Customer Reviews

Pan Gripper Deep Dish Model

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

If your a cook of homemade pizza, and you have the high sided pans used in making pan pizza, you'll wonder how you ever got along without this useful little item. I got mine from the same company that produces and sells the aluminum 14" pizza pans on Amazon. It has been well worth the purchase price of a few bucks, and is very well made and sturdy. What I like about the design is that the tighter you squeeze on the clamp handle the tighter it grips the pan. This clamping handle will also work on any high sided metal baking pan; I put it to the test by lifting a hot, food filled 10" cast iron skillet from the oven just the other day. It worked with no difficulty what-so-ever, and offered a great leverage advantage on a very heavy pan. I wouldn't use it with glass pans though, as the pressure would obviously crack them. But for cakes, pies, and of course pizza, you can't go wrong having one of these clamp handles available for lifting hot pans from the oven.

This item had come up on what other customers had bought several times and after reading the reviews and burning myself a few times I decided to order. This is great for repositioning hot pans in the oven as well as lifting them. It really grips the pan. It is one of the little things that is really nice to have and ,fortunately, does not take up much space.

Also, a great item to have for the no knead bread baker. This handy little device enables the pan used on the bottom of the oven to be easily pulled out, the water quickly added, and then moved back into the oven before closing the oven door as the author of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking bread instructs to get that delightful crispy crust.

Very happy with MV Trading's sevice. Will do business with this seller again.

UPDATE: The rivets in the handle broke as some other reviewers complained. The fix is inexpensive and quick (less than 5 minutes).

- two 6/32 X 1 1/2 bolt and two 6/32 self-locking nuts.

Viola! A better than new inexpensive kitchen gadget that I have come to depend on and use frequently.

Amazon recommended this gripper along with fourteen inch diameter, 2" deep pizza pans.
It will not handle 2" deep pans, in fact most "grippers" on the market will not do 2" deep
pans.

I am very pleased. Just like the grippers we used at Little Caesars. Great product.

I was cooking my first Chicago deepdish pizza (now that I had bought the pans and this piece of junk), and the third time I went to pick up the pizza to rotate it, the lower jaw just cracked and fell off nearly making me lose the pizza. Buy a gripper somewhere else!

I got this to use with the 14" chicago style deep dish pizza pan, and it couldn't handle picking up that pan when full of pizza. I think it will do okay when we make ten inch pizzas, but I'm a little disappointed.

Haven't gotten to use it much yet because we didn't receive it in time for holiday pizza-making, but it seems pretty straightforward and we don't foresee any issues.

We ordered the 14" deep dish pan and the gripper. But taking the pizza out of the oven, the gripper part that held the pan twisted and almost sent the pizza to the floor. It is a great concept - just don't use it for the 14" pan, the pizza is just too heavy for it.

The pan gripper came in a very short time and was exactly as stated in the ad. Thank you.

After trying to use this gripper... I put it in the drawer and went back to computer to look for another brand.... I was so dissappointed in this gripper.... It is very clumsy to use. Its not very well made and with no silicone covering the tong end it slips off the pan.. The handle are bent in a way that makes it difficult to use... I do not recommend this product...I have since found another product similar with silicone covered handles and rubber ends on the tongs that grip the pan to be lifted.... It was much better... Save your money....