In De Buyer’s Mineral B Element line we have frying pans and sauté pans in the same diameters. For ø 24 and ø 32 cm the sauté pan is, according to the product pages, twice as tall as the frying pan.

At ø 24 cm the De Buyer Koekenpan Mineral B Element ø 24 cm is listed on its product page as 3.5 cm high. The De Buyer Hapjespan Mineral B Element ø 24 cm is listed as 7.0 cm high and has a capacity of 2.5 liters.

For ø 32 cm the product page gives the De Buyer Koekenpan Mineral B Element ø 32 cm a height of 4.5 cm. The De Buyer Hapjespan Mineral B Element ø 32 cm measures 9.0 cm according to its product page, with a capacity of 5.5 liters.

Because of that extra height you can fit more in a sauté pan than in a frying pan of the same diameter.

In material a sauté pan differs little from a frying pan. Many sauté pans are made of aluminum with a non-stick coating, so they’re light and won’t stick much. That coating doesn’t need to contain PFAS: the hapjespannen zonder PFAS have a ceramic coating, enamel, or no coating at all.

Slightly more than half of our sauté pans come with their own lid: 9 of the 16 currently available. The hapjespannen met deksel all include one in the box. The two Mineral B Element sauté pans do not.

In our shop we’ll steer someone who’s looking for a frying pan but also wants to make a pasta sauce or one-pot dish in it toward the sauté pans. In such a pan you first brown the meat or fish, then add the rest, and the sauce goes in at the end. Examples can be found on the recipes for the sauté pan.

For the following types of cooking you’ll often choose a different pan:

• Cooking and serving immediately, such as pancakes or a fillet of fish: that’s what the frying pan with its low rim is for.
• Long, slow simmering, like a stew: you do that in a braising pan, a larger round pan with two handles and a lid. For anyone wondering whether a braising pan can replace an old sauté pan, we describe the difference between a braising pan and a sauté pan in a separate article.
• Stir-frying: you can do this in a wok and in a sauté pan, and in the difference with a wok we look at which of the two works best on your hob.

With a long handle or two side handles, with or without a lid: you’ll find all those variations in onze hapjespannen. From those pans we’ve listed a few in order for people looking for the best sauté pan.