16 best cast iron pans — Rating 2022

Fry­ing pans can be of three types: uni­ver­sal, deep wok and with a relief bot­tom for grilling; most­ly suit­able for use on all types of stoves and in the oven, but not always for dish­wash­ers, suit­abil­i­ty is deter­mined by the qual­i­ty of the cast iron itself and the coat­ing used, often enam­el. The EXPERTOLOGY team of experts stud­ied the range of mod­ern cook­ware man­u­fac­tur­ers and their prod­ucts and com­piled a rat­ing that includ­ed 16 of the best cast iron pans.

Rating of the best cast iron pans

The Best All-Purpose Cast Iron Pans

Uni­ver­sal cast iron pans are suit­able for fry­ing and stew­ing any food and cook­ing dish­es of dif­fer­ent cuisines.

LE CREUSET 28 cm with wooden handle

Rat­ing: 4.9

The undis­put­ed leader of the rat­ing is a round cast-iron fry­ing pan LE CREUSET with a wood­en han­dle, suit­able for cook­ing fried, stewed or stewed dish­es, but for the lat­ter you need to pur­chase an addi­tion­al lid, it is not includ­ed in the kit. Thick cast-iron walls are cov­ered with black dense enam­el inside, and col­ored out­side. The non-remov­able wood­en han­dle excludes use with LE CREUSET in the oven and wash­ing in the dish­wash­er, but the pan is suit­able for cook­ing on any stoves. It is very con­ve­nient to use: in addi­tion to the main han­dle, a sec­ond mono­lith­ic small one is attached to the sides for grip­ping from both sides, but with the use of a pot hold­er. The total weight of the pan is 3 kg.

The aver­age price of LE CREUSET 28 cm with a wood­en han­dle is 12,000 rubles. Expen­sive, but the invest­ment will pro­vide the host­ess with a real­ly high-qual­i­ty cast-iron pan for many years to come.

See also: 7 best elec­tric fry­ing pans

Rondell Noble Red RDI-706 28 cm

Rat­ing: 4.8

Experts award­ed the sil­ver rat­ing to a round uni­ver­sal fry­ing pan Ron­dell Noble Red RDI-706 with a large diam­e­ter of 28 cm. It dif­fers from the leader LE CREUSET only in the mate­r­i­al of the han­dle — at Ron­dell it is also non-remov­able, but steel, so dish­es can be cooked on hobs, includ­ing induc­tion , and in the oven. The rest is a decent cast-iron fry­ing pan with black enam­el inside and col­ored red out­side, food and fat do not stick to it, it is con­ve­nient to care for the prod­uct, but you can­not wash it in the dish­wash­er because of the enam­el.

The sec­ond han­dle of the cast-iron pan is small cast-iron on the edge of the side, it is slight­ly curved — it is more con­ve­nient to take it so that it does not come off, but pothold­ers will be need­ed for both han­dles.

The aver­age price of Ron­dell Noble Red RDI-706 28 cm is 5,000 rubles.

GiPFEL BADELL 2254 28 cm

Rat­ing: 4.8

Cast iron pan GiPFEL BADELL 2254 with a diam­e­ter of 28 cm and a rim height of 4.5 cm received the third place rat­ing for the rel­a­tive weak­ness of the white enam­el coat­ing to high tem­per­a­tures — some own­ers had a prob­lem with crack­ing and stick­ing of prod­ucts as a result. Unsta­ble and col­ored coat­ing on the out­side — after some time, chips appear. How­ev­er, the pan can be used in the oven — the dish­es are baked even­ly. Non-remov­able bun­dles are not a hin­drance to the oven — one is made of steel, the oth­er is small cast iron, they are not afraid of high tem­per­a­tures, but tacks are need­ed for safe­ty.

It is unde­sir­able to wash the GiPFEL BADELL fry­ing pan in the dish­wash­er, but abra­sive agents can also be care­ful­ly used by hand — with mod­er­ate expo­sure, they are not afraid of enam­el.

The aver­age price of GiPFEL BADELL 2254 28 cm is 3,800 rubles.

BergHOFF Ron 3900041 26 cm

Rat­ing: 4.7

The BergHOFF Ron fry­ing pan has a slight­ly small­er diam­e­ter than its pre­de­ces­sors — only 26 cm, but the wood­en han­dle is remov­able, and there is also a spout for drain­ing the sauce. These fac­tors make the use of the pan con­ve­nient, only the lack of a lid spoils the impres­sion a lit­tle. The BergHOFF Ron is oven safe — the cook­ware does not have any brit­tle coat­ings, just a smooth oiled cast iron sur­face that needs to be heat­ed up grad­u­al­ly to pre­vent stick­ing. Due to the rel­a­tive­ly small diam­e­ter, the pan is con­ve­nient to store, but it can­not be hung up — there is no hole in the han­dle.

