Lakeland Paella Pan

Lakeland Paella Pan

I have made several paellas so far with my new pan, and have been really pleased with the results! It was quite unsettling when first 'seasoning' the pan according to the instructions, as it went black! However, Lakeland staff assured me this was natural. It was a great price, too. I would agree about the stickers, which had to be removed with a sticker-removing chemical as they were practically welded on! Leaving them loose inside the packaging with a paella recipe too is a great idea.

Lakeland Paella Pan

It took me ten careful minutes to remove the sticky labels, which came away without leaving any residue. Seasoning the pan was easy and I wonder if previous reviewers are confusing the slight colouring from this with rust? Anyway the seasoned pan is dutifully waiting for its first paella outing.
However, I would suggest that instead of putting the instructions on a sticky label that they are printed on a piece of paper, which is put inside the pan. Maybe with an authentic recipe on the reverse. As the pan arrived sealed in plastic the label would be safe and could then be kept for future reference.
As a long standing customer of Lakeland I'm not expecting any problems with using one of their products. The pan itself feels solid, fit for purpose and looks like the ones I've seen in Spain. So five stars it is.

Lakeland Paella Pan

I ordered one of these and suffered the same problem as the other reviewer with labels not coming off; soaking just resulted in a rusty pan. Lakeland were very responsive and sent a second pan, plus a free bottle of sticky label remover. My partner has spent over an hour tonight removing both labels, only to find that the inside of the pan had rusted in the time it took him to get the underside label off! he scrubbed it as clean as possible, then followed the seasoning instructions to the letter. Result? Pan is now both rusty and burnt. Not an impressive product...and I'm only giving it the one star rating because the website won't accept anything less!