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All Clad Stainless 6 Piece Cookware Set with Nonstick Fry Pan

by pots and pans on July 14, 2009

All Clad Stainless 6 Piece Cookware Set with Nonstick Fry Pan

The bestseller among All-Clad’s renowned cookware collections, the Stainless line provides serious and professional cooks all the virtues that make All-Clad’s worldwide reputation unsurpassed. Key to its high performance is a three-ply, bonded construction. Sandwiched between layers of stainless steel is a thick core of pure aluminum that spreads heat evenly across the bottoms of pots and pans and all the way up the sides. The interior is highly polished 18/10 stainless steel, so it’s stick-resistant as well as stain- and corrosion-resistant. The exterior is made of gleaming, magnetic stainless steel that works on induction as well as conventional stovetops, and, with care, remains beautiful during this cookware’s lifetime warranty against defects–and beyond.

This six-piece set of Stainless cookware consists of an 8-inch fry pan with a layer of scratch-resistant, professional-grade nonstick coating bonded to the interior steel layer; a 2-quart covered saucepan; a 3-quart covered saut? pan; and a 6-quart stockpot. Polished 18/10 stainless-steel pan and lid handles are riveted for strength and grooved on the top for comfort. Both the lids’ handles and the pans’ long handles (holed for hanging on hooks or pegs) stay cool on the stovetop but won’t be harmed by an oven’s highest heat, although the nonstick pan should not be in an oven hotter than 400 degrees F. This Stainless cookware is dishwasher-safe, but hand washing is recommended, and it’s essential for the nonstick pan. –Fred Brack

What’s in the Box
8-inch fry pan, 2-quart covered saucepan, 3-quart covered saut? pan, 6-quart stockpot

From the Manufacturer
All-Clad Stainless Construction
Each piece of All-Clad cookware features a unique metal bonding construction. All-Clad Stainless cookware sandwiches a thick core of three separate layers of aluminum between an easy-to-clean, highly polished 18/10 stainless-steel cooking surface and a magnetic stainless-steel exterior. The aluminum core retains heat and evenly distributes it along the bottom and up the sidewalls of the cookware. The stainless interior is stick-resistant and cleans easily. The magnetic stainless-steel exterior gives the cookware a gleaming finish. All-Clad Stainless also features the company’s signature “stay-cool” long handles, lids fashioned from gleaming 18/10 stainless steel, and highly durable stainless-steel rivets. All-Clad Stainless cookware is one of five collections from All-Clad Metalcrafters. Designed to work on conventional gas and electric ranges, as well as induction cooktops, All-Clad Stainless cookware is the best-selling collection in a full line that includes All-Clad LTD, Cop-R-Chef, Master Chef 2, and Copper Core.

Features and Benefits
All-Clad pans with a stainless interior cooking surface are oven-safe up to 500 degrees. All-Clad pans with a non-stick cooking surface are oven-safe up to 400 degrees, but should not be used under the broiler. We recommend using a low to medium temperature when cooking with All-Clad. Higher heats are not necessary and may cause discoloration (see cleaning instructions below). Other features include:

Beautifully polished, magnetic stainless exterior layer.
Pure aluminum core that not only covers the bottom of the pan but also extends up the sides. This allows for great heat conductivity as well as an even heat distribution so you won’t have “hot spots” when cooking.
Stainless-steel interior layer/cooking surface.
Long, polished stainless, stay-cool handles.
Sturdy, non-corrosive stainless-steel rivets won’t react with foods.
Polished stainless-steel lids fit evenly with the pan’s edges to seal in flavor of your foods.
The All-Clad Stainless collection is compatible with an induction stovetop (with the exception of a few pieces) in addition to gas and electric stovetops.
The Stainless collection is dishwasher-safe, excluding pieces with a nonstick cooking surface.

Warranty
From date of purchase, All-Clad guarantees to repair or replace any item found defective in material, construction or workmanship under normal use and following care instructions. This excludes damage from misuse or abuse. Minor imperfections and slight color variations are normal.

