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[spinbaby]

My usual cookware brand is All Clad. I’m not rich, but I do live near the factory and can take advantage of their factory sales twice a year. But this year there were no factory sales, I needed to replace my non-stick skillets, and no way was I paying retail for All Clad.

So I looked over reviews and bought moderately priced—not cheap—pans online. After living with them awhile, I don’t like them for two very specific reasons that have nothing to do with their non-stick cooking performance.

First, they’re slightly bigger than my All Clad pans of the equivalent size, which means my lids don’t fit.

Second, they have handles with silicone sleeves that slide off. I didn’t realize at first that the sleeves were removable and that, every time the pan is washed, water and gunk gets under the sleeves. Ick. After removing and trying to clean the inside of those sleeves a couple of times, they went into the trash—I’ll deal with uncomfortable hot handles.

The pans came with instructions not to put them into the dishwasher. I’m putting them into the dishwasher in hopes of killing them off before the next All-Clad factory sale.