When my editors first tasked me with testing cast-iron pans several years ago, I encountered a lot of bias among our staff and kitchen toward this new wave of expensive, vintage-style cast-iron.
READY, SET, BAKE: Not only can you bake one of those delicious ring cakes in this Wilton cake pan, you can make monkey bread, baked macaroni and cheese and even roast a chicken. Who knew?
I used to browse antique shops for cookware — namely ... and Victoria (our overall favorite in our guide to cast-iron skillets and pans) will more than suffice. While I've owned a lot of ...
Antique and vintage cast-iron cookware were hand-poured into sand molds and hand-polished to a smooth finish. These labor-intensive pans were cast from thinner molds, which makes them lighter than ...