i love these granite pans, i use olive oil or sunflower oil with every thing i cook so i guess it does help with the sticking but with these pans you can not scratch them so using my metal spatula that i love makes me love these more, the pans are heavy and not flimsy, they cook pancakes perfect so the heat does heat the whole pan evenly, i know they are going to last a long time so no replacing and wasting money every year