Whenever I have seen any item, no matter what it is, that has the As Seen on TV sticker I know it’s going to go badly. This thing was no exception, so why would I have bought it anyway? I had one and only one task for it in mind, and that so seldomly durability was not that important to me. My one use for it was to make one large pancake for myself for breakfast onto which I could put a fried egg or any other topping of my choice. So my first question, one that any manufacturer of such a product would have in big bold letters, was what is its diameter. Nowhere on their ad page could I find one word about that, only that it is “large” and that it is two-inches thick. I would never in my life expect to make a pancake two inches thick so I don’t know why I would want to know that.IT GOES DOWNHILLThe breathless worded ad copy continued in the royal tradition of the seen on TV tradition, including the extensive use of the word copper as if it has a health benefit. Okay there are some claims about wearing a pure copper bracelet that some say to have magical qualities but are you ready for the honest truth now? There isn’t evidence of an ounce of copper in this thing, it is only a copper colored non-stick coating, or at least supposedly non-stick. As if that farce wasn’t enough they actually go on to say, or make you think they say, that it is made from titanium encrusted with diamonds. That is so funny I can hardly type the words without laughing. No, it is aluminum with a copper colored coating. The cleverly worded fine print is that it has a “diamond sparkle look coating”. And the wording “titanium ceramic” seem to be some well disguised trademarked terminology. So much for believing what you see on TV.QUALITYIt doesn’t sound right to use the word quality in a sentence describing this thing, but to be fair it only cost twenty bucks, about what a cheap frying pan cost at the discount store. I always suggest to read the one star reviews first and this is a great example of that, they are spot on accurate and you know they aren’t planted by employees of the maker. They all point to the extremely bad hinge design that is uses two pop rivets that are almost guaranteed to break. Even being really careful with it it’s just not designed well. Yes but isn’t it true that I went ahead and bought it anyway? I admit to that, but I said earlier that I expected to use it maybe once or at the most twice a month, and the only thing that attracted me over an ordinary frying pan is I am really bad at turning pancakes over and the best ones are cooked equally on both sides. I didn’t want yet another electric appliance because most of them don’t heat 100% evenly anyway, this held the promise, weak as it was, that it could spread the heat more evenly on my electric stovetop and I told myself that if I wait until the pancake (or even an omelet) as half cooked it shouldn’t leak out if I flip it over really fast. That idea sort of works but if I can’t see the food cooking I would have to experiment many times to get it even half right. One detail I did not like was that the rivets used to attach the handles are prone to having food stick to the crevices, which would make it a chore to clean it.SIZE MATTERSMy opening thought was about the diameter. Not trusting gadgets like this I had high hopes that they weren’t trying to pull another fast one on me and that it wasn’t anywhere near as big as they make it look. My instincts were right, I had hopes this would make one pancake that’s big enough for an adult, that would be about nine inches, but no, the maximum working area inside the pan is only a meager five inches. Using their directions it would take me about five minutes to make one five inch pancake. If I wanted four of them, which I guess is a full stack, it would take me at least 20 minutes to make breakfast for myself. On the same subject, since the pan tapers down to around five inches it is smaller than the smallest burner on my stove, which means the rising heat would eventually scorch the entire pan.THE FINE PRINTHere’s the shocker. Cleverly hidden inside the box, looking like one of those warranty sheets that no one ever reads, on the reverse side is a contract. No seriously, it is a lengthy legal contract that tells you that you already agreed to a long list of terms and conditions when you pressed the “buy” button, including giving up your legal rights and having to pay your own costs for any legal action. I have never seen anything so audacious on any product in my life and that instantly dropped their rating to zero and I put the thing back in the box and returned it. As public notice I do not accept or agree to any conditions they say I agreed to by buying this thing and by accepting my return Gotham Steel/Emson has agreed to my terms which will be available to them upon written request. On every count this is thing is rejected.