Cleaning Instructions
For daily cleaning, warm soapy water is sufficient. Clean your All-Clad thoroughly after each use. Food films left of the pan may cause discoloration and sticking. To get rid of stuck-on food or discoloration and stains from using too high of a heat, we recommend cleaning your All-Clad with a product called Bar Keeper’s Friend. To use the Bar Keeper’s Friend, simply use a soft cloth or sponge and water and make into a soupy paste. This can be used on the interior, as well as the exterior of your All-Clad (excluding the Cop-R-Chef). The Bar Keeper’s Friend can also be used on the exterior of the All-Clad Stainless collection, LTD collection, and MC2 collection. For cleaning of the Cop-R-Chef exterior, simply use a brass/copper cleaner. If your water has a high iron content, you may notice a rusty discoloration. Use Bar Keeper’s Friend to remove it.

All-Clad Stainless Selection
In recent years, a professional-size 14-inch fry pan was added to the Stainless fry pan assortment, as well as several popular specialty pans, including: the small-size petite brasier with a dome-shaped lid; petite roti roasting pan; and the beautiful, large-capacity Dutch oven and French oven oval roasting pan with roasting rack. Both of these one-pot comfort food specialty pans comes with All-Clad’s popular high dome-shaped lid. Other specialty pans include a larger brasier pan with domed-shape lid; a complete family of round-shaped saucier saucepans for versatile stove-top cooking; a flare-sided Windsor pan in two sizes, designed for reduction and the creation of rich sauces; and a contemporary “Soup for Two” 3-1/2-quart soup pot; casseroles; an open stir fry; a versatile wok-style chef’s pan; and a “Pasta Pentola” 7-quart stockpot with colander insert and lid. All saucepans, casseroles, saut? pans, stock pots, and specialty items come with lids. Double boiler and steamer inserts, including the large steamer insert for 6-quart, 8-quart and 12-quart stockpots, are available as well. Stainless cookware sets are available in various sizes, from a starter 5-piece to a complete 10-piece set.

About All-Clad Metalcrafters
Based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, All-Clad Metalcrafters markets premium quality cookware to department and specialty stores in the United States, along with premium All-Clad bonded bakeware, All-Clad All-Professional kitchen tools, and a growing assortment of kitchen accessories, including All-Clad’s upscale tea kettle, measuring scoop set, stainless-steel mixing bowls, kitchen colanders, and 1-cup measuring cup. Featuring a unique metal bonding process, All-Clad cookware is used in many of the finest restaurants in America, and is sought by serious home cooks seeking all-professional cookware to enhance their cooking experience.

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Emerilware 8 inch Nonstick Fry pan

by pots and pans on June 25, 2009

Emerilware 8 inch Nonstick Fry pan

Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse kicks it up another notch with the stainless-steel cookware collection, following the success of his nonstick collection. Bam! This 8-inch fry pan is a lustrous example of the stainless-steel collection, which is made by renowned cookware manufacturer All-Clad. Its heavy-gauge, 18/10 stainless steel is polished to a mirror finish outside and blessed with a satin finish inside to conceal utensil marks. To distribute heat uniformly and maintain it, there’s a thick aluminum disk on the bottom covered in stainless steel so the pan works on any stovetop, including induction. For elegance, the disk’s edge is clad in copper.

Displaying Emeril’s signature, the pan’s cast-stainless-steel handle is riveted for strength and has a thumb rest for comfort. In addition, the handle stays cool on the stovetop but won’t be harmed by an oven’s highest heat. The pan’s lip flares to facilitate dripless pouring. Although Emerilware Stainless cookware is dishwasher-safe, hand washing is recommended. The 8-inch fry pan carries a lifetime warranty against defects. –Fred Brack

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Fry On-I Say-Fry On!
This was purchased as an addition to an Emerilware set that was given as a gift. Non stick is the way to go in regards to cooking. The 8″ frypan is a nice size and will be purchasing the larger 12″ size non stick fry pan. Emerilware lives up to normal kitchen wear and tear and laymen cooks will be satisfied with its use as well as getting one’s money’s worth. Would recommend this product.

