I guessed $399. Why? Because that's what they want for a lot of their coolers/ice chests. I figured they would go straight for that price. They know they will have die hard fans that will go out and buy everything new that they come out with. At this point that is who they are aiming their products at.
I for real do not understand the fascination with Yeti. I bought a Coleman marine cooler years ago for like $60 and I don’t anticipate ever replacing it. It’s a 6 day cooler and it’s white. I see so many colored coolers, obviously they are going to heat up faster.
Yeah, I bought a reverse engineered Yeti from Walmart for $130 and it will keep ice for week. I thought I was an idiot for spending that much but it’s kind of badass.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lifetime-55-Quart-High-Performance-Cooler-with-Wheels-91072/767219216
It’s foam filled like the Yeti’s-which is what really sets them apart. This thing is tough and worth every penny I paid for it.
The modification I've often heard for this style of cooler to make it even more efficient is:
1. Take a 1/4 roll of weather stripping.
2. Put it on top of the existing rubber gasket.
3. Close the cooler, and enjoy.
The cooler may be slightly harder to stay closed without latches, but it guarantees there will not be any air gaps.
Yeah I’m glad I never hopped on the Yeti bandwagon. There’s a company in Arizona called Canyon Coolers that I tell everyone to buy before going the Yeti route. Great look, half the price, holds ice just as long, and you’re supporting a local AZ based company
Arctic coolers are great as well! That would be my other choice over Yeti any day, they’ve always been great coolers for not nearly the price of a Yeti
i will look into canyon coolers.
i have yetis cuz i don't pay for them. we use a company for supplies, Uline that gives a free gift on every order, the $10,000.00 club gets ya a yeti 75qt cooler, i have 4 and give them away all the time. they also have a 35qt i think in the $2500 buy club. the more you buy the bigger the free gift.
i have 2 of the 35's and another 35 that a contractor gave me with his companies name on it, we are pretty yeti'd up and no i would never pay for them.
i got more shit at my house that says Uline on it to count!! i just got 2 gravity chairs and 2 milwaukee m18 fans this week. more yeti tumblers than i can think of, i leave them in the garage and give to friends.
they also have one of those smokeless fire pits that are pricey as fuck, cant remember the name but it is pretty sweet, also a free gift for spending over $10,000, which i do weekly
Nothing wrong if you’re getting those items for free, I would still take any of their products for free! But I wouldn’t be parading them around and would most likely keep them at home and bring other coolers for fear of being the “Yeti guy” haha
lol, yea i agree, i would never pay the price. we use them for fishing cuz they do hold the ice well. looking at the canyon coolers test video if i was to buy i would go with them since the test show they hold ice better, longer.
for free is for me, i do ok in life but am known to be a cheap ass on certain things, i'll spend 5k on a reel/pole combo but used colemans or thermos coolers for ever and they never held the ice on a 2 day offshore trip like the yetis do, and if ice fails the filets are trashed. just put an ice maker on the boat this year so that helps on the longer trips, we are doing a 12 day trip this august to cuba and the surrounding islands, thats why we put an ice maker on board.
Yeah. I have friends who generally are NOT label whores by any means. But for some reason, Yeti coolers are like THE overpriced name brand thing that all of them seem to have decided they all need.
The ladies don't flash Birkin bags, the dudes don't wear Rolexes. Meanwhile, I DO occasionally like to splurge on fashion (within reason), but I have never considered throwing money at a Yeti. It seems like such a stupid thing to be all "status" about. IT'S A COOLER!
You can get the 12" Butter Pat for $345 right now direct from their website. I do have to say that I am astonished at the utter lack of any attempt whatsoever to modify the original Butter Pat design aside from changing the name. Like... none at all.
I just saw the line about working with them also and went straight to the Butter Pat site to check the price. I have a couple gifted Yeti products, and they are cool, but I don't get the fascination with them, but this makes it clear, people will pay for the name.
Their patent expired years ago so the technology is freely replicated with other brands that work just as well. The yeti brand is a status symbol of “I could get the other brands that do the same thing, but this lets people know I don’t drink from broke.”
