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Originally Posted by GA Russell
...I will be in the market for cast iron cookware this year...
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After doing lots of research on higher-end vs. cheaper cast iron, I went with Lodge brand. That's one of the cheaper ones. And you can find it everywhere. Lodge is made in America, which is a good thing for cast iron. The deal with Lodge though, is that they don't smooth it all that well, and pre-season it and basically do a terrible job of that. But there is some very good cookware hidden under that terrible rough pre-seasoning.
Check out the video below (and several other videos by this same guy) on how to bring your Lodge stuff up to snuff. I did his sanding/re-seasoning trick on mine and now it is the most stick-free cookware I own. Took me several hours total, most of that being the repeated seasoning steps where the cookware is warming in the oven or cooling down afterwards, but it was well worth it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljSQrSoSYAE