Swiss Diamond 11 Inch 3.7 Quart Nonstick Sauteuse Pan with Lid - Dishwasher Safe and Oven Safe Sauteuse Pot

Good quality, heat fast.

this kind of cookware really doesn't cut it in the long term. It has now badly deteriorated and the lifetime guarantee is a joke. You won't get any replacement or anything like that. Our two biggest Swiss Diamond pans are now at the salvation army on sale for $5. They cost us over $300 for those 2 pans. sure we used em, but they simply don't last. We will never by Swiss Diamond again. Overpriced and they are not tough enough. nice concept but many other better choices at far lower price. I fell for the lifetime guarantee but thats only if ya don't really use em with too much heat. what the ??

Love this pot!

*****edited on 04/25/2008The pan arrived and it performed beautifully on a dish of sauted mushrooms and onions. And, the pan is compact enough to fit completely in my small sink for cleaning (and added bonus). One thing I will say slightly negative about it: because the handles are close to the metal surface, you need to be sure to use a towel or mitt when you take the hot pan off the stove to avoid getting a burn - but that's common-sense with any pan of this design, so not a big deal.Also:I noticed when I logged on to update that the pan went down in price. It is (on this day at least) being advertised at only $49.99. That's incredible! I called customer service and received a price guarantee refund. Kudos to Amazon for having extremely rapid telephone service. At this price, you absolutely NEED to order one of these pans. Heck, even at full price it is a great pan.*****I bought this at the special price of $79.99 and it is a steal! This goes for about $150 in stores. The special price is to get you to buy one Swiss Diamond product in hopes you will love it so much you'll buy more. Trust me, you will! Take advantage of this!!!OK, to be honest, I haven't actually used this yet (I just ordered it and it hasn't arrived). However, I have used other Swiss Diamond products and love them. And, I did handle this one in a local store and found the size, weight, handle design, etc., to be very good. I can see using this almost nightly to prepare things like rice, potatoes, and other side dishes while cooking main dishes in my Swiss Diamond skillet.For your information, here is what I posted about another Swiss Diamond product, the  Swiss Diamond 6428 11-Inch Nonstick Cast-Aluminum Fry Pan . And note: the lid for this casserole also fits this 11" skillet. I hope the following information from my review of the skillet is useful for you:I just picked up one of these 11" skillets after owning and using the 12.5" Swiss Diamond skillet for some time. Below the five-star symbol I have pasted my review of the 12.5" skillet. Here are some additional notes to augment it. This model did not come with a lid (reflected in the price). The slightly smaller diameter makes for a much lighter and easier to use skillet for most of my purposes (I almost always only cook for two). After an additional year of use, the 12.5" is still good as new. I once accidentally left it on high heat long enough for the residual grease in the pan to catch fire and fill the house with smoke. After cooling, the pan cleaned up with only a little more elbow grease than usual and no apparent harm. I have read some of the alarmist PTFE comments - while it is true that there is some PTFE used in the diamond coating, there is no PFOA and the PFOA is what causes Teflon (the DuPont process using PTFE and PFOA) to create toxic fumes at high heat. You can read all about this at the Swiss Diamond web site. Basically, ignore the rabid PTFE warnings from a handful of bitter customers. I will continue buying more and more of these products as I can afford them (I just ordered a Swiss Diamond 11-Inch/4.3-Quart Covered Casserole - which just happens to come with an 11" lid that will fit this skillet, too!). And now, what I wrote previously about the 12.5" skillet, which applies to this one except for the lid:*****I found one of these locally at just below Amazon price, and bought it to try out. Now that I have used it for several months, I highly recommend it even at full list price, and am saving up to purchase a complete set to replace my other worn out pots and pans.First things first:This is one of the best nonstick surfaces I have ever used. Messes clean up better than from Teflon coated pans, even after sitting and getting cold and hard. I have never had to use more effort than simply wiping off with a kitchen sponge and some warm soapy water.Unlike other surfaces, this one holds food in place until you are ready to move it. Things don't slide around, so they can properly sear and brown. This is also handy for things like fried eggs. I fried an egg just today and it came out perfect. With a little bacon grease for flavor, the surface gave the egg white just enough tension that the cooking egg held together into a nice 4 inch circle instead of spreading thin all over the place. I have suffered a lot of frustration with other cooking surfaces over this.Heat transfer is incredible. When you put food on this pan after preheating, it sears up and browns immediately. I'd say it equals cast iron in this respect, with the added bonus of being nonstick.Heat distribution and retention is also very good. Not quite as good as cast iron here, but then nothing else ever will be -- and even though the pan is heavy, it is still considerably lighter than my 12 inch cast iron.About the only caution I would have is that, despite the manufacturer's hype, the surface is NOT 100% resistant to whatever you throw at it. I did a controlled test on a part of the skillet that will never see food, and you CAN put a nice scratch in the diamond-coat with a strong stainless steel tool. So be sure to stick to wood and synthetics, not steel. However, to be fair, it IS tougher than any Teflon surface I have tried, and about equal to some of the fancier anodized finishes.The handle is good and solid, but you may want to grab it and test it yourself in the store before you buy - it all depends on each individual's hands. The helper handle could be improved, however. Because the helper is integrated with the cooking surface, it heats up. You need to use mitts to use the helper. Seriously. That surface will scar you for life if you grab it while hot. Always treat it like it is hot cast iron, because it will burn you the same way.Some people will complain the handle isn't riveted into place. Those people need to embrace the 21st century. The handle is very secure without rivets. Unless you plan on using this pan as some sort of bludgeoning weapon on a regular basis, the lack of rivets poses no problem. Moreover, the rivetless design ensures that the entire interior surface of the skillet is smooth and uniformly nonstick. I personally have always found the rivets in other "nonstick" pans to be the surface area where food always manages to get stuck. No rivets for me, please.The lid is decent - but it is just a lid. Nothing too fancy. It is a good grade of glass with a vent-lid handle. When you close the vent, it holds steam very well. With the vent open, you get a pretty decent evaporation rate, so you can quickly reduce liquids by retaining heat by letting moisture escape.Like I said, I want to buy a complete set. Highly recommended.

When I received the pan, the bottom center on the back side had no Swiss diamond logo on it, so I am not sure if this is real or fake. On the helper handles, both sides are supposed to have the logo on it too, but our pan only has the logo on one side. I bought it here on amazon, and if anybody else has the same issue, please respond.Update May 22-2008After few weeks using this pan, Now I like it. The surface is much harder than cheap pan. you can put it in oven, no any other brand pan allow you do that. The 20K Diamond, you can't see it, but you can feel it.I emailed to Swiss Diamond for the logo, below is the responseIt sounds like you ordered our model number 6828.Yes, this is an authentic piece of Swiss Diamond cookware. There is no logo, and you should have received it in a plain white carton.Swiss Diamond, USA

I also purchased the model a few days ago. First one I got, has defect. There was a small pimple on the cover inside. I returned and got the second. This time the cover is too loose. I expected this brand has high quality as cookingware but I don't see that on this pot.