Calphalon's New "pots & Pans" Basic Cookware - Anyone Tried It?
Q: I've just finished reading a whole bunch of your posts on cookware on Deja.com. Thanks for all the great info! I tend to agree with the consensus of most of the group that the quality stuff (All-Clad, etc.) is a good long-term investment. But I'm a bachelor who does only the most basic cooking by myself, with the occaisional simple meal cooked with my gf. Plus, I'm on a budget. Today I saw Calphalon's "Pots & Pans" line of non-stick cookware. It's not heavy-duty like the expensive stuff, but I find the light weight convenient. It has little raised dots all over the bottoms of the pans which Calphalon says helps brown the food. You can grip the handles without pot holders. An 8-piece basic set (8" skillet, 10" skillet, covered 1 qt. and 2 qt. sauce pans, and covered 6 quart stock pot) costs $149. Can anyone share their opinion with me as to whether this set is worth buying? I like the idea that the non-stick coating on everything makes for easy clean-up. I do have a RevereWare 10" steel skillet with aluminum bottom plate if I need to saute something on a non-non-stick surface. But I don't want to buy it if the non-stick is going to wear out in a year, or if it's the same cheap, stamped stuff as RevereWare but with a fancier package. Thanks for any responses!
A: I can't ever remember using my Toys R Us sized 1 qt pots or 8" skillets ( I can pee more'n they'll hold), I don't even know where they are, if they ever resurface from the bowels of my pantry they'll go in the trash. Also, it may be called an 8 piece set but I only see 5 pieces listed... guess they count the 3 lids as pieces of cookware... anyone ever cook stew onna lid? What ya got there is plain old aluminum Crapalon... a 2 qt pot, a 10" skillet, and a 6 qt sauce pot (6 qts ain't no stock pot, probably the wrong shape too, a stock pot gotta be taller than it is wide), three small pieces all for a mere $149... BTW, Williams-Sonoma is having a great sale on REAL stockpots, see them on pg. 109 of their Autumn '99 catalog - the bodaciously voluptuious PIAZZA of course - there ain't none better nowhere nohow!
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