My personal grandma gave us any 12-inch sq . electric skillet in the 70s, but we seldom used it and finally gave it to Goodwill. It supplied no advantage over stovetop cooking food.
My better half got the particular Green skillet personally last month. The 14 inch size makes it very adaptable. You can brown lots of mushrooms and never having to batch-cook all of them. I’m sure it’ll fry lots of chicken as well.
The temperature distribution is good. At 450 F, you can not sear steaks–leave which to 550F cast iron or Staub’s enameled iron grill pans– however golden-browning is wonderfully easy to achieve.
For open-pan cooking food, I would give it 4-5 superstars.
I must however, subtract a couple of full stars for your patently inadequate lid layout. How a lot of us use lidded pans without using their lids to prepare? It would be nice to utilize the Green skillet to be able to steam, simmer or boil items, but the particular condensate about the lid bottom flows right to the griddle rim, gathers, then pockets, spits and also drips all over the countertop and also onto the particular temp-control module. I need to put any towel on the latter, not realizing if a power short could otherwise happen, and also then I need to wipe up the countertop soon after. Or I need to “crack” the particular lid (that lessens still dripping wet and redirects it to one area). Not any fatal problem, but a measure of less-than-fully-thoughtful focus on functional detail by Cuisinart.
Two layout modifications to the lid would greatly improve things. 1) a much larger vent hole having a sliding shutter to regulate how big is the spray hole, and a couple of) any glass or metal circular rim about the underside running maybe a half inch from the lid’s side, to pressure lid-condensate to be able to drip into the pan rather than flowing to the lid/pan-edges user interface and sputtering away.
All in all, we’re by using this pan a whole lot, as it works really well for open-pan cooking food, and then using the lid to help keep food warm. » Read more..