All-Clad D3 3-Ply Stainless Steel Fry Pan With Lid 10 Inch, Induction Compatible, Oven Broiler Safe 600F, Fast and Even Heat, Pots and Pans, Cooking Frying Pan, Skillet, Kitchen, Cookware, Silver

I love this pan! Its the perfect size. Once you learn how to use a stainless its very easy to use. Its such good quality and much better for your health vs coated pans. Its heavy and the perfect depth size. costly but worth the investment IMO.

Avid chefs are like any other experienced tool user. We know that better tools are often less expensive in the long run. There's no economy in buying three tools that ruin projects because they never perform as they should. That's true of woodworking tools ( my speciality) and cooking tools (my hobby).After hearing so many top chefs rave about All-Clad and reading many reviews I bought this model to see if it is worth it.It is.The thick flat bottom registers fully to any cooktop, gas or electric. Combine that with the aluminum core surrounded by steel and you get even consistent heating.Other "premium" pans I've used have warped, which leads to uneven heating and a wobbly unstable pan. This well-made pan does not exhibit that tendency. It stays FLAT. My digital temp-gauge shows it heats evenly. Most important: the FOOD shows it heats evenly!I took the time to season this pan with high-temperature oils BEFORE I used it. Although I have seasoned other pans, few of them remained seasoned, especially after searing steaks or scorching hot potato dishes.Another HUGE benefit of a well-seasoned professional pan is the ability to make pan-sauces. This smooth-finished surface deglazes easily and reacts to temperature changes immediately.Pan sauces always look easy in videos. Why couldn't I make them so effortlessly? After I got this pan, I learned. It was not the stove, the ingredients, my timing or technique. It was THE PAN. Now I CAN make professional pan sauces just like Alton Brown, Chef John, Bobby Flay and others.If I had known that years ago, I would have never wasted all my money on cheap pans. I hate to think about all the foods I made that were less than stellar or ruined outright.My contention is that bad tools frustrate the user. A crummy guitar guarantees a student never practices and doesn't learn music. A cheap saw guarantees the nascent woodworker ruins projects and wastes wood.Well... crummy cookware frustrates the budding culinary artist, foils his efforts and wastes food money.Although this price for a pan seems expensive, I reckon it saves money by NOT wasting food and not buying more cheap pans to replace other cheap pans that get ruined in a year.It lowers frustration and produces better results.It is easy to clean and keep seasoned so it remains easy to clean.And I am happy to pay extra for USA made products.It looks and feels as though it should last for decades.Most of the professional chefs I respect use these.America's Test Kitchen rated it #1 top choice for the best all-purpose pan.I am NOT a professional chef, and in a sense, that makes my opinion MORE important to some readers. Why?Because if an rank amateur like ME can get great pro-results with this pan, then other home cooks could too.Highly recommended!The only caveat is, once you experience a professional-quality cooking-tool like this, it is impossible to go back.You may end up buying more!

This All-Clad skillet is the perfect size for most tasks. It's also extremely well made, oven safe, and cleans up beautifully.Let me preface this review by saying that for a couple of years I worked at a cooking school and all of the pots and pans they used were All-Clads. Those All-Clads went through a lot of use and abuse and held up to everything we threw at them. After that experience I invested in a 10 piece set of the D5 All-Clads for my house, supplementing them with a couple of pieces of regular All-Clad. My home experience has been every bit as good as the one in the test kitchen.This All-Clad skillet is exceptionally well made. The steel used is thick, even, and high quality. The polished exterior is beautiful, while the machined interior is also well done. The long and substantial handle is securely connected to the skillet by two rivets. The matching lid fits nicely to create an excellent seal. Overall, the skillet feels like it will last a lifetime.In use the All-Clad performs well. I have a Viking gas cook top with heavy cast iron grates. The All-Clad heats up quickly and I don't have any issues with hot or cold spots. The sloped sides make it easy to toss food one handed (if you dare!) and allow liquids to evaporate quickly. The all metal construction means you can pop it into an oven too.When I bought my 10 piece set it came with an 8 and 10 inch skillet and I found those sizes limiting for most uses. This 12 inch size is just about perfect for most needs. It allows plenty of room to sear a few pieces of meat and make family sized pasta or rice dishes. I find myself reaching for the 12 inch size more than the smaller skillets.I did not find much of a difference between the D5 All-Clads and the "regular" Tri-Ply series. They both cook and clean up equally good.I clean my All-Clads in my Bosch dishwasher and they come out perfectly clean about 95% of the time. The only thing I need to "clean" by hand is when I sear meats in the pan. For some reason the pans come out of the dishwasher with a "stain" of some sort where the meat was seared. The rest of the pan is usually spotless. To clean that I just use a bit of Bar Keeper's Friend and it comes right off.All in all... an excellent skillet.