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 ...

An old cast iron pan ready for refurbishing, left, and a stripped and freshly seasoned cast iron pan. (Kathy M.Y. Pyon / Los Angeles Times) 5 / 5.

A muffin pan called a Turk's Head will put $400 in your pocket. Be careful, though, ... a dealer in antique cast-iron cookware and author of The Book of Griswold and Wagner.

The virtues of cast iron cookware are several: It takes any heat, from very low to super high; it retains that heat, if necessary, for the recipe; over time, it develops a nonpareil non-stick ...

Take a look at your cast-iron muffin pans, Dutch ovens, roasters, bread molds, ... Jim Nance of Georgetown, Ky., searches for old cast-iron implements, restores and resells them.

I met Kyle Seip, a.k.a. @castiron_kyle, through Instagram and have obsessively followed his adventures in collecting and refurbishing old American cast-iron pans for some time now. And when I say ...

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 ...