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Before I took this job, I cooked almost everything I ate in the same Lodge 10.25 inch cast iron skillet that I had purchased at the University District Goodwill in Seattle, WA back in 2011. I had been a young, rambunctious lad at the time, and thought there was no finer thing in life than a home-cooked pile of steak and eggs, slid lovingly from the black iron directly onto my plate. I was right, but I also greatly underestimated how much better skillets could get.
Back in November, I reviewed the Stargazer 10.5 inch skillet, a piece of cookware that replaced my Lodge and hasn’t left my stove-top since (except for on the occasions when I use it to cook something in the oven, or. like if I wash it). Since writing that piece, the pan has lost its gold color and shifted almost entirely into the matte-black you find on pre-seasoned Lodge skillets, but the interior surface hasn’t lost its ice-sheet smoothness. I thought it’d be my pan for life, or at least until the
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Before I took this job, I cooked almost everything I ate in the same Lodge 10.25 inch cast iron skillet that I had purchased at the University District Goodwill in Seattle, WA back in 2011. I had been a young, rambunctious lad at the time, and thought there was no finer thing in life than a home-cooked pile of steak and eggs, slid lovingly from the black iron directly onto my plate. I was right, but I also greatly underestimated how much better skillets could get.
Back in November, I reviewed the Stargazer 10.5 inch skillet, a piece of cookware that replaced my Lodge and hasn’t left my stove-top since (except for on the occasions when I use it to cook something in the oven, or. like if I wash it). Since writing that piece, the pan has lost its gold color and shifted almost entirely into the matte-black you find on pre-seasoned Lodge skillets, but the interior surface hasn’t lost its ice-sheet smoothness. I thought it’d be my pan for life, or at least until the
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In 2019, cast iron juggernaut Lodge released the “Blacklock” line of cookware, a lighter, more refined (and more expensive) line of products named for the original Blacklock foundry purchased by company founder Joseph Lodge in 1896. As a bona fide cast iron fanboy, I was pretty excited to test out their Dutch oven, which retails for $150, when Lodge headquarters sent me one a few weeks ago.
The issue is that my girlfriend already has a Le Creuset oval Dutch oven in honey yellow (currently on sale at Sur La Table for $307.96). She loves that pot, for good reason: It’s an incredibly well designed piece of cookware. We had already planned on eating pot roast, and she was set on using hers. Ever the diplomat, I suggested a simple solution: We make two pot roasts. Twice the deliciousness, everyone wins, and then we compare pot roasts (we’ll find out how much trouble I get in for writing this article).
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She served on the city Planning Commission from 1973 to 1975, the City Council from 1975 to 1981 and as mayor from 1981 to 1993. She returned to public life in 2009, serving again on the Planning Commission.
Lodge was married to former Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Joseph Lodge, and they raised four daughters. Lodge s husband s died 12 years ago.
She said she has spent a lot of time tending her garden and growing fragrant roses at her home on Santa Barbara s Riviera. Over the years, she also as volunteered at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse and the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.