This comes up all the time. Certainly, All Clad is very good cookware. Pretty, performs well, but at a very high price. As noted by CR and many people here, other cookware can perform just as well. When it comes to boiling potatoes in a pot, cheap stuff can perform just as well also.
Comes down to the looks versus money thing.
I'll keep my Revereware pots, thanks.
I too have a lot of assorted cookware, but for some tasks I always seem to pull out the Revere. There is something "comfortable" about them in their classic simplicity. My mother owned some too. I think I bought mine as a starter set right before I married, from The Hecht Company. I seem to recall the price of $50 for two small saucepans with lids, a large and small frying pan and a Dutch oven with lid that also fit the larger frying pan. Not a bad deal considering how long I've had them, huh!?
I vote for Revere for every day stuff, too. Mom has had her set over 50 years and I've had mine over 30. You don't find TV chefs trying to tack their name on this cookware. Farberware is also good. For anything goes from stove to grill to oven, Lodge cast iron.
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:25:24 -0400, "Edwin Pawlowski" <[email hidden]> wrote:
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This comes up all the time. Certainly, All Clad is very good cookware. Pretty, performs well, but at a very high price. As noted by CR and many people here, other cookware can perform just as well. When it comes to boiling potatoes in a pot, cheap stuff can perform just as well also.
Comes down to the looks versus money thing.
I'll keep my Revereware pots, thanks.
TammyM
Oh......... Guess you will have to slum with my All-Clad pots and pans at the NM cook-in, Tammy. 😉
I've slummed with Kay's, I can slum with yours.
Seriously, it's not that I am prejudiced against them or anything, I'm just farrrrrrrr too chea.... erm ... parsimonious to buy them! Even on sale.
Geez, that's more than a rack - that's a whole pot pole! Where'd you get that thing? I want one! My odds-and-ends are taking up a whole double cabinet underneath my cooktop.
To hell with the pots, I want that pot totem! My low ceilings won't allow for a rack (unless I do a little remodeling, wouldn't take that much), but that thang ..... as Jed Clampett would say, hooooooo doggies!
I picked up a set of Wolfgang Puck's pots and pans from Sam's club about a year or so ago for about $99. It had 3 sauce pans, large sauté pan, 8" fry pan, a smaller wok shaped pan I use for reducing liquids, 5 qt stock pot that had a pasta strainer and a steamer that also fit into the 3qt sauce pans. All came with good fitting glass lids, encapsulated aluminum bottoms in 18/10 stainless steel. All in all they have worked very well and held up as far a looks go. I also picked up other pots and pans as needed including in addition to my old cast iron.
Geez, that's more than a rack - that's a whole pot pole! Where'd you get that thing? I want one! My odds-and-ends are taking up a whole double cabinet underneath my cooktop.
To hell with the pots, I want that pot totem! My low ceilings won't allow for a rack (unless I do a little remodeling, wouldn't take that much), but that thang ..... as Jed Clampett would say, hooooooo doggies!
TammyM
Yeah, I want one of those pot totem poles too! That pole rack of Chris's is really, really nice! I hate bending down to the lower cabinets to get the pots and pans (or whatevers!). Maybe I'll take a welding class just so I can make my own <vbg>!
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:25:24 -0400, "Edwin Pawlowski" <[email hidden]> wrote:
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This comes up all the time. Certainly, All Clad is very good cookware. Pretty, performs well, but at a very high price. As noted by CR and many people here, other cookware can perform just as well. When it comes to boiling potatoes in a pot, cheap stuff can perform just as well also.
Comes down to the looks versus money thing.
I'll keep my Revereware pots, thanks.
TammyM
Oh......... Guess you will have to slum with my All-Clad pots and pans at the NM cook-in, Tammy. 😉
Chris's is really, really nice! I hate bending down to the lower cabinets to get the pots and pans (or whatevers!).
Sky, I don't know if they have an Ikea anywhere close to you, but they sell those hanging pot/pan racks for a mere $40. That's one third to one fifth the price places like W-S an Macy's want for the damn things. It's not a cheapy, either. It's flat black wrought iron, very sturdy, and comes with lots of hooks. If none close by, order online or send for a catalog. I don't know how I lived without one for so long.
Chris's is really, really nice! I hate bending down to the lower cabinets to get the pots and pans (or whatevers!).
