Field Company’s best-in-class cast-iron pans that seldom shed their premium price tags are on sale for Prime Day

• Field Company’s new No 5 chef skillet fixes everything I hated about cast iron

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The perfect pan I reviewed, the No 5 Chef Skillet, has dropped from $125 to $100 for Prime Day. At the risk of sounding like an ad, this is a very rare sale on a unique little pan you’ll buy for life. (Zero payment behind this endorsement – only a thorough and satisfying product test.)

I previously covered food at Bon Appétit and have tried a lot of the cookware out there. Among its wrist-straining peers, this is the rare cast-iron pan that feels nimble. At just 2.2lbs and 7.25in in diameter, it’s light enough for flipping breakfast eggs with one hand, swirling sauces, or popping in the oven for a deeply charming Dutch baby. A comparable-size Lodge weighs more than a pound more.

Field Company’s new No 5 chef skillet fixes everything I hated about cast iron