Get our weekly Home and Garden email for tips, and interior inspiration You might have trendy knives or a high-tech air-fryer, but without a cast iron skillet, your kitchen is not truly complete.

Garten loves the Lodge cast iron skillet — she even recommends it on her website, Barefoot Contessa. And today, you can get it on Amazon for 50% off, bringing the everyday 10.25-inch skillet to $17!

Technically, you can cook just about anything in a cast-iron skillet. It’s one of our favorite kitchen tools, and we use it for everything from Sunday morning pancakes and Dutch babies to seared ...