List Price: $620.00
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There's bad news and (sort of) good news on this item, the "Mauviel M'Heritage 2.5 mm 16-by-12 inch rectangular roasting pan." I purchased this through Amazon, and when the pan arrived, I could immediately tell there was a problem: not NEARLY heavy enough. My wife and I have a lot of older Mauviel professional cookware (2.5 mm), and it was clear that this wasn't the same stuff. I went to the trouble of measuring the pan thickness with a Starrett micrometer, and found it to be 1.15 mm, less than 1/2 the advertised thickness. Looking at the product number supplied with the pan (6509.41), and doing some research on the web , it turns out that this pan is from the Mauviel 150 series instead of the 250 series; that is, it should be more like 1.5 mm than 2.5 mm. Most vendors who sell it do so for about $400, which is reasonable; however the price I paid (thinking I was getting the thicker copper) was an unreasonable $509. I suspect that Amazon was misinformed on this one by their vendor (they can't check every detail).
The good news on this? Amazon was exemplary with respect to the return: they paid the return shipping costs and gave me a full refund. And, they dropped the price of the pan on their site from $509 down to $400 (though the pan is still being erroneously described as 2.5 mm thick). With the new price, this pan would be well worth considering: I'm sure it's very good, and for the copper/stainless steel combination the $400 price is reasonable (it's just that the original $509 wasn't). If the item had been correctly described as the 150 series Mauviel and sold for $400, I likely would have given it a 4-5 star rating. As it is, I'm giving it a 3 star, for inaccurate description, and because even if it were described as the 150 series, the copper would only be 75% what you'd expect (1.15 vs 1.5 mm). Amazon service gets a 5.
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