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Chef's Starter Set No.8

The essentials to master cast iron cooking.

Regular price
$393
Sale price
$325
Handle Cover Color
  • Brown
  • Black
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Turner Dexterity
  • Right-Handed
  • Left-Handed
  • 45 day trial

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  • lifetime warranty

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The No.8 Skillet is the perfect balance of weight and versatility allowing you to sauté, sear, roast, and bake. The matching lid brings even more versatility to your dishes for braising, steaming, and melting. 

Our vegetable-tanned Leather Handle Cover offers a safe and easy way to transfer the skillet from stove to oven, while our Chef's Slotted Turner provides dexterity and durability. 

The Cast Iron Care Kit includes three tools that make cleanup easy and helps your pan develop long-lasting nonstick seasoning.

Set includes:

The No.8 Skillet is the perfect balance of weight and versatility allowing you to sauté, sear, roast, and bake. The matching lid brings even more versatility to your dishes for braising, steaming, and melting. 

Our vegetable-tanned Leather Handle Cover offers a safe and easy way to transfer the skillet from stove to oven, while our Chef's Slotted Turner provides dexterity and durability. 

The Cast Iron Care Kit includes three tools that make cleanup easy and helps your pan develop long-lasting nonstick seasoning.

Set includes:

Founded by two brothers with a passion for cast iron, our journey in cast iron began with the question “Why don’t they make them like they used to?”  We pour our cast iron cookware using green sand castings—just like the most celebrated vintage cast iron manufacturers, Griswold and Wagner. Also like vintage skillets, the Field Skillet is a full pound light than most cast iron on the market, and machined smooth for a surface that seasons to a nonstick finish. 

A well-seasoned cast iron pan achieves a natural non-stick surface made up of naturally occurring polymers from the oils you use on your pan—no harmful chemicals or engineered coatings. Our pans are 100% free of PFOAs and PFTEs—your skillet will arrive pre-seasoned with just three coats of organic grapeseed oil, so it’s ready to cook right away. 

It is not necessary to season your Field Skillet in the oven. Your pan will continue to develop seasoning easily and naturally just by cooking and keeping the surface of your pan smooth and free of build up. Read more about our recommended cleaning process at the Field Method for Cast Iron Care & Maintenance, and more about seasoning here.

Field cast iron cookware is compatible with all stovetop burner types, including glass and ceramic induction ranges. Like all great tools, cast iron cookware gets better with time and use. To keep your Field Skillet in top condition:

  • Pre-heat on low for up to 5 minutes before you start cooking.

  • Clean according the Field Method for Cast Iron Care & Maintenance

  • Hand-wash only. Never in the dishwasher.

  • Towel dry and warm on the stovetop to evaporate moisture. Never drip-dry or store wet.

Most importantly, cook often!

Founded by two brothers with a passion for cast iron, our journey in cast iron began with the question “Why don’t they make them like they used to?”  We pour our cast iron cookware using green sand castings—just like the most celebrated vintage cast iron manufacturers, Griswold and Wagner. Also like vintage skillets, the Field Skillet is a full pound light than most cast iron on the market, and machined smooth for a surface that seasons to a nonstick finish. 

A well-seasoned cast iron pan achieves a natural non-stick surface made up of naturally occurring polymers from the oils you use on your pan—no harmful chemicals or engineered coatings. Our pans are 100% free of PFOAs and PFTEs—your skillet will arrive pre-seasoned with just three coats of organic grapeseed oil, so it’s ready to cook right away. 

It is not necessary to season your Field Skillet in the oven. Your pan will continue to develop seasoning easily and naturally just by cooking and keeping the surface of your pan smooth and free of build up. Read more about our recommended cleaning process at the Field Method for Cast Iron Care & Maintenance, and more about seasoning here.

Field cast iron cookware is compatible with all stovetop burner types, including glass and ceramic induction ranges. Like all great tools, cast iron cookware gets better with time and use. To keep your Field Skillet in top condition:

  • Pre-heat on low for up to 5 minutes before you start cooking.

  • Clean according the Field Method for Cast Iron Care & Maintenance

  • Hand-wash only. Never in the dishwasher.

