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Originally Posted by haertig
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 |
I went into walmart once looking for a cast iron griddle type pan and looked at the lodge ones they had. I went to pick the one up on top and funny thing was the handle came but the pan didn't. It was apparently broken right where the handle connected to the pan. I sure this was a one time freak thing but needless to say I didn't get one that day and not been able to even make myself consider getting one since.
Sorry I didn't notice this was in the black friday post and its way off topic.
Don't see how to delete it but if one of the moderators wants to remove it that be great as it does not add anything to this topic.