Do you honestly think I would let my hipster cred be damaged by using anything other than yard sale purchased 50 year old wooden handled enameled bright orange Le Creuset pans? How else would I be able to espouse to everyone within ear shot how exactly I got them and how little it cost.
Lodge kinda sucks, actually. Proper cast iron is smooth as glass on the cooking surface. All the Lodge I've seen is not that. I am also running family hand down turn of the century cast iron. I do have a massive 16" Lodge that I use when I have too.