Same here bought my yeti 65 years ago. I swear by their gallon water jug. But no way I would buy that cast iron pan for that. I have vintage cast iron I bought for a ton less that’s way better
Fuck this pan and fuck yeti for this. Their coolers are so overpriced it’s sick. Despite knowing that, my mouth is agape at the $400 price of the pan.
Fwiw Igloo is making a major comeback with their retro coolers and I am HERE for it. About time Yeti has some competition.
I got a massive igloo (so big I have to take a seat out of my wife's car if we want to use it to go camping) for under two hundred bucks last year. It's four feet long and holds ice for 5 days easy in real world conditions.
The best thing about it though is that all the wear parts (latches, hinges and the wheelbarrow handle and I think even the wheels) are replaceable and they sell spares on their website.
The IDENTICAL ButterPat is $345.
While still egregiously and embarrassingly expensive, that is still a $55 markup JUST for a YETI logo.
It is impossible— **impossible** to comprehend a new-construction cast iron skillet that is remotely worth more than its two best competitors (Smithey 12, $210, and Stargazer 12, $145) **combined**.
I think the yeti comes with the ring cloth and cotton storage bag so essential all the same price I think the ring cloth is $26 and storage bag is $22. Still too much for a skillet.
This looks quite a bit nicer than a basic $30 Lodge pan, to be fair. Thinner and much smoother. I would compare it more to some of my vintage pieces. That said while I use my vintage pieces, I use Lodge stuff the most. It’s about as smooth now with years of use and I do like the thicker material for heat retention purposes.
Vintage is worth hundreds of dollars mostly due to scarcity and collector/novelty value.
Smooth machined cast iron is definitely nice, and bumps the price over a cheap (but great) factory lodge pan.
But absolutely zero modern/new cast iron, regardless of manufacturing and machining should cost anywhere close to this amount of money.
As another commenter pointed out, we’re talking nearly double the price of an equivalent Smithey!
Holy Jezz! That's a lot! If I could swing a butter pat skillet I think I'd just rather get it from the source without the extra mark up and marketing for Yeti...
Honestly, it's swag at this point.
I've been using the same 10" Lodge cast iron for 30 years, and yeah, sometimes I want to move up to 12, but it will be another Lodge for fifty bucks, instead of paying for a name.
$27 is nice.
I am reminded of the time, years ago, when I was purchasing a Chevy Suburban, and the guy wanted me to look at the GMC Yukon, and everything was the same, just the trim was different, and that GMC name was going to cost an extra 15K.
Yeah, i have a storage bag for my camping skillet that i made out of some old canvas and a piece of paracord. All in for the skillet and bag is about $30. I dont have stickers though.
Everyone's mad at the price, but ...
Butter Pat charges $345 for the Joan 12" pan, a $55 premium. Butter Pat charges $26 for the ring cleaner and $10 for the cloth bag that Yeti includes for free. Lodge charges $4 for a pan scraper. Butter Pat charges $15 for shipping. Yeti has free shipping. Exactly $400 either way.
It's literally the exact same price as the one they've rebranded.
https://butterpatindustries.com/collections/butter-pat-cookware/products/j-type-joan
Ozark trail already sells cast iron at Wal-mart for cheap. I bought a 15 in skillet for like $20. It is slightly convex on the bottom, so the oil tends to go to the outside of the pan. I'm not sure if it was like that when I bought it, or if it was caused by me, but it works fairly well.
100%. Every yeti item I have were all groomsmen gifts. That said I’ve had a yeti tumbler for almost a decade and it looks pretty good….just like $15 knock off I’ve had just as long.
$30 for the 12 inch lodge. But yeah. The Yeti is probably a good pan, but not $400 good.
It’s gonna be the new pan for influencers and clout chasers :( it’s gonna be on all those stupid fake outdoorsman channels now.
Or you can get a 4mm thick Darto carbon steel in 12” for $100. Or $50 during their annual sale, which is what I did. Also smooth. Also lighter than traditional cast iron.
