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. Deborah Cenci says:

    Please add me
    I purchased three of these pans.

  2. SHIRLENE A. PERRY says:

    PLEASE ADD ME

  3. Anna Marie Tschida says:

    Yes – i have bought pans at both Costco and Bed, Bath and Beyond. These pans are horrible and things definitely stick! Totally bummed by the false advertising…

  4. Richard Sachen says:

    I bought FOUR round frying pans for myself and my children, one square frying pan, and one large square “griddle” pan, all advertised by Gotham Steel as having “non-stick” surfaces. Additionally, I purchased three custom-sized glass covers for three of the round frying pans. After two uses, ALL of the surfaces became useless, regardless of the use of various oils, and regardless of what was being cooked — meat, eggs, hash browns, etc. It was IMPOSSIBLE to remove the food from the pan’s surface, and it became impossible to remove “sticky” areas of the pans, or brown “burned” areas of the pans either by hand-washing or machine cleaning. Once the pans became unusable, the custom covers also became useless to me and my family. Without question, this is one of the worst purchases I have ever made.

  5. Denise Jones says:

    Purchased two w/o knowing ANY BETTER!

  6. Lynn Adcock says:

    I purchased a Gotham Steel frying pan at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. The non stick finish worked for a short time and then I started needing cooking oil. Next, eggs and everything else started to stick to the pan even with oil and when cooking food started to leave a black residue I stopped using the pan.

  7. Amanda Christensen says:

    Same here. Bought at Ross. Pan worked great the first few times then began to get a black spot in the middle that everything stuck to. Recently threw pan away.

  8. Shirl says:

    Yes. Bought at Walmart.

  9. Crystal gavin says:

    I got mine from Walmart, I try it without oil or butter and everything stuck to the skillet, tried everything to get rid of the gunk, nothing worked,I ended up up buying a new skillet, different brand, waste of money

  10. Forbes McCreery says:

    Yes and food stuck almost immediately. Bought at Walmart

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