Despite frying pans and saucepans getting a lot of the cookware glory, sauté pans are the truly versatile workhorse of the kitchen. They sometimes get confused with frying pans or skillets, but sauté pans have deeper vertical sides than their skillet siblings. This makes them ideal for pan frying, sautéing, and braising. These wide, shallow pans are also great for making sauces, as they have large surface areas and shorter walls, which help reduce and concentrate the flavor of the sauce.

Like all cookware, sauté pans range widely in size, material, and price. I ended up frying, sautéing, and braising my way through 22 different sauté pans to find the best ones for your home kitchen.

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