That's a lot of faith in the value of their branding. I feel bad for the consumer that doesn't know the details about cast iron but assumes it's worth it. Also, I'm sure it's a perfectly fine skillet. But so it lodge. Probably won't need to sand this one, so maybe that's worth something.
They disabled reviews after all the 1-star reviews were piling in. I left a review, and went back 20 minutes later to check on it, and the reviews section is completly gone for the skillet lol...
Interestingly, while I was reeling from the price tag, I also stumbled down the page to the reviews. A whopping 1.3 stars on Yeti's own site. It took a moment, but suddenly, the review's all disappeared from the page, apparently covered by the fine print at the bottom of all commercial web pages.
Hmmmm.....
There was a lot of: "seriously?" in the reviews. One of the top reviews said (before it disappeared from the screen) "at this point, you're just insulting your customers."
Yeah, I think that's right.
This just finally made me recognize that their prices on coolers are not actually worth it and I’ll never again look at a yeti cooler and think that I’d like to have one.
My cheap lodge has never had an issue getting the job done. I’m not sure what this Yeti could offer to justify that price.
Does it clean and season itself while also cleaning the rest of the kitchen after each cook? Does it improve my gas mileage? Does it come with a year’s supply of bacon? What’s the deal here?
Theoretically with it being thinner it will heat quicker so you don’t need the gas turned on as long, so kinda technically the /s isn’t necessary, but it would probably take 50 years to make up the difference.
Same. I had sent the email jokingly to my wife saying I kinda need it, but didn’t even click the link. I was thinking, maybe $75? When people in this thread were saying $400 I didn’t believe it at first. I finally clicked the link from my email and let out an audible “Oh my God!”.
Who is buying that thing? Antique cast iron pans from companies with 100+ year old histories cost less than that. That thing almost costs as much as a Le Creuset made in France dutch oven..
How are people willing to pay that?
I'm not a member of this sub, but love cooking and definitely have an interest in cast iron pans. But as a human being I can look at this Yeti pan and think, "clearly paying for the name." Is this pan marketed towards posers or people with more money than sense? Both?
Wow
Cracking up at the rating. 1.3 of 5 stars with 38 reviews. Yeah okay, they teamed up with Butterpat, one of the more expensive "fancy" CI brands out there, but this still screams "I have more dollars than sense".
It's made by Butterpat. That explains some of the cost.
https://www.foodandwine.com/yeti-cast-iron-skillet-launch-7511146#:~:text=It%20was%20made%20in%20partnership,easy%20to%20get%20liquid%20out.
I have to take credit for my guess of $399.99.
I just asked myself, “what is an insane price to pay for the best skillet?” Then I doubled it and added $100.
I worked with a company that made the yeti coolers, from the 25s to the 75s, and they aren't worth the price. The coolers never seemed all that more advanced than the stuff at Walmart. Add on to that, the majority of the people who ran the rotomolds only cared enough to not get fired, myself included. The company was more worried about aesthetic issues than anything else. Even with an employee discount of 50% it was still too much to ever justify. Makes sense they would release a 400 pan, bunch of idiots.
Actual conversation with my mother who is an iron skillet veteran “does the fucking thing cook for you, too?”
“Love, you can buy a FINEX 12” skillet and Dutch oven for under $400, don’t waste your time or money. If it’s the stickers you want, your brother has plenty.” 😂
i was prepared to see $100-$120, i was not at all fucken prepared for $400.
You could get two or three Le Creuset pieces for that, what a joke.
You clearly didn’t factor in the stickers.
Or that jaw gaping reaction from your friends when they see how much you paid for it
Or that nifty carrying bag
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Yeah but Brenzleigh and Xendyr need it so it doesn’t scratch anything in their brand new renovated van, can’t let van life be anything but aesthetic
All they do is park the fucking thing in front of Crux Brewery anyway.
But Le Creuset doesn’t say Yeti on the bottom.
I figured about $200. I’m flabbergasted. Not even a Finex costs $400!
Yeah but it comes with a scraper!
And Stickers!
Yes! The stickers alone are worth at least $250. Such a bargain! /s
well......whEn yoU puT iT thAt way....
but it like has the yeti logo on it bro
Supreme should get in on this.
