Cooking with cast iron...

[Mister Obvious]

As in, I'd always thought they were these fancy higher end devices, since the TV foodists and culinary types usually rave about them. I guess they have expensive ones, but the Lodge from Walmart seems pretty damn solid. And yeah the cleaning while it's hot is key.

Same, I would have figured it'd be like $50 or some shit for a 9 inch pan before I started looking into all this.

I was pleasantly surprised.

Bigger cast iron does get expensive though.