If you have a well-seasoned cast-iron pan, you know that it browns foods to perfection, it adds usable iron to the diet, and nothing — not even runny eggs or pancakes — sticks to it. But a perfect cast-iron pan takes work: a multistep treatment before its first use, then months of breaking in. Now there's a new line of seasoned cast-iron cookware from Lodge called Logic, with a ready-to-use oil finish (from $11, for an eight-inch skillet, to $52, for a 10 7/16-by-20-inch iron griddle, www.lodgemfg.com). It has all the benefits of cast iron without the growing pains. The cookware is easy to clean (hand wash with hot water the dry thoroughly) and less expensive than other nonstick cookware.