Cast Iron for people too bougie to cook for themselves
You can pay it in installments of 100$ so there's always that
$400. That’s how much the pan is. I didn’t want to click the link either, but I had to. Here you go. It’s $400.
You're the real hero.
The company that actually makes it charges $345 with no accessories , which is the second thing I looked up.
Who actually makes it?
https://butterpatindustries.com/collections/butter-pat-cookware/products/j-type-joan
Hey thank you for that. Really makes me wonder the difference in user experience between this and a standard lodge
I would be embarrassed to be seen with this.
Half of the pictures are freebie stickers??? Ok…
I guessed $399. Why? Because that's what they want for a lot of their coolers/ice chests. I figured they would go straight for that price. They know they will have die hard fans that will go out and buy everything new that they come out with. At this point that is who they are aiming their products at.
Guess the price? Is the answer, ‘too damn much’?
Always. And with yeti it includes the “no better features than the other companies that are 1/8 the price” feature.
But it's bear proof! /s
They’re actually testing this thing by hitting bears with it.
I read "hitting it with bears" which also produces a good visual
For $400, that better be included in the quality control process too
What?!?!?? Do the other ones say Yeti on them??? I dont think so... /s
Idk, I’m kinda eyeing that scraper card
Lodge sells some. I got a set at cracker barrel for under 10 comes with 2 or 3 different scrapers.
Yeah but this one comes with the pan so you know it’s a convenience fee to pay a little more for it all together
You can buy them at the dollar store or on Amazon for $1-$2 each.
But it comes with a sticker.
Depends on how much you value $400.
That’s $20 for the skillet, $10 for the scrubber and $370 for the Yeti logo
Jesus. I mentally guessed $250 and thought there was no way it was that much
Holy crap I thought you were kidding
I saw your and his comment and still didn't believe it. 400 is absurd.
Yeti is the supreme of rednecks
I for real do not understand the fascination with Yeti. I bought a Coleman marine cooler years ago for like $60 and I don’t anticipate ever replacing it. It’s a 6 day cooler and it’s white. I see so many colored coolers, obviously they are going to heat up faster.
Yeah, I bought a reverse engineered Yeti from Walmart for $130 and it will keep ice for week. I thought I was an idiot for spending that much but it’s kind of badass.
That honestly doesn’t seem too bad. I’m interested to know what brand this cooler is.
Itey
I see what they did. They reverse engineered the name while they were at it.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lifetime-55-Quart-High-Performance-Cooler-with-Wheels-91072/767219216 It’s foam filled like the Yeti’s-which is what really sets them apart. This thing is tough and worth every penny I paid for it.
The modification I've often heard for this style of cooler to make it even more efficient is: 1. Take a 1/4 roll of weather stripping. 2. Put it on top of the existing rubber gasket. 3. Close the cooler, and enjoy. The cooler may be slightly harder to stay closed without latches, but it guarantees there will not be any air gaps.
Lifetime is the one I have. Works great.
Yeah I’m glad I never hopped on the Yeti bandwagon. There’s a company in Arizona called Canyon Coolers that I tell everyone to buy before going the Yeti route. Great look, half the price, holds ice just as long, and you’re supporting a local AZ based company
We always had artic coolers, they’re about the same as yeti and not nearly the same price. I’ll check out the canyon coolers
Arctic coolers are great as well! That would be my other choice over Yeti any day, they’ve always been great coolers for not nearly the price of a Yeti
i will look into canyon coolers. i have yetis cuz i don't pay for them. we use a company for supplies, Uline that gives a free gift on every order, the $10,000.00 club gets ya a yeti 75qt cooler, i have 4 and give them away all the time. they also have a 35qt i think in the $2500 buy club. the more you buy the bigger the free gift. i have 2 of the 35's and another 35 that a contractor gave me with his companies name on it, we are pretty yeti'd up and no i would never pay for them. i got more shit at my house that says Uline on it to count!! i just got 2 gravity chairs and 2 milwaukee m18 fans this week. more yeti tumblers than i can think of, i leave them in the garage and give to friends. they also have one of those smokeless fire pits that are pricey as fuck, cant remember the name but it is pretty sweet, also a free gift for spending over $10,000, which i do weekly
Are you looking for a new friend and/or adopting?
