My husband knew I was looking for a non-stick muffin pan and kindly bought this for me. I happily made a batch of muffins and put the batter directly into the pan, thinking how great it was going to be to skip the step where I butter the pan. The muffins stuck badly to the pan. They stuck to this pan worse than they would have stuck to the fine old Ekco muffin pan I've been using for years. I have just read through the other reviews of this item and was amazed to see people are highly impressed by a pan that they must first grease before putting in the muffin batter. Folks, this has been true of all muffin pans for as long as I've been alive, and that's a very long time. Other than that aspect, this pan is almost as good as my old Ekco pan.