Artesà Mini Frying Pan with Wooden Serving Board in Gift Box, Square, Cast Iron, 16 x 24.5 cm, Black/Beige

What a joke !! What am I supposed to cook in this exactly 🙄

It's very good, and it has a lovely little wooden serving thing. It is exactly the size it says it is, therefore, very very small.What could you use it for?- baking- pretending you are a giant- if you have an electric hob- if you have a tiny tiny gas hob (you don't, I've never seen one)- Serving food in a cool stylish way- Use it to add trace amount of iron to things because you are vegetarian or vegan, e.g. by sticking it in the water you are going to use to make soup or pasta or tea or what not (it's a lot cheaper than the iron fish people buy for this purpose) (don't bother adding iron to things that are rich in calcium because calcium stops iron being absorbed)

I wanted a small cast-iron pan to take on camping trips, not a huge thing that ways a ton and definitely not this piddly little thing. I doubt very much whether you would be able to fry a single egg in it.The overall size is 16cm long - that includes the handle, which is 6cm in length. I feel the description is a bit misleading to be honest, as usually the size stated is the diameter of the pan, not including the handle.I've given it 2*. 1* for the pan & 1* for the board. They both look to be well made, just not big enough to cook with. Probably better off hung up and used for decoration.

I looked at all the reviews before I bought 6 of these to make skillet cookies for a dinner party. I knew they were small but, for what I plan to make, they are perfect. However! - The bases are all different as you can see from the photo. It wouldn't be a big deal if some were stamped and some not. But only one is stamped which will be hidden by the skillet - but two are a completely different colour of wood. My OCD is having a meltdown!!

There are things that fit these pans. They are known as eggs !!!! Honestly !!! People need to take an intelligence test before they are allowed to buy a cast iron pan !!!!! Also you need to smear vegetable oil all over the pan and wipe it with a cloth !!! This stops it going rusty !!! Then you need to put some vegetable oil in and heat it up. Then when it cools down a bit rinse it under the tap. If you rinse it when it's hot, or drop it on a stone floor it will crack !!! Eggs taste lovely cooked in butter in a cast iron pan. They can taste horrible in a Teflon Pan. I have seven different cast iron pans and a hot plate !!! Pizzas, bread etc taste lovely cooked in cast iron. This is a nice small pan, but for all the Muppets out there, you can't cook a 12inch pizza in it !!!!!

Would not recommend! Totally shocked when arrived . The pan is tiny and not the 11.5 cms as described in box! I bought 4 so wasted 32 pound. It's too small even to fit an egg in not sure what this can be used for ?

OK, my kids love bacon and egg rolls, with the egg fried. I had one of the non-stick coated pans just the right size for producing a round fried egg that fitted perfectly on a bread roll, but as these things so, the not-stick coating was disintegrating. I already have two cast iron frying pans so sought out a small one for the purpose outlined earlier.Firstly, the pan is slightly on the small side. It does the job but while the old pan measured 4" at the base, this measures 4" at the top of the pan. The result is eggs that are very slightly too small for a standard bread roll. Not a major problem but a little bit off perfection.I have to say that I always season cast iron, whether it comes pre-seasoned or not, and this was no difference (in fact I took the opportunity to re-season one of my older pans at the same time). If you've never done this it's a matter of a thin wipe of olive oil all over the pan and put it in the oven (very hot) for half an hour or so. Cool and repeat. In use, it does need to be very hot before use otherwise I've found the eggs will stick, and 'just in case' I give it a couple of squirts from one of those sunflower spray oil things. I also put a folded square of foil over the top of the pan to keep the heat in and cook the top of the egg because I don't think the pan is suitable for 'over easy' eggs. If you do the same don't leave eggs cooking for too long since they cook very quickly.So why did I drop a star? Well firstly because it is slightly too small, but what did bother me initially was that the instruction leaflet that comes with it states 'not to be used on the hob'. Looking at the Amazon description, I note that it does NOT state that, although it does say it's suitable for oven use it doesn't not give any exclusions. Now I thought to myself that was a bit ridiculous, I've been using cast iron on the hob for years so what is the problem here? So I used it on the hob. Now anyone who has ever used cast iron cookware knows that it gets too hot to touch, and quite simply you can't touch the handle on this one once it's propery warmed up. I therefore use a teacloth to remove it once the egg is cooked. I assume this is the reason for the 'not suitable' instruction, however with a little common sense that is easily overcome, and I've now cooked plenty of eggs using the pan on the hob.

This is rather tiny. Had to buy a trivet for it in order to use it on a gas stove. It is great for cooking a tablespoon or two of seeds (15-30ml) but has no other use. I enjoyed learning how to season cast iron cookware with this before I bought a full size skillet. My advice: find something like a small saucer and measure it in order to gauge the size of this tiny thing.