Celebrity Cookware Brands (color, steel, cost, vent)

[IonRedline08]

I got a very nice Gordan Ramsey set from my work for about 45 bucks... That was a good deal!

[ranosb]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

Well, a long time ago when the local K-Mart store closed its doors, I bought a set of Martha Stuart stainless steel pots and pans. These are heavy and built like a tank. The best and cheapest set I have ever seen

Isn't this the woman that was rewarded five years in prison and $250,000 in fines?

[kyle19125]

Originally Posted by selhars

What and the best and worst celebrity cookware brands.....and or the best on celeb brands?
What are your experiences, comments, reviews? Also do you know which manufacturers makes which celeb brands?)

I bought my mom an Emeril Lagasse stainless steel set. And I was pleased.

These plus any others I can't recall??

Emeril Lagasse (T-fal and Warever makes his lines)
Wolfgnag Puck
Rachel Ray
Mario Batali
Todd English...and others
Paula Deen

Allclad........ Calphalon....... Circulon
Cuisinart...... Farberware.....T-Fal
Le Cruset......Kitchen Aid.....Warever.......Revere

The Todd English GreenPan line is pure junk. The non-stick lining fails after around two uses as do most non-sticks it seems. Invest in some good old-fashioned Le Creuset. It's durable and cleans up well.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by ranosb

Isn't this the woman that was rewarded five years in prison and $250,000 in fines?

What does that have to do with anything? Jay

[lucknow]

I don't know why it is but I often find really beautiful high quality enamaled cast iron pots in thrift stores. These can cost hundreds of dollars and I guess the people who take them in don't know what the have. Usually they look like they have never been used. I have found French, German and English made ones in a variety of great colours.

25 years ago I bought a set of heavy stainless Lagostina cookwear at Sears for around $200 at their typical 70% off sale. They have been very good and are still almost perfect all these years later. They are not much different than that "Lifetime" cookware that direct salespeople sell for around $2500 and up a set. {Good quality but a real ripoff}.

[Billy_J]

Some of the best food I have had has been from certain restaurants.

And those restaurants buy their pots and pans from a restaurant supply and they are a reasonable price - no "names" on these.

Note the chiefs at these restaurants go to professional cooking school where they learn the "science" of cooking. I assure you they could produce the most yummy foods on the cheapest of pans purchased at a 2nd hand store!

(Might want to spend those thousands of dollars on cooking school instead...)

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by Billy_J

Some of the best food I have had has been from certain restaurants.

And those restaurants buy their pots and pans from a restaurant supply and they are a reasonable price - no "names" on these.

Note the chiefs at these restaurants go to professional cooking school where they learn the "science" of cooking. I assure you they could produce the most yummy foods on the cheapest of pans purchased at a 2nd hand store!

(Might want to spend those thousands of dollars on cooking school instead...)

Why spending all that money when you can buy a real good set of pans for under $100.00? Besides, I like to cook my own foods. This way only my fingers touch it before I eat it.

[SorryIMovedBack]

I skulked the thrift stores and bought vintage '50s and '60s Farberware and Revereware. It's typically priced at $1 for lids, $2-$6 per pot without a lid, usually $8 for a pot with matching lid, and $5 - $15 for skillets ranging from 1-egg size up to the big chicken fryer with the lid. But one of those thrift stores has 1/2 price days on housewares, and I got a lot of my pieces for half the usual thrift store price. They aren't heavy. I picked ones that were still flat across the bottom.

You scrub them with Brillo or SOS pad or the knockoffs, then polish them with Mother's Mag and Aluminum Polish, and they look great. Some of my relatives received Revereware and Farberware as wedding gifts back in 1950-1952, and have used that same cookware once if not twice daily almost every day since then, and it's nowhere near worn out yet. An added bonus is that it's NOT heavy and it's ideally suited to women and elderly. :-)

So go pay $2500 and mope. I've spent maybe $150 and I have vast quantities, haha. Sometimes I even sell some for a good profit on ebay.

[RayinAK]

Good idea (thrift shops). Sometimes some excellent deals can be found at those places. Years ago when silver was cheap and while stationed at McClellan AFB, I found a solid-silver table knife made by Alaska Silver. If I well remember I didn't pay more than 50 cents for the knife, probably because whoever saw it on display didn't realize that it was made of silver, and also because it was not a good-looking knife. Nobody wanted to but the ugly thing. It's very plain, and not sharp at all. The blade looks more like a knife one would use to spread peanut butter on bread So, I picked the knife and looked at it in detail, noticed that "Alaska Silver" stamp on it, and since Alaska was my home State, I just had to buy it.

I stop by the local Salvation Army thrift shop every now and then to buy pretty glasses and dishes I use daily and end-up dropping on the granite counter or on the tiled-floor. But sometimes I find little treasures or real good-looking glass or ceramic items that I put away. People often break a glass or two from an expensive set, and take the rest to the thrift shop. I can't resist not buying a good-looking (or two) glass I can use to pour in some wine at dinner. If I drop and break the glass, not big loss. The expensive ones are left in the cabinet.

[Ohiogirl81]

My Revereware is 30 years old. A few years back, the handle on one of the saucepans started to loosen. I took it to the local Revereware outlet, and they exchanged it for a new saucepan. No charge.

Can't beat that.

No celebrities needed.