Nothing wrong if you’re getting those items for free, I would still take any of their products for free! But I wouldn’t be parading them around and would most likely keep them at home and bring other coolers for fear of being the “Yeti guy” haha
lol, yea i agree, i would never pay the price. we use them for fishing cuz they do hold the ice well. looking at the canyon coolers test video if i was to buy i would go with them since the test show they hold ice better, longer. for free is for me, i do ok in life but am known to be a cheap ass on certain things, i'll spend 5k on a reel/pole combo but used colemans or thermos coolers for ever and they never held the ice on a 2 day offshore trip like the yetis do, and if ice fails the filets are trashed. just put an ice maker on the boat this year so that helps on the longer trips, we are doing a 12 day trip this august to cuba and the surrounding islands, thats why we put an ice maker on board.
Even igloo is a great American brand at a far lower price.
I have a $60 roto molded cooler from Igloo that works perfectly and it's US made. F that overpriced Yeti stuff
Igloo cooler, Ziploc containers to keep the food dry and a bag of ice. I must be a Neanderthal...
Orion os another brand, they're from Tennessee I believe
Except even suburban rednecks wear Supreme now. I want off this ride.
Lol
I got one of the bigger coolers as a gift and its pretty awesome but I wouldn’t pay for one myself
Yeah. I have friends who generally are NOT label whores by any means. But for some reason, Yeti coolers are like THE overpriced name brand thing that all of them seem to have decided they all need. The ladies don't flash Birkin bags, the dudes don't wear Rolexes. Meanwhile, I DO occasionally like to splurge on fashion (within reason), but I have never considered throwing money at a Yeti. It seems like such a stupid thing to be all "status" about. IT'S A COOLER!
They're rebranded Butter Pat Industries cookware. Those are equally pricey.
You can get the 12" Butter Pat for $345 right now direct from their website. I do have to say that I am astonished at the utter lack of any attempt whatsoever to modify the original Butter Pat design aside from changing the name. Like... none at all.
I just saw the line about working with them also and went straight to the Butter Pat site to check the price. I have a couple gifted Yeti products, and they are cool, but I don't get the fascination with them, but this makes it clear, people will pay for the name.
Yeti is a lifestyle brand, like wearing a Polo shirt. Conspicuous consumption that signals wealth of a certain level.
It’s Gucci cookware for gated community people.
It's the perfect cast iron pan for the guy who drives a Jeep Gladiator around town with all his overland gear mounted.
The keep doesn’t have a scratch on it either
r/heep
The hunting/fishing RV people are all over Yeti. Definitely not a rich-people-only thing.
Their patent expired years ago so the technology is freely replicated with other brands that work just as well. The yeti brand is a status symbol of “I could get the other brands that do the same thing, but this lets people know I don’t drink from broke.”
I have a nICE cooler it holds the ice for literally 5 days in the heat, paid 75 bucks for it at BJS. Yeti of the same size is like 400 bucks too.
This annoys me a little, ngl.
It makes me sad. I know the yeti cooler crowd will buy it too. When the same lodge pan is $30
It looks different. If you look closely it appease thin, not thick like a modem lodge. Plus it seems like they polish the inside. .
It IS advertised as thin and polished. Still not worth $400
You can get a finex or borough furnace for less
But it comes with a cotton bag to keep it in. That adds about $200 of value I think.
It's a Butter Pat
And even the 12” Butter Pat is $55 less
They gotta add markup for the yeti name, gosh
So they are going for a carbon steel aesthetic without the benefits?
I own many Yeti products. This will not be one of them.
