Do you have a favourite cookware brand?

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Just curious if you have any favourites?

Some of mine include:

  • Le Creuset (lifetime warranties on many items)
  • Zwilling (lifetime warranties on many items)
  • De Buyer (lifetime warranties on many items)
  • John Lewis make some excellent cookware too - and many include 10 or 15 year warranties

What about you? Do you have any favourites? And why?

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Certainly with you regarding Le Creuset Azz! Stylish, classic and durable. Heavy though, great for a biceps workout! :muscle:
What a range of products too…

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“Sistema”.
An amazing find. For this Microwave Chef par excellence.
Who used to have watched the cooking as if watching TV.
In case the ingredients spattered inside the M/W.
This seals Evaporation. Cooking to Purrr-fection.
Suprisingly. Made by far away Kiwi’s. You cant beat a Hakka when Cooking. :grinning:

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I prefer glass cookware, so Pyrex, French Duralex, Simax or any other borosilicate glass will receive my approval.
Why glass? Its because I can see what’s going on inside the pan without lifting the lid👍

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I’m going to differ over le Creuset. Too heavy, can’t put wooden handled pots into the dishwasher, just no thanks. Whereas I’ve a couple of pans that I bought from Ikea in 1990 that are still perfect - great size, easy to clean and now 36 years old.

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I would not hear the last of it if I didn’t say “the boss”. The kitchen is her domain and woe betide me if I “cocked up” putting stuff back where I took it from somewhere else instead

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Usually find what i need in the supermarket and it does the job quite well.
Lakeland is worth a look when i’m in town.

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That principle of simply getting good but inexpensive works for me. I used to buy expensive frying pans from kitchen shops. I’d hope that they would last decades but in practice they ended up stick rather than non-stick within ten years or so. Now I buy ten pound or so ceramic pans from discount shops. If they only last a couple of years then its into recycling with them and buy new. I’m sure it saves me money and I get better cooking from them.

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WOW. M/W Supermarket Ready Meals in their Plastic Containers!!!

. This OT [Slipstreamed]
Has revealed an Eye/Guts Opener. Why It Is Unwise

  • Microplastic Shedding: Heating plastic ready meal trays releases millions of microscopic plastic and nanoplastic particles directly into your food. [1]
  • Chemical Leaching: Heat accelerates the breakdown of polymers and the migration of chemical additives—such as phthalates, bisphenols, and PFAS—into the meal. [1, 2]

I must B Encased wiff Plastic. :upside_down_face:
All changed from now on,
^5 OT Originator.

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All easily avoided by not buying ready meals. Simples

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The one I use most is a high-end Teflon frying pan. Salmon, duck breasts, sausages etc., start off on the hob, transfer to a hot oven for 15 minutes.

I’m a ReadySteadyCook child.

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I was thinking about buying one of those the other day from Amazon. They do seem to be very efficient at being non stick without the Teflon. As you suggest they’re not particularly durable in terms of how long they last… I’m still thinking about it. :thinking:

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Le Creuset … we have an affection, they look nice, ought to make delicious food. But they are not practical, not easy to work with.

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I think it’s about having a selection of different cookware and just use what works for you at that particular moment in time. We use all sorts, from stainless steel to cast iron which is higher maintenance. Judge non stick frying pans are decent and affordable.

Le Creuset saucepans could take a little while to get going, bit of a nightmare if you’d suddenly remembered that you hadn’t got the peas on at the last minute!

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The Pioneer Woman brand. I actually bought a Pioneer Woman mug a while back it was gorgeous and kept my drink coffee or tea warm. She has beautiful designs too!