Rai Mincey is a food writer and baking enthusiast whose focuses include culinary history, seasonal cooking, and Southern cuisine. She splits her time between Birmingham, Alabama, and Tulum, Mexico.

Cast iron, a widely used iron-carbon alloy, exhibits a diverse range of microstructures that govern its mechanical and thermal properties. Among its variants, compacted graphite iron (CGI) is of ...

Cast-iron skillets are workhorses that can last a literal lifetime and then some. My favorite one, from Yeti, lives on my stovetop, a go-to piece because of its versatility. The material gets really ...