[QueenAngie]

Everybody has pots and pans in the kitchen.

Everybody has one or two pans they just love
and
one pan that is really annoying to cook with.

When I got married, I got copper bottom Paul Revere Ware.
Everybody had them and I got the entire box full.

I do like the sauce pans
and the huge cooking pot when cooking.

The frying pan always has food stick to it, even when spraying with Pam.
I find this annoying.

Then, about 4 - 5 years ago I purchased a Turbo Cooker.
Remember these?
Came with a multitude of recipe cards
for 30 min or less meals.



DH broke the lid on my 1st Turbo Cooker
and purchased me a 2nd set.

I love this pan.

It's big enough for a package of pasta.
It does great with huge pancakes.
Also a great pan for a big pasta sauce.

Nothing sticks to it, so the clean up is easy & simple.

Can go in the dishwasher too,
but mostly I wash it by hand.

What are your favorite pots and pans?

[Samual]

We use Mauviel copper saucepans, they are quite expensive £94 for a small pan without a lid, luckily I have a brother who owns a restaurant and the wholesale price is alot lower than retail, most things were around half the price or less.

[songbirdxx]

I love cooking,for family and anyone else who happens to be over!I have no favourite pots and pans.My deal is, as long as I don't need two hands to lift them!

[MissyChrissy]

I use stainless steel only. Anything teflon emits toxins into the air. Not only do I not want to risk killing my parrot, but he's like the canary in the coal mine for me. If teflon is dangerous for birds, what the heck does it do to us over time?

[deedee1231]

I love my Paul Revere copper bottom pots and pans!! I really never have a problem with food sticking to them and I use them all the time. I also have a Paul Revere copper bottom dutch oven and I really love it too. I use it almost everyday. I also do not like teflon coated pans. I got some of them when we were first married 17 years ago and they were very popular but I always thought they made the food taste plasticky. I didn't know that they emit toxins, that is probably what I was tasting !! That sort of grosses me out, to think that 16 or so years ago I may have been eating toxic eggs and not have known it .

[MissyChrissy]

Originally Posted by deedee1231

I love my Paul Revere copper bottom pots and pans!! I really never have a problem with food sticking to them and I use them all the time. I also have a Paul Revere copper bottom dutch oven and I really love it too. I use it almost everyday. I also do not like teflon coated pans. I got some of them when we were first married 17 years ago and they were very popular but I always thought they made the food taste plasticky. I didn't know that they emit toxins, that is probably what I was tasting !! That sort of grosses me out, to think that 16 or so years ago I may have been eating toxic eggs and not have known it .

I don't know if it is in the food-probably. But it's emitted into the air. Avian experts have known since Teflon was first invented that it was deadly...household birds would die within minutes of the pans burning. Classic canary in the coal mine scenario...you have to ask, if it does that to birds, what is it doing to us?

Here's an article about the dangers they've found it has done to us. Read "PFOA -- a key processing agent in making nonstick and stain-resistant materials -- has been linked to cancer and birth defects in animals and is in the blood of 95 percent of Americans, including pregnant women."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...012502041.html

[etali]

We need some new pans. We have a really nice wok, I'm not sure what make it is (I think it's one of the Ken Hom ones - we've had it for years), but we only have some cheap pans, and the tops are impossible to clean - some of them even rusted because water got in the handle and it couldn't be dried out.

We'll be buying some good ones soon. Since moving house we do a lot more cooking of 'real food', so it's about time.

That Turbo Cooker looks really good.