Amazon has 10.25" Lodge Logic Pre-Seasoned Cast Iron Skillet on sale for $13.99. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+.
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About this Product:
Crafted in America with iron and oil, its naturally seasoned cooking surface creates an easy-release and improves with use.
Seasoning is simply oil baked into the iron, giving it a natural, easy-release finish and helps prevent your pan from rusting. Lodge pre-seasons all cast iron cookware with 100% natural vegetable oil; no synthetic coatings or chemicals.
Lodge products are made in the USA with non-toxic, PFOA & PTFE free material.
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Amazon has 10.25" Lodge Logic Pre-Seasoned Cast Iron Skillet on sale for $13.99. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+.
Thanks Deal Hunter gaamn114 for sharing this deal
About this Product:
Crafted in America with iron and oil, its naturally seasoned cooking surface creates an easy-release and improves with use.
Seasoning is simply oil baked into the iron, giving it a natural, easy-release finish and helps prevent your pan from rusting. Lodge pre-seasons all cast iron cookware with 100% natural vegetable oil; no synthetic coatings or chemicals.
Lodge products are made in the USA with non-toxic, PFOA & PTFE free material.
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I like my lodge skillet because it is thicker than my others. I don't like the stubby handle. Since, it is thick, it's the one I like to use at extreme heat for steaks and blackening. But, the stubby handle sucks because it rapidly heats up. They make a silicone grabber handle, but it fits loosely.
For those reasons I mainly prefer my Victoria cast iron. It has a longer handle. It is a little thinner, but that's kind of good on a 12" or 14" skillet.
This is a kitchen staple. A little bit of maintenance but at the end of the day cast iron is the best. This is from someone who cooks 2-3 meals a day for a family of four and also had carbon steel, coated nonstick, and All-Clad stainless. Better searing and more nonstick than stainless, longer lasting and less toxic than Teflon. Nearly indestructible. Made in the USA. And CHEAP.
Clicked on it and it said I purchased it before Jan 2021 must have been another slick deal back then and for the same price 13.99. With inflation that is a WIN!
Now if I can only figure out where it went
I like my lodge skillet because it is thicker than my others. I don't like the stubby handle. Since, it is thick, it's the one I like to use at extreme heat for steaks and blackening. But, the stubby handle sucks because it rapidly heats up. They make a silicone grabber handle, but it fits loosely.
For those reasons I mainly prefer my Victoria cast iron. It has a longer handle. It is a little thinner, but that's kind of good on a 12" or 14" skillet.
I agree with your assessment. Handle is too short and puts a lot of stress on the wrist due to weight.
I too have the silicone handle sleeve. I find I have to pot holder one hand to support other side of pan. Is what it is, but love the Lodge for steaks.
For these new lodge cast iron pans (not the old ones)... do you strip the initial non stick finish and then season... or do you just season overtop the nonstick coating?
For these new lodge cast iron pans (not the old ones)... do you strip the initial non stick finish and then season... or do you just season overtop the nonstick coating?
Lodge's factory season is good. There's no reason to get rid of it or to add extra layers. Just start cooking.
I like my lodge skillet because it is thicker than my others. I don't like the stubby handle. Since, it is thick, it's the one I like to use at extreme heat for steaks and blackening. But, the stubby handle sucks because it rapidly heats up. They make a silicone grabber handle, but it fits loosely.
For those reasons I mainly prefer my Victoria cast iron. It has a longer handle. It is a little thinner, but that's kind of good on a 12" or 14" skillet.
I like my Lodge's handle the length that it is, because it fits in the cabinet easier. Also, these are made down South near Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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this any good for pancakes or will they stick much? thanks!
I make pancakes all the time, no problem! Always need a little fat / oil in cast iron, butter works great for lighter foods too. Lard is great for seasoning if you're not afraid of pork.
Why would you be unable to use oil? Use olive or avocado oil, and it gives you health fats. Canola and similar are probably fine too. Just avoid animal fats and coconut oil most of the time. Now and then will probably be alright.
What? Lard is literally the best for seasoning CI.
What? Lard is literally the best for seasoning CI.
It's a classic seasoning, and it may be best if that's what you have on hand, but saturated fats like lard do not polymerize as well as unsaturated fats, so objectively lard is poor in the area of polymerization, but the super high polymerization oil like flaxseed can be brittle. Inbetween is probably best.
