All Clad Stainless Steel 4-Quart Brown and Braise Pan

Great deal for an All-Clad!
FYI, I looked at this pan carefully in a store and it is exactly the same pan as the All-Clad Stainless 4 Quart Saute Pan (which sells for quite a bit more) but with a different lid. This model comes with a domed braising lid, as opposed to the flat lid that comes with the regular 4 Quart Saucepan. Unless you really want the flat lid, this is a much better value.

This is a great size and shape for a Saute Pan. It's about 11" in diameter and on the inside the sides are about 3" high. I think this is a great height to help keep things in the pan but still allowing good access. Perfect for cooking pasta sauces and then marrying the pasta with the sauce before serving. Also good for sauteing chicken or pan-roasting 2 or 3 steaks.
Excellent Quality
This pan offers exceptional heat retention and very even heating. Several tasks have produced equal caramelization throughout the entire pan. Weight and balance are perfect (it is a rather heavy pan), and it is, with Barkeeper's Friend, a breeze to clean; it returns right to its brand new, shining image. The lid is nicely shaped and will incorporate any number of tall meats. The piece appears as a work of art, as most All-Clad pans do. The domed lid aesthetic is really something. It is a 4-quart deep saute, but the pan's cooking surface matches the All-Clad 3-quart cooking floor--the difference here is that the sides are much higher than the 3-quart deep saute (I appreciate the higher sides of this 4-quart much more) and, of course, the lid is designed to accommodate taller items. I highly recommend it. It is a real mult-tasker.
The Do-Everything Pan
I haven't found much I can't do with this pan - excellent for "one pot" meals like sweet and sour chicken, or pepper steak. With a little Barkeeper's Friend, it cleans up beautifully. At first, it was a little weird never having the stove top set above "Medium", but this pan works very well. Feels like it will last a good long time. Definitely in the category of "a little more expensive, but worth it in the long run."
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