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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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1,416 thoughts onGotham Steel Class Action Says Everything Sticks To Non-Stick Pans
Yes, everything sticks. Bought the complete set plus the extra square one.
Yes i have these pans. I have the set. After a few uses everything sticks to them. No longer use them. A waist of money
I too, bought some “non stick” pans, to my disappointment they were some of the worse pans I have ever used. When I cooked for the very first time I ruined it.Very misleading and they deserve to have action taken due to their dishonesty in producing these hazardous materials! Take action! No one wants to eat the shavings of their product!
Moral of the story: “nonstick” pans, whether initially sticky or down the road, all fail, eventually, while a few pieces of cast iron cookware will just keep getting better. And I should have known better…the pair at Costco was so cheap, and bought solely for eggs. Wrong. I use plenty of butter on my fairly new Lodge Chef’s Skillet and eggs slide right out.
Costco took mine back with no problem or questions asked. Why didn’t the plaintiffs do the same thing? Just return them.
I Bought 2 and I also had a lot of Sticking as Well , would Scrape the Pans with a Fork Spoon or Knife after Cooking I Hated Washing the Skillet or Should o Say that the Product is Not What was Advertised on my Television , I will Stick (No Pun intended)I will Stick to my Cast Iron Skillet, Keep it oiled .
Bought a pan. Was excited to use it because they advertised “no oil or butter” required. Everything slid right off. The 1st use, i ended up using oil. The 2nd time, food stuck onto the pan. I got upset and have it ready to pitch i wint even donated ut. It was a waste of 29.99 plus tax
Bought one
Bought 2 pans first use everything stuck.Still can’t get it clean.Second pan same..threw it away
Mine was sticking on the first use. I used it onky 2 times then gave up.
pan NEVER was non stick ,first they were green,now copper colored,same no sticky wicky