This is not going to be a full product review, because this product line is not good and was discontinued many years ago.
The Emeril Stainless Steel with Copper Dishwasher Safe 12-Inch Fry Pan, Silver
Despite the All-Clad name, this pan is just a disc-based frying pan, which is not ideal since the relatively cold sidewalls can make protein stick on electric. On gas it’s possibly even worse because hot gases can superheat the part of the pan that is not protected by the disc base.
The disc base is aluminum, not copper, regardless of the paper-thin band of copper they folded up and over the aluminum to make it appear as if most of the disc base were made out of copper.
The handles are somewhat wider than regular made-in-USA All-Clad, which is a good thing as they are more comfortable to hold and less prone to accidentally rotating.
Now here comes the bad part: this skillet is actually semi-wok in shape. It has a paltry 8-inch diameter flat cooking surface. Regular All-Clad 12-inch skillets have about 9 inches diameter flat cooking surfaces. This wok-ification of the Emeril pan is an obnoxious cost-cutting measure that makes it a lot harder to cook large amounts of food at once. The tiny disc base makes the pan appear to be better than it is in thermal tests, but that’s because the pan bottom is so tiny that it has an unfair advantage in my thermal testing–it’s not too hard to heat evenly when there’s so little metal. (Note that for cladded cookware, undersized bottoms are less of an advantage because there are still sidewalls to heat up.)
Bottom line: This supposedly 12-inch frying pan has the cooking surface area of a 10-inch frying pan, doesn’t heat up much better than thicker all-aluminum disc base pans because this pan’s base is virtually all aluminum anyway (the copper foil is just for decoration), this pan is susceptible to large temperature differences where the thick base ends and the thin stainless steel sidewalls begin. This can lead to scorching on gas as the sidewalls get too hot, or to undercooked food on electric unless you stir the edges a little.
I would not recommend this pan at any price. If you do get them, the skillets do not come with lids, so if you don’t already have other lids that will fit, I would recommend buying a universal lid such as this one.