Product Description

This 1.5-qt. Windsor Pan by All-Clad Stainless is designed for creating creamy, delicate sauces. The V-shaped sides conducts the heat properly as your sauce cooks. Long handle adds convenience for moving and lifting and secure-fitting lid keeps moisture and heat inside. Heavy aluminum core covers the bottom and sides for even and thorough heating.Originally designed for professional chefs, All-Clad stainless pans have 5 layers, bonded together to ensure even heating. The pure aluminum core is fused between the durable magnetic stainless exterior and the hand-polished 18/10 stainless steel cooking surface, which won't react with food. Handles are fastened with non-corrosive rivets. Specially designed, shiny stainless steel lid seals securely. Dishwasher-safe.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43969 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: All-Clad
• Model: 5211.5
• Dimensions: 5.10" h x 9.10" w x 14.60" l, 4.00 pounds

Features

• 1-1/2-quart pan's flared sides make whisking sauce easy
• Three-ply: stainless-steel layers sandwich pure aluminum core for even heating
• Comfortable lid and stay-cool pan handles riveted for strength
• Dishwasher safe, but hand washing recommended
• Lifetime warranty against defects

Amazon.com Review
The bestseller among All-Clad's renowned cookware collections, the Stainless line provides serious and professional cooks all the virtues that make All-Clad's worldwide reputation unsurpassed. Key to its high performance is a three-ply, bonded construction. Sandwiched between layers of stainless steel is a thick core of pure aluminum that spreads heat evenly across the bottoms of pots and pans and all the way up the sides. The interior is highly polished 18/10 stainless steel, so it's stick-resistant as well as stain- and corrosion-resistant. The exterior is gleaming, magnetic stainless steel that works on induction as well as conventional stovetops, and, with care, remains beautiful during this cookware's lifetime warranty against defects--and beyond.

This classic 1-1/2-quart Windsor pan, with flared sides so sauces can be easily and completely whisked, makes clear why All-Clad's Stainless line is so popular. Because the aluminum core extends up the sides, foods cook uniformly in the pan, even though it's 4 inches deep. And because the interior is nonreactive, the taste of citrus-based sauces and other acidic foods won't be metallic. Its polished 18/10 stainless-steel pan and lid handles are riveted for strength and grooved on the top for comfort. The long handle (holed for hanging on a hook or peg) stays cool on the stovetop but won't be harmed by an oven's highest heat. Although Stainless cookware is dishwasher-safe, hand washing is recommended. --Fred Brack

Customer Reviews

5 stars, but mine was defective
Bought this pot, for I thought it would be ideal for a single. It is. My first pot was defective, in that it was slightly oval, not allowing the lid to fit tight enough. After about four weeks of email with All-clad and receiving a replacement lid , I finally shipped it back (ten bucks out of my pocket), and received a replacement. Perfect.

This pot is great for cooking varying quantities due to the slope, and is great for pouring due to the curved lip.

I've gradually been changing my cooking gear over to All-clad because of the quality. It's definitely like cooking with the cadilac of cookware: Overall 5 star for the whole set I possess.

Awesome Sauces
We just decided to upgrade our kitchen with the first step being replacement of old and no-longer-anodized aluminum cookware. Our choice: the All-Clad Stainless line without the non-stick coating(s). They are sturdy, beautiful to cook with and to look at (if you're into that kind of thing), and in the end, while we wash by hand most of the time, once in a while we have to throw the pots in the dishwasher when we have other (better) things to do. This way we won't worry about ruining a nice non-stick finish on our hard-working pots!

The 1.5 quart Windsor Pan was the champion of our meal last night - it made me look like a pro when making the gravy for a Sunday roast beef dinner, and I'm sure it will more than do the job on other sauces, too. As other reviewers say, whisking and pouring are much easier than with a standard straight walled sauce pan, and the slanted sides also help to concentrate the flavors as sauces are reduced.

Expect Great Things
This is the second least-used item in my All Clad cookware. I find myself reaching for a saucier when I could use this pot. My advice is not to get a saucier in a similar size.

When I have used this pot, it lives up to the All Clad reputation -- heavy for its size and heats well. Angled sides really speed evaporation.

Williams Sonoma has a version of this pan that had markings on the inside that so you could see when you've reduced the contents by half or whatever. It's a novel, but expensive idea. I hink that pot retails for $150.

Dishwasher safe is always a plus. Stay-handle is nice as well.