Best Splatter Screen Lids for Every Pan You Own

How the Five Compare on the Numbers

A splatter screen has to overlap the rim of the pan, so diameter is the decision and nothing else comes close. U.S. Kitchen Supply covers the most ground with 13, 11.5, 10 and 8 inch screens in one box. Handook gives 10, 11.5 and 13. OFXDD gives three sizes as well. BergKoch is a single 13 inch screen and Homestia a single 10, measuring 9.8 inches on file.

After that the figures thin out fast. Homestia is the only pick whose published dimensions describe the screen itself, at 9.8 by 9.8 by 0.2 inches and 0.24 pounds. BergKoch publishes 13 inches across and then 1 and 6 for its other two axes, which cannot both describe a flat disc. OFXDD publishes no dimension and no weight of any kind.

What the table cannot tell you is the mesh aperture, and that is the number that decides whether a screen stops fat and passes steam. Every listing here says fine mesh or extra fine mesh and not one publishes a hole size, a wire gauge or a mesh count. Two of them publish a percentage instead, which is a claim about an outcome rather than a description of the screen.

Diameter Is the Whole Decision

Four Sizes, Three Sizes, or One

The screen must sit across the pan and overhang the rim, so a 10 inch screen on a 12 inch skillet leaves a gap that defeats the object. U.S. Kitchen Supply answers that with four screens in one box at 13, 11.5, 10 and 8 inches, which covers a small saucepan through to a large skillet. Handook covers 10, 11.5 and 13, dropping the smallest.

OFXDD also supplies three, and its own listing prints the sizes with commas rather than points, as 8,2 inches and 11,4 alongside 10. Read as decimals that is 8.2, 10 and 11.4, a set aimed a little smaller than the others. BergKoch and Homestia each sell one screen, 13 inches and 10, which is the right purchase if you fry in one pan.

What the Published Dimensions Actually Describe

Homestia is the only pick whose data describes the product. Its 9.8 by 9.8 by 0.2 inches is a flat 10 inch disc, its 0.24 pounds is believable for one, and the figures agree with the title. That is worth saying because the other three that publish anything publish something else entirely.

U.S. Kitchen Supply publishes 1.18 by 4.33 by 0.79 inches, which is the carton the four screens shipped in and not a 13 inch screen. BergKoch publishes 13 inches on one axis and then 1 and 6 on the others, and a flat mesh disc has no 6 inch dimension. Handook and OFXDD publish no dimensions at all, so on four of these five you are trusting the title.

How You Lift It Off a Hot Pan

Grip Handles, Knobs and One That Clips On

This is where the five genuinely differ. U.S. Kitchen Supply and Homestia both use a grip handle projecting from the rim, described as keeping hands away from heat and cool to the touch, and U.S. Kitchen Supply adds a loop for hanging. A side handle is easy to grab but it puts your hand beside the pan rather than above it.

Handook and OFXDD both use a knob in the middle instead, described as heat resistant, which lifts the screen straight up with nothing overhanging the burner. OFXDD goes further and mounts the knob on a plastic lid, so the same piece works as a solid cover and as a screen. That makes it the only pick here that is genuinely a lid as well as a screen.

The Warning Only One Maker Gives

BergKoch takes a fourth approach: the screen joins to the handles of the cookware, which it offers as the reason you need no potholders or oven mitts. That is a real design difference, because a screen fixed to the pan handle cannot slide off when you knock it, and it also means fit depends on your pan rather than only its diameter.

BergKoch is also the only listing of the five to include a safety note, telling you to take the pan off the heat to reduce sizzling before removing the screen. Nobody else says it, and it is the single most useful sentence in this whole data set: lifting a screen off a spitting pan is when the burn happens, not while it is sitting there.

Mesh, Percentages and Cleaning

Ninety Nine Percent Against One Hundred

Two makers quantify their screens and neither figure can be checked. BergKoch states that it stops 99 percent of splatter and contrasts itself with silicone alternatives that block steam. Handook states that its extra fine mesh stops 100 percent of spitting oil. A screen that stopped every droplet would also have to stop steam, so the more modest of the two claims is the more plausible one.

U.S. Kitchen Supply, Homestia and OFXDD give no percentage. The first two describe fine mesh that blocks grease while letting steam escape, which is the honest version of the same claim, and OFXDD says full protection from hot grease. None of the five publishes a mesh aperture, a wire diameter or a mesh count, which is what would let you compare them at all.

Rust, Dishwashers and the Odd One Out

Four of the five state they are dishwasher safe, which matters because grease dries onto a mesh and hand washing a 13 inch screen is genuinely tedious. U.S. Kitchen Supply says it resists rust and corrosion, Handook says rustproof and BergKoch says it stays rust free. OFXDD says neither, and it is also the only pick that publishes no dimension and no weight.

OFXDD is the only one with plastic in it, in the lid the knob is mounted on, which is probably why the dishwasher goes unmentioned. It makes a different argument instead: its fine mesh blocks grease without the grease getting stuck in it, so a wipe is enough. That is a reasonable case for a screen you use daily, and it is not the same as a dishwasher rating.

Which One Fits Your Kitchen

The kitchen with four different pans. U.S. Kitchen Supply gives 13, 11.5, 10 and 8 inch screens in one box, all stainless with grip handles and a hanging loop, stated dishwasher safe and rust resistant. Its published dimensions describe the carton rather than the screens, so judge it on the four stated diameters.

The cook who wants to lift straight up. Handook gives 10, 11.5 and 13 inch screens with a heat resistant knob in the middle rather than a side handle, stated dishwasher safe and rustproof at 0.9 pounds for three. It is also the only pick offered as a pot strainer and fat drainer.

The pan that needs a cover as well as a screen. OFXDD is the only pick whose knob sits on a lid, so one piece works as a solid cover and as a mesh screen, in three sizes the listing prints as 8,2 and 11,4 alongside 10. It publishes no weight, no dimensions and no dishwasher guidance.

The cook frying in one big skillet. BergKoch is a single 13 inch heavy duty stainless screen that joins to the cookware handles, so it will not slide, at a published 0.71 pounds. It claims 99 percent of splatter and it is the only listing that tells you to take the pan off the heat first.

The one 10 inch pan you use every day. Homestia is a single 10 inch screen and the only pick whose published figures describe the screen itself, at 9.8 by 9.8 by 0.2 inches and 0.24 pounds, the lightest figure on this page. Food grade stainless, cool touch grip handles, dishwasher safe.

What We Could Not Verify

Every one of these is a mesh, and nothing about the mesh is published:

• Mesh aperture, wire gauge or mesh count on all five, although every listing says fine or extra fine.
• How either percentage claim was arrived at, whether 99 percent or 100 percent.
• A real screen dimension for four of the five. One publishes its carton and one publishes an impossible figure.
• A weight for the OFXDD set, and a per screen weight for the two multipacks that publish one.
• Which pan handles the BergKoch screen will actually join to, since fit depends on the cookware.
• Whether the OFXDD plastic lid is dishwasher safe, or what temperature it tolerates.