5 Stars Emerilware is the best!
I have the 14 pcs Emerilware all-clad cookware stainless and it is top of the line. I can cook like a world chef with perfection. With one exception scrambled eggs; I have tried every thing and I can not make scrambled eggs in stainless cookware so I got the Emerilware 8″ fry pan with non-stick coating and now I am set to cook it all Baby!

5 Stars Awsome Pan
I had purchased a 2 qt sauce pan by Emeril, and really loved it, so I needed a fry pan and purchased both the 8″ and 10″ Emeril pan. It’s a great pan. It heats evenly, and cleans up in a snap. I like it because it can go into the oven as well. It’s a well made pan, and I recommend it highly.

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All Clad LTD 9 Piece Cookware Set with Nonstick Fry Pan

by pots and pans on June 24, 2009

All Clad LTD 9 Piece Cookware Set with Nonstick Fry Pan

Distinguished among All-Clad’s renowned cookware collections by its stylish, charcoal-black, hard-anodized aluminum exterior, the LTD line provides serious and professional cooks all the virtues that make All-Clad’s worldwide reputation unsurpassed. Key to its high performance is a three-ply, bonded construction. Sandwiched between the hard-anodized aluminum exterior and an 18/10 stainless-steel interior is a thick core of pure aluminum that spreads heat evenly across the bottoms of pots and pans and all the way up the sides. The interior is highly polished, so it’s stick- as well as corrosion-resistant. The striking exterior resists scratching, chipping, and peeling.

This nine-piece set of stylish LTD cookware consists of a 10-inch fry pan with a layer of scratch-resistant, professional-grade nonstick coating bonded to the interior steel layer; a 2-quart covered saucepan; a 3-quart covered saucepan; a 3-quart covered saut? pan; and a 6-quart covered stockpot. Polished 18/10 stainless-steel pan and lid handles are riveted for strength and grooved on the top for comfort. Both the lids’ handles and the pans’ long handles (holed for hanging on hooks or pegs) stay cool on the stovetop but won’t be harmed by an oven’s heat. LTD cookware carries a lifetime warranty against defects and should be hand washed. –Fred Brack

What’s in the Box
10-inch fry pan, 2-quart covered saucepan, 3-quart covered saucepan, 3-quart covered saut? pan, 6-quart covered stockpot

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars All-Clad is the best and will last a lifetime. LTD looks great. This is the perfect set.
My wife an I duked it out between Calphalon Commercial Nonstick (now called “Contemporary”) which she preferred for its lighter weight and All-Clad which I prefer for its tougher build. We have a bunch of each. The All-Clad stuff is better hands down. It heats quicker and more evenly. It seems to cook requiring lower stove temperatures. The anodized exterior is smoother and of higher quality. The clad stainless interior is exquisite and easy to clean.

This particular set is perfect – the most required pieces. They constitute a complete kitchen set, lacking only, perhaps, a couple of larger pans (12″ fry and 5 Qt. Saute are really nice to have). The choice of stainless interior versus nonstick is personal – but I recommend the stainless interior. First of all, the stainless interior is virtually indestructible and will last a lifetime. All-Clad’s nonstick interior is the best in the business, but it does wear out. I’ve had several LTD nonstick pieces for 9 years now. The ones that get a lot of wear are starting to wear out. Nothing is more pathetic than a battleship built All-Clad pan with a frayed nonstick interior. It’s like putting fur in a truck bed. Nonstick might be easier to clean up – but the difference is trivial. Maybe you have the intention of cooking with less oil, but the difference between nonstick and LTD’s excellent mirror-like stainless interior is also trivial. I find the arguments for nonstick hard to defend. That being said – the fry pan is where you’d most want non-stick and that’s where you find it here. Just right.

As for the review that says anodized aluminum exteriors are hard to maintain, she should read the product literature. You clean anodized aluminum with a plastic scrubby (like the 3M green ones) with bleach cleanser (like Ajax or Comet). Just make a paste with the cleanser and power away stains in moments. Anodized aluminum – like all aluminum cannot be dish washed. The phosphates and brightening agents in dishwasher soap with create a chalky powdery rot in the anodized surface. If you are determined to dishwash your cookware you must forget about aluminum and stick to stainless steel. All-Clad makes a great like of stainless cookware – but nothing is prettier than LTD’s awesome black.

