Lodge 15" Cast Iron Pizza Pan $22 at Amazon

[Attjack]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0971MC534?ie=UTF8&_encoding=UTF8&tag=bensbargaicenter&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325

[swartzster]

I saw this and said “ hell ya!” When I clicked on the link though, it was $39.90. Probably a good price, but not so excited anymore

[jfmorris]

Good pan - I have one, but got mine at Walmart. Also seeing it for $39 on Amazon so the low price must have been short lived.

[Murdy]

So, a cast iron pizza pan seems contrary to what I know about pizzas (which admittedly isn't much). With a stone, you get it super hot prior to putting the pizza on it. With a cast iron pan, doesn't the cast take a lot longer to heat up than a conventional pan so the the dough is sitting on a cooler surface for a longer time--the opposite of what you'd be aiming for with a stone? Seems like this would not necessarily be a good thing?

[jfmorris]

I use the cast iron pan just like I would a stone, and preheat it with the oven, or in the grill if cooking outside. I slide the prepped pizza onto the 500F+ pan using parchment paper and a faux-peel (a rimless baking pan we have in the kitchen cabinets).

I am using my two Lodge CI pans essentially as unbreakable pizza stones. And if I pull the pizza out of the oven on one of them, it retains heat for a while, so you gotta remember that it will be getting crispier as it sits there...

[slimer]

Murder, I put my cast iron in as the oven heats up so it is as hot as the stone is.
I give it 5 or 10 mins between pizzas to heat back up.

[jfmorris]

Same here, except I don't give it more time to rest than it takes me to unload one pizza and then come back with the next. I figure preheated to 500F or higher, the CI is gonna recover quick between two pizzas, if it even needs recovery time.

[MillerTime]

Sorry y'all, but I think I scored the last two at that price!

Put two in the cart and checked out, and 5 minutes later went back to the page to read a detail on it and the price had already jumped back up. But thanks for the tip Attjack - looking forward to upping the pizza game over my current 12" Lodge pans!

[Attjack]

A lot of good deals won't last long. I'm glad you got yours!

[Thunder77]

My wife said no more kitchen stuff! Can’t do it… must resist😝

[Attjack]

Looks like she wins because the deal is dead.