Customer Reviews

Lodge Logic Pre-Seasoned 17-Inch Cast Iron Skillet

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With proper care this pan will last more than a lifetime. Most of the Cast Iron pans made in the late 1800's are still floating around. This pan can last that long too. While this pan is hugh and can cook lots and lots of food. It is better suited for outdoor cooking on a Campfire or a Turkey fryer base than useing in a kitchen. It is pretty big for a stove as you can have two burners heating it at once. I am glad I bought this pan. I also bought a smaller skillet for use on my home stove.

But for campfire cooking this is one of the most versitle pieces out there, you can fry in it, use it a a griddle and make monster pancakes. You can even whip up a big batch of Chili. If you like camping or even backyard cooking this is a must have. I like to use mine with a Turkey deepfryer base as the heating element it works great.

It's big, it's black, it's cast iron! I had the 15in skillet in my wish list for a long time when this one showed up in my gold box. I didn't even mind paying the higher price for a pre-seasoned piece which is a bonus for a skillet of this size. The two smaller handles on this one make it even easier to get in and out of the oven, not to mention giving it a better fit. It works just find on the stove top but will over hang the side a bit. A damp towell on the counter will help if your counter is not high heat proof. If you cook big meals for big crowds you're probably already in love with cast iron. Put this one on your list. And thank you Amazon; not many companies will wave shipping on somthing as heavy as cast iron.

I bought this specifically for making my homemade pizza. I've found that baking pizza in a cast iron skillet that was generously coated with shortening yielded wonderful results, whether one preferred thick (my choice), or thin crust (my wife's choice). It turns out a pastry-like crust that my extended family raves over. (Be sure to use a generous amount of olive oil in the dough..4 tablespoons per two cups of flour..)Baking it at 500 degrees is also part of the secret. The problem was that I previously had only the smaller 12" cast iron skillets, but this big boy allowed me to make a hearty pizza main course for four to five hungry adults. The cast iron also retained heat for quite a while, once out of the oven, so that my pizza stayed warm until the last slice had been eaten. Clean-up was a breeze..just wipe the pan out with a paper towel and give it a spray of cooking oil.

This pan is an invaluable accessory on the burner you use for your turkey fryer. It's great cooking outside with this pan and the two loop handles make it easier to carry. And you'll need two hands to carry this pan. Also, the absence of the typical frying pan handle prevents it from being knocked or moved on the burner when working around it. If you're looking to cook large quantities of food quickly, don't hesitate to buy this pan!

The Pre-seasoning makes this pan so easy to maintain and a dream to cook with. Nice large capacity, high heat cooking without worrying about toxic teflon chemicals absorbing into food. This is healthy cooking with easy non-stick clean up.
I love making pan pizza in this skillet, everything just tastes better. You won't be dissapointed. Just brought my expensive set of teflon down the basement and am replacing with Lodge Logic.

I have made this statement many times "they just don't make them like they use to". Well I eat my words!

I might be considered a cast iron snob because I will pay premium prices for antique Griswold and other brands versus Lodge. With this purchase I have been pleasantly surprised with the non-stick pre-seasoned surface of this Lodge pan, not to mention the wonderful ease in cleanup! Please do not hesitate on making the decision to purchase a Lodge pre-seasoned product. Kudo's to Lodge on having the foresight to pre-season their cast iron...it certainly has made my life easier and I am sure that you will agree. Lodge is using good old USA quality manufacturing so let's help keep them producing their product in the USA, you will not regret your purchase. Remember> Lodge makes them "better" than the old days! Can't wait to try this pan for deep dish pizza.

I mostly make deep dish pizza in this skillet because it is huge, very deep and the pizza comes out great. It's my first iron skillet so I really do appreciate reviewers comments and suggestions. The first couple of times I used this it did smoke until I read about keeping the heat low to medium. Bingo that solved the problem. My suggestion Foodnetwork.com has great deep dish recipes. I store this bad boy in the bottom drawer of my oven. It's that big.

I have all cast iron and I needed a larger pan for deep dish pizza. This big boy is great. Made pizza last night it was so good! One problem, I can't close the door all the way on the oven. I have a viking wall oven. It cooked great anyway, but I was shocked when it wouldn't fit. I told my husband I now need a commercial size oven.

This pan is huge. Its very heavy. It is not cheaply made, it is very thick and heavy duty. We use it to cook outside. It is even a little hard to get into the sink to wash. Even though its a little hard to handle, we love it.

We love making big family size batches of fajitas with chicken, beef, green peppers and onions. We could not find a pan that was big enough without having to make them in batches. Then we found this pan. Its perfect. We use on the turkey fryer base. You can get this pan hot over the gas, much hotter than making in a skillet on the stove. They come out perfect and all sizzling like at restaurants.

Lodge cast is almost all we use to cook with because of teflon and aluminum health concerns and this is one of our favorites.

Yes, it's heavy, doesn't fit on a regular stove, & heats unevenly with small burners. I bought it to use on a large high output outdoor burner, it's perfect for my use. I can cook a whole pound of bacon at once and deep fry enough crab rangoon at once to actually enjoy the party. Not a pan that I use very often, but when I do, nothing else comes close to it's utility.