What's the Best Cookware? (no Teflon)

My pan set was inherited from my mother in law when my hubby and I moved in together (before we were married, so no wedding registry, and also no money to buy our own)... well that was 10 years ago and I still have just about all the pans she gave me. I think it's called Vision Wear (or ware?)... you can see thru it. It's great! Then for frying I use a big huge skillet, god, don't know the material it's made out of, I hope it's not Tefflon!!! I got it at Kitchen's Etc going out of business sale for $50...

But the visionware is awesome - you can see the boiling water/potatoes/pasta before it boils over onto the stove :)
 
Different stuff for different stoves

If the stove is gas, you'd want heavier pots. But heavy pots are slow to heat up, so for faster cooking on not-gas stoves you'd want something lighter.

If it is a glass top stove, be careful that the pot is not so heavy that when full you risk banging into the glass top and cracking it. Perfectly flat bottoms are required, so be aware of that.

I have a glass top stove and use Revere, a mix of the teflon types with the double spout and strainer glass tops and the standard stainless types. I bought two sets and picked them so the sizes were not too duplicated. It was hard to find a huge stainless fry pan though, so I kept the old one, sometimes you just need stainless but for most wet cooking Teflon is nice.

I learned my lesson about boiling water or steaming with teflon pans -- only use stainless for that, too easy to boil dry. So, add a big stainless pot for that.

I can't understand how anyone can cook with those "professional" pans, you'd have to be a serious weight lifter to wrestle a full pan off the stove without a spill. I guess that is why all the "best" cooks are men, women can't carry those massive pots.
 
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