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Finex vs Lodge
If you’ve spent any time researching cast iron, you’ve seen two names appear constantly—Finex and Lodge. They occupy opposite ends of the spectrum: Finex with its high-precision, boutique engineering, and Lodge with its century-long legacy and mass-production scale. I’ve cooked on both for years, and over the past several months I ran them through a […]
Smithey vs Lodge
I’ve cooked professionally and carried out metallurgical-style tests on dozens of cast-iron pans. In my kitchen I keep both a Smithey No. 12 and a Lodge 12″ classic on constant rotation — and after hundreds of meals, dozens of sears, and multiple lab-style measurements, I can say these pans represent two different answers to the […]