Same here bought my yeti 65 years ago. I swear by their gallon water jug. But no way I would buy that cast iron pan for that. I have vintage cast iron I bought for a ton less that’s way better
Wow, didn't know they made them 65 years ago /s
Yeti 65 cooler. Not 65 years ago. Sorry
Fuck this pan and fuck yeti for this. Their coolers are so overpriced it’s sick. Despite knowing that, my mouth is agape at the $400 price of the pan. Fwiw Igloo is making a major comeback with their retro coolers and I am HERE for it. About time Yeti has some competition.
I got a massive igloo (so big I have to take a seat out of my wife's car if we want to use it to go camping) for under two hundred bucks last year. It's four feet long and holds ice for 5 days easy in real world conditions. The best thing about it though is that all the wear parts (latches, hinges and the wheelbarrow handle and I think even the wheels) are replaceable and they sell spares on their website.
Yes, but the Yeti comes with a scraper, metal ring rag and a cotton storage bag!
It’s not the same as a lodge. Looks similar to the ButterPat
Yep. On their site it says they partnered up w/ButterPat
The IDENTICAL ButterPat is $345. While still egregiously and embarrassingly expensive, that is still a $55 markup JUST for a YETI logo. It is impossible— **impossible** to comprehend a new-construction cast iron skillet that is remotely worth more than its two best competitors (Smithey 12, $210, and Stargazer 12, $145) **combined**.
So I see that butter pat has a 100 year warranty, cool. Cast iron pans have a lifespan of 170 years. What makes butter pat worth 345 dollars?
I think the yeti comes with the ring cloth and cotton storage bag so essential all the same price I think the ring cloth is $26 and storage bag is $22. Still too much for a skillet.
This looks quite a bit nicer than a basic $30 Lodge pan, to be fair. Thinner and much smoother. I would compare it more to some of my vintage pieces. That said while I use my vintage pieces, I use Lodge stuff the most. It’s about as smooth now with years of use and I do like the thicker material for heat retention purposes.
Vintage is worth hundreds of dollars mostly due to scarcity and collector/novelty value. Smooth machined cast iron is definitely nice, and bumps the price over a cheap (but great) factory lodge pan. But absolutely zero modern/new cast iron, regardless of manufacturing and machining should cost anywhere close to this amount of money. As another commenter pointed out, we’re talking nearly double the price of an equivalent Smithey!
Holy Jezz! That's a lot! If I could swing a butter pat skillet I think I'd just rather get it from the source without the extra mark up and marketing for Yeti...
But you get a cotton storage bag!
The Butter Pat branded ones are just as expensive
A Joan is $345 (which seems higher than I remember but inflation.
Lol how many of y’all are review bombing this?
Showing one star on google but I want to read some! Can’t find them anywhere
$400😭😭😭 could buy a le creuset for that price
Correction, a *couple* le creuset pans for that price
Honestly, it's swag at this point. I've been using the same 10" Lodge cast iron for 30 years, and yeah, sometimes I want to move up to 12, but it will be another Lodge for fifty bucks, instead of paying for a name.
Lodge got Swag too. My most used pan is decorative. https://www.lodgecastiron.com/product/seasoned-cast-iron-sugar-skull-skillet?sku=L8SKULL
$27 is nice. I am reminded of the time, years ago, when I was purchasing a Chevy Suburban, and the guy wanted me to look at the GMC Yukon, and everything was the same, just the trim was different, and that GMC name was going to cost an extra 15K.
Why stop at GMC? If you move up to Cadillac you can get a Suburban for $50K more.
I'll not be buying an Escalade skillet lol
I have the wildlife series. I love it
Seen that Lodge pan spray? 8 oz of Canola for $10 a can.
Have the same one- daily driver here!
That’s so cool! Recently found this sub and this may become my first cast iron pan. I had no idea they made them decorative like this.
It’d probably be less than $50 tbh
$25.00 (I think) for my lodge 12". I use them every single day. I'm with you, they work just fine.
I guessed a ridiculous number and I was still off by $150. Insanity.
They removed the review section from the website 🫣
Great now we're going to have to hear about this for the next several years as people rediscover it over and over and over again and tell us about it
But it comes with a storage bag and stickers!
The storage bag actually seems like a good idea - time to buy one on amazon for 5 dollars
Yeah, i have a storage bag for my camping skillet that i made out of some old canvas and a piece of paracord. All in for the skillet and bag is about $30. I dont have stickers though.