3 Stars Cooks great but exterior looks ugly after a lot of cooking
I’ve had these pans for a number of years now. I usually cook several times a day almost everyday & although these pans cook beautifully and the interior looks beautiful, the anodized exterior looks terrible now. I wouldn’t mind so much but I have them hanging on decorative pot rack. For that reason I want to replace them with the less expensive version in stainless steel but the financial loss is killing me. I don’t have room in my small kitchen to put them away. We’ve had a stainless steel All-Clad sauce pan for a few years which still looks great and isn’t embarrassing hanging from our rack. If you don’t mind so much what your pots look like then these would probably be a great choice. If anyone knows any great secrets to keeping these looking great, please post them. I’ve contacted All-Clad several times and do exactly as they say without achieving any desired results.

4 Stars Very good cookware, but exterior is not dishwasher safe
The bodies are made of 1/8″ thick aluminum with a full stainless steel lining on the inside. The thick aluminum bodies make them heat evenly and the stainless interior make them non-reactive with food. My only gripes are that the rim of the pots have exposed non-anodized aluminum which become discolored with use. And the anodized aluminum exteriors become discolored if washed in a dishwasher. These are just cosmetic issues that don’t affect the function, but I had higher expectations given the relatively high price of this set. I also considered the All-clad cookware that has stainless steel cladding on both the interior and exterior. In retrospect, perhaps those would have been a better choice assuming the thermal properties don’t suffer too much from the exterior stainless steel coating.

5 Stars Inspiring cookware set… worth the price!
I got this set as a wedding/christmas/birthday present
from my mother. I did a LOT of research before picking
this set out. I read reviews of other sets, compared
prices, materials.. you name it, I checked it out. I
even did some reading in various cookbooks to try to
learn as much as I could about good cookware. Here
are some of the basics I learned.. good cookware should
be made to last a life time, it should heat EVENLY, it
should carry a strong warranty, it should be beautiful,

and it should be expensive (because you get what you pay
for!). So why did I decide to go with All Clad’s LTD 9
piece set?

All Clad has a few lines of cookware. ALL of them have
aluminum cores (and in case you didn’t learn this already, aluminum is an EXCELLENT heat conductor). So why the LTD? LTD cookware is made with a stainless steel interior (which is great because it’s the most durable metal of all), a pure aluminum core, and a beautiful dark gray hard anodized aluminum exterior. Why hard anodized aluminum for the exterior? Well, although aluminum is a superb heat conductor (second only to copper), it’s not very durable. But good old science found a way to make aluminum stronger WITHOUT taking away its heat conducting properties. It’s an electro-chemical process that “anodizes” the aluminum. Hard anodized aluminum is actually stronger than stainless steel!! So when you get cookware that has a stainless steel (18/10) interior, a PURE aluminum core, and a super durable and super beautiful hard anodized aluminum exterior, you get the best of all worlds.

This set itself is almost perfect as far as the pieces go. My only complaint is that the stock pot is too small. BUT..the sautee pan, the nonstick frying pan (which by the way has the GREATEST nonstick surface I’ve ever used!), and the two sauce pans are WONDERFUL and BEAUTIFUL pieces. Since I bought this set, I’ve added to it. I bought the steamer insert (which fits into the larger sauce pan), a 7″ frying pan, and a 1 and a half quart sauce pan.. all LTD, and all PERFECT. I have absolutely no complaints about the pieces themselves. Water boils faster in these pieces than in ANY other piece I’ve ever used. And more importantly, it heats EVENLY. You won’t look into the pot as it starts to simmer and see that the bubbles are only coming up from one side of the pan. The bubbles come up evenly from the entire bottom of the pan. Oh, and did I mention that the aluminum core goes ALL THE WAY up the sides of the pan? The heat from the burner gets transfered ALL THE WAY up to the top of your pan, making it heat up incredibly fast!

