You want cast iron, made in the U.S.A. For a long time, the best cookware came out of Germany, but fuck them. They have too many imports "working" there now.
Too bad it became "trendy" to get old cast iron a couple of years ago.
You used to be able to go to a flea market and get a ton of old (semi rusted) cast iron to rehab for dirt cheap. I think we have a few old pans that are probably near 100 years old that we paid less than ~20 for. Now those would sell for 10x that since it became "trendy".
Yeah, even new they were cheap not that long ago. Now when I look at the price of things I have to immediately override the thought of "this is so expensive" to "it's ok, this will last you the rest of your lifetime and will be passed down for generations".
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