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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I seem to have lost all the cookware in the breakup and all I have is a 12" calphalon omelette pan. This cool weather has me hankering to cook pot roast and homemade spaghetti sauce like my German mama used to make. After that, I probably won't cook for another 6 months, but nevertheless would like to start out with a high-quality stock pot and a couple of sauce and saute pans.
I was thinking of picking up some all-clad stainless steel pieces, but don't want to have to scrub and polish my cookware after every use. But I'm not wild about anodized aluminum for everything.
Anyway, I'd welcome recommendations, both for the specific items I should buy as well as brands/types. It's not important to me that my cookware match - I don't display the stuff, I just want to start to collect the best quality and most useful pieces for my needs.
Sorry to be so boring.
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I got the all-clad pots that are matte on the outside. I just don't worry about the insides that much (whether they are shiny or not). The only caveat I have is that if you are not cooking with gas, and you have a dark glass-top electric stove, and you slide pans on it, the matte seems to leave marks sometimes. They come off, but it's a pain in the ass to use the special scrubby cleaner and everything.
ETA I have a Le Creuset casserole (I think that's what it's called) and a little tiny saucepan and frying pan and I like them a lot -- cook well, clean up great. But, I don't think I would like them for regular-sized saucepans or, particularly, frying pans because they are really heavy and those are pans that seem to get moved around more than casseroles.
ETA again to say I got this
http://ww1.williams-sonoma.com/cat/p...est=1&flash=on (but in the matte finish -- MC2?) (with an inset that goes in the larger saucepan for steaming stuff) and have quite liked it. I had had a few good pots and some crap and it replaced the crap; I also have a smaller, non-stick saute pan that I use for smaller things. And the smaller stock pot/casserole I mentioned before.
Now I want to shop for housewares.
