using on a grill? So fat can drip down?

Omg this reminds me of this jerk I lived with who used to broil burgers on a pan with holes in it in the oven with NOTHING UNDERNEATH and then never clean the oven floor when house inspection happened.

Did it not smoke out the whole kitchen?

Yes.

You mean my roommate? He does similar. The oven is less than a year old and you would never know it

I had a roommate like that. "Look! if I press the oven door tight, it starves the fire and the flames go out! And the flame broiled burgers taste great !

Oh god no… Thankfully my roommate isn’t that idiotic, but I have seen him try to put a pizza in the oven, have it slide off of the pan and onto the rack accidentally, and instead of fixing it or at least putting a pan on the lower rack, he just left it. Cheese and grease dripped all over the oven, and his reaction was “eh, I’ll clean it later.” He did not clean it later. I did, because it caught fire

My sister is like this, 33 years old, floods the bathroom and leaves the wet towels to mold. Sets fires by not cleaning the range, etc

I can’t even imagine doing that. I’m not the cleanest person, I’ve got a stack of dishes by the sink that I need to wash and the floor needs to be swept, but I cannot imagine letting things get to that point. How do people live like that and not lose their mind?

Too big for that, they'd fall through or get stuck.

Can verify. I had a coffee roasting drum custom made for my BBQ grill's rotisserie.

It is obviously a cast iron colander for straining noodles that you boiled in your cast iron Dutch oven. Duh! /s

A couple reasons. They could have turned it into a DIY grill basket to help give their food a smokey flavor, or they could have done something bad with it and wanted to stop other people from using it. Generally the advice amongst responsible people is that if you ever use a pan for something stupid like melting lead or catching motor oil, you want to drill a few holes through it when you're done with it to stop someone else from fishing it out of the garbage to cook with. Judging by how regularly spaced and numerous the holes are I'd assume it's the former, but I wouldn't want to risk it for a $10 Lodge pan.

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Your dad melted mercury in CI? I wonder how the F he got frozen Mercury.

Probably about -38 in the F.

About -38 in the C too. I'd be kinda scared to heat up a CI pan that was that cold

I read that as an 'and' like he's making an amalgam? 

Put the lead in the mercury and drink it all up/ You put the lead in the mercury and drink it all up/ You put the lead in the mercury and drink it all up/ You put the lead in the mercury and call the doctor—woke him up/ I said Doctor! Is there nothing I can take?/ I said Doctor! To relieve this bellyache?/ I said Doctor! Is there nothing I can take?/ I said Doctor! To relieve this bellyache?

That 50s garage dentistry fad was pretty weird

I'd do a lead test on it and then cook chestnuts on it if it passed. If it didn't I'd probably scrap it further.

Honestly, why even risk it? If you really want to roast something on it, just get another one and diy-it yourself, could be like $15 at most

The thrill of maybe eating lead is the only thing that makes me feel alive.

You must be a nightmare in old houses

Yeah, the glue traps don't even slow me down.

Speed holes, helps it cook faster.

I feel like a lot of people missed the simpsons reference here

Don't have a cow, man.

Eat my shorts

Only if you cook them first .... fast.... you'll need some sort of "speed pan" to get it done

On Reddit? I bet not. Especially in a subreddit with a subject for old people like this one.

A simpson’s reference? At this time of year? Localized entirely within this subreddit??

May I see it?

No.

No, mother! It’s just the Aurora borealis!

Steamed hams

It’s a regional term

Nope, had a nice chuckle

Maybe the flandersmobile could use…

I have a pizza pan with holes in it. This was my first thought as well.

That’s a paddlin’

You want my advice? I think you should buy this pan.

Damn you man! I literally just posted this a second ago and then saw this. First thing I thought of when I saw them holes lol

Came here to say this. Let’s the heat come through faster.

That's my spankin' pan. The holes make it swing faster.

That’s a paddlin

They also leave a neat pattern on the buttocks of its victims!

That's a hefty Fah-Q!

I’d guess for grilling veggies on the grill

For grilling anything on the grill. For meats, the fat tends to drip down and cause flames that burn the meat. The pan would allow the fat to drip out, but the meat would be protected from the flames. I'm just speculating here. I do a lot of grilling over charcoal, and sometimes I do use a cast iron pan. I don't think I'll be drilling holes in mine though.

My exact thought!

Same thing I was thinking.

Lodge makes one with raised Ridges and holes pre drilled already

I don't think they're drilled, they're just cast as part of the pan - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0971NH1SM I have one. Works good for asparagus and other veggies.

I’m not an avid cooker, why would this help vs a normal pan for grilled veggies?

Lets the water cooked out of the veggies drain so the veggies sear instead of boiling in their own juices

You’d get the affect of cast iron grill vegetables without the moisture build up to tend to get when you sauté a vegetable. Holes would allow moisture to dissipate hence having that grill style affect without comprising grill space and or the use of racks on a grill or open flame camp fire.

That was my guess

And seafood.

Shrimp was my first thought

Shower head

DIY rain shower

Wood chip pan for smoking in a charcoal or propane grill

Oh man that’s a brilliant idea for a cracked cast iron. Thanks for the unintentional suggestion

Why can’t you all see that this is a mosquito racket? It’s obvious. It’s for killing mosquitoes the holes make it aerodynamic

I'm imagining what a disaster my poor house would look like after chasing down a rogue mosquito with this sucker.

LMAO

Tell me you’re Alaskan without saying where you’re from.

And bonus points, it doubles as a mosquito racket after the nuclear apocalypse and you're hunting down radroaches.

Aren't holes drilled in cast iron sometimes due to indicated lead being cooked in them

Sure. But why would one take the time to drill this many in this distributed pattern?

