Equipment Review: Best Traditional Skillets / All-Purpose Fry Pans & Our Testing Winner

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A 12-inch skillet should last a lifetime and cook almost anything. But does quality construction have to cost top dollar?

We tested 7 traditional skillets (5 were fully clad with layers of aluminum and stainless steel covering the entire pan, while 2 had aluminum-steel disk bottoms) to find the best one:
All-Clad 12-inch Stainless Steel Fry Pan with Lid
Gourmet Standard Tri-Ply 12-Inch Skillet
Calphalon Contemporary Stainless 12-Inch Omelette Pan
Weil by Spring, The Healthy Kitchen 12-Inch Fry Pan
All-Clad 13-Inch Stainless French Skillet
Miu Stainless Steel 12-Inch Open Fry Pan
Cuisinart Chef’s Classic Stainless 12-Inch Skillet

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29 Comments

  1. I love my AllClad skillet…except for the handle. I find the handle just a bit narrow and ‘twisty’ in my hand. I have two cuisinart ‘clad’ skillets which work very well and have way better handles than the AllClad skillet. Always surprises me when ATK complements the handle of the AllClad…

  9. Why do your tests never review Demeyere or Fissler? Demeyere has the best fully clad frying pan made, and Fissler has an enormously thick disk bottom design that works superbly well on induction. These reviews feel artificial when you do not include the best products in the category.

  10. In Britain, a skillet is an old-fashioned type of cooking pot with legs. Experts think the word comes from the Middle French esculette, "a little dish," from the Latin root scutella, "serving platter." Very funny that Americans use an archaic word that is NOT used anywhere else in the world to describe a FRYING PAN . Too funny……

  11. Everyone, just save up for a while (make your own coffee, don't go to the movies for a bit, don't eat out, no Netflix sub for a year 😅 etc.) and just buy All-clad.

    If cast iron pans gets passed down from generation to generation, so will be All-clad pans. Go for high quality and never by another one again! Love our All-clad sets!

  13. I have used the All-Clad D3 frying pans a few times only to have the stainless still tarnish deep into the steel. It will stick and burn most anything I try to cook. I have used all the precautions you are suppose to use for stainless still from the very beginning. I have sent them in for warranty and it took them over a month and a half to decide there was nothing they could do for me and then sent them back. Don't waste your money, nothing special there. There website says the handles are made in china.

  27. We are a large household and we cook almost every day and Indian food is high temp cooking with lot of sautéing and simmering curries to finish off. All-clad was a no brainer for us. Its top quality and we use them a lot. Worthy buy.

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