Scanpan Classic 3-Piece Nonstick Cookware Set - Black Pots & Pans for Frying, Sautéing & Cooking | Durable Kitchen Essentials for Home Chefs

The best cookware we ever tried, and we are not beginners - 90% of our family meals are home cooked from scratch. I prefer fast high-heat frying, and love to deglaze the hot frying pan after frying chicken or pork by adding tomatoes, wine, buttermilk etc. to to produce a sauce or gravy. I have tried all common high-end pans, and the top-runner in my book - Circulon - survived at most half a year of such abuse before the nonstick coating disintegrated. I ended up giving up and using cast iron. Scanpan is so much better! Unlike cast-iron, Scanpan is completely non-stick, is easy to use, and can be cleaned with detergents under hot water. As a bonus, it is less heavy. Scanpan's heat transfer is excellent on my glass-top stove. Pancakes, french toast, eggs over-easy fry evenly. We love a modification of french toast, where we fry directly onto the toast a slice of cheese. When the bottom side is done, bread is turned cheese-down, the cheese melts and forms a delicious golden crust. Before Scanpan the dish required experience ans just-right heat for the cheese not to form a puddle and disassemble from the bread slice, on Scanpan it is an easy and fast toast. Yesterday I put fresh green beans with a little water in the Scanpan stock pot on medium heat and completely forgot about it. By the time I came back to the kitchen, all water evaporated and the lower beans were burned to charcoal. Amazingly, the burned stuff was easy to remove from the bottom with a plastic spatula, and after washing with warm water the pot was like new! We are by no means well-off, but I will buy Scanpan from now on. Indeed, it is more expensive, but I will save money in a long run, because I will stop to constantly updating most heavily-used cookware, save a lot of my time in the kitchen, and IT IS FUN TO COOK IN!