There’s a common myth about cast iron cookware. It’s so pernicious, I’ve endorsed and spread it myself: “cast iron cookware heats evenly.”
That’s simply not true. Not just simply—demonstrably. So much so, that I have observed the falsehood of this claim in my personal experience, and yet disregarded it.
It took America’s Test Kitchen to change my view, and now, I preach their gospel!

Cook It In Cast Iron, (paid link) from America’s Test Kitchen’s Cook’s Country series (Image: Overdrive Media).