Could someone please recommend a skillet?

[Mawi]

Exactly as the title says or can someone talk to me about what is considered a good skillet.
Thank you and sorry for very boring thread.

Do you mean a frying pan with a lid?

I want the really heavy frying pan. Maybe it's not called a skillet.

I'd go for the Le Creuset.

I haven’t been able to replace my old cast iron skillet with a like for like alternative. The new ones have all rusted. So now I use a Le Creuset Buffet Casserole or Le Creuset non-stick frying pan depending on the job. They work well enough, but are not the same. I’ll be following this thread!

The Le creuset is an excellent non-stick pan if you are looking for a frying pan. In daily use for a year and looks brand new. (I generally don’t put it in the dishwasher and use appropriate non-metal utensils in it)

I bought a tefal frying pan. I am replacing the crap I bought when I first moved out and was very broke. So last year I bought a good frying pan and a big pot for soup/stew/everything. I have got some pyrex dishes and a pie dish etc so next is a skillet and some new saucepans. But I just keep looking at them online and have no idea what to buy. I have being using cheap crap that needs replaced every couple of years for nearly 20 years you know the Argos 3 for €20 type sets. I want to invest in a few good pieces.
Thank you will look up Le Crueset.

Try TK Maxx for decent stuff at cheaper prices, although will probably have to wait a few weeks at the mo.

I'm not sure what they are like now, but the lidded skillet I bought in M&S in 1995 is still going strong and used most days, 25 years on. It's stainless steel so weighty and sturdy but nowhere near as heavy as Le Creuset.

I am in Ireland so will be waiting until the end of June at least I think, cannot remember what date non essential shops are allowed to reopen.

I have a simple cast iron skillet. Weighs a ton, but is fabulous for cooking a variety of things - really one of my best purchases ever. Sorry, but I can't recall where I bought it, and there's no obvious maker's name. But then it was bought about 20 years ago!

That's what I need something that will last forever 20-25 years for a pan sounds amazing after using crap ones for years. I think I might start buying one good pot or pan for someone moving into their first homes as they are so expensive to get the whole lot at one go.

I'm at 9 years since we bought our le creuset pans and they're still going strong. We bought them when we moved here.

My mum has some that are as old as me and still going.

Better to buy well once.

Best pans I've had were a 3 for £25 steel set from Argos c.1998. They've outlived everything else, including many, many Tefal and suchlike. I also have a couple of IKEA pans that have held up well to the continuing onslaught of DP in the kitchen, a feat all the more remarkable for how he's managed to destroy a cast iron griddle, every baking sheet, tin and frying pan, wok, rack and even two copper pans by instinctively knowing exactly what you shouldn't do with each.

I find a cast iron skillet or pot just too heavy, so would probably go for steel again.

I’m buying my young niece & nephew a decent pot or pan every couple of years instead of whatever plastic birthday and Christmas tat is all the rage. I’m probably the most hated auntie right now that they are 5 & 8 because they get a token tShirt or PJs on the day but I live in hope that they’ll appreciate it one day when they move out and are presented with their kitchen stuff that will outlast us all 😂

Not Le Creuset! They are so bloody heavy. And ridiculously expensive to boot.
Have a look at John Lewis.
And unless you’re American, it’s called a frying pan, or a sauté pan if it’s got straight sides and (usually) a lid.

Sorry had to make dinner and then go deliver dinner and shopping to elderly cocooning family member. Dh is only back to work this week after 10 weeks so it will be a while before I can start splashing the cash so have loads of time to find the right one.

I thought a frying pan was the lighter one and a skillet was the heavier one, didn't realise it was an American name for a pan. Most of my recipes must come from American sites as I keep seeing it in recipes and thinking I must get one.

Thank you all.

I thought a frying pan was the lighter one and a skillet was the heavier one, didn't realise it was an American name for a pan
You're right OP. It's used to describe usually a cast iron frying pan rather than a lighter one. You don't have to be Anerican to use a skillet!

I have looked up le creuset and they are expensive, unfortunately our local M&S is tiny so no use, TK Maxx closed for the foreseeable and none online, can't find anything on John Lewis site, loads on Ikea site but nearest one 90 miles away but as I says it will be a while before I can buy so I will keep searching for my skillet and some good saucepans. Be ready then for all my lovely winter dinners.

M&S online? I've had a look and they've a couple similar to mine.

Oh, and I'm in Ireland too so looked at the .ie version of the M&S website.

I have a set of cast iron skillets. They do take some getting used to - they are very heavy and they get very very hot so you have to be careful. But a pancake puffs up amazingly in a proper skillet and you can easily move them from oven to hob and back. Just watch your fingers.

Mine are like these www.vonshef.com/vs_en/3pc-cast-iron-skillet-set?utm_content=_dm|pcrid|411142763654|pkw||pmt||grp||product|1507782|slid||pgrid|87518403005|ptaid|pla-853843225104&gclid=CjwKCAjw_LL2BRAkEiwAv2Y3SRyDakwmrt0FvSR3hW4w1FqBTbLIxjfI2-HHeEE-bjK6rpwCK_pmZBoCeJgQAvD_BwE

I got one of those stoneware frying pans, from TKMaxx, it was only £10, and I prefer it to the cast iron one I had which was too heavy.

Thank you all. I keep disappearing, was away for a dander, such a lovely evening out there.

Is the stoneware one good? Long lasting etc?

Have looked up M&S and vonshef, two definite options. Thank you.