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This cookware set is an exceptional value, including all of the pans needed to equip your kitchen with the most used cooking pieces. It includes saucepans for whisking a homemade sauce or cooking your morning oatmeal, a big stockpot for soups, stews or boiling pasta, and skillets (probably the most used pan in any kitchen) that will help you turn out perfect crepes or a simple grilled cheese sandwich. The set also includes a saute pan, a wide, straight-sided pan that can perform many of the functions of a skillet but features deep sides for extra capacity, perfect for one dish meals. Start your dish in this pan by sauteing onions and browning meat, then add your liquid and other ingredients into the same pan to finish on the stovetop or in the oven.
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Technical Details
- Set includes 1-1/2- and 3-quart saucepans (each with lids); 6-quart stockpot with lid; 3-quart saute pan with lid; 8- and 10-inch skillets- Heavy gauge hard anodized construction heats quickly and evenly, reducing hot spots that can burn foods
- Nonstick surfaces deliver superior durability and maximum food release
- HollowCore polished stainless steel handles accent the commercial styling of the pan body
- Oven safe to 500 degrees F; wash by hand; limited limited lifetime warranty
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By L. Pederson (FL, USA)
This is an older model of cookware that Analon no longer sells on their website (probably why it's sold so cheap!), but it still has all the modern features you need. The non-stick works amazing. Warm dish-soapy water and the soft side of the sponge is all I've ever needed to clean the non-stick surface, one light swipe and the food is gone, even after sitting out all night. The hard anodized aluminum is extremely porous though, and requires noticeably more effort than standard aluminum or stainless cookware to clean. If any food gets on the hard anodized section of the pot you really need to wipe it off before it dries, or it will stick, and possibly stain if it's acidic like with a tomato base. The stainless handles are thick and sturdy, fairly fingerprint resistant, and don't really heat up to speak of. They remain cool to the touch throughout cooking as long as you grab them by the end instead of down next to the pot. The lids and lid handles, however, do get very hot, and need to be handled with a hot pad or glove.
The pans are equivalent in thickness to similarly-categorized Calphalon and Cuisinart sets (meaning they're much thicker than any of the cookware you'd find at Target or Wal-Mart, and very solid feeling), and is in no way a bargain or cheap product. Build quality is actually superior to some more recent Calphalon products, and far superior to the entry-level "Simply Calphalon" cookware.
Definitely make sure you use only plastic or wooden utensils with these pots, however, and I'd recommend not using the scrubbing side of the sponge on the non-stick, only on the anodized section. I've heard the Autograph 2 non-stick is susceptible to damage if you use scrubbing sponges or metal utensils, so I've avoided those practices and the non-stick is holding up beautifully.
By Deborah S. Mikota (Napavine, WA)
I ordered this set of pans in October for my daughter who is an excellent cook. She had requested a set of anolon hard- anodized pans. After using a couple of other pans ordered from Amazon we were sure these would fit the bill. Upon opening them this morning, she was totally shocked - not what she had expected at all. The exterior surface is fine, but the interior surface will not sear meat - because it is not the hard anodized that was advertized. Good pans, but not what was advertised. Amazon totally blew it.
By Primrose Hill (UK)
Last week, I looked long and hard for a cookware set to buy for an older relative, and ended up buying this one.
Last year, she said she wanted to replace her tired, inexpensive nonstick cookware with stainless steel cookware "to last me the rest of my life", so I bought her a very nice set of stainless pans with hard-anodized exteriors (on sale at a major department store, it was double the price of this Anolon set that I will review in a moment) -- but after a year of frustration on her part (she never got used to cooking with the stainless pans; food would cook too fast and burn on the bottom of the pans), I decided to buy her a nice set of nonstick pans that would look coordinated with her dark-grey hard-anodized stainless set.
I tried to find an affordable set of hard-anodized nonstick from the brand that made her stainless set, but I just couldn't locate a nonstick set from that brand that had good reviews AND was under 200.
The main thing that I was looking for in a hard-anodized nonstick set was a big saute pan / "everyday" pan that is like a skillet with moderately high sides. Most cookware sets have an 8 inch and 10 inch skillet, and I also wanted a 12 inch skillet for my relative, but those are hard to find in a set.
