Buying Cookware

Many of you pros already have your favorite pieces. This is for anyone who may be in the market for cookware.

Consider the amount you are wanting to invest. If you're on a budget, you may just want to invest in one or two quality pieces. It really depends on how much money you want to spend and how much it matters to you.

Investing in high quality pots and pans that will last you the rest of your life would be the best investment in the long run. Look for those with lifetime warranties and consider what professional chefs use (All-Clad).

There are a handful of high quality cookware lines (All-Clad, Berndes, Le Creuset) available and hundreds of others that aren't so good. All-Clad & Le Creuset would be the top of the line cookware and heat the fastest.




If you don't want to spend the money on All-Clad, consider "Berndes" made in Germany. Awarded a BEST BUY by Consumers Digest for a Second Time.

Here are several articles which should give you a good idea of what to look for and what to avoid.

The Ins and Outs of Pots and Pans

Get a Handle on Pots and Pans

What a Cook Wants: Pots and Pans

So you'd like to... be a real man in the kitchen

Choosing the Right Saucepan

What kinds of cookware do you use and prefer over others and why?

What are your "most used" pieces?

All Clad pots & pans savagely including they're Copper Chef line are on sell right now at OUTLETS ONLINE!

I still wanna get a coulpe of pieces by Mauviel, however.

Here's the url:

https://www.uotletsonline.com/cgi-bi...301+1013729282

I have to say that I voted for All-Clad, because that is what my family used, and it is what I mostly have right now. However, the absolute best pan I have every used and is my 11" Demeyere Sirroco fry pan. Go to the website and you'll see the quality that goes into these pans.

I still favor French copper over other all the fancy American bradns. Even though as I written Even so over a year ago, beside blindly working great & lasting a long time, they also can be had for fewer money. please read before you spend more money on lesser qaulity pots.

About 7 years ago I could have had the exact set pictured above (lovingly pre-owned) for all of $35.00 at a garage sale in Pittsburg, KS of all places. Yes, you read that correctly. Now I wouldn't be able to buy half a lid for that price.

This was before I was interested in cooking or let alone had any knowledge of it's quality. I also missed out on a brand new 7 piece All-Clad set for $100 still in the box.

At the local Costco you can find le Creuset at a very good price. I seem to recall 100$ for three pans.