Kitchen Reviews

This pan is excellent! 10 stars would be more like it! This sturdy, substantial, top quality pan is perfect for evenly cooking all your breakfast foods, grilled sandwiches, saute, etc. It has a low profile and the bottom is flat so you can cook using less energy and achieve superior results. The usable cooking surface is far greater than most larger but lower quality pans, and it takes up little storage space. It is constructed of top quality stainless steel inside and out with a double-riveted stainless steel handle. The third ply is aluminum, bonded between the layers of stainless which provides awesome heat conduction and even heat distribution, but the aluminum is completely sealed inside and never touches your food. It is oven safe up to 500 degrees so you can start cooking on the stove and finish it or keep it warm in the oven. It is a beautiful pan that is dishwasher safe and it should last a lifetime. For half a century I have used inferior pans with inferior results. With All-Clad stainless I am learning to enjoy cooking again with beautiful results! For the overall value this is an excellent buy and I recommend it without reservation!

Holding an ALL-Clad pan makes you feel like a chef! The flambe pan is a trophy of quality USA craftsmanship. A recent CIA graduate now working in San Fran recommended All-Clad and told me it is the choice of professional chefs and it is the best. I'm new to professional cookware but I wanted to start a collection of lifetime cookware. The theory was buy the best once. The weight of the pan is substantial and echoes the All-Clad reputation. You know immediately you holding a special instrument that will produce delicious results. The heat is so evenly distributed throughout the flambe pan, less heat is required. I love this pan; it is the swan of my collection! It's beautiful. It's a fun piece to use and when finishing an entree there's a little voice inside me that says taa-daaah!

Great pan - I was amazed at how evenly it cooks your food. Of course, it's stainless so the clean-up isn't nearly as easy as with a non-stick pan...

This is a lid. It fits All-Clad's six inch pots perfectly. It's shiny. It holds things inside the pot. The handle can get hot after a while, so be careful. The handle is nicely shaped and is easily held with two fingers. It's shiny. It's just a lid. Though if you didn't have a lid your sauce or whatnot might splatter across your stovetop, and wouldn't that be messy? Yay lids!

How exciting can a lid be? When it's All-Clad, it's always exciting.

Having cooked for almost 40 years, I can assure you that there is no better cookware than All-Clad. Beautiful, durable and efficient. Anyone thinking that food will stick to a stainless pan has either not tried All-Clad or is using faulty technique. Preheat the pan, lightly oil and it is better than any other product. The best.

After finishing the best turkey I have ever made for Thanksgiving, I cannot highly recommend this pan! An investment for sure, I was lucky enough to receive it as a gift. At first I was hesitent about cooking on stainless steel. My Mom has a set of some cheepy brand of stainless steel that she got in 1971 as a wedding gift (still has them) and they are a pain to cook on, everything sticks. Not in these pans! The majority of the time they wash right up. Sometimes you might have to use a little Barkeepers Friend on them to keep them sparkling, but it takes two seconds to clean with that. When we got married I had started with Calphalon. I am definately switching to All Clad!!! Much more simpler.

This is a great roasting pan and is heavy and solid in the way all All Clad pans are. But it is huge. If you frequently roast 20 lb turkeys or half an ox, this pan is for you. A regular roasting chicken looks pretty small and forlorn. It is a terrifically well-made roaster, but I find I also need one just a bit smaller.

I have this pan and the box says solid Stainless Steel. So, be aware that you aren't getting a aluminium. I think dealers don't realize that not all All-Clad products are aluminium. It's a nice pan anyways.

How many measuring spoons do you need in a set? Just four.

After reading all the positive reviews, I bought this set on Amazon.com six months ago. The spoons are sturdy and heavy-set, with their curvature perfectly shaped to measure both dry and wet ingredients. Unlike ones made of plastic or aluminum, the stainless steel construction makes the measured ingredients slide right off without leaving messy residues. Also, its stream-lined design makes its cleanup a breeze.

For many years I have been working with inferior spoons. I had mostly plastic sets and Aluminum ones (I think they were aluminum). Boy was I glad to get this set. The spoons are really well made. First of all, they're heavy and not flimsy like those plastic or aluminum ones (which feel like they'll break at anytime). Secondly, I haven't been able to tarnish these spoons (Unlike my plastic set that was stained pretty badly). I recommend this set to anyone who had to go through life using those flimsy, inferior spoons.

These are well-made spoons, not junky at all, which is always a possibility with cheap, mail-order items of this type. The steel is heavy-gauge, and all the edges are rounded and safe. Good value and a good way to "top up" an order.