Reviews for this pan are only pos­i­tive, so we safe­ly rec­om­mend it for pur­chase.

The aver­age price of BergHOFF Ron 3900041 26 cm is 5,000 rubles.

See also: 12 best pan man­u­fac­tur­ers

Lodge P10S3 25 cm

Rat­ing: 4.7

The fifth in the rank­ing is a small fry­ing pan with a diam­e­ter of 25 cm Lodge P10S3, made of cast iron with­out spe­cial coat­ings. It has a recessed shape with 6 cm high sides round­ed down­wards, which con­tributes to an even dis­tri­b­u­tion of heat dur­ing cook­ing. The pan has 2 cast-iron han­dles: one is long, the oth­er is small, you can safe­ly cook peo­ple in the oven, and on gas, induc­tion and elec­tric ceram­ic stoves. Of the fea­tures — the pres­ence of a spout for drain­ing the sauce.

In addi­tion to the obvi­ous dis­ad­van­tages in the form of a large weight and spe­cial care, there are no com­plaints about the Lodge P10S3 fry­ing pan. Its price is quite afford­able — 3,200 rubles.

Biol 0328 28 cm

Rat­ing: 4.6

The prod­uct of the domes­tic brand Biol 0328 clos­es the rat­ing of uni­ver­sal cast-iron fry­ing pans. The fry­ing pan with a diam­e­ter of 28 cm with a wood­en remov­able han­dle and a sec­ond cast tack is large enough and deep (6.6 cm), it can be used in the kitchen with any type of stove, it is not afraid of ovens and unpre­ten­tious in care, like oth­er cast-iron pans, which must be care­ful­ly washed and peri­od­i­cal­ly ignit­ed, oiled.

Biol weighs 28 cm, all 2.36 kg — a lot, but rel­a­tive to ana­logues in the same diam­e­ter, it is quite wor­thy. We rec­om­mend buy­ing a fry­ing pan only from trust­ed sell­ers — cas­es of cast iron rust­ing dur­ing use have been iden­ti­fied, which is sim­ply unac­cept­able for a qual­i­ty prod­uct.

The aver­age price of Biol 0328 28 cm is 1400 rubles — the most afford­able in the cat­e­go­ry.

The best cast iron wok pans

In Chi­na and the coun­tries of the East, the nation­al cui­sine is main­ly fried and stewed food in sauce, cooked on fire. Wok-type fry­ing pans are used as dish­es — deep­ened with thick­ened walls, most­ly cast iron. They cre­ate a uni­form heat flow inside the vol­ume and con­tribute to the rapid prepa­ra­tion of prod­ucts while main­tain­ing the nat­ur­al ben­e­fits. In the next cat­e­go­ry of our rat­ing are cast-iron wok pans.

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Chasseur Wok 37 cm

Rat­ing: 4.9

The best and largest fry­ing pan is the Chas­seur Wok with a diam­e­ter of 37 cm and a height of 5 cm. It has a clas­sic shape with slop­ing walls and large com­fort­able mono­lith­ic han­dles; if nec­es­sary, the wok can be sent to the oven. Inside and out­side, the cast iron is cov­ered with black heat-resis­tant enam­el, resis­tant to chips and scratch­es. It is not­ed: prod­ucts do not stick to the walls and bot­tom. The fry­ing pan comes with a lid, but no steam out­let, so you have to leave a small gap to sta­bi­lize the pres­sure when cook­ing dish­es with sauces.

Cast iron fry­ing pan Chas­seur Wok 37 cm is suit­able for all types of stoves, dish­wash­ers. Its price is about 10,700 rubles.

Lodge P14W3 36 cm

Rat­ing: 4.8

Wok Lodge P14W3 is slight­ly small­er than the leader — its diam­e­ter is only 36 m, but its height is 12 cm and its capac­i­ty is 6 liters. The pan is made of cast iron with­out enam­el coat­ing, but the inner sur­faces are treat­ed with oil, which pro­vides a good non-stick effect. The dish­es serve for many years and do not lose their prop­er­ties, aes­thet­ics and quick­ly pay off because of this. By and large, after each cook­ing, the pan gets bet­ter: the pro­tec­tive coat­ing of the inner walls and bot­tom is updat­ed, the uni­form black col­or of the pan is pre­served.

