On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:43:32 +0000, Invisible Man
wrote:
We like stainless steel non-stick saucepans.

In the past I have had non-stick saucepans that lasted for years. Last 2
sets have started giving up after about 30 months each.

Anyone know of any that do last?

Experience of lifetime guarantees is that they are worthless.
Manufacturers claim anything similar is a vast upgrade and ask for more
for the upgrade than you can buy them for elsewhere.


Getting non-stick coating to adhere to stainless steel for more than a
couple of years must be almost impossible. Stainless steel itself has
some non-stick qualities, especially when polished, so getting
anything to stick to it in the long term would be asking an awful lot
of the coating technology.

I have had two sets of non-stick stainless saucepans and they both
lasted about three years. I have just replaced them with a set of
Tefal non-stick hard anodised alloy pans. I chose Tefal because my
two much-abused Tefal alloy frying pans have lasted for seven and nine
years - the latter one had less use - and I have just replaced them
with hard anodised versions, also from Tefal, giving a matching set.

So basically, I have given up on non-stick stainless steel pans
because I don't think the technology to make them last is currently
available.