Customer Reviews

Lodge Pro-Logic Pre-Seasoned 8-Inch Skillet

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It's just the right size for sauteing veggies and meat for one. Cooks evenly and requires little cleanup. The preseasoning takes the guesswork out of initially readying castiron cookware for use. Lodge Pro-Logic properly packaged and sent my merchandise in record time. I would definitly buy from them again and recommend them to my friends.

I bought this skillet over one month ago. It is wonderful. It makes perfect omelettes and fried eggs. This is my new everyday pan. I used to be a fan of nonstick pans, however, after noting the nonstick coatings coming off my pans, I went back to the basics with cast iron.

Cast iron cookware needs more care to prevent rust. That is the only drawback.

I have the surety of knowing that this pan will last forever and not worry about chemicals coming off onto my food.

I have replaced all my cephalon cookware with cast iron and stainless steel.

The general consensus is that these pans are a bit harder to take care of. For me, this is not true.

I use skillets for sauteing and cooking eggs, and with a coating of vegetable oil or butter, sauteed vegetables and eggs clean up with hot water and a quick scrub with a brush. It took a little more effort to clean the nonstick pans from the day they came out of the box, and a lot more effort within a few months as the coating began to deteriorate.

If you are considering replacing all of your non-stick pans, you'll want to get a stainless steel pan or two for tomato products and liquidy soups, which can dissolve the "seasoning" off of a cast-iron skillet. Of course, it's easy to build the seasoning back up again, but why bother?

I've been using cast iron cookware for 25 years. Lodge brand has been a favorite for the past 7-8 years because it represents excellent value, is still made right here in America in TN, and because the quality is generally really good.

This new Lodge Pro*Logic series really has made an old standard, even better. The gently sloping sides are more in line with non cast iron skillets, but it has the full bennefits of being cast iron, such as being the original non-stick surface, and not having to worry about peeling coatings. The generously proportioned handle is flatter, beefier, and curved just right for easy use. I can easily flip fried eggs in this new 8" Prologic cast iron skillet, and that's more than I can say for the stubby handled 8" generic cast iron skillet that it's replacing.

The 8" size sloped sided Prologic skillet has it's limitations, and that is due to it's capacity. Really, this pan is at it's best frying a couple of eggs or making a portion of something else for one. I'm eagerly awaiting it's 10" counterpart, as I use a 10-12" skillet far more often than these littler ones. But, for $10 shipped, it's really hard to beat this 8" skillet, and it's a size a lot of folks will find handy for a variety of uses from quick reheats to quick breakfasts.

Fortunately, I didn't toss my old 8-inch straight-sided cast-iron skillet when this one arrived. This pan works as well as you'd expect, but the sloping sides reduce the cooking surface of the pan. The slope makes it easier to get a spatula under an egg and cleaning the rounded corners inside the pan is probably marginally easier. The flat handle doesn't seem to get so hot. Overall, though I don't think the loss of cooking surface is worth the benefits of the pan.

While I have always loved cooking with cast iron, the Pro-Logic pre-seasoned skillets are really a fine improvement upon an old standard in our family. I have started cooking with only coconut oil and it settles into the pan really nice, no smoke, and allows for a nice searing effect on small chops or steaks. Scrambled and fied eggs just slide off the pan, better than another kind of coating, which is now proved to be unhealthy! I give the Pro-Logic a total thumbs up!

I love this little pan just as much as its bigger brothers. It is perfect for quickly frying up a little meal for one. I've been using it to make one-egg omelettes for snacks and it works great for that too. As others have said, it is a very small skillet. The 8 inch measurement is across the top of the pan, and it tapers down toward the bottom. If you are looking to fry one hamburger patty, this is the right pan. The same design is available in 10 and 12-inch versions, though, so it's not hard to find the right size.

Quality-wise this pan seems identical to all the Lodge products I have used over the years. It starts out great and will only get better with use and age. Some other reviewers have complained about rough surfaces in their cast iron products. I don't believe Lodge's castings are any rougher than other manufacturers, and all my Lodge products (between my mother and I we total 8 skillets and 6 dutch ovens) have been consistently finished. They get smoother over time as you build up seasoning and slowly reshape the iron, but even with the first use of my brand new 8-inch pro-logic skillet I was able to keep eggs from sticking. Not too shabby. One nice thing about cast iron is that if you don't like the shape you can actually sand it smoother. It'll take a lot of elbow grease, and you'll have to re-season the pan afterward, but you certainly can't do that with any other non-stick surface.

My only complaint is that the Lodge Pro-logic line is not more readily available. I ordered this 8-inch and a 10-inch at the same time about 6 weeks ago. I received my 8-inch after a month of waiting and the 10 inch hasn't shipped yet. They don't seem to be available anywhere else either (not even direct from Lodge!) so there must be a supply shortage. Maybe Lodge only casts these pans once a year? I just checked Lodge's site again and it looks like everything is back in stock there, so maybe Amazon will be shipping the rest of my order soon.

Lodge has lived up to it's reputation once again. Having cooked with cast iron for many years both indoors and out I was intrigued by the new design and that it was pre-seasoned. I purchased the 8", 10" and 12" sizes of this iron skillet and after a quick clean-up with soap and hot water and a little time on the stove with some oil in them to dry them out completely I started using them. I did find that the first time or two of use some of the things cooked did stick a little but now the skillets are working very well. We purchased a set of them for our daughter who is getting married as a wedding gift and our other daughter wants a set for her family.

We have had this skillet for a few weeks now and it has performed very well right out of the box. No seasoning required. Fried eggs and omelettes cook great and don't stick to the pan. Cleanup is easier than our old non-stick or stainless pans. Oiling the skillet for storage is pretty quick so it hasn't been a drawback. The price was low enough to give cast iron a try and we don't regret it.

This pre-seasoned skillet is perfect size for a couple of eggs or a piece of french toast. It works well as a non-stick alternative as long as you use some butter or oil to provide the lubricant. Otherwise, it will not perform like a teflon coated pan. It heats up quickly and stays warm. The handle is longer than most cast iron cookware but still gets hot if what you're cooking takes more than 15 minutes or so. The pan is heavy and probably best suited for a gas range. Although we use it on a glass top, some care needs to be taken because of the weight and rough finish of the pan.