Side by Side Comparison of: Cuisinart vs Lodge vs Amazon

Great for keeping grease off of meats and chicken. Adds a nice crisp skin to salmon, fantastic! I do wash this pan by hand, and it does have groves so there's a little more work but it's non stick and cleans pretty well.

I killed my grill pan a few weeks ago and needed a replacement. I didn't want the same kind, and I'd heard Cuisinart was a good brand. This is definitely a terrific grill pan. Nothing sticks to it, and I cook the same stuff in it I cooked in my old pan and it stuck to the old pan! I know this says dishwasher safe but I haven't put it in the dishwasher. Since nothing sticks I just throw a little dishwashing liquid and warm water in there, give it a few swishes and it's good as new. I love the size, the shape, and the way it cooks, too. This is going to get a lot of use in my house. I bought this with my own money, no discounts. I love giving my opinion on things.

If you want great grill lines on your cooked food without the hassle of using an outdoor grill, along with easy hand or dishwasher cleanup, this is the pan for you.I grew up many decades ago in California, back when the patio and outdoor grilling were introduced as essentials of American suburban living. However, as much as I loved the aroma and taste of grilled steaks and chicken I never did like the hassle of starting the charcoal, cleaning the grill and removing the ashes. While over time the grilling process was simplified and made cleaner through the use of gas, the clean-up remains a huge disincentive.Years ago I tried the old cast-iron grill pans but they were unwieldy due to their weight and also were a hassle to cure and clean. We now live in Florida and not long ago gave away the unbelievably dirty outdoor gas grill that came with the house, so I figured it was worth trying a grill pan that can be used indoors.Well, this pan rocks. It cooks fast and clean (no soot and related products on the meat) and pretty much cleans up with a quick rinse and dry with paper towels--but it will also go into the dishwasher with no problems. It cooks and cleans up much more easily than my old cast-iron grill pans and it is much lighter and easier to handle. Whatever is cooked does not stick to this pan as with cast iron, and the cooked food can be removed from the pan without tearing or damaging the food. I don't happen to like the overall charred/blackened look of food that often results from a gas grill, but a similar effect can be achieved with this pan by sprinkling the meat/fish/chicken with herbs, which will turn brown or black along the grill lines.Bottom line: I know it is hard to get excited about a piece of cookware, but this one is so well designed and does its job so well that I can only give it the full five stars.I paid for this item myself and I have no personal or business relationship with the vendor or manufacturer. I find I do much of my shopping via Amazon Prime because front porch delivery is so convenient and Amazon's return policy is very fair.

This is a really nice quality pan. It is heavy enough to be very solid, but not like a cumbersome cast iron pan. The non stick surface is excellent. It is harder than the nasty old Teflon style. I don't think I can make a mark on it and it is still non stick. I don't use oil at all in this so much healthier. Just let it cool and clean it out with a sponge or whatever. I like it very much.

So, I got this pan based on the stellar reviews. First of all, I love the light weight of it! So many times pots and pans are so heavy, especially once water is in them for cleaning or whatever. This one is a sturdy weight, but not heavy. I cooked 2 ribeyes in it today. As the directions stated, I didn't put oil in the pan. I did rub some olive oil and salt on the meat. Sure enough, let the pan cool, went to wash it in hot water and the grease ran off easily and it was super easy to clean. Nothing stuck to it! Super good find and a steal! Can't wait to "grill" more in it!

Since I'm alone and don't use an outside grill, I wanted something to grill a small steak or hamburger on my kitchen range and have the grill marks like those grilled outside. This pan worked perfectly. As it says in the instructions, use no oil. Just heat the pan on medium heat and when it's hot enough grill your burger or steak until it's as you like it. After the pan has cooled, just wash it in warm water with dish liquid. I didn't put it in the dishwasher because it's so easy to clean in the sink. It is big enough to grill a larger steak and a few hamburgers.

These work great. I can use it on the cast iron pans, baking stones and coated pans. Ridges help to get into small areas. They have been very durable.

Love these scrapers, They fit the groves and ridges of my Lodge Grill Pan perfectly! I like that they are nice and stiff for cleaning even the tough grilling residue after charring my steaks. I've used these scrapers to clean between the groves after cooking juicy hamburgers, rib-eye steaks, grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, and chicken thighs so far. These nifty scrapers clean the groves without harming my cured cast iron surface. Not only are these scrappers effective cleaning tools, they are also properly designed to fit most any hand I would think. Anytime I order Lodge products they are delivered here at my doorstep ahead of schedule often times. But never late. Great product, great seller with good customer service by the fast delivery.

