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ramyankee
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Mar 15, 2014

Stainless Steel Cookware?????

I was going to ask a question regarding Stainless Steel and made the mistake of reading the posts on the Cast Iron.....But I digress.
We are looking at the Costco set of Stainless Steel Cookware for $169, at least at our Reno and Sparks stores. Patti is worried about food sticking. I told her I didn't think that would be a problem if proper precautions are taken. What is the consensus?
And we do have a hodge-podge set of cast iron but no lids. And three pieces of LaCreuset and those three we would keep..
Also she has looked at the non-stick Stainless but I am not sure how healthy the non-stick is. Probably safe now as 20ish years ago the non-stick was poor.
Thanks for any replies.
  • I'm not a fan of coated non stick finishes either. Keep wondering how long it'll take them to figure out it's hazardous to health just like the old Teflon which was produced for at least 25 years before it had it's 'Oops!'moment.

    I've never had an problems w/ S/S sticking w/ the as you said normal precautions taken. At home, most of my constantly used skillets are S/S, were a wedding present from the late 70's and made by Cusinart. For high heat cooking I pull out my CI skillets. I've 2 pieces of Le Creuset: a dutch oven that does luverly braising and stews and a no longer in production, grill pan with a collapsible handle. Keep in mind, I cook in a stereotypical as seen on TV Manhattan kitchen with less counter space and cabinets than most Americans are used to. This means I've a highly edited collection of kitchen tools; something new comes in means something has to go.

    When I tent camp I've learned to edit my cooking pots and pans down to 3 basics:
    A collapsible silicone strainer for draining pasta, washing and steaming veggies.

    A 6" CI skillet when only cooking for 2-3; 12" comes along when it's more people on site.

    A 3.5 gal pot for soups and boiling liquids. The pot was a 3 or 4 buck pickup from a thrift shop and made by Caphalon.

    The only other piece I take is an oval Buffalo china platter w/ 1-1/2" sides. Works for serving food and cooking via indirect heat.

    I suspect the same pieces will show up in my RV. I doubt I'll be able to control my insatiable desire for pretty tableware and and tablecloths and drinkware.....errrrr digression over here as well :o
  • DH and I each had dinosaur age Farberware classic SS so when we combined households ended up with a set for the camper. We also have a nonstick frypan.
  • ramyankee wrote:
    Thanks for the review. Will check it out. Appreciated
    And she has talked about buying a piece of LaCreuset at a time to get a set.....We like the Porcelain clad.....But COSTLY.



    I had a complete set of orange LaCreuset cast iron in the house. I found it too heavy so I donated it to our thrift shop. Have you considered the weight of a whole set in your RV? We have ss Paderno in the TT and in the house now and love it.
  • Whomever does the cooking gets to buy the type of cookware they want. The non-cook doesn't get a vote.
  • We took a nice set of SS cookware from the house and put it in the camper. Then bought a new set for the home. Made sense to me.
  • Back in the dinosaur days (1971) we received a set of SS Farberware as a wedding gift. We still have the entire set and the pieces have been used extensively over those 40+ years. When we bought our first RV one of the first acquisitions was a set of SS Farberware.
  • I'm lazy and like it easy when we are on the road. All my fry pays are aluminum non-stick except for the electric fry pan which is SS. As we travel we pick up old Revere Ware pots and love it. I have two campfire pans, a Wagner 10 frypan and some super fancy anodized aluminum griddle someone left for me to clean. All clean up easy except the campfire stuff.
  • Thanks for the review. Will check it out. Appreciated
    And she has talked about buying a piece of LaCreuset at a time to get a set.....We like the Porcelain clad.....But COSTLY.