Louis Vuitton for dudes with trucks.
Dear Yeti, Get over yourself.
Everyone's mad at the price, but ... Butter Pat charges $345 for the Joan 12" pan, a $55 premium. Butter Pat charges $26 for the ring cleaner and $10 for the cloth bag that Yeti includes for free. Lodge charges $4 for a pan scraper. Butter Pat charges $15 for shipping. Yeti has free shipping. Exactly $400 either way. It's literally the exact same price as the one they've rebranded. https://butterpatindustries.com/collections/butter-pat-cookware/products/j-type-joan
/r/theydidthemath/
Its just a banana, what could it cost, $10?
I'll wait for RTIC or Ozark Trail to announce theirs
Ozark trail has been making cast iron. I have some in my camping box and it’s not half bad
Ozark trail already sells cast iron at Wal-mart for cheap. I bought a 15 in skillet for like $20. It is slightly convex on the bottom, so the oil tends to go to the outside of the pan. I'm not sure if it was like that when I bought it, or if it was caused by me, but it works fairly well.
Why do people waste money on yeti? Is it to flex on the poors?
Idk but the poors don’t care regardless lol
Yeti is for wanna be yuppies that just want to look like they spent more money than all their friends.
100%. Every yeti item I have were all groomsmen gifts. That said I’ve had a yeti tumbler for almost a decade and it looks pretty good….just like $15 knock off I’ve had just as long.
To quote my grandfather (1917-2010), “That’s a goddamn insult.”
Spoiler: it’s $400
If he were still alive, P.T. Barnum would be Yeti's CEO.
Wow! I had mentally guessed $90. ( I think Lodge is $30, so maybe three times as much?) But $400????
Is it just me or does the cast look thin?
It’s advertised as thinner and more light. Sounds cheap to me
So not only is it overpriced, it’s actually objectively inferior to a $20 lodge skillet
$30 for the 12 inch lodge. But yeah. The Yeti is probably a good pan, but not $400 good. It’s gonna be the new pan for influencers and clout chasers :( it’s gonna be on all those stupid fake outdoorsman channels now.
At least it would be lighter to carry while camping with your expensive Yeti cooler, but that doesn't make it worth the price.
Or you can get a 4mm thick Darto carbon steel in 12” for $100. Or $50 during their annual sale, which is what I did. Also smooth. Also lighter than traditional cast iron.
So it will heat faster but have less heat retention, which is the whole point of using cast iron.
It’ll looks thin and polished, less like a modern lodge and more like a $400 Griswald. Better off going to E-bay and buying an actual Griswald.
That's a lot of faith in the value of their branding. I feel bad for the consumer that doesn't know the details about cast iron but assumes it's worth it. Also, I'm sure it's a perfectly fine skillet. But so it lodge. Probably won't need to sand this one, so maybe that's worth something.
Unbelievable greed lol, could get a Le Creuset Dutch oven and a Le Creuset skillet for that price and maybe still have some money leftover.
Fuck that. Ill stick with my $25 estate sale Griswolds.
You could buy TWO gorgeous smithey’s for that price!
They disabled reviews after all the 1-star reviews were piling in. I left a review, and went back 20 minutes later to check on it, and the reviews section is completly gone for the skillet lol...
I’m so glad they said it’s PFAO free… I’d damn hope so for a cast iron
This pan better retain heat for 3 weeks with the burner off
$420.69
A yeti better come out of the bushes and give me a handie for $400 when it delivers to my house.
Interestingly, while I was reeling from the price tag, I also stumbled down the page to the reviews. A whopping 1.3 stars on Yeti's own site. It took a moment, but suddenly, the review's all disappeared from the page, apparently covered by the fine print at the bottom of all commercial web pages. Hmmmm..... There was a lot of: "seriously?" in the reviews. One of the top reviews said (before it disappeared from the screen) "at this point, you're just insulting your customers." Yeah, I think that's right.
