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131 of 133 persons found the following review helpful.
Excellent at first, then performance drops off
By avidreader2
We have now been using this set for 6 months. When we basi received and begun using them, the pans were perfectly nonstick so that feed including eggs could be cooked without any oil, and cleaning was fast and easy. Unfortunately this is no longer unfeigned — the pan we’ve employed most often times now requires oil in order than feed doesn’t stick, in spite of hand-washing and following the manufacturer’s other directions. If no oil is used, the pan is like a conventional pan and not only does feed stick, but the pan requires prolonged soaking and scrubbing to get it clean. You must also be careful not to stack the pans (chipping and scratching).
The pan handles do not get hot, but the lid handles do, so be prepared to use a potholder to move the lids.
The set will have to be hand-washed and handled conservatively to keep away from chipping, but this is not a problem for us.
I would have rated the set 5 stars had it kept it is nonstick performance. The loss of the nonstick capacity and the subsequent difficultness with cleaning the pans drops my rating to two stars.
1/3/10 Edited to add: We’ve now been using this set for a year and I’ve noticed various minute to little chips out of the cooking surfaces of more that half the pieces. We do not use metal utensils (silicon only) and are careful with cleaning and storing. One piece has also absorbed the smell of the feed that was cooked in it. I am now looking for a dissimilar set of cookware, and regret buying this one. While I prefer a “green,” eco-friendly product, I think this one needs some improvements in quality and design.
90 of 92 persons found the following review helpful.
Fantastic Cookware!!
By Craig
My wife not long back started out researching possible destructive items in our home, and asked me to get cookware without Teflon. Having grown up with non-stick pans, and having had a bad encounter with stainless steel, I was expecting this change to be a nightmare. Fortunately, I was enjoyably surprised.
I researched healthful number of things from which only one can be chosen to non-stick and came up with ionized aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron and ceramic coated cast iron. None of these seemed like a outstanding choice. I then went to Bed Bath and Beyond to look at pans and encountered the Cuisinart Green line. After seeing the cast iron, I realized we probably would someways harm our new glasstop stove as it was so heavy, so ceramic coated aluminum sounded great.
I settled on either Calphalon One infused ionized aluminum or the Cuisinart line. However, Bed Bath and Beyond is a bit mixing up with the Cuisinart line. They trade Cuisinart “Greenware” as a set and Green “Gourmet” as person pieces. The Green Gourmet set is a bit more expensive, and I was advised by the salesperson not to buy GreenWare as it has a rough bottom that may scratch a glass top stove. He offerred to order a Green Gourmet set, but I decisive to buy one Caphalon and one GreenGourmet frying pan and test them before investing in a set. I candidly didn’t suppose either to work as well as my non-stick pans.
I in general only cook breakfast on the weekends, so I cooked what I know how to cook. I took both pans and set the burner at the same setting (6 on my stove which is the setting I employed for the non-stick pans). I made pancake batter and used an organic olive oil cooking spray. Interestingly, the Cuisinart pan was too hot at 6 so the pancakes burned and I had to set the stove at 4 to get the same results as the 6 on the Calphalon pan. Both pans were outstanding with the pancakes–better than my non-stick pan and in all probability the prettiest looking pancakes I have ever made. The Cuisinart pan was very easy to clean, but the Calphalon took a bit more effort. On another day, I cooked eggs. Again using the same Olive Oil spray. The eggs without delay stuck to the Calphalon pan. Having read instructions on using cast iron and waiting for the eggs to “release”, I waited, and waited and waited. What a mess! I couln’t get the burnt eggs off the pan. Of course as soon as I put the pan in the sink with water, they popped right off so clean up was easy. I’m sure there is a rectify way to cook eggs on this pan, but I couldn’t do it after 4 tries. On the Cuisinart Pan, I had no problem, and surprisingly, the eggs seemed to be more comfortable to turn over than on our old Farberware non-stick.
So after this, I decisive to get the Cuisinart and ordered from Amazon which was $50 for less than the price cited by the Bed Bath and Beyond salesperson who offerred to order it for me.
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
Great Cookware!
By Sunshine_68
The Cuisinart Green Gourmet Eco-Friendly cookware is great! Heats evenly, does not need heavy oils, butter, or sprays to cook in (once seasoned). Cleans very without apparent effort likewise with little effort. I would have given these productions a 5 star rating, but 2 of the pans I purchased from Bed, Bath and Beyond had to be return/replaced because they had a lot of strange shading in the coating. I was unsure if that would affect the life or use of the product and returned for replacement. I have had no difficultnesses with any other of these pans that I have purchased elsewhere, it may have just been the batch sent to that store, so I may unquestionably say I commend this cookware. One note, if you are a “put everything in your dishwasher” kind of person, you will not like how these look or wear if you do that. I use to be that way and have now gotten use to hand washing these terrifi pans and my new set of knives to extend their life and use. Go green!
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