I bought these for my husband. He's been really into the Lodge brand and cast iron through grilling season. However I've found I love these on my stainless pans too! We scramble a lot of eggs and no matter what I do I can't get through making eggs without a stuck on mess. I HATE doing dishes and HATE hearing scraping on my stainless pans. The plain/rounded edge does an awesome job peeling up that stuck on egg so I can put my pan in the dishwasher with no worries.

These are perfect for scraping my cast iron skillets and griddle! The notches fit perfectly on the ribbed grill side of the griddle which helps remove cooked-on food particles, and the rounded corner works great on bottom edge of the skillet. These are a must for anyone who cooks with cast iron!

I purchased these scrapers to use with my Lodge griddle. I am new to cooking with cast iron, but I found these very easy to use and quite effective. I primarily use the flat side, but the grooved side is handy as well.

These scrapers are a must-have for Lodge pans that have a ridged bottom. They make clean-up a breeze. I used to try using a sponge or a scrubber, but nothing gets into the grooves like these scrapers. The curved part gets into the "corners" of the pan, too. The scrapers get off stuck-on food, but don't disturb the seasoning.The package has 2, but I'm only using one. I guess eventually it'll wear out or something and I'll start using the other.

Cooks really well but heat is not very evenly distributed.

Used multiple times and has always provided superior release compared to any other non-stick I've used, so will buy 11 pc. set. Recommended medium heat is not preferable when trying to get grill marks. Ridges too low/wide for grill marks.

If you are looking for a great non-stick grill pan, this is not it. Those pans are far more expensive. However, at this price point, this gets the job done. For better non-stick action, I recommend dipping a papertowel in your oil or butter and using that to lightly coat the pan. I have found that otherwise, my fish needs a little (but not enough to break the filet) prodding when I go to flip it. This isn't a pan that I would recommend transferring to the oven.

I got this Cuisinart pan specifically for pan cooking tuna. I use the pan on the side burner of my outside gas grill. Works well....grill marks on the tuna and, relatively, easy clean up afterwards. I discovered that filling the pan with hot soapy water and letting it soak for awhile made clean up much easier. I found lots of great recipes for cooking tuna with the perfect crust. Raw in the center and crusty on the surface. This pan works great for those recipes.....like mustard and whole peppercorns. The handle manages to stay cool while the tuna is cooking. I am guessing that the pan would work fine for hamburgers, turkey burgers and maybe even a thin steak.

I like this pan. I thought it was wrought iron though. Thanks.

I was and have been impressed by this grill pan. I read the instructions, followed them and it grilled my steak wonderfully. Love this grill pan. Use to grill outside until I got to old to deal with the grill. This pan gave me back the taste of grilled steak.

the only thing better is that awful chain male to scrub your cast iron pan. that it can also be used on a grill rack made this a no brain-er to buy.

Works great for scraping off gunk that has begun to harden onto my cast iron pan without having to soak/remove my seasoning. The grooves are great for grill pans while the curved side works well on my other skillets. A two pack for $3 is as good of a price as you'll find anywhere, too.

These work really well for cast iron pans or cookie sheets but it would be better to have another edge w/ a smaller radius than the big one but more of a radius than the 90 degree corners. That would make it easier to clean around the inside edges of the pan.

I have one of the Lodge ridged cast iron pans, and using this scraper definitely makes cleaning much easier. I'd say they could only be better if the smaller teeth were just a bit wider so it could scrape the sides of the ridges, but a little wiggling around gets the job done. Well worth the few bucks for an add-on.

I bought these because they were in the 'is often bought with' section when I purchased my Cuisinart Griddler. These were fairly inexpensive, but nice quality. My only complaint is that the 'tongues' don't really fit the 'grooves' of my griddler plates... the big side is too big, the small side is too small, so it really only cleans about 2/3 of the width of the grooves. This definitely isn't a flaw in the product, but I wish they had made the 2nd one slightly different to accommodate other pans/plates - instead they are both exactly the same. I don't really need two that are exactly the same.

Great! has 2 different widths so fits different grill pans with different width and depth of ridges. It doesn't hurt teflon or ceramic grill pan surfaces, and is wonderful on cast iron. Just wish it had a longer profile or handle so I don't get my fingers so close to the hot grilled veggies and hot pan surface, but it's totally workable if I just pay attention so as not to burn a finger. Helps with hand washing the grill pans too! Makes cleaning them so much faster and easier.

I love this pan only it does do what actually grill does. I 'll keep it amd use it but obviously not the same.

If all you want is the appearance of grill marks, it's an OK pan. It absolutely does not work like a cast iron skillet.

An okay pan. It is very lightweight although made well. Great for getting grillmarks but I am not impressed.

while it is a good product the bottom was grooved as well. I didn't care for this since I use a glass cooktop.

