Lodge
Plastic-free by material, not by marketing: cast iron cookware is a single piece of bare metal, and Lodge seasons it only with soy-based vegetable oil - no synthetic coatings, no nonstick, no plastic anywhere. The skillet is about as elemental as cookware gets, and cheap on top of it. There's simply nothing here for plastic to hide in.
How clear are their specs?
Almost nothing to disclose - it's bare cast iron seasoned with a named vegetable oil, with no coatings or liners involved.
Lead testing disclosure
No brand-published lead/cadmium lab report or dedicated testing page found. Lodge cites FDA leachability test procedures and Prop 65 compliance for its enameled line in general terms, but does not publish a named lab or actual ppm figures. Independent testing (Lead Safe Mama) of plain cast iron generally finds it lead-free, but at least one enameled Lodge piece (a light blue/white dutch oven lid) tested positive for lead (48 ppm) and arsenic (35 ppm) in 2019 - a result Lodge has not addressed with its own published testing.
- lab-test https://tamararubin.com/2019/01/light-blue-white-lodge-cast-iron-enameled-dutch-oven-48-ppm-lead-35-ppm-arsenic/ independent XRF testing found lead and arsenic in an enameled Lodge dutch oven lid
