These pans are a must have. I have a glass top stove and have been using cast iron pan for the longest time, I needed something that isn't as high maintenance but will hold up when my boys cook. These anolon pans are metal safe and oven safe so that is what sold me. I decided to cook like my children to see if these pans could hold up, for my first experiment I made scrambled eggs using a metal fork, my eggs cooked just fine and the best part is if you don't want to take time to wash your pan it just wipes clean with a paper towel! Coming from cast iron that is a huge deal for me. Guess what, and the fork didn't damage my brand new favorite pan. Next I heated a few things in the pan using the oven and the pan heated just fine and wasn't as hot or heavy as my cast iron. I will be buying the big set of these Anolon pots and pans and I can happily say that Anolon passed my test and made clean up a lot easier.