I figured that a 12 inch saute pan could double up as a 12 inch skillet when required. When I looked at the photo of this Anolon set, I assumed that the saute pan (which is in front of, and slightly offset from, the soup pot) was 12 inches in diameter because it looks wider than the largest skillet shown and, to me, it looks wider than the soup pot. The inch dimensions of the saute pan are not given in Amazon's description of this set -- I did look. That is what sold me on buying this set in particular - my assumption that it had a 12-inch saute pan. However, my relative has opened her gift today and the saute pan is only 10 inches in diameter, the same size as the soup pot and the larger skillet, which disappointed me. They never claimed that it was 12 inches, that was only an assumption on my part, so I'm not complaining.
Now that she's opened her gift and I've checked out the pans, they seem well-made and sturdy, but not so heavy that a 70-year-old (for example) would not be able to lift them and cook in them.
To check the nonstick coating, we tested out a clean wooden spoon and a clean plastic spoon in one (pretending to gently stir), and surprisingly, the wooden spoon left several obvious marks in the nonstick surface. The plastic spoon didn't make a mark in the nonstick surface. This worries me about the durability of the nonstick surface, because I thought that wooden spoons were supposed to be okay for nonstick pans. My relative only has one plastic spoon and about 25 wooden implements, so we'll have to get her some plastic cooking tools.
She has just sauteed some onions in the soup pot (getting ready to make some stuffing for Christmas eve dinner), and the handles of the pot have gotten really hot even though the pan is on medium heat (as some other reviewers have said). So, you must use hand protection when you cook with these pans.
Last week when I was contemplating buying this set, I looked around to see if it was on sale at other retailers and on the Anolon site. It seems to not be on sale anywhere else, and it is apparently a discontinued set/style/line that was last manufactured in about 2003 or 2004, or even earlier. I had a few questions about the set (size of saute pan, warranty coverage, open stock availability), so I called Anolon's customer service number and got a recording that all the staff were away the entire day for a staff training. Time was running out on my shipping window for Christmas, so I just went ahead and bought this set without having my questions answered by Anolon.
Because this line of cookware has been discontinued by Anolon, note that you can't buy any open stock pieces in this SPECIFIC "hard-anodized nonstick" line. You also won't be able to get an exact replacement of any pan that came with the set if something happens to it, under the Anolon warranty (if they agree to replace a pan under their warranty, they will subsitute with a current model).
Of course, Anolon has a current line of nonstick hard-anodized, which has, I think, silicone handles, and which can only be used in an oven up to 350 degrees (this older Anolon set can be used in an oven up to 500 degrees and has stainless steel handles). So if you want to mix and match styles and designs (and brands), that's fine, but don't expect to enlarge your cookware collection of this particular style, because they aren't available anymore.
The price that I paid (129) is a good price for a set of pans of this quality and brand-level. I saw in my internet searches last week that a few months ago, this set was listed here for 99. That would be a fantastic price, if you can get it.
My relative has just washed them all to put them in her cupboards, and even though she used a pink scotch-brite sponge (the kind that is for nonstick surfaces), there were some small scratches in the bottoms of the pans (it's not like she had to scrub them with the sponge because they hadn't been cooked in, they had just come out of the box). I guess this just goes with the nonstick territory, but it's still a shame.
Bottom line -- My relative is happy with her gift, and the pans look and feel lovely. I hope they'll last for 5 years at least, but I am feeling concerned about the durability of the nonstick surface. This is a standalone set that does not have any replacement or extension pieces available, but if your cooking needs are modest and your household is on the small side, the set is large and versatile enough to get you through most situations.
By Cat o' Nine Tails (San Francisco, CA United States)
These are the best pots and pans I've ever owned. Hold heat beautifully, heats up quickly, looks sharp and has amazing non-stick. Handles get a little hot near the pan, but absolutely fine midway or at the end.
The only issue is that they're not dishwashable, but they're well worth the inconvenience. And coming from me, that's a very high bar.
By Robert B. Chapin (NE Colorado)
Generally stout construction with good materials. Handles become hot so be careful on touching. The non-stick is better than most at resisting scratches and the exterior anodizing is also hard but retains burn marks. Generally pleased with the set.
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