Cuisinart CSK-250 GreenGourmet 14-Inch Nonstick Electric Skillet

Cuisinart CSK-250 GreenGourmet 14-Inch Nonstick Electric Skillet

great skillet but!
Big,and beautiful with a glass top that lets you see exactly how things are cooking. We are big fans and users of electric frying pans, these things are great, and this one is certainly bigger and perhaps better than the many others we have used to death, BUT there is this one flaw and it is hard to get over.

The vent hole in the glass top is too small. Water vapor stuffs up in this little hole and the lid starts to sputter all around the edge and all over the counter top. Cooking too fast? Well no. The temp control shuts on and off as most of them do, and so when it's in the on mode the pan gets a rush of heat and the top then sputters all over the place.

We have had the pan for about eight months, so perhaps cuisinart has corrected this problem.

Good, but needs a major lid improvement
My grandma gave us a 12-inch square electric skillet in the 70s, but we hardly ever used it and eventually gave it to Goodwill. It offered no advantage over stovetop cooking.

My wife got the Green skillet for me last month. The 14 inch size makes it very versatile. You can brown a lot of mushrooms without having to batch-cook them. I'm sure it will fry a lot of chicken too.

The heat distribution is good. At 450 F, you can't sear steaks--leave that to 550F+ cast iron or Staub's enameled iron grill pans-- but golden-browning is wonderfully easy to achieve.

For open-pan cooking, I would give it 4-5 stars.

I must however, subtract two full stars for the patently inadequate lid design. How many of us use lidded pans without using their lids to cook? It would be nice to use the Green skillet to steam, simmer or boil things, but the condensate on the lid underside flows directly to the pan rim, gathers, then bubbles, spits and drips all over...

BEWARE - KNOCKOFF!!
Although it initially worked well, this pan was a knock-off, not a Cuisinart item, as stated. The coating began lifting off after a few uses. The recipient contacted Cuisinart, which advised her of the propensity for sales on Amazon often being knock-offs. The parts come from the same source, but there are differences, such as the coating. (Cuisinart was very kind and, since she had the original receipt, allowed her to return the first pan at her cost and then shipped her a genuine cuisinart CSK-250, which definitely had a different coating.)

Cuisinart presents a skillet that's good for you and a little easier on the environment! The interior of our GreenGourmet Electric Skillet is premium Cuisinart Ceramica nonstick, a petroleum-free ceramic-based cooking surface that contains no PTFE or PFOA. This smart nonstick lets you sear, fry, griddle, simmer or braise with little or no oil or butter and cleans up in record time.

• Stainless-steel 1800-watt electric skillet with 14-by-14-inch cooking surface
• Petroleum-free, ceramic-based, nonstick interior; contains no PTFE or PFOA
• Tempered glass lid; die-cast stainless-steel handles; embossed Cuisinart logo
• Adjustable heat; dishwasher-safe with probe removed; instruction/recipe booklet included
• Measures 17-1/5 by 18-1/5 by 7-2/7 inches; 3-year limited warranty