Re: replacing Magnalite Pro and Calphalon

Rod Keys said:

Hi,
I have used Magnalite Professional (anodized) and Calphlon
Professional(also anodized) cookware for MANY years. The
stuff has been great. But it's finally time to look for a few
replacements. To my horror I find that Magnalite Pro is long
gone and Calphlon has become consumer level junk.

Does anybody make professional quality hard anodized cookware? What
can I replace my old stuff with?

Have you checked out the "American Culinary" company? They claim to be
the successor to the Wagner company that sold the Magnalite products.
http://www.wagnerware.com/about.asp I can't vouch for them from
personal experience, but maybe they have maintained standards.

If you don't have to have anodized aluminum, the AllClad line with
aluminum exterior and stainless steel interior is first class stuff.
Expensive, but extremely high quality.

-aem

I've looked at a lot of comparison tests of cookware. None of them
recommended aluminum anymore. Health problems and all that. All of them
like AllClad the best, though it is admittedly pricey, but should last
forever.

salgud said:

I've looked at a lot of comparison tests of cookware. None of them
recommended aluminum anymore. Health problems and all that.

Aluminum is in deordorant and even dust. It can't
be avoided.

Quoted message said:

All of them
like AllClad the best, though it is admittedly pricey, but should

last

Quoted message said:

forever.

So I have a different reason why I switched from
Magnalite: Stainless clad is dishwasher safe. I live
in the wrong century to have pans that can not be put
in the dishwasher.

Thanks for the replies so far. A few comments

1) re "health problems"; Anodized aluminum does not put aluminum in
contact with the food and the Alheimers cannention turned out to be bogus
anyway. (Healthy bodies are very good at throwing off more aluminum than
they need .. the elevated levels of aluminum in the brain tissue of
Alheimers patients were a result of Alheimers, not a cause, and it happenes
wherther there is excess aluminum in the diet or not.)

2) I agree that hand washing is a pain. But I find an anodized suface more
durrable and harder (scratch-proof) than stainless. Nor are clad stainless
pans 100% dishwasher proof. Over time the bleach in dishwasher detergent
will attack the exposed aluminum.

3) Magnalite has indeed re-appeared. But I have not yet seen Magnalite
Professional (the anodized stuff).

4) I find the older Calphlon and Magnailie (before they reduced the
thickness) distributes heat much more evenly than even All Clad (I have one
All clad pan .. I like it but it's not in the same league as the old
anodized stuff).

It may be time to just keep an eye on eBay ...

Again, thanks for input so far.

Rod

"Aluminum is in deordorant and even dust. It can't
be avoided."

So this means I should go out and find ways to ingest more? LOL!