Kitchen Reviews

This pan is excellent! 10 stars would be more like it! This sturdy, substantial, top quality pan is perfect for evenly cooking all your breakfast foods, grilled sandwiches, saute, etc. It has a low profile and the bottom is flat so you can cook using less energy and achieve superior results. The usable cooking surface is far greater than most larger but lower quality pans, and it takes up little storage space. It is constructed of top quality stainless steel inside and out with a double-riveted stainless steel handle. The third ply is aluminum, bonded between the layers of stainless which provides awesome heat conduction and even heat distribution, but the aluminum is completely sealed inside and never touches your food. It is oven safe up to 500 degrees so you can start cooking on the stove and finish it or keep it warm in the oven. It is a beautiful pan that is dishwasher safe and it should last a lifetime. For half a century I have used inferior pans with inferior results. With All-Clad stainless I am learning to enjoy cooking again with beautiful results! For the overall value this is an excellent buy and I recommend it without reservation!

Holding an ALL-Clad pan makes you feel like a chef! The flambe pan is a trophy of quality USA craftsmanship. A recent CIA graduate now working in San Fran recommended All-Clad and told me it is the choice of professional chefs and it is the best. I'm new to professional cookware but I wanted to start a collection of lifetime cookware. The theory was buy the best once. The weight of the pan is substantial and echoes the All-Clad reputation. You know immediately you holding a special instrument that will produce delicious results. The heat is so evenly distributed throughout the flambe pan, less heat is required. I love this pan; it is the swan of my collection! It's beautiful. It's a fun piece to use and when finishing an entree there's a little voice inside me that says taa-daaah!

Great pan - I was amazed at how evenly it cooks your food. Of course, it's stainless so the clean-up isn't nearly as easy as with a non-stick pan...

Wow! This is absolutely the greatest lid ever made!

But seriously, in addition to the petite braiser, this lid also works with the All-Clad 10" fry pan. Unlike the lid designed specifically for the fry pan, this one is domed, which is better for heat circulation.

I purchased this lid for my 10" fry pan, and it fits perfectly. Turn your fry pan into a french roaster.

This pan gets a frequent morning workout at our house; it's perfect for making (for example) eggs with a side of tofu sausage. Probably one of the most useful pans, you'll find many other uses for it. I've been very pleased by the sturdy construction and the appropriately heavy weight that distributes heat evenly. The long handle stays cool to the touch. In addition, the pan cleans exceptionally easily, saving time and energy.

After hearing a lot of bad things about non-stick cookware, I decided that it was time to change my cookware. After extensive research on the internet, I went with All-Clad stainless. This is my first All-Clad pan. I love it. The quality is excellent. The food browns evenly. It is easy to clean. I am adding more All-Clad to my collection.

There's nothing much negative to say about All Clad in my view. I've upgraded almost all my stove-top pots and pans over the last year, and can't say enough good about them. New Year's Eve, I did fettucini Alfredo, and this pan held the butter, cream, cheese mix at a perfect temperature until the fettucini was ready. So much of a "perfect" dish is in the timing, and All-Clad lets you do that.

One reservation I have about this pan is the handle being heavier than the body. While this doesn't interfere with actual cooking performance, it's irritating to have the pan tipping over until it has something in it. Also, I love stainless for many things, but in the future will stick to non-stick for sauciers and saucepans. You lose some of your sauce, as it sticks to the sides of the pan.

Two complaints: a lip for pouring would be nice; and empty it's a little tipsy on my ancient gas stovetop.

That said, this is endlessly useful for exactly what the name would imply -- sauces. Throwing together a cream sauce for two? Boiling a little water? Reheating something? Why use a big pot when a little one will do? The small size comes in handy when you have all your burners going and don't want something huge getting in the way. Plus it's cute & shiny.

There are usually great deals on these smaller pots. (Check out the regular sauce pan as well as this saucier) All the pros I know swear by all clad -- if these will stand up to years of all day, every day restaurant use, then they should be just fine for a generation or two in my kitchen... I just picked up another one of these as a wedding gift for a chef I know, and I'm tempted to get a second for myself.

I think people are missing the point of this pan. It's not a saute pan with straight sides and a lid. It's a "SAUCIER" pan.

These pans are designed to reduce sauces to a servable consistancy. The curved sides of the pan allow heat to come up the sides of the pan more, as well as get more liquid in contact with a flamed area. This heats up the liquid rapidly, as well as reduces it more rapidly than other pans. It does this wonderfully.

That's what it's for, it's not for soup or anything like that. That's what "Pots" are for.

I love to use it to reduce balsamic vinegar, various juices, hard ciders, or wine into a syrupy sauce to drizzle over things.