Of course, almost every non-stick pan works at first. I've only had this for a few months but I love it so far. The nonstick works really really well, it seems to be pretty durable against metal utinsils, doesn't have PFOA chemical to bond the nonstick to the pan and cooks so nice and evenly. I'm giving it a 4 out of 5 though for the price. It's pretty steep in price. NOTE: There are two updates now. One where I was upset after 2+ years, and one now at 4 years on, please read the whole thing UPDATE: I'm dropping my rating from a 4 to a 2 after almost 3 years of using this pan. This pan is absolutely fantastic out of the box, but then again, so is a $30 Green Pan. The promise of this Woll pan was that even with cosmetic scratches and dings, the nonstick coating maintains it's nonstickiness because it's bonded with the metal. Well, I have to say that doesn't appear to be true. Every scratch and pit on the bottom of this (which builds up naturally over 3 years of heavy use) becomes an anchor where eggs and fish and just about everything soft sticks like it's bonding to the metal. Well if I have to buy a pan every 2-3 years, I would rather spend $30-40 for a comparable Green Pan or Calphalon or some other cheaper brand than to spend $100-200 for a premium pan like this. I'll still end up ahead, price-wise. I really regret having to write this review as I loved how this pan cooked for the first year or so. It cooks so evenly and is so solidly built, but in the end, the price plus the degrading performance doesn't make it worth the very steep price to me. Oh, also be aware, I've had several different sizes of Woll Diamond pans and one of my small pans I accidentally left on a hot burner for a minute or two with no food in it while I was mixing something. It started smoking and I immediately took it off the burner. Ever since then, there has been zero non-stick effect on that pan. So I'm just warning you that a single overheating to this pan will completely negate the non-stick properties. That was my fault, so I don't blame Woll for that one, but it's something to consider. If you're noticing it doesn't have very good non-stick anymore and you've possibly overheated it, even just once, that is likely the cause. UPDATE #2: I'd like to bring it back to a 5. After 2 years, there were signs of wear. Scratches and dings where certain foods would stick a little. This had me very upset initially (hence the update above) because I was so used to the first year where you could pour eggs and meats and plastics and car tires and just about anything else in there, fry them with no grease/oil, and they would come out by just tipping over the pan. Then after a couple years of wear (several times a day) that ability vanished and I got upset. But since then, I have bought 3 other pans (calphalon, porcelain green pan and...something else) and they have all failed me way worse than this one. After about a year, every pan, no matter how expensive seems to lose that infomercial-like nonstick quality, but the Woll keeps most of it. It's been 4 years and this remains my easiest-cleaning, most even cooking, durable pan in the house even though you can't reproduce that informercial-like nonstick that every pan has the first day out of the package. So much so that I have decided to get the entire set of OTHER pans, cost-be-darned. By comparison to the other brands out there, this has performed better than all of them over time, hence my update back to a 5. So yes, 4 years and I love this pan almost as much as I did when I bought it. Update #3: I originally bought this in 2012. After 9 years, I am officially retiring this one and getting the exact same thing. It is still the most used pan in my house, but I had a kid that left it on the burner and scorched the shiznit out of it. The non-stick is now completely burned off. Incidentally, I've been continuing to use it as a cast-iron pan, seasoned it and everything to try and get a non-stick back, but it's just not the same. So for me, this thing has lasted 9 years and has compelled me to buy it again. Still worth it after all these years!
