"jt august" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "Bertie Doe" > wrote:
>
>> Anyway, I've done some surfing and started a list of high end pans :
>> Berndes, Analon, Meyer Circulon and Kitchenaid. If anyone knows of
>> others,
>> please post.
>
> Of my now 37 pots and pans, my faves are the Calphalon Professional
> Non-stick and Calphalon Commercial Hard Anodized. The HA is not a
> non-stick surface, but the hard anodizing process turns the surface of
> the aluminum into a non-porous, super smooth surface similar in many
> ways to a stainless steel surface, but with a natural tendency to be
> less sticky than stainless.
>
> jt

Thanks jt in fact I did read on Meyer Prestige that hard anodised compares
well with s/steel for hardness. I noted on utube that Calphalon do a frypan
that has a partition down the middle, so you can seperate ingredients, a
kind of 'his' and 'hers'. Sadly Calphalon have withdrawn from the British
and Irish markets
http://www.pots-and-pans.co.uk/acatalog/Calphalon.html