Best Cookware Sets - Our Top Picks

So I am a cooking fanatic, this is one of my passions. The kitchen is the center of my home and I spend a lot of my free time there cooking up a meal for my family or trying out new recipes. Around Thanksgiving of last year I need to purchase a new cookware set for my home and need something that cooked well, was durable and would last years. So I set out for in my quest for the perfect set and evaluated several cookware sets. I knew that I wanted a set that was heave duty, cooked well, was both dishwasher and oven safe, had riveted pot handles and were easy to handle. From my experience if you get a good quality cookware set many of the bigger pieces tend to be heavy and hard to handle. I took a trip to the mall and started looking at all the major cookware lines, including those made by: Wolfgang Puck, Jamie Oliver, Emeril and All Clad. Most of them looked the same to me initially but all had a problem, they were kinda hard for me to handle. Then I came across Cuisinart’s cookware.

To my relief I came across this Cuisinart Chef’s Classic Stainless Steel set. This is a 10 piece set and it is very high quality but at the same time won’t punch a hole in your wallet. I was surprised at how easy it was to handle and that the pot handles did not get hot during cooking. The are very pretty and clean easily in the dishwasher. As for as cooking goes this set has excellent thermoconductivity and I had no problems with being able to cook my meals well as they did a good … Read the rest ->

When cooks are outfitted with the Cuisinart MCP-12 MultiClad Pro Stainless Steel 12-Piece Cookware Set, they have every pot and frying pan that they need. Additionally, Cuisinart is a name brand that I trust. I know that they usually sell products that are built to last, and the many features of this particular cookware set make them definite kitchen classics.

Making good reasons for loving these pots and using them, here are some of the great features that I like the best:

- The pots are made of aluminum covered with a high-grade stainless steel. The aluminum is excellent because it is a good heat conductor and cooks food quickly and evenly. The stainless steel is a hard and clean metal that protects the aluminum. Now, aluminum is a softer metal that can be easily dented and scratched. I am not a fan of cooking in aluminum because I do not like particles of aluminum in my food. Cooking in these pots protects my food from the aluminum because of the outer stainless steel coating.

- One of my very favorite items is the vegetable steamer. I can boil water or cook some soup or rice in the bottom while I steam vegetables in the top compartment pot. That steamer pot with holes in its bottom fits snugly into the bottom pot.

- The handles of these pots stay cooler than a lot of pot handles I have used. I like a cooler handle that does not require a pot holder to use.

- I like having this matching set that includes small and large sizes for different uses.

- The lids fit well and they fit more than one piece so that I can use the stock pot lid for … Read the rest ->