This is my third Solidteknics pan. The first two are the high performing iron pans which have performed well above expectations. The only downside with iron is that they are not suited to cooking acidic foods such as tomato based dishes. Enter my Noni. My go-to pan is the 21cm lightning as it is well suited to cooking for a couple. It’s brilliant so when I saw that a Lightning Noni was being introduced I didn’t hesitate. It was ordered on the spot. It eventually arrived and I must say, the stainless steel is beautiful. It has a somewhat buff finish and looks very purposeful. No seasoning needed. Just take it out of the pack, wash it and get cooking. My first meal was the ever fearful scrambled eggs. I say fearful because If anything is going to stick, scrambled eggs is it and they can be near impossible to clean off. I was amazed! Zero adhesion, no stick at all. Nothing. This pan is more non stick than a non stick pan; and I mean that. Washing it was simply a matter of running it under hot water and giving it a scrub with a brush. Washing took about 10 seconds. For all of these and the iron pans there is a method: Heat the pan under gentle heat for a couple of minutes, bring the pan to HOT (so that water dropping off your fingers beads and runs all over the place, add quality oil (don’t ruin things here and go cheap), make sure that the surface is well covered with oil then immediately add room temperature food. You can then adjust the heat up or down as required. Do this and you’ll have success every time. These instructions are found on the website. Unlike most things you buy, it’s well worth your time to look up the website and thoroughly familiarise yourself with the instructions. Any cooking failure will be operator error; not a failure of the pans. I can’t recommend the Noni range enough. I truly think that they are the best cooking pans and saucepans on the planet and are well worth the price. (The frying pans are underpriced in my opinion). Just go get a couple.