Ask any good home cook — or even a professional chef — worth their salt and they’ll tell you one of the best things you can have in your arsenal is a cast iron skillet — especially a Lodge cast iron skillet. It’s pretty difficult to totally ruin cast iron, which means it can hold up for generations if you take care of it properly.
That’s not an exaggeration either; just think about all the old cast iron skillets you may have seen at garage sales or even at flea markets. A well-seasoned bit of cast iron allows for even heat retention across the surface, which means you get food that’s been cooked consistently throughout. Once you consider the health benefits (you get a bit of iron in your food each time you use it) and just how cool it looks (the presentation of a cobbler in cast iron just looks great) it really is worth the extra muscle (cast iron is heavy after all!) and investment.