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I have to be honest, this is my first product review on Amazon in years. Usually, if the product is good, I stay mum, but with this skillet I just have to protest. I have been on the prowl for non-teflon - PFOA - PF cookware for some time now, constantly researching and trying new products. I love to cook and have cooked on regular non-stick pans, zepter, stainless steel, etc, without ever ruining any of them. Basically, I would consider my self an exprienced residential user - but enough about me. After anxiously waiting for weeks to get the Xtrema skillet (back-order), I carefully followed instructions for wash and use. In many ways it's similar to cast iron (wait for it to get hot, then turn the fire down and off you go). I have to admit, the first few times that I cooked on it, I was in awe. I thought that I finally found the 'magic bullet' against standard non-stick carcinogenous cookware. Boy was I wrong. After a few uses, the skillet began to have a film, a black lining of sorts, a 'dried on'-looking somthing, in patches, primarily around the middle of the skillet. At first, I was able to scrub/soak it off. After a couple more uses I was forced to use a metalic scrubber, which seemed to work. After a couple more uses, the black spots grew in diameter, but did not come off the pan. Needless the say, all non-stick qualities of this skillet were gone in under ten uses. Also, please don't believe a word about the pan being inderstructible. May be it can survive a fall from a three-story building, but it can't survive a metal spatula or the scrubber. To continue with this saga, I contacted Chef's Source to return the item, and they have directed me to the manufacturer. I will have to continue this review once the mafucaturer actions pan out. Contacting the manufacturer in order to salvage the $99+shipping I paid to get this item. Of course, no doubt, I will have to spend $20 to send the skillet to them, as it's exceptionally heavy. Wish me luck. Overall, this is definately a product I would not recommend.