The han­dles of the Lodge P14W3 wok are cast iron, but you will need an oven mitt for ease of use. But it is allowed to use in the oven and on all types of stoves. There are no cov­ers includ­ed.

The aver­age price of Lodge P14W3 36 cm is 10,800 rubles.

Fissman 4079 35 cm

Rat­ing: 4.7

Fry­ing pan-wok Fiss­man series 4079 with a diam­e­ter of 35 cm deep (12 cm) and capa­cious (5 liters). Time­ly cal­ci­na­tion with oil cre­ates a nat­ur­al and safest non-stick coat­ing; a spe­cial cast iron coat­ing is not pro­vid­ed for the pan. Fiss­man 4079 can be used on a gas burn­er, on an induc­tion and elec­tric hob, as well as on a fire — the own­ers of the pan appre­ci­at­ed it even in field con­di­tions and were sat­is­fied — they took a wok with them instead of a pot, only it weighs 6.53 kg, and this not very con­ve­nient to car­ry. The care of dish­es is sim­ple: noth­ing sticks to the sur­face, so it is enough to wash it with a sponge or send it to the dish­wash­er.

The lid in the kit is sealed, it has a hole for steam release, but the han­dle is plas­tic, you can’t send it to the oven togeth­er with a fry­ing pan, you can wok with­out it. Cast-iron han­dles curved upwards are com­fort­able to grip.

The aver­age price of Fiss­man 4079 35 cm is rel­a­tive­ly afford­able — about 5,800 rubles.

See also: 16 best grill pans

Regent Ferro 93-FE‑7–30 30 cm

Rat­ing: 4.6

The fourth place in the rank­ing went to a rel­a­tive­ly small pan Regent Fer­ro 93-FE‑7–30. A wok with a depth of only 8.5 cm and a diam­e­ter of 30 cm weighs only 3.785 kg — very con­ve­nient for wom­en’s hands, espe­cial­ly since there is one small cast han­dle and a remov­able wood­en main han­dle to grip the pan. Wok Regent Fer­ro 93-FE‑7–30 is made of high-qual­i­ty cast iron with­out a spe­cial coat­ing, it acquires non-stick prop­er­ties after cal­ci­na­tion with fat or oil and improves after each cook­ing process.

The man­u­fac­tur­er has already hard­ened the pan, so even after the first use, the host­ess will not expe­ri­ence any trou­ble in the form of sticky food, main­te­nance is accord­ing­ly easy and man­u­al wash­ing will be quite enough. Dur­ing cook­ing, you can use met­al spat­u­las, forks and spoons — they do not threat­en uncoat­ed and durable cast iron.

The cast iron pan does not come with a lid, and the remov­able han­dle, accord­ing to users, is not the eas­i­est. But the price com­pen­sates for these short­com­ings — about 1,800 rubles.

GiPFEL DILETTO 2147 24 cm

Rat­ing: 4.5

Closed and com­pact wok with a cast-iron lid GiPFEL DILETTO 2147 with a diam­e­ter of 24 cm took sixth place in the rank­ing. Actu­al­ly, the lid and size deter­mined the place of the dish­es in the rat­ing: 24 is the small­est diam­e­ter in the cat­e­go­ry, the height is 8 cm. The lid in the set is sealed, but com­plete­ly opaque, which makes it dif­fi­cult to observe the cook­ing process. On the oth­er hand, a closed pan can be sent to the oven — so the food will cook much faster while main­tain­ing its ben­e­fi­cial prop­er­ties.

The pan has 2 small mold­ed han­dles, no coat­ing, but the man­u­fac­tur­er cal­cined the dish­es to form a nat­ur­al non-stick pro­tec­tion. Wok GiPFEL DILETTO 2147 24 cm is suit­able for all types of stoves, but the man­u­fac­tur­er does not rec­om­mend using a dish­wash­er for care. The aver­age price is 1800 rubles.

The best cast iron grill pans

Grill pans dif­fer from ordi­nary pans with a ribbed bot­tom. Pro­fes­sion­als note: it is cast iron cook­ware that allows you to cook a steak or veg­eta­bles in the best way com­pared to mod­ern steel or alu­minum pans, because cast iron dis­trib­utes heat more effi­cient­ly than oth­ers, achieves max­i­mum heat­ing and main­tains tem­per­a­ture for a long time. Our rat­ing includes clas­sic square pans.

