Buy All-Clad Master Chef 2 2-Quart Saucepan with LidAll-Clad Master Chef 2 2-Quart Saucepan with Lid Product Description:
- Classic, straight-sided, 2-quart saucepan
- Stainless-steel interior; handsome brushed aluminum exterior
- Pure aluminum core for even heating
- Comfortable lid and stay-cool pan handles riveted for strength
- Lifetime warranty against defects
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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
Amazing performance at a better price
By Renee Gleason
If you are a serious cook who wants serious quality cookware, then All Clad is a great option. If you are not 100 percent familiar with All Clad, here is a brief description of what you can expect from them...All of their lines have a full aluminum core (which provides excellent heat retention and distribution) and stainless steel interiors (which offer an easy to use, non reactive cooking surface). It is the best of both worlds combined in one piece of cookware. The difference between the various lines of All Clad is simply the exterior surface...stainless steel (obviously their Stainless line), anodized aluminum (the LTD line), Copper (Copper Chef line), Stainless with an added layer of copper in the core (Copper Core), and brushed aluminum (the MC2 or "Master Chef 2" line). They are all, in my opinion, excellent cookware, but each one has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of the Master Chef 2 line, which this saucepan hails from are:1)The brushed aluminum exterior gives it added thickness and heft. In my opinion, this provides better cooking qualities than most of the other AC lines (except for the LTD which is even slightly thicker). While all lines of AC perform beautifully, I feel MC2 has slightly better heat retention and distribution. I enjoy the cooking experience a little more with MC2 than I do with the stainless line.2)It costs less. I think we all agree that's an advantage!However the main disadvantage of the MC2 line, in my opinion, is strictly cosmetic. Straight out of the box, the saucepan will look beautiful, but over time, it's exterior will undergo intense marring. It doesn't matter how much you baby your cookware, these pans scratch horribly and discolor very easily. I don't care what anyone says...I have tried every trick in the book to rid my MC2 of their ugly discolorations, and nothing works. And as far as scratches go, once they're there, they are there for good. If looks are a big issue with you and/or you keep your pots and pans on display in your kitchen, bear in mind that these pans take quite a beating. These just will not have the striking beauty of the stainless or copper core line.As far as this particular saucepan, it's definitely a winner. With the thick aluminum core and exterior, you will definitely enjoy the performance that this pan will offer you. Your sauces won't scorch as easily as lower quality pans and you will find you will have much more control over your cooking with a pan like this. It is certainly a joy to cook in it, as is all of All Clad cookware. And the accompanying stainless steel lid is durable and tight-fitting, everything a lid should be. Do bear in mind that this saucepan is not like a typical two quart saucepan. Most 2 quart pans are wide and short. This pan is tall and narrow. (It doesn't even measure 6 inches across and is smaller in girth than my 1 and a half quart saucepan). The advantage to that is you will get less splatter and less evaporation with a pan of this shape, but to me, the narrow girth of this pan is a distinct disadvantage. I cook on Thermador burners which are very wide. The flame on my burners completely devour this pan and I have to use a medium to medium low heat setting at the most or the flame will lop up the sides of my pan. If you have pro appliances with wide burners, then this will be an issue for you. You will either have to use a low flame or invest in a simmer plate. This fact, along with the exterior marring, is what made this pan lose a star for me. However, if I were to rate this pan solely on performance, then it would earn five stars all the way! Even with the drawbacks, I'm still a very proud owner!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
All-clad does it again!
By aznaphrodite
I have about 7 All-Clad Master Chef2 pans and I love each one! This pan has been extremely useful in heating up sauces and small soups. It's my favorite pan to heat up a jar of pasta sauce. I highly recommend it!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.All Clad 2-qt sauce pan
By greenhead
I am not as thrilled with the 2-qt sauce pan as with other sizes from All-Clad. I have the 1.5, 2 and 3-qt versions, and all are well made, beautiful to look at, and heat up and hold heat beautifully. My only gripe with the 2 qt model is that it is too small a diameter pot, just a taller version of the 1.5 qt. It would have more utility for me if it were the same diameter as the 3 quart. I have a Thermador gas range, and I have to set this pot on the small diameter burner, at a very low setting to keep the flame from curling around the edges. this is fine when I am boiling a small amount of liquid in the 1.5 pot, but with a larger volume of water it takes longer to heat.I have a mixture of saucepans from the brushed-aluminum exterior MC2 line and the stainless exterior lines. I like them both. Perhaps the brushed aluminum bottoms may prove harder to keep clean than the somewhat more expensive stainless models, but so far I don't have any problems that way.I also purchased Bar Keeper's Friend as a cleaner/polisher, based on a previous reviewer's recommendation on Amazon. I indeed found it next to the Ajax and Comet at my supermarket. It does a beautiful job of making my pots look sparkling!
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