We love this pan. Once you preheat it on the stove top you will get a perfect char and grill marks on your meats and fish. None of the food stuck to the surface. Heat seems to be pretty evenly distributed over the entire surface and it cleans up easily. The burgers and steaks we've cooked on it thus far came out looking and tasting just as good as if we had cooked them on our grill, but I didn't have to sweat outdoors to cook them.