Done with Non-stick. Do any really hold up with no... - Page 4

ginirn · ‎04-30-2010

I bought Cooks Essential s from the Q over 10 years ago and they are just like new. The non stick is great.

missy1 · ‎03-10-2010

None held up for me.

tbearski · ‎12-18-2010

I had access to $200-300 frying pans for free years ago...I've been through different pans over the years and settled on 2 things...I buy a cheap $7 frying pan from the big stores and toss them out at about 6-9 months into their life or depending on condition. My other thing is I took down my moms 50 year old cast iron frying pans off of my kitchen wall which were being used for decoration and reseasoned them and use thse everyday! I also agree with everyone, you must follow directions with heating and cleaning! But nothing beats cast iron!

SANNA · ‎04-23-2010

I have a "green" set by chef Todd that I got from Hsn. Total garbage. Looks good, but everything sticks to it. Money wasted. I had a regular non stick skillets from Marchalls for $7.00 and it was better.

Razzy 7 · ‎03-11-2010

@seehorse wrote:

Does ANY non-stick fry pan hold up or we resigned to buying a new pan every year?

While I believe you should expect them to last more than a year, the answer is no, non-stick doesn't hold up like stainless steel will. Cook's Illustrated in their review notes that no non-stick is going to hold up over the long term and thus recommends not spending a lot of money for your non-stick pans. They quoted the Cookware Manufacturers Association saying 'it concedes it isn't built for the long term: “If you get a year to a year and a half of life out of [a new nonstick pan], we think you got a pretty good deal,"' says Hugh Rushing, executive vice president of the association.

CI also says, "If we’re going to keep replacing nonstick pans, we’d prefer to spend less on them." They recommended the "T-Fal Professional Non-Stick Fry Pan. I figured if they recommended the T-Fal Professional Non-Stick Fry Pan, the rest of the set ought to be okay too, so I bought a T-Fal Professional Non-Stick Set. I got the fry pan separately plus a 10 piece set for not much more than $100 bucks. I've been very pleased with it. I've had it at least 3 years and it hasn't chipped or failed to be non-stick.

kivah · ‎03-11-2010

I bought a set of 3 frying pans called Green Pans from Costco last year - and they're awful. They stick badly. I tossed out the packaging - but I still may return to Costco.

novamc1 · ‎07-02-2015

My Green Pans from Costco have served me well for the past year or two. Just fried some bacon in one yesterday. I do not use any nonstick pan to sear or boil foods at a high temp.....use stainless steel and enameled cast iron pots and pans for those jobs.

I cook bacon slowly at medium to low temperatures so it doesn't curl and stays flat. Other than that, I usually use nonstick only for eggs at low to medium temps.

I still cannot claim that any nonstick skillet I've ever owned was ruined and became nonstick, except one that I carelessly left on a burner that hadn't been turned off when it should have been. I only donate or discard them when it appears that a better-quality and/or safer technology has become available for nonstick.

Campion · ‎10-21-2011

The Green Pans never seem to hold up. I've tried various brands, they all fail fairly soon.

I've had good luck with Rachael Ray and even better luck with that guy on HSN--Ming Tsai. I got the TS special wok. It has a copper-colored non stick coating. Very good stuff.

None can go in the dishwasher. The problem is that small scratches become loosened from hot water and strong detergent bubbling up under the coating in the dishwasher.

What I hate are the enamel coatings on the outside. Sometimes you just can't get them clean.

marky · ‎03-10-2010

@WORKING GAL wrote:
I also have two sets of Technique hard anodized that were ordered years apart. The first set was heavier gauge than the second but the newer set had pour spouts and different sized pieces. The skillets are sticking now when cooking eggs even with butter. I'm very careful about using the right cooking utensils and washing them but the non stick is not holding up. Guess I will contact QVC and see if they'll do anything with their "lifetime warranty".
I have a Calphalon square non stick grill pan that cooks great.

I have called QVC in the past and got two pans replaced. I did not have to ship the old pans back. I have learned to keep my QVC receipts for such purchases. No problem with customer service. You probably won't get the same pan but they will replace it with the closest possible alternative. I did get one replaced without the receipt but it was more trouble for the CS rep. I had the pans for YEARS before I had an issue of peeling non-stick surface.