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Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2017
This is a great stainless steel fry pan but it takes rather a long time to heat up due to the thick bottom, which has an embedded aluminum layer. This does mean the temperature will not fluctuate much while cooking, a good thing.
If one comes to the AllClad pans after using teflon coated aluminum pans (even good Cephalon pans) some readjustment is in order. These take longer to heat up and they get hotter at a given cooktop dial setting.
For instance, I cook scrambled eggs in olive oil on a Cephalon pan at a dial setting of 6 on my GE glass cooktop. At that setting the olive oil never smokes and the eggs never burn. At the same dial setting the AllClad gets so hot (400° measured) that it smokes the olive oil and burns anything in the pan.
I recommend using a good infrared thermometer to gauge the actual temperature.
Cleaning is not as easy as the promo videos show, at least not if you cook with olive oil or Crisco. Both will form a tan residue that requires some scrubbing with the AllClad cleanser or Bar Keepers Friend.
The upkeep on these is more than for teflon pans but these much more versatile and take abuse that would kill a teflon pan in no time flat.
If one comes to the AllClad pans after using teflon coated aluminum pans (even good Cephalon pans) some readjustment is in order. These take longer to heat up and they get hotter at a given cooktop dial setting.
For instance, I cook scrambled eggs in olive oil on a Cephalon pan at a dial setting of 6 on my GE glass cooktop. At that setting the olive oil never smokes and the eggs never burn. At the same dial setting the AllClad gets so hot (400° measured) that it smokes the olive oil and burns anything in the pan.
I recommend using a good infrared thermometer to gauge the actual temperature.
Cleaning is not as easy as the promo videos show, at least not if you cook with olive oil or Crisco. Both will form a tan residue that requires some scrubbing with the AllClad cleanser or Bar Keepers Friend.
The upkeep on these is more than for teflon pans but these much more versatile and take abuse that would kill a teflon pan in no time flat.
