Product Description
Cuisinart presents a skillet that's good for you and a little easier on the environment! The interior of our GreenGourmet Electric Skillet is premium Cuisinart Ceramica nonstick, a petroleum-free ceramic-based cooking surface that contains no PTFE or PFOA. This smart nonstick lets you sear, fry, griddle, simmer or braise with little or no oil or butter and cleans up in record time.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #24343 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Size: 14-Inch
- Color: stainless steel
- Brand: Cuisinart
- Model: CSK-250
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.28" h x18.18" w x17.17" l,15.00 pounds
Features
- Stainless-steel 1800-watt electric skillet with 14-by-14-inch cooking surface
- Petroleum-free, ceramic-based, nonstick interior; contains no PTFE or PFOA
- Tempered glass lid; die-cast stainless-steel handles; embossed Cuisinart logo
- Adjustable heat; dishwasher-safe with probe removed; instruction/recipe booklet included
- Product Built to North American Electrical Standards
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
90 of 90 people found the following review helpful.
By Pete Groves
Big,and beautiful with a glass top that lets you see exactly how things are cooking. We are big fans and users of electric frying pans, these things are great, and this one is certainly bigger and perhaps better than the many others we have used to death, BUT there is this one flaw and it is hard to get over.
The vent hole in the glass top is too small. Water vapor stuffs up in this little hole and the lid starts to sputter all around the edge and all over the counter top. Cooking too fast? Well no. The temp control shuts on and off as most of them do, and so when it's in the on mode the pan gets a rush of heat and the top then sputters all over the place.
We have had the pan for about eight months, so perhaps cuisinart has corrected this problem.
70 of 71 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Schooley
My grandma gave us a 12-inch square electric skillet in the 70s, but we hardly ever used it and eventually gave it to Goodwill. It offered no advantage over stovetop cooking.
My wife got the Green skillet for me last month. The 14 inch size makes it very versatile. You can brown a lot of mushrooms without having to batch-cook them. I'm sure it will fry a lot of chicken too.
The heat distribution is good. At 450 F, you can't sear steaks--leave that to 550F+ cast iron or Staub's enameled iron grill pans-- but golden-browning is wonderfully easy to achieve.
For open-pan cooking, I would give it 4-5 stars.
I must however, subtract two full stars for the patently inadequate lid design. How many of us use lidded pans without using their lids to cook? It would be nice to use the Green skillet to steam, simmer or boil things, but the condensate on the lid underside flows directly to the pan rim, gathers, then bubbles, spits and drips all over the countertop and onto the temp-control module. I have to put a towel over the latter, not knowing if an electrical short could otherwise occur, and even then I have to wipe up the countertop afterwards. Or I have to "crack" the lid (which lessens dripping and directs it to one area). Not a fatal issue, but indicative of less-than-fully-thoughtful attention to functional detail by Cuisinart.
Two design modifications to the lid would greatly improve things. 1) a much larger vent hole with a sliding shutter to adjust the size of the orifice, and 2) a glass or metal circular rim on the underside running maybe a half inch from the lid's edge, to force lid-condensate to drip into the pan instead of flowing to the lid/pan-edges interface and sputtering out.
All in all, we're using this pan a lot, as it works really well for open-pan cooking, and then using the lid to keep food warm.
29 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
By vn dd
Although it initially worked well, this pan was a knock-off, not a Cuisinart item, as stated. The coating began lifting off after a few uses. The recipient contacted Cuisinart, which advised her of the propensity for sales on Amazon often being knock-offs. The parts come from the same source, but there are differences, such as the coating. (Cuisinart was very kind and, since she had the original receipt, allowed her to return the first pan at her cost and then shipped her a genuine cuisinart CSK-250, which definitely had a different coating.)
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