Cookware At Costco

Q: Has anyone bought the "Kirkland" cookware at CostCo? My SO is talking about buying me cookware for Xmas. He asked what I want. I was in CostCo the other day and they had several sets. One set that caught my eye was the "Kirkland" set, particularly because it has glass lids (which I like). It's a 10 piece set for ~$150 (3 lids, 4 pans and 3 pots or 3 pans and 4 pots) that seems reasonably nice. I like the configuration of the pieces, a nice medium/large sized stock pot (I have a huge, restaurant grade stock pot for when I really want to cook up a big batch of something) that holds a pasta insert (I cook pasta several times a month), and a medium sized pot with a steamer insert (I steam veggies at most meals), and several frying pans, with glass lids with metal rims that fit both the pots and the pans. I'm fairly certain that they use a non-stick finish on the pots and frying pans. I'm not a gourmet cook and don't want to spend many hundreds of dollars, but I want better than "discount drug store" quality cookware. What are the risks of buying CostCo grade cookware?

A: What is it with Kirkland, anyway? Are they trying to rule the world? Or their planet as they know it? Generally speaking, Kirkland buys other company products and slaps their label on it. Their jelly beans, for example, are Jelly Belly jelly beans. Are they rejects? Overflow? Or just different way of marketing and packaging the same stuff? Anyway, what is this cookware when stripped of this Kirkland label? I'll try and find out tomorrow. I don't know about the cookware specifically, but I've rarely been disappointed by anything I bought at CostCo. One particularly nice purchase was a pair of rolling carry-ons for $100 each; they're better than ones costing three times as much (judging from the brand names plastered on the ones I see in the airport). CostCo had another set for half the price, but it was obviously cheap; they're pretty good about not playing games with price vs. quality. I have never found a pasta insert to be useful. A friend of mine had one of those, and he had to put so much water in the pot that cooking for one became a huge chore. Perhaps the setup you speak of is more sensible than the one he had. I'm not a non-stick fan, but I haven't tried them since they first came out. Apparently, the technology has improved greatly. I don't know that it's necessarily a question of "CostCo grade". You never struck me as the kind of person to put up with poor quality items, so if you keep shopping there, you must like the quality. If you want something fancier, though, you might look at the after Xmas sales. He can put an envelope on tree, right?

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