A spider skillet has three legs, which mine doesn’t. At least mine’s from back when the manufacturers would grind the cooking surface of the pan smooth, which they all seem to have quit doing quite a few years ago.
I know. :-)
And grandma still called her smooth bottomed cast iron fry pan a spider.
Nobody argued with her about it.
Especially when she was wielding it.
One handed.
You know, that got me to thinking...
My grandparents were farmers. And grandad had quite the shop in his barn.
Delighted us kids. We got into all kinds of mischief there.
He might very well have done that to grandma’s pan.