All-Clad Stainless-Steel Saute Pan Review

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(More customer reviews)I own the 3-Quart version of this pan, purchased in a set before I knew better, and have used this 4-Quart. I prefer this one because its taller sides make doing a true sauté (which means "jump" in French) of the ingredients a bit easier. Taller sides like this are what are found in most European sauté pans. The previous review is inaccurate in that both the 3-Quart and 4-Quart All-Clad pans are identical in diameter, which can be verified at All-Clad's web site.
Per All-Clad, the LTD and Master Chef lines use thicker aluminum so if you don't need the ease of maintenence and durability that comes with a stainless-steel exterior, I would suggest you consider these other lines for their more even (i.e. better) heating performance.
Also, there are higher-end cookware lines out there than All-Clad. Don't think that All-Clad is the "best" available. Brands such as Demeyere and Bourgeat have features such as more durable exterior finishes (Demeyere Atlantis, etc.), thicker aluminum cores, more comfortable handles (an All-Clad weakness), and even full copper (more conductive than aluminum). These come at a higher price than All-Clad. On the other hand, there are less-expensive product lines such as Calphalon Commercial (often cheap on Amazon.com!) and brands used in commercial kitchens like Sitram.
Still, this is a nice pan and I don't think you can really go wrong with All-Clad. It's the best commonly available at consumer kitchen shops and easy to order on Amazon.com.

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Designed for cooking foods in a small amount of oil or butter while continuously tossing, stirring, or shaking, the saute pan is wide to provide ample room for food movement, with a flat bottom to slide smoothly back and forth on a burner, and straight sides keep food from sliding out. The slightly domed lid lets you finish a dish under cover without changing pans. Stick handle stays cool during normal stovetop use, and the helper handle makes it easier to lift when full.
- 3-Quart: This size is great for pan-frying potatoes or batter-dipped vegetables such as mushrooms, zucchini, or sliced green tomatoes; also wonderful for slow braising.
- 4-Quart: We like this pan for three-step cooking of steaks or chops: sear them over high heat, finish cooking in the oven, then return pan to the stove to make a wonderful sauce from meat drippings, wine (to deglaze), butter, and herbs.
- 6-Quart: Great for shallow braising, this 6-quart saute pan can also be used as abain mariewhen preparing custards.

All-Clad's leading cookware line is brilliantly styled with a hand-polished gleaming stainless-steel finish that many of the world's professional and home chefs prefer. The 18/10 stainless-steel interior will not react with your food, leaving the pure taste you desire. Dishwasher-safe.

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Viking VSC0511 11 Inch Stainless Steel Fry Pan Review

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(More customer reviews)I received this as a Christmas gift and absolutely love it.It has a large cooking area. Everything browns and cooks evenly.Cleanup is a breeze if you use Barkeeper's Friend.If you want quality pans that will last a lifetime, Viking is for you

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Viking professional cookware products are manufactured with exclusive multi-ply construction. Multi-Ply construction is a specially designed combination of stainless steel and aluminum alloys for lifetime performance, durability with easy cleanup, quick and even heat distribution. The Multi-Ply material used in Viking cookware is the most advanced formulation of stainless steel and aluminum alloys in the world today. This exclusive combination of layers conducts heat more evenly and quickly to give you better results. Known for its exceptional appliances, its professional cookware products are manufactured in Belgium yet designed in the U.S., so you get the best of both worlds. This 11-in. Skillet is essential for cooking, frying, sauteing and reducing. A magnetic stainless steel layer makes it perfect for induction while it also is suitable with gas, electric, halogen and ceramic. It's also oven and broiler safe. Viking offers a lifetime warranty against manufacturing defects.

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Bialetti Italian Collection 10 Inch Saute Pan Review

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(More customer reviews)Can't even cook center of fried eggs. When putting oil or butter in pan it goes straight to back of the pan. When I fried potatoes had to keep putting oil in front of pan. After only 2 washings of this pan coating is already coming off on side. Only good thing about this pan is the cushioney handle.

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Italian Collection - 10 inch Saute Pan.Bialetti is proud to expand its cookware offerings to include the highly acclaimed Italian Collection, highlighting Italian heritage at its finest.The new Bialetti collection features an eye-catching sparkling grey exterior with soft-grip handles for a beautiful look and feel.Additional consumer-driven features like cook-and-pour spouts, glass lids and Teflon Classic non-stick interior coating ensure superior cooking performance.The Italian Collection is approved by the National Sanitary Foundation (NSF) for restaurant and professional use.Made in Italy.

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Viking VSC0508 8 Inch Stainless Steel Fry Pan Review

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(More customer reviews)I write this now not about this purchase but about all the Viking cookware that I have used over the years.I have never had an 8" fry pan in my kitchen but surely expext the same as always.This will make 8 and will make my kitchen cookware as good or better than any one.

