Carbon steel pans, a staple in restaurant kitchens, are becoming a popular cookware choice among home chefs. These versatile and durable pans go from stovetop to oven and can elevate homemade ...

Popular in stateside restaurant kitchens and home kitchens across Europe, carbon steel cookware is something like a hybrid of cast iron, stainless steel and nonstick. Like cast iron, carbon steel ...

I tested seven other carbon steel pans that didn’t make the cut. Let me be clear that many of these pans performed well—just not quite as well as my winners. While seasoning, using and ...

The top layer is carbon steel, which develops a slick nonstick seasoning that gets better with each use, and imparts an ...

Metalworkers and metallurgists have long appreciated the ability to tailor the performance characteristics of steel (an alloy of iron and carbon), including their strength, hardness, ductility and ...

But it’s not the only type of pan with these qualities; carbon steel is a close relative that can do everything a cast iron pan can, and more. So, what exactly is the difference between cast ...