Customer Reviews

Farberware Classic Stainless Steel 13-Piece Cookware Set

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This company was bought out several years ago by a Far East company. The quality is not the same; the warranty is worthless; the 18/10 gauge steel is not truly 18/10 guage and the handles are made of cheap plastic. If one takes the time to look at the positive reviews, most of them are from people who have the original sets manufactured ten to twenty years ago. The company no longer exists, and its successor makes cheap knockoffs of the original. Do not waste your money

I purchased the non-stick set a few years ago. Within a year, the nonstick finish was wearing off. I worked a long time on getting this problem taken care of - seems Farberware was bought by another company a few years back, and no one wanted to take responsibility (a LIFETIME GUARANTEE) for my falling-apart cookware. Finally, they said they would resurface my pans. I sent them all ($25 in shipping!) in to a company in Pennsylvania.......who had them for SIX MONTHS!!!!! They wouldn't return calls, they totally disregarded my plea's for information about my cookware, they didn't care. I had to buy a couple of peices of inexpensive cookware, just so I could put meals on the table. I thought it would possibly take 3 to 4 weeks, but they kept me hanging the whole time. Finally, after I waited for those 6 months, my cookware arrived, without my large frying pan. Of course, 3 weeks of phone calls back to them, got me no where. I still don't have my pan. That was 2 years ago, and the nonstick surface of the resurfaced pans are wearing off again.

My advice would be to never buy nonstick surfaces from Farberware. Actually, I would never buy ANY Farberware. They may be "classic" but they don't stand behind their products.

All-Clad.....all the way!!

Farberware classic is great -- an inexpensive yet equally functional alternative to the very expensive pots & pans. Note: recently Farberware reduced its quality, in that older Farberware pots & pans had their thick aluminum base completely encased within a stainless steel shell. The newer pots & pans have the aluminum base attached to the bottom, but not encased within a stainless steel bottom. So, their quality is less than it was; most people who "grew up with Farberware" may not realize this. Farberware used to hold the patent on the technique of having the aluminum base CURVE up the side of the pan -- they no longer do this, and are the same as many other manufacturers.

Wow! This has got to be the deal of the century, and not only that, these pans will last you almost that long! My mother has had a set for 35 years, and I've had mine for 5. Nearly indestructible, dishwasher safe, good performers on the stovetop, with stay-cool handles! They even look great after all those years! The only issue with the old Farberware was that food could stick to it, so with this set they've included non-stick pans. This has to be about the perfect starter set for anybody -- extremely easy to use even for cooking dummies (which I was when I bought my first set). I mean, how often do you buy a gift knowing that it will still be around 20, 30, 40 years from now? That amounts to about 1 cent per day for the whole set (not including inflation/interest)!

By the way, if they do break down, they come with a Lifetime Warranty.

I needed to buy a set of cookware for the cabin I am building in the northern part of New Hampshire, and after looking around a bit for something that would be both serviceable and durable, I decided on this set. It has the added features of being attractive enough to hang out in view and is quite inexpensive. So imagine my surprise when I found out what fun this set is to cook with!

That said, I should mention that this set is quite functional as well as beaing attractive. There are 13 pieces in this cookware set, enough to meet the needs of any serious cook. The set ranges from a series of sauce pans to a stockpot to two non-stick skillets. Of course, it also has three mixing bowls, all with snap-on plastic lids.

All the pieces are made of heavy stainless polished steel. The saucepans and stockpot have aluminum cores in order to spread heat evenly. Moreover, the entire set comes with a lifetime warranty. Ours see continuous use, and we have been surprised at just how well this inexpensive set serves our varied cooking needs. Enjoy!

If you take cooking seriously, you probably aren't reading amazon.com reviews to decide what cookware to buy. If you don't, this set of Farberware pots and pans should be everything you could possibly need. They aren't expensive. They look nice; they are very shiny. And they last forever. My parents have this set at their house and they have lasted now for over 20 years. What a deal!

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We got this set one month after getting married, and guess what, it is the thing that we always wanted. It gives us the choices in pan sizes. and there are three more mixing bowls which come handy while cooking or storing left overs. The stockpots are wonderful, they are the used most of the times. The mirror polish is still intact, I think this is a wonderful thing that a newly wed should have. Its worth the price.

Positive points: Food doesn't stick to the pots/pans
You get varieties of sizes.
Easy to clean.
Looks smart.


Negative points: I feel the handles are little delicate, so we have to give support if the stockpot is completely filled
The mixing bowls are quite thin. Be careful while dumping it into sink

I'm ashamed to admit that I bought a cheapo set of cookware when I was first married, trying to save money. Within months, my bargain ware was scratched and scorched beyond belief, and handles were falling off left and right. We recieved the Farberware as a gift, and I've now had it for nearly 3 years. All the pieces still look brand new. They have resisted scratches and scorch marks. The non-stick feature has worked wonderfully as well. I'm not too much of a cook, but I'm very happy with the Farberware!

My better half and I bought this set about a year ago when we moved into our first apartment and needed to replace our various hand-me-down pans. The one pot we did keep was a well-used 8qt Farberware stockpot he'd had for several years. As he is fairly hard on his cookware, and doesn't want anything you can't put in the dishwasher, I felt that if this pot could stand years of his scorching, boiling-over abuse, then we should probably get a whole set. And we've been very happy with it. The only problem we had was that the saucepans were on the small end, but adding a 3qt saucepan easily fixed the dilemma. All the pans get regular use and have held up wonderfully. I think the key to really appreciating this Farberware set is to have realistic expectations of what it can do. I have found, through the advice of my step-mom and grandmother, that different pans are best used for different things, and it is best to have a collection of adonized aluminum, stainless steel, and even wrought iron to handle the various needs and tasks of the culinary adventurer. In other words, don't put all your eggs into one kind of pot, and just because it's the most expensive doesn't mean it's the best one for the job. This is a good little set, and I have loads of fun cooking with it.

I have owned and used various Farberware cookware since the 70's, and always have found it to be a great value. Recently I purchased the 13 piece classic set as well as the 3 qt. stack and steam. All the pots look and work great, however the two frying pans are not stainless. They are heavy gauge aluminum which works well as long as you don't ever scratch the non-stick. I have an older Farberware non-stick spun aluminum pan that corrodes like crazy whenever I wash it. Add to this the fact that the pot lids don't fit the skillets, and I can't recommend them. All the rest of the set is great, so if you can live with the skillets, this is a great deal.