A little too wide makes it hard to pick up. Would have liked the stainless steel to be thicker.Very nice and versatile if you have a big enough oven. This pan is unusually wide. Make sure your oven has enough depth to take a 14" wide pan.
I have a few different pans including All-Clad, Paderno, and Mauviel. All of them are big enough and heavy gauge, heavy duty. The Paderno World Cuisine and the Mauviel are my best roasting pans because of their unbeatable depth and heavyweight. While I love them for their weight, it is not easy to clean them because at their size and heavy weight they are difficult to maneuver for thorough cleaning. We are talking 3-ply construction that is probably bullet proof or suitable as armor. Hence the search for something that is big but lighter for lighter duty.
This pan fits the bill perfectly. It is a nice pan quite pretty, deep enough, stainless steel, with the folding handles that was a must for me, and it has two stainless steel racks that seem to be pretty good. It is very well packed right from the factory and I do not think you whould receive it all scratched up because of the racks shifting during transit. The handles are mounted with rivets, they are not spot welded. What I like about this pan in particular is that it is quite light for its size without being flimsy. It does not have the thick metal sheet that my other pans have but it is decent and it is not as heavy as the others. I must clarify that I did select the others to be heavy, so I am not making the comparisons here with regular so-called heavy duty stuff. So I am happy with it.
Other things that may matter to you: At the bottom of the pan there is an indentation along the edges around the bottom. Many other pans are constructed with this feature but not all of them have it. I do not care for it but you may do. Also, I do not do deglazing and never use roasting pans on the stovetop, but if I ever did I probably would not use this one.
Bottomline: I love it because I was looking for something BIG, DEEP, and NOT HEAVY.
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