Due to the properties of most retail store stainless steel cookware food is going to stick to it unless you use some type of non stick spray. The benefit of using stainless steel though it is the most sanitary type cookware on the market, doesn't pick up the taste of Teflon, yet it is hard to cook out of! If you can find "Waterless, Greaseless cookware" It is a type of Stainless steel cookware that food does not want to stick to and it is real easy to use but it's not cheap! in the thousand pound range! They don't sell it in retail stores you have to attend a demonstration of it!