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Viking professional cookware products are manufactured with exclusive multi-ply construction. Multi-Ply construction is a specially designed combination of stainless steel and aluminum alloys for lifetime performance, durability with easy cleanup, quick and even heat distribution. The Multi-Ply material used in Viking cookware is the most advanced formulation of stainless steel and aluminum alloys in the world today. This exclusive combination of layers conducts heat more evenly and quickly to give you better results. Known for its exceptional appliances, its professional cookware products are manufactured in Belgium yet designed in the U.S., so you get the best of both worlds. This 8-Inch frying pan is perfect for searing, scrambling or stir frying. A magnetic stainless steel layer makes it perfect for induction while it also is suitable with gas, electric, halogen and ceramic. Viking offers a lifetime warranty against manufacturing defects.

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Chantal Enamel-on-Steel 8-Inch Omelet Pan, Cobalt Blue Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this item 15 years ago. Loved it so much that I thought I would get another. The original pan still is functional and I use it every day.

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Chantal Enamel-On-Steel 8 Inch Omelette Pan, cobalt blue. Chantal Enamel-On-Steel Cookware performs beautifully, the perfect blend of beauty, function, versatility and high quality.Heats up quickly so there is no need to pre-heat the pan or use extremely high temperature settings - medium or low heat is recommended for most cooking applications.Perfect for magnetic induction cooking, but works well on gas or electric burners too.Naturally stick resistant, making it easy to clean.Durable enough to use metal utensils without scratching the surface.

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Culinary Institute of America Nonstick Saut Pan Review

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(More customer reviews)I have CIA's 12" and 8" copper core non stick frying pans and they are absolutely the best pans I've owned.However the 8" pan is a little too small for the weight of the handle, so it easily tips over.Just be careful.
These pans are well built, heat up quickly, the non stick coating seems to last, no muss and no fuss with these pans.A real joy to cook with, everything slides off.They are a little pricey but well worth the price.
Once you cook with these babies, you'll never want to use anything else.

I have an Emeril Lagasse 10" non stick and less than a year the coating has already worn off and it takes forever to heat up.Easily the worst pan I've owned.Bam!Da Worst and expensive.
I own a 12" stainless steel multi copper core All Clad, it's pretty and shiney and everything but hate the ritual of having to heat the pan and heavily priming it with oil before cooking.If you don't, everything sticks to it.And the clean up is the worst.

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An ideal non-stick saute for small jobs.The slope of this pan has been designed to give you the ability to move food easily while providing the largest cooking surface possible on a pan this size.The cooking surface is often comparable to that of many other 10 inch pans.The 7 ply copper clad material provides an even, consistent environment to ensure excellent results in your kitchen.Designed by the Master Chefs of the esteemed Culinary Institute of America to be the top performing cookware on the market, the Master's Collection features the perfect amount of copper, surrounded by layers of aluminum and stainless steel.Each layer of metal extends to the top of the pan.This high quality construction makes for an amazingly responsive and conductive piece of kitchen equipment.The detail to design and functionality are exceptional, and will be a welcome addition to your kitchen

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All-Clad Stainless Large Paella Review

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(More customer reviews)I absolutely love this pan. I use it on my regular stove's larger burner and it fits nicely. You can really load up this pan. I fry steaks in it and I get a really nice hot sear. It fits 3 average size rib eye's nicely with room for onions. This All-Clad line works nicely with an induction burner as well. Although it's not an every day pan, i love to use it when applicable and it's also a really nice presenation piece.

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The All Clad Large Stainless Paella is ideal for making authentic Spanish paella.This pan has a 5-quart capacity and a 17.25" diameter.The pan is also useful for roasting Cornish hens and other types of meats and makes for a striking display on the dinner table.

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Swiss Diamond Cast-Aluminum Nonstick 11-by-11-Inch Square Saute Pan with Lid Review

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(More customer reviews)Excellent pan!It cooks so evenly, it's the nicest pan we have ever had!
We've been married 42-1/2 years~ (we've had a lot of pans in those years)
It is so easy to clean!Absolutelty no scrubbing!It just wipes off!
We would recommend in a heartbeat!!!Worth every penny!

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Swiss Diamond 11" Square covered fry pan features a revolutionary non-stick surface using diamond crystals to form a virtually indestructible non-stick cooking surface. Includes tempered glass cover with St. Steel rim, and steam-vent knob. The user will be able to cook large meals, steaks, chops, chicken, with perfection.The non-stick surface will not peel, crack, or blister and provides perfect heat distribution for cooking meals containing less fat. The pan is made from a thick pressure cast aluminum which has a perfectly flat base for use on all ceramic, gas, and electric cook tops. The stay cool handle is ergonomically designed and is safe to use in an oven up to 500F. Metal utensils are safe to use on the non-stick surface and the pan is safe for use in the dishwasher.The inside depth of this fry pan is 3".The diamond reinforced non-stick cooking surface truly separates this 11" chicken fryer from all others in a way that will enhance the users cooking skills.