See also: 7 best wok pans

KitchenAid KCI10GPOB 25x25 cm

Rat­ing: 4.9

With­out a doubt, the best grill pan is the KitchenAid KCI10GPOB. First­ly, it has a con­ve­nient square shape with a side of 25 cm, and sec­ond­ly, the enam­el coat­ing is very durable, does not wear off from met­al blades and facil­i­tates sur­face care. The dish­es have a rel­a­tive­ly thin bot­tom and walls — only 3 mm each, but this does not affect the qual­i­ty of heat­ing, the heat is dis­trib­uted even­ly over the entire area, the fry­ing will be the same in the cor­ners and in the mid­dle of the sur­face. Adding weight is a heavy cast iron lid and cast han­dles — one main and one addi­tion­al. The total weight of the KitchenAid KCI10GPOB is 5 kg — a lot, but for a good steak pan — just right.

Like oth­er cast iron pans, KitchenAid is suit­able for use on all types of hobs, even induc­tion, and can be used to bake food in the oven if nec­es­sary.

The aver­age price of a grill pan is 15,000 rubles.

Grill pan LE CREUSET 26 cm

Rat­ing: 4.8

Cast iron square frame LE CREUSET with a side of 26 cm is cov­ered with black enam­el on the inside, and col­ored on the out­side (black, red, blue, orange, yel­low or white). The pecu­liar­i­ty of the coat­ing is strength and non-stick prop­er­ties, the meat does not stick to the bot­tom and the grate when fry­ing, and it is con­ve­nient to drain the sep­a­rat­ed sauce through spe­cial spouts on both sides. The han­dles of the sko­ro­da are cast, on the one hand — long, on the oth­er — small. They are not afraid of heat, the dish­es can be placed in the oven, but you will have to use an oven mitt to move them. There is no lid includ­ed, which reduces the over­all weight of the pan.

The LE CREUSET grill has no com­plaints, the pan is made sound­ly, and most impor­tant­ly — with the use of dense enam­el, which does not chip and does not lose its prop­er­ties over time. You can buy dish­es for 8,500 rubles.

Regent Ferro 93-FE‑6–27 27 x 27 cm

Rat­ing: 4.7

In third place in the rank­ing was the Regent Fer­ro 93-FE‑6–27 grill pan with a square side of 27 cm, which is slight­ly larg­er than its pre­de­ces­sors. Its dif­fer­ence is the pres­ence of a remov­able wood­en han­dle, the sec­ond is a small cast one. Cast iron is not coat­ed with any­thing, it is only oiled in pro­duc­tion, which con­tributes to the preser­va­tion of the appear­ance of the dish­es through­out the entire ser­vice life, only care­ful care is required — care­ful wash­ing and peri­od­ic impreg­na­tion with oil at high tem­per­a­tures.

The height of the pan is only 3 cm, it is intend­ed exclu­sive­ly for fry­ing, there­fore there is no lid in the kit, although it is also allowed to put it in the oven. Sauce spouts allow you to drain juices from meat and veg­eta­bles.

Of the short­com­ings, we note only the not quite tight fit of the remov­able han­dle — it back­lash­es a lit­tle. Uncrit­i­cal, but unac­cept­able for per­fec­tion­ists.

The price of Regent Fer­ro 93-FE‑6–27 27 x 27 cm is 2600 rubles.

See also: 11 best non-stick pans

Lodge L8SGP3 26 x 26 cm

Rat­ing: 4.7

The Lodge L8SGP3 cast iron pan clos­es the rat­ing, the side of which is 26 cm and the height is 6 cm, suit­able for fry­ing meat and veg­eta­bles, includ­ing with broth and sauce, but there are no spouts to drain, as well as lids. Cast iron coat­ing is also not pro­vid­ed, so the grill should be looked after: cal­cined and impreg­nat­ed with oil. Mold­ed han­dles (one main and the sec­ond small) pro­vide a com­fort­able grip, but they them­selves heat up, and it is impos­si­ble to touch them with­out pothold­ers.

The advan­tage of Lodge L8SGP3 is the absence of enam­el, scratch­es on cast iron are not ter­ri­ble. The fry­ing pan is durable and unpre­ten­tious in han­dling, it is rec­om­mend­ed by all house­wives whose kitchens have it.

The aver­age price of Lodge L8SGP3 26 x 26 cm is 4,200 rubles. E is the cheap­est option for giv­en qual­i­ties, but still afford­able.

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Atten­tion! This rat­ing is sub­jec­tive, is not an adver­tise­ment and does not serve as a pur­chase guide. Before buy­ing, you need to con­sult with a spe­cial­ist.

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