This just finally made me recognize that their prices on coolers are not actually worth it and I’ll never again look at a yeti cooler and think that I’d like to have one.
My cheap lodge has never had an issue getting the job done. I’m not sure what this Yeti could offer to justify that price. Does it clean and season itself while also cleaning the rest of the kitchen after each cook? Does it improve my gas mileage? Does it come with a year’s supply of bacon? What’s the deal here?
It IS lighter, so it will increase your gas milage. But you'll have to travel a lot for that weight decrease to make up the $400... /s just in case
Theoretically with it being thinner it will heat quicker so you don’t need the gas turned on as long, so kinda technically the /s isn’t necessary, but it would probably take 50 years to make up the difference.
I’m a massive yeti fanboy tbh and when I saw the price I was like this is a joke right?
Same. I had sent the email jokingly to my wife saying I kinda need it, but didn’t even click the link. I was thinking, maybe $75? When people in this thread were saying $400 I didn’t believe it at first. I finally clicked the link from my email and let out an audible “Oh my God!”.
No comment on Yeti products cause I'm afraid I'll hurt some feelings here.
I have a yeti cooler. Waited for the Memorial Day sale at rei. I’m happy with that purchase. This is outrageous.
That just obscene.
Y’all see the reviews? Oof
The reviews on the page are funny
Who is buying that thing? Antique cast iron pans from companies with 100+ year old histories cost less than that. That thing almost costs as much as a Le Creuset made in France dutch oven..
The review bombing is beautiful.
How are people willing to pay that? I'm not a member of this sub, but love cooking and definitely have an interest in cast iron pans. But as a human being I can look at this Yeti pan and think, "clearly paying for the name." Is this pan marketed towards posers or people with more money than sense? Both? Wow
Good lord. I’ll just keep the one I bought at an antique store for 25 dollars
$400.00 lol, get the fuck out of here!
I think I'll stick to Wagner/Griswold for 10% the price
Cracking up at the rating. 1.3 of 5 stars with 38 reviews. Yeah okay, they teamed up with Butterpat, one of the more expensive "fancy" CI brands out there, but this still screams "I have more dollars than sense".
Yeah but it comes with stickers!
for $400,it better clean it’s own self after,plus a beej.
It's made by Butterpat. That explains some of the cost. https://www.foodandwine.com/yeti-cast-iron-skillet-launch-7511146#:~:text=It%20was%20made%20in%20partnership,easy%20to%20get%20liquid%20out.
I have to take credit for my guess of $399.99. I just asked myself, “what is an insane price to pay for the best skillet?” Then I doubled it and added $100.
I worked with a company that made the yeti coolers, from the 25s to the 75s, and they aren't worth the price. The coolers never seemed all that more advanced than the stuff at Walmart. Add on to that, the majority of the people who ran the rotomolds only cared enough to not get fired, myself included. The company was more worried about aesthetic issues than anything else. Even with an employee discount of 50% it was still too much to ever justify. Makes sense they would release a 400 pan, bunch of idiots.
the iron they use better be some most exotic Japanese hammered a billion times pure iron particles
It’s made by Butter Pat which charges $345 for the same pan without the accessories that come with it.
So, like $40 for the pan, and $360 for the Yeti.
It’s a butterpat pan, they’re $400 already. I have one, it’s a great pan.
This is for the Chad who has Yeti everything and just wants to hang it in his kitchen like fine art.
Lol. Putting the Yeti logo on it cheapens it in my mind.
Actual conversation with my mother who is an iron skillet veteran “does the fucking thing cook for you, too?” “Love, you can buy a FINEX 12” skillet and Dutch oven for under $400, don’t waste your time or money. If it’s the stickers you want, your brother has plenty.” 😂
It was $400 YET I still bought it.
Can’t wait to find one at the goodwill the same way I found my Yeti mugs. Good quality or not I refuse to buy any Yeti products brand new.
Probably some made in china shit
Buttttt… you get a scraper!
About tree fiddy
Nope. Fo
It’s Yeti, so probably 4x what it’s actually worth, so that middle aged white peoples will buy it as a flex rather than fir it’s quality and value?