Rating: - calphalon 2 1/2 qt contemporay sauce pan
This is a great pan. Everyone needs a non-stick sauce pan and the shape of this one makes it perfect for many jobs. It's well made, not too heavy to handle and the glass lid lets you observe your work. The pan flares out near the rim, so for smaller jobs the ingredients are concentrated at the bottom. The flared out area makes it easier to get a spoon or spatula in there to work the sauce.
Rating: - Wide saucier
The size is just perfect and the shape is wonderful for stirring and whisking, since the corners are more gently rounded and you can get the tool right in there.
Great!
Rating: - Nice Saucepan
Very well made as is the case with most Calphalon. While 2-1/2 qt seems small this is a larger pan than expected with a fairly large diameter and a more shallow depth that typical saucepan. That said, it has turned out to be very useful for many daily cooking activities. Recommended.
Rating: - Beautiful!
I forget how much I paid for this, but I want another one! It looks sweet! Especially boiling something with the lid on it. The handle on the lid doesn't get hot after 10 minutes of boiling, the pan handle is easy to grasp, and nothing sticks to this thing. Running water will clean out whatever it was that was cooking in it - no need to touch it with a cloth. The small details are what is most impressive about this - the heavy weight, the Calphalon logo on the very end of the handle, the "Made in Toledo, Ohio" stamp under the pan - it's the little things that one pays the Calphalon price for!
Some cons - I was expecting, with a lifetime warranty, that I would be able to throw this thing around and just send it back if it ever broke, right? Well, Calphalon gives you a long list of things you can't do to this - using non-stick cooking spray, metal utensils, put it in a dishwasher, stack them on top of eachother (what - stacking two pots on top of each other will void the warranty? Come on!), etc. After I bought my cookware set if feels like I have a newborn in the house.
But this is great quality Calphalon cookware at unbeatable prices at Amazon.com!
- calphalon 2 1/2 qt contemporay sauce pan