Hestan ProBond Forged Titanium-Professional Clad Stainless Steel Non-Stick Fry Pan (11") Induction Safe and PFOA Free

Love this Hesten frying pan. Cooks well, easy to wash and clean.

This pan was on sale for $110, but I was sent the 8.5" pan. The only recourse is to get a refund from Amazon, because they won't send me the correct size. I contacted the Hestan company and they said that my only path is through Amazon. My wife said to keep it and she will use it. She used it this morning for the first time for her usual egg-spinach scramble and it was barely large enough to hold the food, and the bottom and sides were coated with stuck on food. She wants to keep using it because she feels safer using this pan than the cheap Chinese Carote pans. I only use cast iron and carbon steel pans, but she needs pans that she can't ruin when I turn my back. Yes, I know that stainless steel pans are non-stick when used with proper heat control and amount of oil, but that's just not her. At least with this pan the food comes off easily when washed. If the 11" or larger pan goes on sale I'll buy it then. It gets 1 star because I'm so incredibly annoyed at receiving the smaller pan.

I read about Hestan cookware 2 years ago and let the idea of buying percolate. For no reason at all I recently checked out the skillets on Amazon and found a couple on sale. It was Now or Never and I made the plunge. Their heft surprised me out of the box but I was more impressed at how stable they are on my stove. They are absolutely flat no matter how I rotate them while cooking. That is an amazing pleasure: my old skillets tilted ever so slightly but enough to be a nuisance. I'm already quite attached to my Hestans. They were worth the wait.

This was the most expensive piece of cookware I have ever purchased. And to be honest, the amount of oil or butter I have to use to make it "non stick" is just as much as any other pan. I am very disappointed that it is truly NOT "non stick". I cook ribeye "bites" each evening and they stick no matter how much avocado oil I put in the pan. Going back to the cast iron where I get a bit of a sear and the meat releases to turn. I am broken hearted that I spent this much of my hard earned money.

I bought this pan to test out the Hestan product before getting a whole set. The pan cooks amazing! I am not a chef and I only cooked eggs and steak in it. The eggs did not stick which was what I was going for. I will definitely be buying more Hestan products.