A cast iron pan is a great accessory when you go camping in the woods because of its durability. When you don’t have a fancy kitchen to cook from, and the space is not as orderly as you would like, other pans just don’t cut it. People bring cast iron cookware to these occasions because you can whip up a fire and throw the cast iron right on top of the coals and you have a pan ready to cook anything. Cast iron will withstand over a hundred degrees more heat than other leading pans.
They last forever because they were made to be tough. Forget taking a pan with a layer of non stick Teflon on it camping. Not only is that a quick way to ruin your cookware, but it is also a way to ruin your health. Teflon is not meant to be used with a heavy hand, and some doctors say Teflon is not meant to be used at all. So when you are going camping take Cast Iron instead.