This is the Lodge 17-inch cast iron skillet — the largest round skillet Lodge makes. At 17 inches across, this is the pan for cooking for a family or a party: a full pan of pan-seared chicken, a paella for eight, a fish fry, a breakfast hash sized for a weekend crowd. It has a large helper handle on the opposite side because a pan this size — full of food — takes two hands to move.
It’s the skillet that lives on the side burner of a grill or over a fire as often as it lives on an indoor stove — big enough to use outdoors, heavy enough to hold temperature when dinner for a group hits the pan at once. Pre-seasoned, oven-safe to any temperature, and built to outlast any nonstick pan this size several times over.
Lodge has been making cast iron cookware in South Pittsburg, Tennessee since 1896 — the longest continuously operating cast iron foundry in the United States. Every traditional black cast iron piece in the Lodge lineup is cast, seasoned, and packed at that Tennessee foundry.
