FINEX8" Cast Iron Skillet with Lid, Modern Heirloom, Handcrafted in the USA, Pre-Seasoned with ORganic Flaxseed Oil

other than the weight, this is a wonderful item and a great gift for the person in your life who likes cast iron. a perfectly smooth cooking surface, a well-fitting lid, even heating, easy clean. Used both stovetop and oven and I love it. Do be aware that it's heavier than other cast iron, so it's obviously not a back-packing item. I suspect my descendants 3 generations from now will be arguing about who gets to inherit this!

I love cast iron. I have a large collection of pots and pans that I have abused teaching myself how to cook with cast iron. It is easy to mess up heating a pan too quickly or running cold water over the heated pan turning it into a "stove spinner" warping the pan so that it will no longer heat evenly or sit on the stovetop well.The Finex brand looks amazing and takes all the abuse I heap on it. It has taken some impressive heat abuse and not warped. I really like these pans and I am looking forward to getting more Finex brand pans.

I have had a few iron skillets in the past, and I have never experienced an iron skillet of this quality before. I bought the 8-in skillet with matching lid, and they pair up beautifully, and its cooking abilities are unsurpassed! Wanna good sear on a piece of fish or steak, use this skillet, or matching larger one, and see what high quality, powerful cooking really is..... Clean up was also surprisingly easy because of the attention to detail of the sufaced cooking areas of the skillet being machined to resist the food from sticking etc. Yes, I would definitely recommend this product, and if cooking for more than two people, I would recommend their larger available skillets with matching lids. Cheers, D. M.

It’s an amazing skillet, but dang does it cost a lot. Is it that much better? It does have a very nice mirror smooth surface with a bit of a grease ring about it. Grip isolates heat for a good long while but of course not forever. Also you definitely don’t need 8 ways to pour from it... it makes a very nice fancy gift.

Eggs stick badly to these just as they do to other cast iron pans and the handle stub end and pan end get VERY hot. Go cheaper.

Simply fabulous pan, this has far exceeded my expectations! Yes, it’s expensive. It’s worth every penny. First test was frying up finely minced bacon ( to make bacon bits), it worked perfectly. Next, scrambled eggs with the freshly made bacon bits. Although the eggs stuck a little, it was nothing compared to the complete disaster in a Lodge pan. After cleaning, drying and re-seasoning the pan, the next test was 4 links of Kiolbassi garlic sausage, cut up into 2 inch chunks. The sausage came out crispy, no sticking, no burning. Evenly browned, delicious. Clean, dry and re-season. Third test was 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts. All browned up well, cooked uniformly. Like this pan so well I’m ordering one of the larger sizes ( with the lid)

I ordered the 8" thinking from the dimensions on the website this would be the size I wanted. Should have got the 10". The quality of the item seems impeccable and I'm sure it cooks well but because it's smallish we really haven't used it much. May purchase the 10" in future but for the moment are still using our old Lodge pan.

My husband uses it every day to fix his breakfast. It’s not too thick or clunky. It is Saturday with a very fine, smooth finish. Easy to clean with good heat distribution. It’s beautiful too!