Sky, I don't know if they have an Ikea anywhere close to you, but they sell those hanging pot/pan racks for a mere $40. That's one third to one fifth the price places like W-S an Macy's want for the damn things. It's not a cheapy, either. It's flat black wrought iron, very sturdy, and comes with lots of hooks. If none close by, order online or send for a catalog. I don't know how I lived without one for so long.
nb
Thanks for the info, NB- I may have to check it out this week on my lunch break!
Chris's is really, really nice! I hate bending down to the lower cabinets to get the pots and pans (or whatevers!).
Sky, I don't know if they have an Ikea anywhere close to you, but they sell those hanging pot/pan racks for a mere $40. That's one third to one fifth the price places like W-S an Macy's want for the damn things. It's not a cheapy, either. It's flat black wrought iron, very sturdy, and comes with lots of hooks. If none close by, order online or send for a catalog. I don't know how I lived without one for so long.
nb
NB, I looked at the Ikea website, and I cannot find anything there that comes close to resembling Chris's pot/pan totem pole!
Do you know of anything anywhere that comes close to hers and the way it works? I don't mean a regular rectangular hanging pot rack either, which won't work in my house (short ceilings). It has to be a "pole" just like Chris's. Thanks.
Sky, who still might take a welding class just to make one
works? I don't mean a regular rectangular hanging pot rack either,
Ummm... but I did.
You wanna pole? [nb grits teeth] Yer testing me, Sky! 😉
nb
Quit that <grin>. I'd like to . . . . . uh, I'd better stop before this gets outta . . . uh . . . OK, I meant I'd like to have a pan/pot storage system just like Chris's! I don't know what to call that neat contraption. There ;>
Quit that <grin>. I'd like to . . . . . uh, I'd better stop before this gets outta . . . uh . . . OK, I meant I'd like to have a pan/pot storage system just like Chris's! I don't know what to call that neat contraption. There ;>
Sky
Sky, I think you could probably make one if you are slightly handy and if you have the right tools. I would like one myself. It looks likek a giant tension rod with holes drilled in it and S hooks to hold the pans in place. You would just need to find a long enough tension rod - maybe like a shower rod, although I don't think it would be quite tall enough - it would depend on your ceiling. You could even do it, I bet with a 2 by 4...topped of with rubber end thingys....to protect the ceiling.
To hell with the pots, I want that pot totem! My low ceilings won't allow for a rack (unless I do a little remodeling, wouldn't take that much), but that thang ..... as Jed Clampett would say, hooooooo doggies!
To hell with the pots, I want that pot totem! My low ceilings won't allow for a rack (unless I do a little remodeling, wouldn't take that much), but that thang ..... as Jed Clampett would say, hooooooo doggies!
My Swiss guests last week made a much nicer photo of it, but I don't have access to their photo site. I find it invaluable for the extra things that don't hang well on the normal pot rack above the cooker.
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To hell with the pots, I want that pot totem! My low ceilings won't allow for a rack (unless I do a little remodeling, wouldn't take that much), but that thang ..... as Jed Clampett would say, hooooooo doggies!
I counted eighteen. There appears to be one nestled within another in the ten position from the top. I bet we're both wrong.
leo
Actually, I think I have about 24 pieces...some of which are stockpots, and other pots that don't have the longer handles. And a Brazier, and a sauteuse.
Mind you, I didn't get it all at once. It was like a piece here, a piece there...
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:44:03 +0200, [email hidden] (Victor Sack)
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TammyM said:
To hell with the pots, I want that pot totem! My low ceilings won't allow for a rack (unless I do a little remodeling, wouldn't take that much), but that thang ..... as Jed Clampett would say, hooooooo doggies!
I counted eighteen. There appears to be one nestled within another in the ten position from the top. I bet we're both wrong.
leo
Actually, I think I have about 24 pieces...some of which are stockpots, and other pots that don't have the longer handles. And a Brazier, and a sauteuse.
Mind you, I didn't get it all at once. It was like a piece here, a piece there...
Christine
Understood. Still. . . . s e v e n t e e n? Or e i g h t e e n? Or t w e n t y - f o u r? Sweet Jesus! We all have our vices, I guess. That's gotta be heavy to schlep everywhere you go. -- -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ http://www.jamlady.eboard.com http:/http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/amytaylor/
