Calphalon Classic Stainless Steel Cookware Saute Pan, 3 Quart, Silver,2095189

More money than most brands, but completely stainless steel making cooking safe, beautiful in appearance, and love the lid to not only cover, but to drain water from what is cooked. Love my new pan!

Calphalon is known in the world of kitchen stuff to be well made, long lasting and living up to its reputation. This sauce pan is true to form.Well worth the price point, I've found that anything stamped with the Calphalon logo exudes quality and reliability.For a household of two, this 2.5 qt. size is perfect for most sauce pan applications. Highly recommended.

Great all-around pot. Very well made and cooks evenly without being heavy. Feels balanced in the hand. Love the glass lid and strainer. The pot with lid weighs 2 lb 1 oz.

perfect as always with Calphalon. Same diameter as the 5 quarts, slightly more than, half the height of 5 quart. Not as heavy as the triply pans. Goes well with the 11-inch stainless steel lid that i use already use with my 5-quart pot.

Excellent sauce. Heat conduction is very even and very consistent. It also responds pretty fast to changes in temperature of the heat source. Not quite as quickly as copper but very very close. A professional cook might discern the difference but the even the experienced home cook will not notice any difference. I don’t work for Calphalon or any other pan manufacturer but I do a lot of home cooking.2/2020 update. Had this pan for a little over 2 years and it's a work horse. The handle stays cool and the cover handle stays relatively cool. Cleanup is relatively easy even when cooking sugar. I like the pan so much that I'm going to purchase the 3 1/2 quart model. Bad news is if you burn something it isn't going to be just one spot it'll be the whole bottom of the pan. Which reminds me, I have been using Steel-Glo (an old P&G product I think) to clean this pan up but see that Steel-Glo is no longer on the market. I any one knows of a similar product I would appreciate the refference.3/2/20 I have tried the 3 1/2 qt sauce pan and it’s essentially the same as the smaller pan. Making custard type pie fillings isn’t an issue and neither is making caramel/toffee (basically a controlled burning of sugar).1/10/21 I did down rate this sauce pan pan to 4 stars because I think the aluminum plate sandwiched between the 2 layers of stainless steel on the bottom of the pan is pretty thin. For me that’s not a problem as I have a European style electric range burners (think a cal-rod buried inside a big chunk of cast iron). If I’m not the only one with that type of burner I’m pretty certain I’m one of a pretty small group. In short if you’re using a standard cal-rod range or a gas range you will very probably have difficulty with hot spots and also with the pan bottom rapidly responding very rapidly to fluctuations in the heat source. The goal is to spread or average out those fluctuations over the entire bottom of the pan over a extended period of time. A slow and even heating is what’s desired. You will probably need to think your your equipment needs through pretty carefully before purchasing this type of pan. A heavier bottom tri-clad pan may suit your cooking equipment a bit better.

This was the highest quality pot I could find with pour spouts in 1 1/2 quart capacity. Okay, it was the only one, and on sale so I bought it because I'm a tight wad, you happy now? Very well made and sturdy, both for the price and size. Like that the handle is solid and not too long, so doesn't snag on my shirt sleeves or interfere with other vessels on the cooktop; not "tippy" like many other diminutive pots. Whole thing is brushed stainless steel for a satin rather than mirror finish. Result is improved grip and basically smudgeless appearance. Don't have an induction cooker yet but apparently this pot is induction-ready, engraved so on base. Performs well on my glass-top range and pours drip-free. And just enough of a little gap between lid and spout to store an ice tea spoon upright (Disclaimer: mocha is my beverage of choice here.) Would purchase the 2 1/2 quart version as well if it weren't going for twice the price I paid for this one. :yikes:

Can't say enough about the quality of these pans! I love this model, too -- better than their more expensive ones.Check out the lids: There is a pouring spout on two sides of the pan, for left- or right-handed users. The lids have a deep rim that has draining holes on two sides. If you turn the lid handle perpendicular to the pan handle, the holes line up with the spouts, and you can drain your food perfectly without using a colander! The deep rim on the lid keeps it from sliding as you do this, so no more dumping half my dinner down the sink!There are markings inside the pan to show you how full it is. It has an aluminum core sandwiched in stainless steel, so the heating is even. The handle is 3-dimensional, not flat, which makes it much easier to control the pan. (It engages the large muscles in the your arm, instead of just the small muscles in your fingers.)The materials are excellent and the design is elegant, making the pan wonderful to use. I highly recommend the Calphalon Classic series.

Dented. The lid and the pan have a dent in them. The pan is not nearly has good as the one I purchased at Macy's 7 years ago.I should have purchased a pan at Costco