Cleaning and reseasoning your cast iron pans is a must, even if you treat them well. Here's how to freshen up your old pans. Alina Bradford CNET Contributor Alina Bradford has been writing how-tos ...

Rogers’ The Culinary Fanatic channel on YouTube, where he demonstrates how to restore vintage cast iron and posts cooking demonstrations, has 176,000 subscribers. These days, Rogers is buying ...

“I’m taking pans that are sometimes over 100 years old and giving them new life,” she said. “Sometimes I feel like I’m helping preserve a part of American history.” 1. Evaluate the pan’s condition .

Cast-iron expert and Butter Pat Industries founder Dennis Powell Jr. explains the problems with seasoning and why he makes his pans the old-fashioned way. While manufacturers have tried to ...

Cast iron dates back a couple thousand years, with many historians tracing the origin to China. In the early 1700s, Abraham Darby of Great Britain patented a manufacturing method for cast iron pans.

Using these metrics, the Lancaster Cast Iron skillet, a newfangled vintage-style pan, stood out as the best. Having now lived with this pan for 3 years, my judgement hasn’t wavered.

This Epicurean pan scraper is my favorite way to clean cast iron skillets. It’s only $6 and can remove burnt-on food without damaging the seasoning.

Apart from the benefits of using cast iron pans on an induction cooktop, Lucy Dunstan, product manager at Smeg, loves its adaptability, “You can use cast iron on any cooking surface —from the ...