"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Cast-iron pans are a home chef's best friend—and for good reason. The hard-wearing, versatile pans can be ...

The pan sitting at the back of a thrift store shelf, orange with rust and crusted with decades of carbonized grease, looks ...

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There’s something about cooking an old family recipe in an heirloom cast iron pan that makes it taste just like the delicious meal that Grandma used to make. But if your treasured cast iron pan is ...

The boxes arrive with Griswolds, Wagners, Lodges and other vintage queens of cast-iron cooking, now worse for wear. Some are rusted over, or too encrusted for anyone to make out their branding. Some ...

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Those new to the art of cast iron cooking can easily be overwhelmed by its maintenance requirements. Is using soap OK? How often does it have to be seasoned? Are you really supposed to clean it with ...

A few weeks back, I was excited to find that someone had cast off a Lodge cast iron grill/griddle combo on the curb in my neighborhood. To them, it was trash, or maybe just scrap metal. But to me, it ...