I don't like this as much as I thought I would. The pan is non-stick, but certain foods demand oil. This pools in the grooves and burns on high heat which then burns the meat.

Being that these are true Lodge products, I figured that they would have been a bit flexible....but instead they are almost the hardest plastic known to man which I can see being an issue after extended amount of uses.

very difficult to review this, i have used it a few times and it is good at scraping out my lodge cast iron griddle/range grill, but it doesn't really clean anything. it can get bulk out if there is bulk, which there rarely is, but to scrub out between the "grill" you gotta use good old fashioned elbow grease and likely a butter knife or something wrapped in a cloth, my fingers sure aren't getting in there, and i am not leaving anything there to sour. it ALMOST does what you want it to do.

The little nibs do not reach the bottom of the grill pan - they are helpful to get the sides of the ridges, but I still have to scrub with a brush to get the bottom. I do like using the rounded side for my normal cast iron pans.-----[...]! :)

I thought these would be flexible, but they're not. Just hard plastic squares. They do what they're meant to do, but I can't say I would buy these again. I can find about anything I already own to do the same job as these. I thought they were "special" scrapers, but they're just chunks of plastic.

This scraper is the "crucial" companion to your cast iron cookware as they'd like you to believe. It does what they say it does, for the most part.The reason I purchased this in particular was to scrape out gunk from between the raised parts of my two grill pans. Unfortunately the tines that are designed specifically for this purpose are not long enough to effectively remove gunk from inside the pan. The only way for it to reach the bottom of the pan is to hold the scraper perpendicular to the pan, which is an incredibly awkward angle to try and scrape.This is a decent product, but I feel there are better alternatives on the market.

This is the only style of these I've ever purchased. I am interested in seeing if there are others out there that can help break off the stock on charred project left on my grill. But as a home user style. This would be quite sufficient

The grill lines are imprinted into the base so it's not a flat surface touching the stovetop, this leads to very uneven heating. The material is really thin as well, which makes for a less than ideal cooking experience.

I'm not sure why but I thought this would be a heavy duty grill pan and it's super thin and lightweight.

It's already dented, I don't think it's very well made.

I am not impressed with this item. Although this is a sturdy product, I am not happy with the way it scrapes and I feel it very much needs improvement. I have another brand (of flat type pot scrapers) that works much better, even for grills. I would not buy this item again and I would not recommend it.

They don't scrape off cheese or meat crust as well as I expected!

These don't work. The grooves don't even fit the grooves on the electric grill. Flimsy! Hard to hold and use.

With all the good reviews, it should be very good.As a test, fry a steak in a lodge cast iron pan, then try to scrape off the residue with the Lodge scrapper. It did not clean good. After multiple running in warm water, heating up the pan again, etc. The scrapper still did not do a good job. Got mad and just use a steel wool scrubber, which did the job.

These don't seem to do the trick. They aren't sturdy enough to get the really tough stuff off, and when I heated the pan a bit to loosed the stuck-on bits, the ends of the scraper melted. Please make these at least as heat-resistant as a normal spatula.

Didn't find these to be that helpful. They didn't seem to fit exactly between the grill sections, and you're supposed to use them when the grill is still slightly warm,so they partially melted. I'll just scrape the grill down with a metal spatula like I have before. ( Grill brushes scare me, especially after seeing a news clip on how tiny metal particles can come off of them and can be swallowed by people who then have gotten serious internal injuries.)

The nonstick surface started coming off about 6 months after I purchased it.

Unnecessary junk. Period. I'm new to cast iron and thought I needed these and one of those chainmail scrubber things to deal with the painful downside of cast iron - cleaning it after use, WRONG. The ABSOLUTE BEST way to clean any cast iron pan is a cheap box of salt, some warm water, and a rag or a couple paper towels, oh, and time and elbow grease and a growing appreciation for the classic functionality and cooking forgiveness of cast iron. Pour in a small pile of salt, a splash or water to keep it together and in the pan, and start rubbing away the crud like magic, then rinse it out, maybe repeat if needed, heat it on the oven for a couple minutes to dry, wipe on some olive oil, and done. These things? Completely unnecessary and useless compared to the salt scrub method. No they don't fit the grill pan grates, they don't remove stuck on crud without sending it flying across the kitchen and landing who knows where, and they are less than worthless after using the salt scrub method with ease.

These are shown together with a Vremi cast iron grill skillet, yet the spacing of the teeth on either edge of this product do not align with the grill grooves of the skillet, are are therefore a useless waste of money for me.

Wasted my money, does not work at all.

Fine

Don't buy !! absolute waste of money , they are soft plastic , they melt if the pan is hot , they wear down Very Fast .

I have a lodge pan so I thought these grooves would fit. Unfortunately they do not and i end up having to use the edge to clean one groove at a time.