Anne Byrn’s black Griswold has been a workhorse in her kitchen. She has fried bacon, cooked pancakes, seared salmon and baked Southern-style cornbread in the 12-inch cast-iron skillet umpteen times.

Give a new pan a glossy black nonstick coating—or bring the luster back to a family heirloom—with this 3-step process for ...

We reach for our cast-iron skillet on the daily, probably more often than most other tools in our kitchen. Whether we’re getting a golden brown sear on a piece of meat, baking cornbread, or ...