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
I have the same complaint- several pans are now wall decorations. I used them carefully as directed- never on high heat and they ALL stick and look funny. Paid a lot- used very little- as I intended to enjoy their advantages as advertised. Sad waste of hard earned money.
WORSE Pan in the world to clean! I don’t want to scratch it, but everything STICKS! I have 2 of them and hate them.
I have two fry pans and stopped using since th food stuck and discolored the pan.
We had the same problems and tried all the solutions. On a low fixed income the price was high and the product value is low.
I have a cabinet of these and they stick and never wipe clean
Same thing everything sticks
I bought 4 pans of different sizes.
Because they show how it is so nonstick and clean up is just wiping away, I thought wonderful this will be so helpful timewise. Also my son can use them without any issues.
Well, everything stuck to them and clean up is far from simple. On the commercial they show eggs sliding out of pan. Eggs STICK!! Then I could not just wipe the pan out. I had to scrub and scrub and scrub.
Very disappointed as they are expensive pans.
Yes, I have fried and scrambled eggs and they stick to the pan and you have to scrape them off.
I have had the same complaint . As a matter of fact I did not use oil and the pan turned black… so you do have to use oil at all timed
I’ve bought two of these pans and had the same thing happen. The first time, I thought that maybe we weren’t using the pan correctly. Then bought another one and the same thing happened even though we closely followed the directions. A total waste of my money. They even stuck when I used spray cooking oil.