Thin and light is the one people get wrong when buying cheap. A light pan heats quickly and then dumps its heat the second cold food arrives, which is exactly the failure cast iron is supposed to prevent. Weight is worth paying for; a name is not.
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Compared cheap and expensive skillets side by side.
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