Cuisinart CSK-150 1500-Watt Nonstick Oval Electric Skillet,Brushed Stainless 18 in

Fabulou skillet. This thing is huge. Hold heat great, heats quick, simmers evenly. It's just an all around great one. Highly recommend.

I love this electric skillet, it is well worth the cost. I have bought several electic skillets throughout the years and have experienced, uneven heat distribution resulting in items around edges cooking too fast while items in the centre slow to cook, long clean-up times, you name it. I thought this time I would spend a little more and I am sure glad I did. This skillet heats up quickly and the heat is evenly distributed. The cooking surface is large, skillet is sturdy and the clean-up is so easy.

We have had it for a year in a half now. Love this skillet!! Cooks our food evenly. I love that it does not have the cancerous toxic non stick spray on it. I felt this was the best economic price safe skillet. We

Was what I was looking for. Easy clean up. Made I of stainless steel. Even heat.

Even though all 3 of its handles heat up during use to where some form of hand protection is required just to lift its lid (a design defect that could easily have been avoided) & even though its delicate non-stick cooking surface requires those specially coated tools & means you can't cut anything up in the pan, I give this piece of kitchen hardware full marks for its overall utility, sizable cooking surface, thermal sensitivity, and handsome appearance. Of course I've had it for only a month & used it only a few times, so it's possible that it won't last as well as the 47-year-old Sunbeam it replaced. But I'm happy with it so far. It's now July, 2010, 5 years after the above comments, and I can now say for sure that it won't last 47 years. I've not had the temperature regulation problems some other users have experienced. The unit has been fully reliable in all of its mechanical functions. Its habit of "spitting" liquid out under its lid onto the kitchen counter, even if set only to simmer, is annoying. But what sounds its death knell is the deterioration of its non-stick surface. Knowing how sensitive such surfaces are, I've been meticulous in avoiding the use of any utensils that could scar it, or even rub it the wrong way. Always hand-washed it with gentle detergents so as to make sure than no chemical action could cause the coating to degrade. Still, after 5 years, the surface is clearly wearing out. I'm not savvy enough to know if this particular synthetic can be "renewed" in any acceptable way, but I suspect that I'll be in the market for a new electric skillet soon. Whether this product is an example of "planned obsolescence" I'm also in no position to say, but I am seriously disappointed that a cooker that cooked so well for 5 years should have to be abandoned just because its non-stick surface gave out.