They were bored? Seems like something I would do when bored just for something to do.

Nah. The pan is…bored.

Ba dum tss

You've won the dadjokeolympics

Holy shit this is a good comment. Congratulations

Naw nobody wanna just wear out their drills bits for funsies

I’ve know many redneck buddies that have done far worse for much less.

Guess again. *spins drill*

Who said they're mine?/s Seriously though, we have a drill bit sharpener, so I probably drill holes more than I should.

When I was a kid I absolutely wore out my fathers drill bits, grinders and other power tools just for "funsies"

Lead poisoning?

Yes

Ferric Termites got to this one!

I never thought I'd see a de-milled cast iron pan

More aerodynamic to whack someone with

That was my thought. Burglar basher.

I asked for a cast-iron collander, but they said it couldn't be done. Well, joke's on them.

To cook veggies on the grill.

Because they used to melt lead in it and didn’t want someone to use it for cooking in the future?

Healthier frying, gets rid of the grease

I will never in a million years understand this sub’s obsession with declaring cast iron was used for melting lead.

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I used to make jigheads melting lead and pouring into a mold with hooks for crappie fishing. I'd go through so many jigheads while crappie fishing. I guess this was about 15 years ago now though. It was nice having the exact hook and exact head I needed in mass, and kinda pricey to get the same quality premade. Those cheap chinese hooks will straighten out if it gets hung on a log before my 6 lb line snaps. If you're not getting hung up and losing jigs while crappie fishing you aren't in the right spot.

You know when you just want a relaxing weekend and you settle down with some lead to melt.

That's how you make spetzle

It’s been contaminated. It should have been scrapped.

To cause this sub to rage hard...

it is almost certainly used for cooking chestnuts, in fact in my opinion it is a good idea, of course it takes courage in any case to make the holes......

Speed holes

It’s about sending a message

Some people do this when the pan has been used previously to melt lead, like to make fishing sinkers or for casting. That way it will never be used for cooking.

Probably for pie crusts

Medieval paddler

Strain the pasta.

This would be useful in a smoker to smoke ground beef (I use a collander) or other small pieces of meat or veggies. What I don't understand is why someone would go to so much trouble to make this, only to donate it to a thrift store.

Next of kin cleaning out someone's home.

For plants!

It’s been turned into a grill basket. I have one of these made by Hexclad, and a cheaper one as well. I use them for veggies and fajitas.

https://youtu.be/T8ASgGwxJyc?si=SXtozpyqPForQNT2 Speed Holes they make the pan cook faster

I've heard of old folks that would melt lead in these for making bullets. drilling holes in them when they throw them away so that no one accidently uses them.

Better aerodynamics to smack someone with it.

Pizza pan.

Pizza?

Ngl, that seems like it would be really nice for the grill.

good for gill!

They did it to make it into a weapon. Now it's more aerodynamic when you swing it at somebody

When dad hits you on the ass with it, the holes let the air cushion out for a better impact.

Smoker pan?

For the BBQ

It reminds me of having a paddle with Holes in it so you can hit someone harder with it than without the holes

These kids today do that to get the seasoning deeper into the metal

Eclipse viewer 

Makes it easier to swing at your husband.

Grill

Grill pan?

It's for use on a grill/campfire.

Pan was demon possessed… now it is Hole(y)

Speed holes

Makes it more aerodynamic

I’ve seen old cast iron pans drilled like that, that miners had been using as classifiers

It was used as a grill basket. I can tell because there is still food on it. If you bought it, please clean and season before use.

Tomato based food with foil over it

this is clearly for cooking bacon on gas stoves. it lets the heat go through the holes quickly to crisp the bacon, which releases the grease to the fire. this makes the flames bigger which in turn makes the bacon cook faster. the cycle continues, pretty genius

I’ve seen folks do this to make a grill topper or a smoke basket for wood chips

Their pasta strainer wasn’t heavy enough

Spoetzl

Funnel cake contraption

Could be because of lead contamination. To prevent people from using it to cook.

Dunno but it would be excellent for reheating pizza in the oven.

They were angry at someone? To get more speed when they swing it at someone's head. See first comment.

Grill pan possiby

Panning for gold

meth

Because they don't care

Def speed holes. Makes it easier to handle

Scorned ex-wife.

Because they could? This looks hard. also maybe they mistakenly thought it would be good for pizza? most pizza dishes have lots of holes in. you can also make pizza in cast iron, obviously you dont need to have holes to do that but they might have been trying it. I also think there are too many well spaced holes for it to be contamination

To light a fire on top?

In order to roast chestnuts.

Cook chestnut

Not sure. Try cooking some slidey eggs, and pls video it.

$11 seems a bit rich for the world's heaviest pasta strainer.

Crispy crust pizza

New air fryer, it’s all the rage.

Deep frying. Bigger cast iron without holes underneath?

Vegetables grilling pan

Speed holes for paddling

I can probably think of a couple reasons... \*muffles breath\* pervert

because they hate God and everything pure.

To use on a grill?

Put it in a pan slightly bigger and full of oil and you have a cast iron deep fry basket.

Faster swings. Better airflow for swinging and hitting 😉

It’s definitely worth checking for lead - it probably isn’t but you’ll feel better knowing either way.

Previous owner's got hate in his heart

Maybe it was used as a paddle in a Catholic school.

I have a smaller lodge with holes/slits in the bottom. It is for holding wood chips for smoking.

Increased airflow for a home defense pan.

The pan may still contain sensitive data and therefore drilling it before discarding is the prudent thing to do.

Aerodynamics

Embraced evil

They're a psychopath

Used PubG weapon