Customer Reviews

Kitchen Essentials® from Calphalon® Stainless Steel 10-pc. Cookware Set

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I've had this set for about 6 months. These pans are very good for the money. The nostick surface works amazingly well, you hardly need any oil in all of your pan frying. I was able to stain the inside of one of the sauce pans pretty easily. Besides that I haven't really found a flaw with this set. I also bought the stir fry pan for this set and that has performed up to the standards I have come to expect from these pans.

I received the 10 pc set from my husband for Christmas. I have been very pleased with the quality and how easy they are to clean after use. Some veg did stain the bottom of the saucepans. Maybe this will disappear if tomatoes are cooked in them. The pans take longer to heat up because of the thickness and the weight but once they are hot they cook evenly. I feel we made a good choice.

A drawback of Calphalon's anodized alumninum is that it cannot be cleaned in the dishwasher. But stainless steel is dishwasher safe, and Amazon's product description claims that Calphalon's stainless steel line is dishwasher safe. But if you check out www.calphalon.com and look at the description of their stainless line, it explicitly prohibits using dishwasher detergent. So it is "dishwasher safe" but you can't use dishwasher detergent.

This is the most beautiful pots and pans I have ever used. They are wonderful to cook with also. They are nice and heavy the handles do get hot sometim so be careful. The lids work really well at keeping the heat insde the pot. They are not non-stick. they fry pans are though. If you soak them right away and don't burn your food hte way I do they come clean pretty easy though. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

I have waited for years to buy Calphalon cookware because I was under the false impression of its quality. I had an old set of S. S. Waterless Cookware made by Ecko; the Ecko set outperformed Calphalon in every measurement. My thought for buying the new set was Ecko cheap, Calphalon quality. Every thing sticks in this set, pork chops even stuck to the so called non-stick surface pan; and no the chops were not right from the fridge, that would cause them to stick. Some of the pans without non-stick coating had dimples in the metal. The box states they are dishwasher safe; however the instructions state differently. On an electric stove one of the pans developed burn marks on the bottom of the pan over medium high heat. The list goes on, and if you contact customer service you get canned answers to send the cookware to them at your cost; they did not read mine. Oh they did tell me I could keep the lids, no wonder they do not fit; you can move them about 1/8" back and forth. DO NOT BUY!!