Do you cook with cast iron for taste or health or both? Is your pan a family heirloom or a recent purchase?

Hi Carolyn! I love to cook with cast iron for both health and taste! I have a beautiful Wagner 10" frying pan, a Griswold Hearthstone cast iron pot and I just found an old (but in great shape) cast iron dutch oven (McClary)

I love cooking certain things in cast iron, but my favorite is making cornbread in a 10" skillet. I preheat it, then pour the batter in, then bake. It makes a wonderfully crispy crust.

My skillets are all old family heirlooms (something which I really appreciate after seeing how much the local kitchen store, not the best place anyway to buy kitchen stuff anyway, charges for Lodge skillets!).