Emily Sortor  |  September 6, 2019

Category: Household

gotham steel non-stick panA 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

  1. Christy says:

    Unfortunately, I believed the claims and have been very careful. Everything sticks to my pan.

  2. Cathy rose hebb says:

    Handles heat up I burned my hand and all food sticks

    1. Ron Nemiroff says:

      Chipping away of the coating. Bought a complete set at almost $200. Food sticks, coating chips away. Now I’m looking for other non stick pans

  3. Mallory says:

    We bought these pans per the advertisement of non stick ect and not long after they started to turn black not even the new Dawn Platinum powerwash can help this pan . I will spare everyone on what the bottom of these pans have done .

  4. Ron says:

    Bought Gotham Steel pots n pans 6 months ago. They stick and are chipping already.

  5. Alice Harris says:

    Brought two sets of the Gotham Steel pans over a year ago one for me and the other for my daughter. We both noticed that food began to stick to the pans after about three uses. This annoyed us because we were lead to believe the pans we non stick and durable. Neither one is true we noticed scratches on surface and water gets stuck in the lids by the handle.is paid a lot of money for these pans and I feel like we were ripped off. I wish that we could get our money back or a new set of pans for both of us. I hope that the company is being held accountable for this. I hope this complaints does’not fall on deaf ears.

  6. SHARON WHITE says:

    I LOVED MINE…TIL it started sticking and now nothing keeps it from sticking. It’s so hard to clean off too ! What’s so bad is I told my Granddaughter how good they were and she bought a whole set…many pieces. Now I feel bad because hers will start being unusable also. I’m a very unhappy customer !!

  7. Lorene Altamore says:

    Just like all the commenters above, I too was looking for a good quality non stick pan. The Gotham pan is NOT this pan. EVERYTHING STICKS TO IT! Even if you use oil, butter, etc. I’m done scraping off my fallen apart omelets and pancakes, this pan is going in the garbage!

  8. Deborah Riley says:

    I have had mine less than six months. Everything sticks and are scratched from scrubbing with a kitchen sponge.

  9. Kim says:

    Sticks severely even with high burning point oils. Doesn’t matter what you do. And they are impossible to clean. We purchased and have followed all instructions for cooking and cleaning, but they are IMPOSSIBLE TO CLEAN!!!! I want to throw it I. The trash but my boyfriend is frugal and won’t let me. I hate the $&(! thing

  10. E. Schiffner says:

    We bought a set of Gotham steel from JC Pennys less than 1 year ago. One of the pans is not working as described. Even we we use butter, everything is sticking to the pan.

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