Cuisinart Multiclad Pro Stainless Steel 12 Piece Cookware Set
Cuisinart Multiclad Pro Stainless-steel 12-piece Cookware Set – Cuisinart MCP12
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Great stuff
I got one piece of this set to see if it was good and it is Quality stuff so i gave the piece as a gift and bought this set and it is amazing easy to cook on and clean shines right up with some bar keepers friend and no harmful Teflon and heats nice and fast just start at lower temps esle your burn you eggs or whatever you may be cooking still looking mighty fine after a year of use and one pan even was left on a burn set on high and forgot about by a room mate he thought it was gonna need replacing but after a long cool down and some TLC with bar keepers friend it was good to go the out steel is still a hint of gold but the cookin side was fine amazing stuff highly recommend for it’s price and its price is low enough not to hate yourself if if ya burn a pan or somehow manger to mar these puppies but they are built to last one thing to know is the lids have a mirror finish and any thing short of microfiber towel will probably put some hairline scratchs in em like my plastic Brillo did no biggie unless your the anal-retentive chef
5 Stars Second to All-Clad and in Some Ways Bettter
I’ve done a lot of research before making this purchase. I’ve looked at Cuisinart Chef’s Classic, Caphalon, All-Clad, and Emeril Stainless & Proclad sets, all in person. The Cuisinart Chef’s Classic and Emeril Stainless both are NOT clad.. they have thin sides and just a disc pressed onto the bottom of the pan. The others are clad and I was impressed with the quality of all of them. However I didn’t like the interior of the Caphalon; it didn’t seem polished enough. I didn’t like the handles of the All-Clad. The Emeril Pro-clad set had nice handles and nice glass lids; this set seemed pretty good. However, all these clad sets were much more expensive than the Cuisinart Multiclad Pro set and I also read very good things about the Multiclad set here in the reviews. I took a chance, since I haven’t seen this set in person at a department store or at Williams Sonoma.
Well it paid off, because not only is this the most affordable set, the quality is incredibly good as everyone said. Nice polished interior; easy to keep up with barkeeper’s friend. The lids are well built with nice handles. The handle to the pots & pans are much more comfortable than the All-Clad and lots thicker than the Cuisinart Chef’s Classic line. These pots & pans really feel on par with All-Clad to me; i’ve held a lot of All-Clad at the stores. They cook things very evenly and have great response due to the clad aluminum core. Fond build up is wonderful in these pans; I love how easy stuff can stick to them to then be easily deglazed since it is stainless steel. If you need to fry an egg, use a lodge cast iron skillet; you can buy them at Walmart for less than $20. The stainless steel frying pans are for french style cooking .. you want stuff to stick to the pan to form a fond to then be deglazed and made into a sauce.. the stuff that sticks to the pan tastes *good* and is a wonderful base for a sauce. For the rest of the pans.. they are great .. perfect for sauces, marinaras, soups, stock, boiling water, etc.. I am very happy with this purchase.
I also purchased the 1 quart Henckels Clad Saucier pan for making sauces for two to four (I’ll be writing up a review on this later.) I bought it because cuisinart doesn’t offer a 1 quart saucier and all the other clad sauciers tip over because the handle is too heavy for the body. The Henckels has a hallow cast handle, making it well balanced and hard to tip over.
I still need a 12″ stainless steel frying pan, and I am considering Multiclad Pro or All-Clad copper core.
I highly recommend this set of cookware either for personal use as a gift. They seem like they will last me a *very* long time.. maybe 30 years or longer.
5 Stars ALL THE BLING WITHOUT ALL THE $$$$
This is high-quality fully-clad professional stainless cookware at a fraction of the cost of All-Clad. The lightly brushed exterior is beautiful, and the pans have a great feel to them – solid, but not too heavy. I especially like the pouring rims and the feel of the handles. I’d recommend this line to anyone looking for high-end stainless, but does not want to spend top dollar just for a name.
5 Stars Great Cookware
I have been looking for high quality stainless and founds it. I really can’t tell any difference between this and All Clad. I could not be more pleased and Amazon had the best price.
5 Stars Cuisinart Multiclad Pro 12pc Cookware Set
We had just purchased a new glass top cooking range, (our first smooth top) and reading about their requirements of flat, clean and smooth bottomed pans to keep from scratching/ruining the glass top, helped us decide it was time for a nice set of cookware (a first for us also). After all, our current “set” of mis-matched, thin, cheap, peeling (if you know what I mean), and warped pans were far from up to that task. So I started looking at what was on the market.
The first criterion was a quick review of prices. This without a doubt, threw A11 C1ad right off the table (my table anyway). After that easy determination, all the other brands were comparatively priced in their categories of construction type and set size.
The second criterion was durability. The first thing I decided was that non-stick was off the table, as I’ve never heard of any type of non-stick coating lasting the life of the pan it’s placed on. Not to mention eating the stuff in your food once it does start to wear out, and the alleged health concerns of ingesting some of these coatings.
This left me looking at uncoated stainless steel pans. Which of course are also the best looking pans you can get. (IMHO) Now when you start looking at S/S pans, you will notice that there are basically 3 different kinds/construction of them, thin single-layer light weight ones, thin single-layer light weight ones with an aluminum/copper clad bottom and lastly, heavy double layer ones with an aluminum core that runs through the bottom and up around the walls of the pan. Hence the term clad pans. Not to be mistaken with “bottom” clad pans, of which only the bottoms are clad, (of course).
clad, clad*ding, clads
1. To sheathe or cover (a metal) with a metal.
2. To cover with a protective or insulating layer of other material.
In the case of stainless steel clad pans, you have a soft aluminum layer which is one of the best heat conductors there is, with a protective layer of stainless steel on each side of it totally encapsulating the soft aluminum. Not only does this give you a great even-heating pan, it also creates a very sturdy pan. If you’ve heard of composite materials used in the construction of newer aircraft among other things, it is merely a series of flimsy “layers” of a material that as a whole, form a very sturdy material.
So when you compare these three different construction types of s/s pans, it only makes sense to have the full clad. Why stop with one layer of s/s when you can have two layers with a layer of aluminum in between to give you a “composite” sturdiness to last a lifetime for just a little more money.
We decided on the Cuisinart Multiclad Pro set. We placed this pan set into our Amazon shopping cart and checked back almost daily for about a week waiting for the right price drop and ordered. We got free shipping on top of the lowest price we’ve found. And it shipped on the next day and arrived on the third day of shipping, although shipping speeds can differ based on location.
You may have heard eggs can be a difficult item to cook in s/s. Well my wife’s first attempt was an omelet that left her wondering if she had made the right decision, because it stuck a little compared to her old non-stick pans. But that didn’t stop her from trying again and let me just say… they are the best looking omelets she has ever cooked. So you will learn to cook a little different if you’re used to non-stick pans but my wife now loves them and we are looking to add to the set with some individuals and plan to have them around for a very long time.
This pan set is a great deal!! Are there other brands of the same construction? Sure. Are they any better, or cost any less? I read lots of reviews on different pan sets and what I read for these convinced me these were the ones for us.
We totally love cooking in them, they are great looking and display well, they are solid and built to last, and the chances of needing to ever replace them are thin to none! Couldn’t be happier!! Don’t look to long…. These will be hard to beat, trust me!
