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Be Good to the Pan & It'll Be Good to You
What we have here is a premium piece of stone cookware. The second you unearth it from its packaging, if you care a whit about craftsmanship, you will be tempted to embrace it like your strong & stoic firstborn babe. Get one of these sturdy zeniths of industrial design and two well-seasoned cast irons, and your stovetop is set for life. This robust pan is exceptionally easy to clean - no sticking - and free of discoloration. No carcinogenic nastiness that we know of. Very difficult scorch, though, of course if you really put your mind to it, you can. The only time I saw it take permanent damage was when it was left on an burner turned to max for approximately 40 min. Even still, it was usable afterward & there's been no problem with quality of use.
It is somewhat convex - someone pointed that out with ire. Oil pools in a little moat around the center, but the island is still close to sea level subject to flooding. I haven't found any pans like this that aren't that way, but maybe there's some secret utopia of perfectly flat pans known only to advance chefs inducted into the Holy Order of Non-Convex Cookware. Frankly, I haven't been looking for this, so maybe it's more common than I think. Either way, the pan isn't so convex that it's challenging to cook with. It cooks perfect eggs if you act as the brains of the partnership. It does still require you to do some of the thinking, but the bright side is that you aren't out of a job yet.
Treat this splendidly crafted little pan with proper care & you shan't go wanting.
Edit: it's been brutally scorched 3 times due to inane misuse and is still fully functional. The pan is very impressive. The cook, arguably less so. When this weary trooper is laid to rest under a little stoneware tombstone in the backyard, I will order 2 more just like it. There's no need to get any other sort of egg pan ever again, probably.
November 2019 · Home and Kitchen · verified purchase