In fact, some old cast iron skillets are apparently as collectible as rare and valuable Pokémon cards. Like old and valuable cookbooks (and maybe even the cookbook collector's holy grail), old ...

The discovery of a cheap and simple, process for freeing cast iron from carbon has long been a subject of earnest inquiry on the part of scientific and practical men. Mr. John Heaton's process for ...

All this is grist to [Cody’s Lab]’s mill of course, so in the video below the break he attempts to use a thermite reaction in a rough-and-ready foundry, to make a cast-iron frying pan.

Lodge doesn’t have a formal written guarantee or warranty on its classic cast-iron ware. That said, many of us have Lodge skillets at home that range in age from 15 to 20 years old and have ...

OSHU, Japan--Katsunori Suzuki is one of a few craftsmen in Japan still producing cast iron cookware by hand using laborious traditional techniques. The president of the 172-year-old foundry where ...