# Pan - which one to buy? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 3, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/pan-which-one-to-buy/10058 "2017-11-03T12:51:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mejakm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/mejakm/32/6761_2.png) [@mejakm](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/mejakm)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/pan-which-one-to-buy/10058/21 "2017-11-06T20:32:02Z")
Today I passed in a store to see them physically and definitely I’m gonna buy a 28cm one…the 26cm is also great but if I had them both I would probably use the 28cm 55% of the time so I’m gonna with that one… Thanks to all of you who helped me 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Ember](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/ember/32/729_2.png) [@Ember](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Ember)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/pan-which-one-to-buy/10058/22 "2017-11-06T20:32:36Z")
Chefs in Europe still use both. You might manage to find something at a second hand store or a jumble/yard sale. My current cast iron pan was bought at a ‘clearing sale’ after the sale of the family farm. I was lucky enough to get it for next to nothing because it had a bit of surface rust. It cleaned up beautifully with a bit of steel wool and elbow grease. ---
**Author:** ![mejakm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/mejakm/32/6761_2.png) [@mejakm](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/mejakm)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 9:15am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/pan-which-one-to-buy/10058/23 "2017-11-07T09:15:36Z")
> [@Ember](#): > > Chefs in Europe still use both. You might manage to find something at a second hand store or a jumble/yard sale. From my experience (been a chef) they don’t use them much… In all the restaurant’s I’ve been working we used CS for searing meat… Meanwhile in the steakhouse we had a ceramic grill. ---
**Author:** ![mejakm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/mejakm/32/6761_2.png) [@mejakm](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/mejakm)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/pan-which-one-to-buy/10058/24 "2017-11-07T18:16:42Z")
final decision is here… i will buy both… CI and CS 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ember](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/ember/32/729_2.png) [@Ember](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/Ember)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/pan-which-one-to-buy/10058/25 "2017-11-07T20:11:29Z")
I hope you enjoy your purchases. ---
**Author:** ![mejakm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/mejakm/32/6761_2.png) [@mejakm](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/mejakm)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/pan-which-one-to-buy/10058/26 "2017-11-07T20:23:32Z")
> [@Ember](#): > > I hope you enjoy your purchases. I will post a picture of them 😃 and my mother sent me today my enemeld CI skillet and grill pan, but I don’t like them much as do not behave neither as close as the old fashioned CI pans… Now that I’m in Spain and here it’s possible to buy lodge I will buy their CI pan. ---
**Author:** ![DParker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DParker](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/DParker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/pan-which-one-to-buy/10058/27 "2017-11-07T20:47:21Z")
International shipping on the cast iron must be a killer. The price on that Lodge 10.25" skillet is a hair over 2x what Amazon sells it for in the U.S., at current exchange rates. ---
**Author:** ![mejakm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/mejakm/32/6761_2.png) [@mejakm](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/mejakm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 9:26am UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/pan-which-one-to-buy/10058/28 "2017-11-08T09:26:50Z")
mostly it’s not the shipping that’s the killer… the problem of ordering outside EU, are the taxes and customs… On every order you have to additionally have to pay 25€ for customs (for orders under 120€ if more, the customs price rises exponentialy) and taxes that are between 22-25% of the item’s price. On amazon.es they sell lodge for 29€ and free shipping for me (prime member). For me that price is ok, as here in the EU cast iron pans are way more expensive… for comparision in Lidl a cast iron pan (bad one) costs 20€… in my country (Slovenia) when I was looking for a cast iron pan the only shop that sells them, sells camp chef CI and they cost from 29€ (10") to 45€ + shipping (i think it was 8€) 🙂 I got an idea… I will wait for black friday, maybe they will have some discounts on amazon 😃 #keto ---
**Author:** ![mejakm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.anovaculinary.com/mejakm/32/6761_2.png) [@mejakm](https://community.anovaculinary.com/u/mejakm)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/pan-which-one-to-buy/10058/31 "2017-12-04T15:05:12Z")
At this stage I can also die hahahahaha 😃 ![](https://i.imgur.com/spZfvJu.jpg) ![](https://i.imgur.com/m2vONWP.jpg) [Previous page](https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/pan-which-one-to-buy/10058.md?page=1)