The Highwall has walls over two inches tall on a flat bottom sized for a home burner, so you can toss a stir fry, finish pasta in the pan with a ladle of the cooking water, shallow fry with an inch of oil and room to spare, or sear something and add stock for a braise.

Sespe pans are lighter than Sonora. We went down a gauge on this line on purpose: it heats up fast and responds when you turn the knob. The handle is a simpler profile, more streamlined for the modern kitchen, and still a joy to hold with its cupped grip. Just like Sonora, the handle stays cooler because of its length and the thin neck where it meets the pan.

Same carbon steel as the Sonora, shaped and finished in our shop in Santa Barbara, and seasoned before it ships. It gets more nonstick every time you cook in it.

Made here in our shop in Santa Barbara, California. Sespe is named for Sespe Creek, which runs sixty-one miles through the Los Padres backcountry with no dam on it anywhere, one of the last free-flowing steelhead streams in Southern California.

Each item we make is unique and comes with slight imperfections in shape, finish, and color. It’s all part of the character of the pieces we sell, and will not affect performance.