I bought the pan in July 2012.. And I made up my mind this time to deal with this as best as possible; spirch, I avoided any contact of the coating with any metals, so that they came in contact with plastic. In the dishwasher, they never came, it was always with a Schamm washed by hand. At first I was thrilled with the pan, I thought this holding "forever". Well after about 8 months, the coating does not look remotely like the beginning. It has no scratches, but the original color changed in most places by a deep black in a gräulch-brownish over. Perhaps it is simply because I sure used 10 times per week for frying and no pan is reasonable. In any case, I am of the opinion that a pan should hold longer than 8 months, even with intensive use, especially at this price (I had then paid more in Amazon than it costs today). It's not that it could be used to cook anything, but it is just already stated that it is in some places to adhesions, the course also leads daze, that it can be cleaned even more within one minute after use ,
