pots/pans/trays etc - what's your favourite?

scotsgirl_3

Hi all

I'm trying to get back into cooking more - new baby and I want to feed her(and us) healthy home cooked food. However, my pans/trays etc leave a lot to be desired. Over the last few years I've bought several cheapish tefal sets, a few supermarkets sets and mainly asda baking trays which all suck, frankly!

So, if you were starting again with these items, what would you buy? What are your favourite, totally indespensable items? I'm just not sure what's best, and I want to buy stuff that will last well.

We don't have a dishwasher so thats not an issue.

thanks

Triker

I am ever so slightly obsessed with cast iron pots, pans and dishes..I have Le Creuset and Staub and other nameless ones.

Heavy but lovely to cook with and versatile and will last a lifetime.

Gigervamp

I love my cast iron casserole dishes and enamel roasting pans. Enamel is brilliant as it's long lasting, (some of my enamel baking dishes I inherited from my nan when she died 11 years ago and she'd already had them for years.) sturdy and easy to clean.

Pink.

Hi scotsgirl,

These threads have lots of recommendations that may help:

Quality roasting and baking tins/trays?

Good cheap Baking Dishes and Trays

which saucepans to buy?

Pink

rachbc

enamel roasting dishes, cast iron casseroles and stainless steel sandwiched with copper pans for me. Non stick is generally rubbish if like me you tend to treat your pans in a slapdash manner.

brands I've chosen are Le Crueset and Stellar but I'd love some all clad pans one day

marmiterulesok

I got a slow-cooker a few months ago and use it more than anything else for cooking.I would highly recommend it.HTH

exlibris

Lakeland do a range (my kitchen or something like that) They are more expensive but laast!

gailey_2

My freind brought me huge nonstick suacepan quite deep make curries, stews ect with lid for under a tener from sainsburys tu range.
Its fab nothing ever sticks have burnt thing several times highly reccomended.

maman

Agree with all said about enamel trays etc. I also have a couple of stainless steel trays that have been marvellous. I find a 'tray with holes' very useful for HM wedges, oven chips, pizza, spring rolls and things like that.

Recently I bought a Tefal wok to make more quick and healthy stir-fries. I'm delighted with it but it's also excellent for cooking up chilli, bolgnese and other casserole type things before putting them in the slow cooker (I know some people just put raw ingredients straight in but that's my preference). It's also great for searing meat (like lamb shanks) before cooking.

While I've bought expensive Good Housekeeping trays they all seem go a bit scruffy after a while. I'd love someone to tell me different:p

msgnomey

these are my favourite!! http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/50055863

I have 3 smaller ones and a large one and I use them for most things from baking cakes and flapjack to roasting chickens, the even go on the hob to thicken sauces etc. I can also fit 2 on the shelf of my slimline cooker which is an advantage and then a quick soak or a scrub with a brillo and they are as good as new!!:j:j:j:j

angeltreats

I love Pyrex baking trays and tins, I have tons. Also like Pyrex mixing bowls. I love silicone muffin cases but that's the only silicone I've got on with - I also have some cake tins and a loaf tin and I really don't like them.

I have Circulon saucepans and would replace them with exactly the same if I ever needed to, as they're fantastic.