Nowadays, if you don’t own all clad stainless pots and pans, you are losing money and time. It is practical and stylish at the same time. Stainless steel (18/10) cooking pots have become sort of a standard even for amateur cooks. All clad stainless steel sets are also hand polished and look nice in your kitchen. It is the best stainless steel cookware you will find anywhere when on budget. Cookware looks just so elegant with these finishing touches.

All clad cookware set

The best thing about this cookware, besides cooking delicious meals, is that you will look and feel professional but is also suitable for washing in the dishwasher and by hand. It will make no difference where you will use it: on induction, gas, electric, or any other stove. It will give you the best performance a relatively cheap cookware can.

All clad is a very well-known name both in-house and restaurant uses. Probably the best-selling Cookware right now. Many pro chefs worldwide use it today. Although there is always a chance you will not like it, so I must say this next paragraph.

Normal All clad sets are usually not much better than any other brand. BUT, they do have some special ones which are worth mentioning. I am buying only the set or individual pieces which have either aluminum or copper core. Not only are they better for cooking, but are also better looking than normal stainless steel stuff. They tend to get hot quickly and stay hot for longer periods saving your time and money.

Also, copper and aluminum cookware make the cooking surface more evenly distribute the heat, so you don’t have hot or cold spots in your pan or pot. Also, their response time to stove heat change is simply amazing.

Stainless Pots and Pans

When buying copper or aluminum cookware, make sure you know what you are doing. Choose only those that show you how thick the extra metal layer is, because some cookware has is all wrong, using 1/8″ layers which have almost no positive effects we were just discussing. Also, it makes a difference what kind of stainless steel is used in making stainless steel pots and pans. Make sure you buy cookware with at least 18/10 markings. 20/12 or 22/12 are even better.

So the bigger the number, you will get better the stainless steel cookware set. These numbers explain how much chromium (first number) and nickel (2nd number) are there in the piece you are buying. Chromium is what gives the steel its stainless properties.

However, more chromium added means steel will be tougher to form, and that is where nickel comes in handy because it is very easy to mold it the way you like. So more chromium means you will have better stainless steel pans or pots, and more nickel means that steel will be easier to form in the shape of pots and therefore better quality because the material will not have a small hole and will be very uniform throughout the whole cookware piece.