I’m not sure what’s going on but the small pan smokes. Also It has well I’m not sure what it is, strange spots plus it won’t clean, ever. The bigger pan is fine-no problems at all and it’s very easy to clean plus it doesn’t smoke. At first we used both pans equally but we don’t use the small one anymore. So five stars for the big pan. I wish we could exchange the small pan. The pans are a little over 12 months old.