All in all, all clad is a perfect 10. The other sets (MC2, copper chef, etc..) look pretty good too, but they have their drawbacks. The LTD set is perfect, and beautiful. I highly recommend it.

5 Stars Pricey but worth it
My all-clad LTD set has withstood five years of hard-core cooking. With proper care, it looks almost as good as new. The set is well-designed to distribute heat well for uniform cooking, as well as having an attractive finish.

Pricey but worth it for the serious home cook.

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All Clad 12 Inch Nonstick Grille pan

by pots and pans on June 21, 2009

All Clad 12 Inch Nonstick Grille pan

A bestseller among All-Clad’s renowned cookware collections, the Stainless line provides serious and professional cooks all the virtues that make All-Clad’s worldwide reputation unsurpassed. Key to its high performance is a three-ply, bonded construction. Sandwiched between layers of stainless steel is a thick core of pure aluminum that spreads heat evenly across the bottoms of pots and pans and all the way up the sides. The exterior is gleaming stainless steel that works on conventional and gas stovetops, and, with care, remains beautiful during the cookware’s lifetime warranty against defects–and beyond. Certain pieces, like this round grill pan, have two interior layers, one of 18/10 stainless steel and the other of scratch-resistant, professional-grade nonstick coating bonded to the steel.

The round grill pan makes clear the appeal of All-Clad’s Steel cookware to contemporary cooks. It measures 12 inches in diameter, perfect for grilling four big burgers or two porterhouse steaks and searing them with appetizing-looking grill marks. Because the grill’s cooking surface is durable nonstick, you can grill healthful meals without using butter or oil, and you’ll have an easier cleanup. Its polished 18/10 stainless-steel handle is secured to the pan by stainless-steel rivets for strength, grooved on the top and rounded on the bottom for comfort, and holed in the end for hanging on a hook or peg. The long handle stays cool on the stovetop, but won’t be harmed by an oven’s heat. Oven-safe up to 400 degrees F, the cookware carries a lifetime warranty against defects and should be washed by hand to protect its nonstick cooking surface. –Fred Brack

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Thank God it was so cheap
The worst piece of non-stick I have ever used. We have begun replacing our old original calpahlon and have been thrilled with the all-clad up until this junk. Granted it has the core of the the stainless but the non-stick finish has “varnised” and as such is useless. We are accomplished cooks and use our pans daily sometimes all of them. Treat them with care and know how to preheat properly steer clear of this pan.

5 Stars Excelent
I bougth this after buying my all clad set of 10 and I am very satisfy with it. Very well made Grille Pan!

5 Stars The Next Best Thing To Outdoor Grilling
I just bought this pan today at Bed Bath Beyond for 39.99 in Mass. If you live in this state, you must go get this pan, this sale was not in the circular. It also comes with a grill pan cooking book.

I bought some rib eye steaks to test it out on, and all I can say is WOW. To the reviewer that said you don’t get grill marks, try getting a brick, and covering it tightly in heavy foil, lay it on top of what ever your grilling, you will get grill marks. You said there is no smoke taste, buy Wrights liquid smoke, I like the Mesquite.

This pan is a breeze to clean up, and the food, OMG the food tastes fantastic. No need for any oil, I also grilled brocolli spears when the steaks were almost done.

All-Clad Grille Pan Nonstick 12″ Rawks!!! Oh it’s heavy, I love that in a pan.

5 Stars Not your last grill pan
If you are trying to use high heat and get fabulous grill marks, this is not the pan for you. No non-stick coating will hold up to the heat and the ridges on this pan are too wide and shallow.

With that said, this pan is great for cooking fish, seafood and bacon. Clean up is amazingly simple.

If you’re only going to buy one grill pan, I wouldn’t suggest this one. It is a great supplemental pan.

I give it five stars based on cooking the items above.

1 Star Not for Induction cooktops
Very disappointed that All Clad decided to use non-magnetic stainless steel on this grill pan, which will not heat on an Induction cooktop.

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