Lodge's Heirloom Cast Iron Skillets 🇺🇸

Lodge's Classic Cast Iron Skillets now come pre-seasoned so they're even easier care.🇺🇸

Tennessee Craftsmen Cast These Made-in-America Lodge Iron Skillets that:

• sear beautifully,
• go stovetop-to-oven (or campfire) and
• bake the BEST deep-dish pizza in the business !
• Unleash your inner baker with clafoutis, upside-down cakes, and seared summer fruits.

They're wonderful for:

• Paleo diets
• Outdoor Enthusiasts
• Chicago-Style Pizza Lovers (recipe below)
• Low-mainenance friends, too: they're
• easy-care,
• easy-clean
• hassle-free.
• and just authentically awesome! (see below) 
  

Recipes, Cleaning+ Care tips-- but first, a THANK YOU:

And please share the word, in 2017, Lodge was really extraordinary to so many Sonomans who lost their homes in the fires. ❤️  We're thankful. 

Unleash Your Inner Baker:

Your cast iron dutch skillet holds the heat for a great crust (or cornbread or biscuits)

Classic American Pizza Dough -

Bakes on a (1) grill mat, (2) pizza stone, or * in your Lodge Skillet!~

1. Gather + pre-combine wet + dry ingredients into 'teams' as below.
2. Do set a timer for the 1/2 hour mark  so you can preheat your oven to 400  
1. OR start the grill while your dough is rising
3. make the dough
4. while it's resting, preheat oven / start grill to 425/ 450
5. top the pizza + bake

Classic American Pizza Dough

(makes 2 ten-ounce pizza dough balls, or can double for 4.)

Ingredients - measure + combine as below to make a 'yeast team' , a 'dry team' and a 'wet team':

• Mix in a small cup= yeast team.. Let bubble 5 min:
• 1/2 c + 2T water at room temp

• 1 t  instant yeast
• 1 2/3   t  sugar    

Whisk together in a small bowl= dry team

   2  1/2 c  unbleached flour

   1   1/2  t  kosher salt

Pour together in a small bowl or cup= "wet team"

   1/8 c (olive or any) oil

    1/2 c (whole or other) milkcombine all of above. then:

Directions:

1 combine  flour+ salt   and oil + milk in a mixing bowl  or the bowl of your stand mixer

  now whisk in the   water + yeast  mix.

2. knead for 10 minutes (either by hand or in mixer). Goal is a moist but not sticky dough, with the texture of your earlobe. 

Depending on humidity, you may need to add a tiny bit of either water (if v dry + dough feels dry)  or flour (if v humid + dough is sticky)

3. divide dough in half to make 2  (approx 10 oz) balls.  brush with oil, cover, + let rest 1 hour.

4. roll into 12" rounds (on a lightly floured board or counter OR a nonstick pastry sheet) 

5. now add sauce, then toppings, then grill / bake!

Toppings -- ANY of YOUR PHENOMENAL red grape pizza combos

random ones we use

   (spinach pesto peas + eggs ) (was a weeknight dinner for our teenage sons)

  (mozzarella + pepperoni + olives + + sundried tomatoes + basil + tomato sauce artichoke hearts etc )

  (tomatoes + marinara + basil leaves + mozzarella + kalamatas)

(pesto peas mozzarella spinach artichoke hearts = green theme)

  (ham pineapple marinara mozzarella)

      (mozzarella + pesto + basil + peas + spinach + pepperoni + olives + artichoke hearts )

   (mozzarella + pepperoni + olives + artichoke hearts )

      (cheddar + chicken + salsa + artichoke hearts )

     ( bleu cheese or gorgonzola + baked figs  and or pears + bacon or ham or proscuitto + pears)

Deep Dish Pizza Recipes  Coming Soon

Our even simpler version of the Classic Deep Dish Pizza Dough Recipe for kids, on our KidsCookLIVE™.

Cleaning:

You'll do your pans -- and your family -- a favor to make sure everyone in your home knows not to soak cast iron -- simply scrub out quickly, and buff (or warm) to dry.

For baked-on caked-on messes, deglaze your warm pan with a little water - & watch the baked-on goop lift right off.

       

Lodge's classic made-in-America cast iron skillets & ovens are heirlooms to treasure. 🇺🇸

Handmade Tennessee craftsmanship. Part of our top-10 kitchen essentials for any cook, Lodge sears beautifully, goes stovetop-to-oven AND campfire, and is built to love for generations. 

Lodge cast iron skillets and ovens are superb for 

• Paleo diets
• Outdoor Enthusiasts
• Anyone looking for a litte more iron in your diet.
• Low-maintenance friends, too: they're
• Easy-care,
• Easy-clean
• Hassle-free.

Lodge's classic pans now come pre-seasoned so they're even easier care.

Searing and Cooking Tips

Cleaning+ Care tips:

Lodge Cast Iron Ovens and Skillets are built to cook beautifully, anywhere.

• You'll do your food -- and your family -- a favor to make sure everyone in your home knows:
• not to soak cast iron -- water ruins the seasoning and can lead to rust -
• simply scrub out quickly, and buff (or warm) to dry.
• You CAN re-season your cast iron. Just scrub off any rust with very fine steel wool, re-oil, and pop in your oven.

Lodge skillets are built to be easy-everything.

• You'll do your pans -- and your family -- a favor to make sure everyone in your home knows:
• not to soak cast iron -- water ruins the seasoning and can lead to rust -
• simply scrub out quickly, and buff (or warm) to dry.
• You CAN re-season your cast iron. Just scrub off any rust with very fine steel wool, re-oil, and pop in your oven.

And a THANK YOU:

Please share the word, in 2017, Lodge was really totally amazingly extraordinary to so many Sonomans who lost their homes in the fires. We're forever thankful. ❤️