How many sets of pots and pans do you own?
By sweetdesign
@sweetdesign (5142)
United States
August 3, 2008 8:43am CST
I have 4 (yes four) different sets going in my kitchen plus a few random pieces of other kinds of pots and pans. I have Cooks Essentials basic set, Technque Hard anadized (my daughter loves these), Technique cast iron, and Paula Deen's cast iron. I have a few random pieces from other sets but most (about 90%) of my cookware is highend stuff that I have gotten from QVC. They are quality pieces and I love each set for their own properties. Although I will admit that when I was ordering the cooks essentials set I wish I had just gotten a complete set from technique hard anadized cause my daughter (18 and loves to cook) really loves these pots and pans and she hates the cooks essentials. How many sets do you own? What kind are they? Do you love them/hate them?
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11 responses
@IBWISE (145)
• United States
3 Aug 08
This may sound crazy but I have 6 sets and they are all T-fal, the thing is 4 of them are hanging on my kitchen wall and cannot be used. I do mostly all the cooking in my house,But my passion is grilling, I LOVE to Bar-B Que,day or night, summer or winter.
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
3 Aug 08
I love to bar b que also. I have an outdoor smoker and an indoor smoker and a grill also. I am wanting to get a nice big gas grill that way I have all three. Here in FL you can grill in comfort all year long lol.
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
3 Aug 08
I want an outdoor kitchen so bad. That is what I am working on piece by piece lol. If I had the money to do one home improvement it would be spent on a state of the art outdoor kitchen complete with a pizza oven and sink and the whole 9 yards.
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@IBWISE (145)
• United States
3 Aug 08
My one desire is to build a grilling station in my yard. Large open-pit with two covered side grills and a coverd half pit for potatoes and catfish. I make my own BBQ sauce from scratch, When I am done my station will look like a small outdoor state of the art kitchen...
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@bdugas (3578)
• United States
3 Aug 08
I have 2 sets of pots and pans I use every day, Macy's here has huge sales on them every once in a while and I bought 2 differents sets when we first came here and was stocking our kitchen. But my skillet has about had it and I went out yesterday to look for a new one just to cook like eggs in, God have you looked at the price of just a small skillet, it is unreal. I have so many other items like bundt pans and baking pans, cookie sheets, seems you need a different size every time you cook. Plus I have my crock pot and a grill that my son got me for christmas which is nice.
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
3 Aug 08
The prices on pots and pans is the reason why I shop on QVC. Thier prices can't be beat and sometimes you can get them on easy pay so that you can pay it out over time. I have bought almost all of my pans on easy pay.
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@missbdoll (1165)
• Australia
4 Aug 08
I've no got 2 full sets and quite a few bits and peices.Ones one of those ones that look like smoked glass.And the other is a vintage set, with harlequin lids each lid is a different colour, its from the 1950s or 60s.I got it with some other stuff in an auction.And they were still in there original boxes, and unused.So I guess I'm using collectable saucepans.
I've also got and old set of cast iron fry pans, which I think would be some of the first kitchen ware I ever bought.
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@WANDALIE44 (888)
• United States
3 Aug 08
i have two different sets of pots. the first one when i first got my place and ast year when i changed the color of my kicthen to red. i think that in my family the one with the most pots is my grandma she has all kinds of pots and pans and some are from our country puerto rico so they are realy old and different looking then some of the pots here. they are made of alumiuim and are painted white, they are cute but heavy as well and she one for coffe one for rice and beans and soup lol. when i clean for her it takes a whole day to wash the pots and organize them in the stove lol.
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@metschica25 (5399)
• United States
3 Aug 08
Hi ,
I have a few different pieces from my parents . When I bought my house my uncle and aunt bought me real nice set . also at xmas my other aunt bought me this huge cooking simmering pot , that is very nice . I dont think i have ever bought a set myself . Here and there a piece or two , but no sets
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
3 Aug 08
A couple of my stock pots are not part of any of my sets. I have a lot cause we cook alot at home. We rarely eat out at restuarants and do most of our cooking at home. Not the quick from a box type cooking either for the most part.
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@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
5 Sep 09
I own one good set of pots and pans that I bought when I moved into this apartment 7 years ago. considering the fact that I don't cook, one set was more than enough for me. LOL Now that I'm married to a guy who loves cooking, those pots and pans are getting a lot of use, and they've probably already paid for themselves by now. LOL
@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
4 Aug 08
I have only one set of pots and pans. I bought them because my old ones were to worn to use any more. I bought the teflin pots and pans and love them. This was the first time I had bought a good set of pots and pans. I had been buying from the dollar store but no more after using the good set that I bought from Walmarts. There are a world of difference between these I have now and the ones I had before. It is enjoyable to cook since I got the new pots and pans.
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@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
4 Aug 08
I have two complete sets, plus a few extra pots. One set I got when I got married 3 1/2 years ago. One I bought myself about 8 years ago. (I like it better, but since my son likes to burn pans. I let him burn the newer ones.) The extra pans came from my mom's house. She's in an assisted living center now.
@_sketch_ (5742)
• United States
4 Aug 08
I still live at home with my parents until the end of this month when I head out for college, so I still don't own any pots or pans yet. I will probalby only have one set when I finally get some. My mom has a bunch of pots and pans that she's acquired over the years. I don't think that any of them are still in sets anymore. Just a bunch of random ones. I don't really cook much, so I don't know what kind they are. I neither love or hate them. They are just pots and pans to me.
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
4 Aug 08
Damn sweet, I'm really jealous now! I don't have a full set
of anything. Some of my pots and pans are hand me downs
from my Mom and Grandmother! In fact I've been hinting
to my boyfriend that we need a nice new set of pots and pans
and maybe he could get them for me for Christmas. Figures
I have to waste a gift for Christmas on something for
cooking (lol). Nah, I'm only kidding. That would be a
great gift. I don't want anymore non-stick garbage. That
stuff just doesn't last and isn't healthy. What would
you recommend that I get? What is cooking essentials?
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@sweetdesign (5142)
• United States
4 Aug 08
Cooks Essentials is one of the highend pots and pans they sell on qvc. I like it because you can get it in noonstick (but this nonstick is super good and doesn't peel and flake off)or in stainless. But by far we like the Technique hard anodized line on QVC better. It is the same quality you get from Calphalon but much much more affordable. I also like the enamel coated cast iron from Technique which is just as good (if not better) as the french expensive brand of enamelled cast iron. the enamelled cast iron gives the benefits of cast iron without the frustration. Clean up is a breeze! I used our new everyday pan with a lid last night and love it. Even cooking with no worries of hot spots.
