Top positive review
4.0 out of 5 starsNice pot, terrible handle
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2018
The pan is overall nice. It holds the heat well, the bottom is thick and it seems durable and reliable. I have overall only two complaints about this pan, one of which is not entirely All-Clad's fault.
My biggest complaint is that damn handle. It's terrible, it is the worst handle I've seen. Who came up with it? The edges of the handle just dig into your palm and it's freaking painful. Not to mention, it is so thick that even if you have large hands you will find it uncomfortable to hold. I find myself always gripping it at the base where it most hot. What is the point of making a long handle that is impossible to grab? The handle is just uncomfortable even if you just want to hold the pan, but if you want to empty it by pouring than it is even worse because you can't hold on to it properly. Seriously, the person who came up with this design should be fired and prohibited to work in the design forever.
The other complaint, which is minor, is how wide the pan is. Yes, it is nice for the souses and the whatever you cook gets boiling quickly, but it is not that good for the home kitchen stove. Basically, the spacing on of the burners on the stove is such that it is difficult to use this pan with another pan next to it. The problem is only one of them can be centered properly on the burner and the other one will have to be off-center by quite a large margin, sometimes to the point where the edge of the other pot would be on top of the burner. I know this is not particularly All-Clad's fault, but I have pans from another brand and they are narrower and much better in that regard.