I had 3 of these for almost 2 years. What a great value. Easy to clean, thick anodized alum allows even cooking. Exterior surface can scratch easily but non-stick interior surface is excellent and long lasting if you follow the manufacturer directions for taking care of it.

i just recieved my pan today it is everything i'd hoped for i can't wait to use it and i'm looking forward to having this pan for many years

This pot is an exceptionally good investment, and an unbeatable value. I have used it to cook spaghetti sauce, braised beef with onion gravy, stew, chili, meatballs in sauce...you name it! The results have been excellent. Keep it on low simmer, and it requires just about no watching. It's a snap to clean. I have also bought one of these wonderful Analon pots for my son, who enjoys cooking for himself and his family.

To sum it all up: I LOVE THIS POT!

Wonderful set, no doubt. Great weighted feel, both rustic and elegant. While Black Lily has discontinued the serving utensils, they may be obtained under the name: Treble Clef Hostess Set from a number of online retailers. 5 pieces: 2 large spoons(one slotted), forkula, butter serving knife, and sugar spoon. Amazon does not carry them.

I love this style -- we bought three sets. I like the flattened shapes and weightiness of each piece. Unfortunately, there are no utensils available to match this set -- if Marshall Fields DID make these pieces available, I would buy every one of them.

I just got my first set in the mail today and they are absolutly beautiful! The only setback is that it's only a set of 4 and there are no other utensils for the set that match, either way I'm on my way to order another set now, they go great with my coral glazed stoneware. Elegant and functional yet eclectic and not your mother's flatware!

I've used several lesser known brands in my Bunn 10-cup without any of the grounds getting into the pot or detectable taste differences...but, for this price why not.

If you own a Bunn coffee maker, then you either love it or hate it. The difference is likely due to the coffee filters you use. You *must* use Bunn brand filters for any of their 10 cup brewing machines. Here's why:

-These 2.75 x 3" filters are uniquely designed for Bunn machines. They are almost 10% taller than other filters. If you try brewing coffee w/ another brand of filter (which is shorter), you will probably end up w/ filter overflow and nasty grounds in your coffee. Which is what some people don't understand when they complain of coffee grounds in their mug.
-In addition, these filters are made from "special paper grade...[for] optimum extraction of coffee's taste" and are "oxygen processed for better coffee flavor."

I don't think they cost significantly more than other filters and are well worth buying. In fact, I will never use anything else in my Bunn BT10-B. However, they can be difficult to find in most grocery stores. I have found filters at St@pl&s and T@rg&t. And, of course, here at Amazon.com!

Because I can't find Bunn filters at any of my local stores, I've tried several other brands - trying to find one that would adequately replace the Bunn filter. My final conclusion - there aren't any.

Aside from the fact that some other coffee filters leave a papery taste in your coffee, there's another important reason to get these filters. Bunn coffee brewers can brew a whole pot of coffee in 3 minutes. To do this, they need to push a large amount of water through the grounds in a short period of time. Other coffee filters were not designed to support this high flow-rate. With filters like Mr. Coffee, my Bunn's filter basket will occasionally overflow during the brew process - spilling coffee and grounds all over my counter. Other brands are too short and grounds manage to get over the filter, and then down into the coffee pot.

If you have a Bunn coffee maker, then you *need* Bunn filters.

Tip for Canadians: You can buy coffee filters at your local Tim Hortons - they say Tim Horton's brand, but they are made by Bunn for Tim Hortons! I found this out the last time I was in Canada visiting family... good to know if you can't find these elsewhere.

We recently purchased this pan and have seen the difference that professional cookware can make. We moved up from the Calphalon Non-Stick Pots and Pans set to the Professional Hard Anodized cookware. Foods brown more evenly at a lower heat setting. And, the pans heat more quickly, so in addition to better performance, there is an energy savings as well. Clean up is easy, even tough stains are removed quickly with ScotchBrite and kitchen cleanser. Better yet, no worries about scratching a non-stick surface, or damaging highly polished stainless steel!

I'm sold on it,so is my son-inlaw. My husband is not a cook but finds it easy to use. When he tries. He says it cleans up nice. Keep up the great work. I used to use corning ware.Stainless steel.But this seems a lot better to use.

Yeah! Calphalon is plain old good cookware. But let's face it, Calphalon and most other hard anodized cookware is a pain to clean. Well, after deciding that I wanted to stick with hard anodized, I had to come up with a way to keep it looking nice. Try this:

1) Cook up a great meal and make all the mess you want.
2) Wash the cookware with hot water and plenty of soap.
3) Working with one piece at a time, scrub out stains with a cleaner like Comet or Bar Keepers Friend. Coat the cookware evenly with the suds of your chosen cleaner. Let this cleaner actually dry on the the piece. This tends to draw out any oily residue from the cookware.
4) Rince well with hot water while rubbing with your hand to ensure. This ensures there will be no hase left when the cookware dries.
5) Dry the piece immediately with a clean cloth (I use bar-mop towels, Extremely Absorbent!).
6) NEVER heat the cookware if there are any signs of grease present on the exterior. The grease will cook onto the cookware and ruin the piece.