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Bialetti Italian Collection 8 Inch Saute Pan Review

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(More customer reviews)When it comes to non-stick pans you will eventually throw them all away, so why spend a fortune? This is a nice pan and doesn't cost too much. Take care of it and it will last a couple of years.

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Italian Collection - 8 inch Saute Pan.Bialetti is proud to expand its cookware offerings to include the highly acclaimed Italian Collection, highlighting Italian heritage at its finest.The new Bialetti collection features an eye-catching sparkling grey exterior with soft-grip handles for a beautiful look and feel.Additional consumer-driven features like cook-and-pour spouts, glass lids and Teflon Classic non-stick interior coating ensure superior cooking performance.The Italian Collection is approved by the National Sanitary Foundation (NSF) for restaurant and professional use.Made in Italy.

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Cuisinart Chef's Classic Saute Pans Review

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(More customer reviews)This Cuisinart Chef's Classic saute pan has quickly become my favorite pan. It's huge - a full 12" across - which makes it very versatile. The pan conducts heat extremely well and is oven safe to 500 degrees. The handle is very sturdy, reasonably comfortable, and stays cool (outside of the oven, of course). The lid fits tightly. Both the interior and the exterior are very shiny and attractive. All this and it's easy to clean. Yet this pan sells for just a fraction of the sexier brands like All-Clad or Calphalon.
The chief reason for the great price is due to the construction. This is known as a "disk bottom" pan because it has a highly conductive aluminum disk embedded in its base. The really expensive brands feature "cladding", where a layer of conductive metal (usually aluminum) is embedded throughout the entire pan. Although the cookware industry loves to say that disk-bottom pans are inferior, test after test proves this claim is untrue. After all, we don't cook on the sides of a pan; we only cook on the bottom. See Cook's Illustrated magazine, May/June 2003, for a great discussion of this.
There are a few reasons why this pan might not be right for you. This pan's size makes it fairly heavy, so if you have arthritis or weak hands, you might want to opt for a smaller pan. Similarly, this pan might not fit on those tiny stovetops or ranges that you sometimes see in "galley" kitchens in apartments. But if you want a large, durable, high-quality saute pan at a fraction of the cost of the big-name brands, this is the pan for you.

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Inspired by the great French kitchens, Cuisinart began making professional cookware almost 30 years ago. Top quality construction joins the premium stainless exterior with solid aluminum encapsulated into the base, ensuring unsurpassed heat distribution. Bonded to a stainless steel interior, Chef's Classic Stainless offers the professional performance that lets you celebrate the fine art of cooking , with consistently delicious results. The high, straight sides and the flat cooking surface of the saute maximizes capacity. Sear meats, poultry, and more; cover to simmer for a perfect finish.

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Anolon Ultra Clad 12-Inch Covered Deep Skillet Review

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(More customer reviews)Heavy yes, cooks evenly yes, pricey yes, quality very good, clean up easy, would I purchase again? Absolutely!Amazon has not let me down in over 2 years including a easy return policy.
Short review but honest.

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Expertly crafted from three layers of metals, the cookware's thick core of heat-conducting aluminum is permanently bonded to gleaming stainless steel exterior. The deep side and generous capacity allow you to easily prepare one-dish meals such as chicken curry with rice or pork chops with baby carrots.

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Calphalon Contemporary Nonstick 10-Inch Omelet Pan Review

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(More customer reviews)There are a lot of things to love about this pan. First, it's heavy enough to keep eggs from scorching. Second, it's truly non-stick...even using cooking spray, our omlettes slide out of the pan in one beautiful piece. Third, it's got great heat conductivity, which allows for even cooking (critical with omlettes, fried eggs, etc.) Fourth, it's so easy to clean, I reach for it for more than just cooking eggs. We use it as a small saute pan and our vegetables never stick.

The pan can also be put in the oven to keep food warm, a nice feature. This was a real find.

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The high-quality Contemporary Nonstick collection is an update of the popular Professional Nonstick II line with conveniences such as versatile vessel shape and long handles that stay cool on the stovetop. Rounded interior edges and a flared opening ease access during food preparation and clean-up. Add to this a three-coated nonstick interior for quick food release and effortless washing and this pan becomes ideally suited to today's fast-paced households. The heavy-gauge anodized aluminum construction provides excellent conductivity and even heat distribution while the riveted, steel handle securely holds with ergonomically-designed comfort. Appropriate for both stovetop and oven use, the pan safely withstands temperatures up to 450 degrees F but shouldn't be used under a broiler. Metal utensils and abrasive cleaners or brushes should be avoided and hand washing is recommended. Product comes with Calphalon's lifetime warranty.

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