you have an empty kitchen and $250.

[topaz]

You have an empty kitchen and $250.  What cookware set do you get and why?

As reported in keyne's LJ, most of our cookware has still not turned up after a couple of weeks of unpacking.  There are still some boxes where some of it might be hidden, but their numbers are dwindling.  A cast-iron skillet and Dutch oven are versatile things but we are getting to the point where we are ready to buy a new cookware set.

Whatever we get needs to be easy to store, as our new kitchen is a lot shorter on storage space than the last one.  So options which stack well will get bonus points.

But forget all of htat.  You have an empty kitchen and $250.  What do you buy to cook with?

Comments

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Agreed on nonstick pans; I hates the stuff.

Absolutely get cookwear that's of a proper sandwich construction (generally steel with a Cu or Al core); the kind that just have a thick Al disk at the bottom suck irredeemably.

Which of the sets I linked to have the disk at the bottom? I can't tell!

[ceo]

They all say something like "encapsulated aluminum disk base", so I think they all do. :-(

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

They don't suck irredeemably -- they're fine for, like, heating soup, and way better than the old "copper-bottom" department store stuff.