SC - Calaphon pots & pans

[Olwen the Odd]

Have you checked out the following two sites?

Cookware on Sale    It carries Calaphon and good knives at reduced prices

The Pan Man     It carries nice cast iron items.

Olwen


>From: Anne-Marie Rousseau <acrouss at gte.net>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - Calaphon pots & pans
>Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:47:14 -0700
>
>Phillipia asks:
>At 05:25 PM 7/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Sorry I didn't ask this in my knife post:
> >I use RevereWare copper bottom pots & pans which I like very much.  But I
> >would like to start using non-stick cookware.
> >
> >Does anyone have an opinion on Calaphon  (sp) cookware.  that black,
> >non-stick *expenssive* cookware?
>
>
>I have a stew pot of this this is very nice. HOwever, my loyalties have
>since switched to Belgique. Its got a mirrored surface which is essentially
>nonstick (I've never had problems...just soak it for 1/2 hr or so and it
>comes nicely clean even with really baked on gook). The stuff is
>pretty...shiny silver! the stock pots even look cute with their little
>pudgy shape. The stuff is recommended to me by the French restauranteur I
>took classes from. Best part is that its CHEAP! when it goes on sale, which
>up[ here it does several times a year. I got a very large sauteuse with a
>lid for about $30-$40 a couple years ago. A pasta pot with removable insert
>for $20 this year. NEato double boiler but the top part is perforated for
>steaming veggies and dumplings for $20... Heavy double bottoms means even
>heat distribution, and my sauteuse for example is about 4 years old, and it
>still is VERY nonstick. I allow myself one piece a year :).
>
>Up here, its carried by the Bon Marche, but I believe its also carried by
>Macy's and the like under the house brand "Tools of the Trade".
>
>hope this helps!
>--AM
>PS, you can also find discount calphalon at various mail order kitchen
>places. Never pay full price! :)
>
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