Here's a small but tough personal fry pan! The ideal addition to your kitchen’s cookware, THE ROCK by Starfrit Fry Pan with Stainless Steel Wire Handle has a rocklike finish that makes it extremely durable. A thick, forged aluminum base makes this pan hardy, and spreads heat evenly for precise and thorough cooking. The patented Rock.Tec manufacturing process ensures superior nonsticking capability. The pan is also ovenproof, even under the broiler, up to 350°F. This handy, long-lasting pan will quickly become a staple in any cooking endeavor.
The care instructions are printed on the pan-facing side of the label, so you can't find out that it's NOT non-stick until you take it home. The hidden part of the label tells us that it's only "non-stick" if you put 1 tbsp. oil in the pan before you cook anything, every time you cook anything. The base of the 6.5" pan is less than 5" across, so 1 tbsp oil is, like, 1/8" deep! Can you imagine frying bacon 1/8" deep in oil to prevent the bacon from sticking to the pan?!
The good news is that the pan's first encounter with an egg passed my non-stick test. Having scraped all that oil out, I fried up a slice of bacon and then added an egg to the bacon fat. Despite having only maybe 1/2 tsp bacon fat in the pan, the highly stickable cooked egg did not stick to the pan. Hence 4 stars instead of 2.. Nancy. Tacoma, WA. Thu, 23 Jul 2026