In my opinion, I like a natural mixed fat seasoning containing unsaturated cooking oils and natural fat from meat I'm cooking. I would definitely start with an unsaturated oil to make quick polymerizing coats, but then something like lard can make poorly polymerized, but soft durable coats. Mainly I just cook in it, and if I'm preheating the oven really hot, sometimes I'll put a light oil coat on it and throw it in, but that's super rare. After cooking on one a decade or more, seasoning is not really a concern anymore unless you scrub it with steel wool or something that wears through it.
Approximately 15 years ago, I bought this same Lodge cast iron through Slickdeals for $10 (recession-era pricing). I still use it almost every single day. It's still my favorite Slickdeal ever, and I often tell people it was the best $10 I've ever spent. I plan on leaving it to my children in my will.
I'll be the one to say it, with the advancement of nonstick coatings and knowledge of properly using stainless steel, there is very little reason to have a cast iron pan around the kitchen unless you like casseroles or reverse sear steak often. They just don't offer enough utility. My Lodge pan sits at the bottom of stack almost indefinitely.
It's all about the right tool for the job. I have cast iron, enameled cast iron, triple-ply stainless and nonstick, and they all get used for different things. Searing a steak? Cast iron. Frying something on high heat? Cast iron. Sauteing something? Stainless. General meals? Stainless. Eggs in the morning? nonstick. Reheating things (I don't use a microwave)? Nonstick.
I wouldn't sear a steak in stainless or nonstick, and I wouldn't sauté something in cast iron. Carbon steel combines some of the properties of cast iron with that of stainless, but it still doesn't have the mass for searing or frying things on high heat.
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The proof of how misguided you are with cast iron cooking & cookware care is right within your own words and whatever food is so sticking in your cookware. It really shows when you say "I find the best way to clean my cast iron is to just boil an inch of water and scrape clean." You are freely admitting you have a need to SCRAPE it clean, or boil water in it, which you would not have to do if you had a properly seasoned cast iron cookware. Contrary to what you believe, seasoning is not a 1-time process. Adding oil is just the bare initial start of any seasoning process and not true seasoning at all. You say "Every time you put oil on the hot pan, it seasons it, so every time you're cooking, it gets reseasoned". Almost correct, but 100% correct would be every time you put oil on the hot pan it deepens the seasoning over time, but NOT if you soap, boil water, and scrape the cast iron's seasoning in-between, every time you cook & wash. The need for me to scrape my cast iron is extremely rare. I've never used soap or 'boil water' in it to clean it. Why? Because my cookware is near 99% clean AFTER cooking in it, before a quick rinse with water and a wipe with paper towel to clean away the excess oil. The fact that it doesn't need such severe cleaning should tell you something. Been doing it for over 50 years.
Commercial soap no longer contains lye and so long as it is quickly dried, washing with soap does not strip the seasoning.
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For those reasons I mainly prefer my Victoria cast iron. It has a longer handle. It is a little thinner, but that's kind of good on a 12" or 14" skillet.
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Now if I can only figure out where it went
For those reasons I mainly prefer my Victoria cast iron. It has a longer handle. It is a little thinner, but that's kind of good on a 12" or 14" skillet.
I too have the silicone handle sleeve. I find I have to pot holder one hand to support other side of pan. Is what it is, but love the Lodge for steaks.
For those reasons I mainly prefer my Victoria cast iron. It has a longer handle. It is a little thinner, but that's kind of good on a 12" or 14" skillet.
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In my opinion, I like a natural mixed fat seasoning containing unsaturated cooking oils and natural fat from meat I'm cooking. I would definitely start with an unsaturated oil to make quick polymerizing coats, but then something like lard can make poorly polymerized, but soft durable coats. Mainly I just cook in it, and if I'm preheating the oven really hot, sometimes I'll put a light oil coat on it and throw it in, but that's super rare. After cooking on one a decade or more, seasoning is not really a concern anymore unless you scrub it with steel wool or something that wears through it.
I wouldn't sear a steak in stainless or nonstick, and I wouldn't sauté something in cast iron. Carbon steel combines some of the properties of cast iron with that of stainless, but it still doesn't have the mass for searing or frying things on high heat.
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