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Default Seduced by pots and pans

On Feb 26, 7:54*am, brooklyn1 > wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:24:29 -0800, sf > wrote:
> >On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:05:53 -0500, "cybercat" >
> >wrote:

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> >> They were not expensive, but they have just enough weight and beautiful
> >> lines. The bottoms are thick aluminum plated anodyzed steel, sides aluminum
> >> very highly polished, tops heavyish glass.

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> >>http://tinyurl.com/ya6vxr2

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> >They look very nice... *They're anodized "steel" (really?) on the
> >interior?

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> The link says stainless steel, with stainless steel encapsulated disk
> bottoms, says nothing about anodized/plated/coated. *I don't
> particularly care for bulged side style cookware (difficult to scrape
> down), and I detest glass lids (only reason they've become so
> prevalent of late is that glass lids cost like 1/4 the price of
> matching metal to manufacture). *$180 seems high for that no-name
> set... I buy wrenches by the set, not pots.


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I've never been a fan of the 'pot belly' pans either and for the same
reasons cited here.