I use this technique for all of my anodized cookware and all of it is like new.

Enjoy your Calphalon!

The Skinny:
I bought this piece for my wife, who'd been wanting a nice set of "formal" cookware. I have to say, the set is beautiful.

The Good:
Each piece has a solid, good weight and from what I can tell, the cooking is pretty even. They're almost like art pieces - we were scared to use them at first, cause we wanted to keep them in their "new"-ish glory for a while...

The Okay:
To be completely honest, you're probably gonna do just as well with imitation stainless pieces like emeril-ware or something from cuisinart, etc. However, it's the difference between name brand and imitation.

Clean up, of course, is a little trickier than with the traditional non-stick. If you get this set assuming it'll be an easy clean up job, you're diluding yourself - no matter what everyone else says.

The Ugly:
The only downside to this set, aside from lacking one extra lid, is that the fry pan is pretty useless. It's really too small to be of any use besides maybe cooking an omelette for one. I knew, going in, it was smallest piece in the set, but it's a lot smaller than I expected. That's why I gave this set a 4/5 instead of it's full 5.

I used to blame my lack of cooking in part on the fact that I had a terrible apartment kitchen with no counter space.

Well, that much is partially true, but after I received this set for my birthday one year, I realized it was also the pots I was using. And that with the right equipment, cooking is truly a joy.

I had an old set of hand-me-down Revereware. Competent enough, but their age was showing... and when it took me two hours to boil potatoes in the big pot (and they still didn't get completely done!) I was ready to throw them all out the window. Enter All Clad.

All Clad is not nonstick, and you do have to take care of it (although I do put mine in the dishwasher) but the shine is enough that you won't have much trouble if you clean up (or at least soak) immediately. Don't let it sit -- I'm still scrubbing the remains of some soy sausages from my skillet! (Although perhaps I shouldn't have cooked those in the first place.)

They have a solid aluminum core, which definitely makes them heat evenly. They also heat fast! As as example, when I first got my set, I whipped out the saute pan (by far my favorite piece of cookware) and added a little olive oil. I turned the stove on medium. I walked out of the room for about three minutes. When I came back in, I was going to add my chicken. The chicken sizzled... enough that I turned the heat down to medium low, even low. You don't need to cook above medium heat in these pans, because they retain heat so incredibly well. I literally had to relearn how to cook, because of how I'd gotten used to cooking in my old pans! As another example, when using one of my mom's All Clad pots while poaching fruit for a Christmas dessert, it retained heat so well that I kept accidentally turning her gas stove off, trying to get the heat low enough to keep it at a very bare simmer. I ended up settling for a rather bubbly simmer instead.

I can't say enough good things about these pots. They're wonderful. In fact, I only have two complaints. One, the lids, which are also stainless steel, get very hot and since they're not steel, they're not see through, either, which I rather miss. And two, the fry pan, as others have mentioned, is so small as to be almost useless, but it is very good for cooking very small things, like a fried egg, or a few sausages for one.

That said though, this is an excellent starter kit and gives you some real basics. If you're looking to just start out with a few good pieces, get it. You'll use the small 2-quart saucepan and 3-quart saute pan all the time!

And then you'll add to it, as I plan to. Enjoying cooking again is definitely worth it.

This set is a great way to get a few basic cookware pieces, however, once you start cooking with this truly outstanding cookware, you'll want to buy more. Over the years, I have spent hundreds of dollars on another well-known commercial cookware brand, but All-Clad is far superior. The stainless looks great and is a breeze to care for. The handles stay comfortable and the pots are really well-balanced, making them very easy to handle. They heat evenly and cook uniformly, even over low and medium heat. I am very pleased with All-Clad's performance on my radiant cooktop. I would recommend this line of cookware to anyone interested in quality and performance. Well worth every penny!

The pans seem of great quality (haven't actually used them yet), but I wanted to advise of the packaging. I ordered two sets, and planned to give one as a gift. I was less than thrilled to see the large lettering on the box: Our gift to you - free when you purchase $150 of Anolon cookware. Thus, be aware that if you want to give these pans as a gift, the giftee will think they were freebie! No one else has mentioned this-- maybe they are not all packaged the same.

I bought these on sell and I'm glad I did this cookware heats evenly and clean up is easy with the nonstick surface. Would buy again.

I just received the Analon 4 piece set for 19.99 a few days ago. The pans cook everything so evenly and tasty. I highly recommend this product. Great value for the money.