I was very excited to try this product. I received this skillet free to try and provide my review. I first noticed that this skillet was deeper than my other skillets and while cooking with butter or oil base I did not have as much butter popping out onto my stove. The cooking surface has lots of evenly spaced divots, which from what I understand help for even cooking. This skillet out performed all of our other skillets and pots, it cooked very evenly. I actually did not intend to burn my first set of pancakes but ended up getting distracted. This skillet performed so well I only needed to wipe it out with a paper towel then I just continued to cook. My least favorite feature of this skillet is that it slide a lot more than my other cookware; as I was trying to get the spatula under the pancakes the skillet almost slide right off the burner. If I had not been holding the handle it would have fallen off of the gas burners.