Pots and Pans

[calamitygin]

I have a ton of John Lewis vouchers and need to replace pretty much all my pots/pans and cooking tins.

The following will be staying:

Huge solid soup pan
Le Creuset casserole dish with lid (also massive)
1 large frying pan/1 small frying pan
A 2 tiered (metal) steamer

the rest is, quite frankly, shit (buckled/loose pan handles/wrong size/no lids etc).

What do I need? roasting pan, small saucepan for milk etc, medium saucepan?

any particular brands? love those copper bottom ones but really do need non stick ...

[Pantah630]

I love my le crueset tri-ply milk pan and frying pans, they're ££'s but worth it as last a longtime. I still have my grandmother in laws prestige pans, had them 20+years and she had them a while before me! they're still going strong but if I had a sudden windfall I'd replace these with the triply ones and give mine to DS1. Have a large stock/pasta pot that's used regularly, a selection of mermaid roasting/baking sheets, they don't buckle when you use them on the hob.
Am very jealous I'd love to be able to splurge in the JL cook shop, go enjoy yourself :)

[calamitygin]

thanks Pantah630 I don't have a lot of cupboard space so what I really want to do is get the minimal amount with maximum usage iyswim. So I want multipurpose rather than one pot for this and one pot for that.

Anyone else?

[Pantah630]

I get you, in which case, a milk pan, an extra large saucepan that doubles as a pasta cooker, and another that your steamer will fit on or it may fit on the extra large one. I cook from scratch most evenings and rarely need more than two saucepans. You already have fry pans and a casserole, is it a round one or oval? The round is easier to use on the hob for risottos and curries. A couple of baking trays that you can keep in the oven, I keep most of mine in there as very little cupboard space.

[calamitygin]

it's a round one, bloody massive (but brilliant). The soup pot doubles as pasta pan.

So:

large roasting tin, couple of baking sheets, small milk pan, medium pan that goes with steamer. I can always add to that right?

[Pantah630]

Sounds good. My round one was my Mums so over 45 years old, I use it at least once a week and it's still going strong :)