A class action lawsuit claims that E. Mishan & Sons Inc.’s Gotham Steel cooking pans are not non-stick, despite advertising to the contrary.
Carl Mack and Alec Gable say they each purchased pans made by the company specifically because they saw advertisements that the pans were non-stick.
Mack claims he relied on the packaging of the product and the TV advertisements to make his purchase, which both marketed the product as non-stick.
Allegedly, the commercials for the pan advertised that no butter or oil was required.
Mack says that he used the pans without oil or butter, consistent with advertisements for the product. However, food allegedly began sticking “severely” to the pan within a month of Mack’s purchase of it and he stopped using the pan.
Gable says he purchased two pans from the Gotham Steel website in 2018. Allegedly, he decided to purchase the pans because, like Mack, he saw advertisements showing that they were non-stick.
Gable claims that after two uses, he began cooking with butter and oil, but even the use of butter and oil did not prevent the food from sticking. Allegedly, the pans were “often caked with black burn marks” and Gable got rid of the pans after about a month of use.
The Gotham Steel non-stick pans class action lawsuit says that Gable and Mack’s experiences are common to many customers even though they used the pans as directed.
The Gotham Steel non-stick pan false advertising class action lawsuit says that E. Mishan & Sons Inc. knew or should have known that the pans were not non-stick as claimed, citing numbers customer complaints about the issue.
Allegedly, E. Mishan & Sons Inc. violated the New York General Business Law, which prohibits “deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any business, trade, or commerce or in the furnishing of any service” in the state, and also prohibits false advertising.
The customers say that they were financially injured by E. Mishan & Sons Inc.’s misrepresentations of the Gotham Steel pans because had they been aware that the pans were not actually non-stick, they would not have purchased the pans or would not have paid as much as they did for them.
The non-stick pan class action lawsuit aims to hold the company liable for breach of express warranty, among other claims.
Did you buy a Gotham Steel non-stick pan? Let us know in the comment section below if you had a similar experience to these plaintiffs.
Mack and Gable are represented by Jason P. Sultzer, Joseph Lipari, and Adam Gonnelli of The Sultzer Law Group PC and by Bonner Walsh of Walsh PLLC.
The Gotham Steel Non-Stick Cooking Pans Class Action Lawsuit is Carl Mack, et al. v. E. Mishan & Sons Inc., Case No. 1:19-cv-08233, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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1,444 thoughts onGotham Steel Class Action Says Everything Sticks To Non-Stick Pans
What is going on with this lawsuit? I bought a whole set of these Gothem Steel Pot, Pans and lids. They mostly have chips in them as it says no chipping at all. I can’t send them back cause the shipping is very high to do this. I wish now I never bought this set. You do have to add a little of oil or butter to the skillets cause they do stick. I can’t even afford to buy another set of pan and pots cause I only get Social Security. Is this lawsuit canceled?
From the first commercial I saw, I noticed that when the ketchup and the sticky stuff dripped out of the pan I knew from the first that it was heavily coated with oil that you couldn’t see cuz if you looked at how it’s dripped out of the pan you notice a thin film of oil under neath which made pour out so easily.
I received the baking pan with drip basket.
From the first use I noticed stuck on grease that turned brown then black.
Couldn’t clean it without a scrub pad.
And the cleaner it got the more wear appeared. I told friends n family they were crappy pans.
My pan was purchased at Canadian Tire in Thunder Bay and began to stick immediately. The claims of being non-stick are completely false. Certainly not as advertised.
I bought two of the pans and the food started to stick at about the third week.
These pans stick without butter, oil, or Pam
I have had the same experience and additionally tonight I was using one of these pans to heat up a corn tortilla and the silver looking rivet that attaches the handle to the pan exploded/blew apart causing a sound like a gun shot, leaving my ears ringing and both my 2 year and 5 year old children in tears who were seated in their chairs at the dinner table less than 10 feet away. My husband threw the pan out immediately after I took a picture of it.
Same experience – purchased at WalMart – expected better qa from them…
I have 2 sets and some separate pans and they all have started to stick
Yep, have a set of these copper pans that have begun sticking. Such a waste.
I bought them twice, both times food stuck to them and the pan developed black burn marks. The pans are pieces of crap