  • Towel dry and warm on the stovetop to evaporate moisture. Never drip-dry or store wet.

Most importantly, cook often!

Cast Iron Loves Fire

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How is smoother cast iron different?

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Vintage cast iron pans, the type prized for their smooth nonstick surfaces, used to be finished by hand. Today, most manufacturers produce rough, pebbly skillets to save cost. That's not all bad—it just takes longer to build a shiny and truly nonstick seasoning.

Field Skillets use a machining process modeled on the best of vintage cookware, precisely dialed in to be as smooth as possible while leaving just a touch of texture on the cooking surface to hold a great seasoning.

Does Field cast iron come pre-seasoned?

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Yes! We deliver a pan that is ready to cook out of the box with a great cooking experience. Our naturally non-stick cooking surface comes from three coats of grapeseed oil preseasoning. No teflon, no dirty tricks.

Like all cast iron pans, you will see the non-stick properties increase even more over time as you follow the tried and true seasoning rule: Just Keep Cooking!

Do Field skillets work on induction & electric stoves?

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They do! We have a clever feature on all Field Company skillets—a heat ring! This is one of our favorite features: it’s both a reference to cookware conventions in a bygone era, and a clever way to meet the performance challenges of contemporary kitchens.

Our heat ring is designed to make sure the Field Skillet remains balanced as it heats up on glass or ceramic flat cooktops. At just 0.04” of clearance, it won’t interfere with cooking performance or lose any power from electric or induction heat elements, particularly since induction is activated through magnetics and iron is a magnetic element.

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Isn't cast iron supposed to be heavy?

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Field Skillets aren’t as light as throwaway nonstick cookware, but neither are they unnecessarily heavy. We spent years studying our favorite vintage skillets to find the perfect balance between lightness while maintaining enough bottom thickness for high heat searing and even cooking.

Our research found the Goldilocks zone to be 4.3 to 4.5 lbs for a 10 inch skillet. Anything above this zone only makes your pan harder to maneuver without adding cooking performance and anything below makes the pan more susceptible to warping or breakage. This weight is most similar to a Griswold skillet, one of our favorite antiques.























































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    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    2 weeks ago
    Cast Iron Care Kit

    Love it! My house is too humid. Pulled down my number 10 Griswold and discovered rust. Used the chain mail on it and cleaned it right up. Pan full of cornbread, whisked clean, seasoned with this new oil, looks great again!

  • J A S.
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    I recommend this product
    What type of stovetop do you primarily use with your cast iron?? Induction
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    2 weeks ago
    Really good quality

    I’ve never had a good cast iron skillet…until now. Admittedly , this was sort of an impulse buy. What sold me was the “smooth bottom” which turned out to be absolutely correct. With a little preheating and a little butter and/or olive oil, my eggs slide around nicely in the morning…and are WAY better than if frying in an aluminum/teflon pan.

  • Stacy S.
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    No.8 Cast Iron Skillet #8 - 10 1/4"
    I recommend this product
    What type of stovetop do you primarily use with your cast iron?? Gas
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    2 weeks ago
    Like vintage but better

    Very pleased with this skillet. The reduced weight is helpful in cooking but it still cooks evenly when heated slowly. Smooth finish makes getting it non stick much easier. Considering the 10” now! Also pleased with the cast iron seasoning concoction.

  • Camilla H.
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    No.8 Cast Iron Skillet #8 - 10 1/4"
    I recommend this product
    What type of stovetop do you primarily use with your cast iron?? Electric Coil
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    3 weeks ago
    My daily user

    I have cooked on modern Lodge cast iron for years. I decided I wanted a higher end piece and after considerable research I chose a Field Co number 8. I absolutely love this skillet. I have cooked on it almost daily for months now and have yet to need anything more than warm water and a gentle scrubbie to clean it after use. It sits on my stovetop as there is no point in putting it away and getting it out each day. Photo is my most recent use- peach/raspberry cobbler.

    Camilla- Texas, USA

  • James C.
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    No.8 Cast Iron Skillet #8 - 10 1/4"
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    3 weeks ago
    It's true

    Simply awesome skillet. No effort to clean it. Nothing really has stuck at all.

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