If you want to keep your cast iron pans for as long as possible, you'll need to avoid this one easy-to-make mistake to ensure they never crack.

If you have some cast iron pans that were handed down through your family or that you dug up at an estate sale, restoring them makes for a great quarantine weekend project.

If your enameled cast-iron pot or pan has some burnt or stuck-on food, you can fill your pot or pan with warm water and let it soak for a few minutes.

How to clean a cast-iron pan Daniel Gritzer is, in my opinion, the most learned man to seek out on the subject of cast iron care, and so I did.