Freedom Day has formally landed, and whereas a lot stays unsure (whether or not lockdown is *really* gone for good/how many individuals will proceed to put on face masks), one factor’s for positive: our lockdown-induced obsession with cooking is right here to remain. For those who’re something like me, investing in fancy cookware, serving up meal supply service creations on fairly dinnerware and dressing your eating desk inside an inch of its life (even for breakfast) had been the mainstays of your lockdown routine. And the issues that virtually stored you sane.

You’ll be able to relate? Then throughout your digital culinary travels via Instagram and TikTok, you doubtless stumbled throughout cult and female-founded American cookware model Our Place. You’d have stopped to admire how rattling photogenic their famed Always Pan is – (and the way nifty it sounds – eight kitchen utensils in a single?!) – earlier than letting out a enormous sigh of disappointment upon realising you could not get it shipped to the UK.

Properly in the present day, fellow foodies, I greet you with some EXCELLENT information: the Our Place Always Pan UK launch has formally occurred. Yep: now you can get you mitts on the Always Pan within the UK. Why do you have to care? It claims to do the job of eight items of kitchenware in a single, has offered out 10 instances over and racked up a 50,000-person waitlist. Plus, it appears so rattling fairly.

In true GLAMOUR trend, we determined to check the Always Pan forward of the UK launch to see what all of the fuss was about. Here is every little thing you must know.

What’s Our Place?

Our Place is an American-born cookware model marketed as “Le Creuset for millennials” (you wager we’re all ears already). It was based Shiza Shahid who has constructed a management group composed primarily of girls and other people of color after little over one 12 months in enterprise. Our Place shares ethically-made and trendy cookware that’s designed to be fuss-free for residence cooks of each stage, and it has some epic sustainability credentials as well. The truth is, Our Place has already reached carbon neutrality and is dedicated to non-toxic merchandise, sustainable packaging, and dealing with eco- and socially-conscious factories internationally. So. Rattling. Cool.

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What’s the Our Place Always Pan?

The Always Pan is maybe the product Our Place is greatest identified for: an all-singing-all-dancing non-stick frying pan that was not too long ago nicknamed the “kitchen magician” by Oprah Winfrey. We say frying pan… however that really would not do it any justice. The Always Pan guarantees to change into your frying pan, saute pan, steamer, skillet, saucepan, spatula and spoon relaxation in a single, braising, steaming, boiling, storing and searing your culinary creations with out the necessity for 74822 totally different kitchen devices. Spectacular, proper?

The Always Pan has been designed to be deep sufficient to prepare dinner pasta, however shallow and huge sufficient to fry an egg. It comes with a detachable steamer basket and features a nesting spatula so that you just don’t must soiled one other plate with a messy spatula. It additionally features a pour spout to simply pour out extra grease or switch a sauce, is available in six very stylish colour-ways (from blush pink to a muted beige hue and powder blue) and is fashionable sufficient to go away out in your range – and even your desk.

Always Pan, £140, Our Place

Purchase It Now

Is the Our Place pan value it? Our Place Always Pan assessment:

As anticipated, the Always Pan is fairly spenny, coming in at £140. So is it well worth the hype? Do you have to add to cart instantly together with each different influencer within the land? Briefly: sure. The Our Place Always Pan is admittedly, *actually* good.

First impressions: the pan arrived with the entire components slotted neatly contained in the pan base itself. Very on model. It additionally got here with a pure sponge to “scrub away on the dishes you ‘left to soak’ within the sink” – you simply should soak it in water to activate it – and a wood spatula which, ingeniously, slots onto a built-in spoon relaxation on the deal with. It saved a tonne of mess after I was cooking.

Made out of aluminium, the pan is fairly heavy – however not so heavy that you just would not be capable to simply prepare dinner with it, and positively lighter than my Le Creuset stoneware casserole dish. It is simply heavy sufficient to really feel sturdy and actually sturdy. And to be trustworthy? I might query its high quality if it wasn’t. As for the end, it is matte, oozes Scandi attraction and the pastel pink hue is very aesthetically pleasing. I am under no circumstances shocked that Instagram is obsessed.

High of my standards in the case of judging good cookware is whether or not it really lives as much as its non-stick claims, and the Always Pan positively does. I cooked a couple of totally different meals in it: spag bol, scrambled eggs, stir fry… and I did not battle with meals burning to the underside on any event. The pan warmth up shortly and evenly on my fuel hob. As such, the pan was straightforward to clean up afterwards, no rigorous scrubbing required when you’re on dish responsibility. High marks.

Dimension-wise, it is the right depth for searing, sautéing, and frying with none mess. I cooked sufficient broccoli for myself and three mates in a single layer with room to spare, in addition to 5 parts of pasta in a single go on one other event. Positive, if I had six(+) folks spherical (I by no means do – my flat is tiny), I would wish to whack out one other casserole dish… however for cooking for myself and some others? The area supplied is plentiful.

That takes me onto the steam function, which labored like a complete dream. I steamed broccoli, carrots, inexperienced beans… the lot, they usually had been all cooked to perfection with somewhat little bit of a crunch. If you wish to combine issues up, you may snap-up the model’s bamboo steamer, which has additionally been designed to suit comfortably contained in the pan. I have never tried it myself, however cannot think about being dissatisfied.

Different options value shouting about? The pouring lips on either side of the pan enabled me to pour sauce with none spills and the deal with stayed cool always. All-in-all? I might urge you all to jump over to the Always aspect. I take advantage of mine on a regular basis, and whereas I will not be ditching *all* different cookware anytime quickly (I would placed on an precise feast sooner or later… and you may’t prepare dinner up too many parts to a dinner concurrently), it is versatile, easy-to-clean and a pleasure to make use of. Run, do not stroll, if you wish to keep away from potential ready lists. If its launch within the States is something to go by, this dangerous boy will promote out.

Purchase It Now

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For extra from Glamour UK Commerce Author Sophie Cockett, comply with her on Instagram @sophiecockettx.