popular Posted by phoinix | Staff • 2d ago
May 21, 2025 3:50 PM
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popular Posted by phoinix | Staff • 2d ago
May 21, 2025 3:50 PM
$37.49*: 3-Quart Lodge Pre-Seasoned Cast-Iron Combo Cooker at Amazon
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After cooking on some higher end cast iron, I understand why people don't love lodge. The cooking surface is a bit rough and ruddy. Not the end of the world but not as non stick as a smooth finish. For bacon and frying it's fine, otherwise I'd recommend carbon steel for eggs and stuff.
That said, Lodge is not, and has never been, in their 100+ years of operation, a premium brand.
They're sturdy, consistent, and serviceable. But back in the day they weren't a Griswold, and now in the day they aren't a Smithey, etc.
If your eggs are sticking to any Lodge skillet, the fault is with the user not Lodge's skillet, as either you're starting your cooking process at the wrong temperature or your skillet has a substandard seasoning which is all under the control of the user.
Any smooothed pebble-grain to the surface, as on modern factory Lodge cookware, is immaterial and is not the cause of any sticking.
I can cook eggs, over-easy, over-medium, or over-well, and they glide across the skillet as if it were teflon. The pebble-grain is totally immaterial.
If it were gritty sandpaper surface like on many of the cheap China-made Ozark Trails and others, then yes that would effect the cooking, but the smooth pebble-grain of any Lodge isn't at all the cause for eggs or foods to stick.
As for the first poster who 'heard' Lodge quality has gone down? Where on the cookware has it gone down? Those complainers need to be specific, which I'd bet they can't do. Lodge has not gone down in quality at all, judging from all their cookware I've seen, up close, and have regularly used over the past 5 decades, including recent years.
Wow that's great!! May I ask what kind of CB is that?
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Obviously, yes, black cast iron gets hot, I get that. Not trying to skirt responsibility here. You may just not be fully cognizant of how hot it gets, and the combination of the material and the weight likely made the burn on my hand much worse than had it been some other kind of vessel.