On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:02:57 -0800 (PST), itsjoannotjoann
> wrote:

>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:
>>
>> >> 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.
>>
>> >>http://tinyurl.com/ya6vxr2
>>
>> >They look very nice... *They're anodized "steel" (really?) on the
>> >interior?
>>
>> 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.
>
>>
>>
>I've never been a fan of the 'pot belly' pans either and for the same
>reasons cited here.

The "pot belly" shape also indicates a thin walled spun pot rather
than a thicker walled drawn pot. With spun metal a lot of stress is
produced and so those pots will warp and will go out of round, the
lids won't fit and their bottoms will not remain flat. A lot of
people think those bulged pots are cute but they are never a quality
product.