Thanks for the feedback. I have a number of the Gotham Steel Products and will pay close attention as I use them for loss of performance overtime. My frying pan has about 6 months worth of wear/use and the coating still looks like new but I am very careful with it. I have noticed a tiny amount (about 4% of surface area) of a hint of color sticking on the barbecue/grill after a month of rather heavy use which takes a little bit of very light scrubbing and from you feedback may well get worse over time. Generally the black stuff washes right off with the light use of a wash cloth which is better than most barbecues/grills. I would still be happy with it even if it had no coating, as it allows me to approximate the taste and color/charring of an outdoor barbecue which I am not permitted by the strata council. If you want the coating to last don’t subject it to temps. above 500 degrees, don't spray it with anti-stick spray and be very gentle with them - no abrasives.
The paperwork and packaging which came with my Gothem steel Ti-Cerm. clearly states “Lifetime replacement warranty”, at least on the ones I have. They also have an agreement included in the purchase that restricts both parties to arbitration only, so you can’t sue them.
Non stick cookware coatings are definitely evolving and have improved overtime and I have used most of them. They are not indestructible yet and probably never will be and all non stick coating seem to degrade over time. I am sure most remember the early soft teflon type that would scratch and peel off and ones using PTFE/PFOA and PFOS for which their may be some concerns about health issues. The ceramic coated ones like Green Pan were a major step forward for health but can get discoloration and reduced sticking resistance over time and there is the further advance of adding metal to the ceramic, (copper or titanium) with titanium being the best so far. Paderno also makes a three layer coating system which while expensive seems to stand up on their well made heavy aluminum frying pans.
The only thing I like about the Gothem Steel frying pans is the coating and the warranty. Everything else about them is cheep, especially the thickness of the aluminum on the bottom. There is also a gap of about an 8th of an inch of un-coated aluminum on the edge between the inside coating and outside coating which can corrode white Al oxide, particularly if you wash them in the dishwasher on the heated, heavy duty options. One wonders why they did not coat right up to the edge of the bottom coating. I would like Gotham frying pans better if they would use the Ti-Cerm. coating over the whole surface of the frying pan except for the bottom like Pandero does and made the Al. pan itself to the same quality (thickness) as the Pandero – call it the pro-series, for which I would be willing to pay more.
That said I have no issues with Gothem's other products so far, especially the heavy oven grill trays and cookie sheets which are a major improvement over the crap non stick cookie sheets I was using before - now 40% bare steel with a hint of rust. We will have to see what happens to the coating with time. After a year or so perhaps I will take some pictures.
If you want some dam good french fries without deep frying, go to Costco and pick up a bag of Cavendish Farms Fast’nCrispy coated Thin Cut Fries and cook them in the oven using the Gothem Steel Ti-Cerm. Crisper basket system - like air frying. Walmart has a good price on the coated crisper basket and tray.