Japanese Traditional Cast-iron Frying Pan

This Japanese traditional high-quality cast-iron frying pan is essential in a natural food kitchen. It is ideal for long, slow sauteing of vegetables, for nishime-style cooking or for making fried rice and noodle dishes. Cast-iron heats up slowly, holds the heat, and cooks evenly. At low heat, cast-iron frying pans work well for dry-roasting seeds, grains, nuts and flour or for slow-cooking beans, vegetable casseroles, soups, etc.

Made from 100% Japanese forged Cast-iron.

The Cast-iron ware that we offer is from the Iwachu Cast Iron Company of Kyoto, Japan. This company is famous for making Japanese Chagama, the big iron kettle used in the tea ceremony, and smaller portable tea-pot-shaped kettles called nanbu-tetsubin. Cooking in authentic cast-iron is said to bring out the natural, subtle flavor of tea and foods; it may be due to the fact that it gives a steadier and more even heat. Japanese cast-iron is known to be the very best in the world. The heavier the cast-iron, the better, as it allows for more careful cooking and a higher count of natural iron, nickel, and other natural elements necessary and essential for our health.