"Sheldon" > wrote in message
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>
> jmcquown wrote:
>> My middle brother gave me a couple of All-Clad pans a few years ago at
>> Christmas. That was nice of him and they are nice pans. Except the pans
>> don't have lids. If I want to simmer something (like rice) which
>> requires
>> covering, I have to use heavy duty aluminium foil to cover the pan. I
>> looked on the All-Clad website and they have an entire section devoted to
>> buying lids to fit the pans. HUH?! You have to buy the lids
>> separately?!
>> And at over $20 each? Is it just me or is this really crazy?
>
> Twenty dollars is very little money for a lid to match a hundred dollar
> pot... you can probaly buy a universal lid for $10 but it won't match
> the pot.
>
> Most high end commercial cookware is sold with the lids separately
> because high quality lids are relatively costly and one lid will serve
> many pieces... that saves money and space... do you really need four
> 10" lids rattling around your kitchen. I always feel it's disingenuous
> when pot sets are sold like 15 pieces and 4 pieces are lids with two
> exactly the same size (three pieces are cheap bowls and three pieces
> are plastic bowl lids - how is that honest). If you want a lid
> included for every pot buy cheap pots, those are usually sold with
> lids. Also many commercial kitchens use stepped lids, where one lid
> will serve three different diameter pots... usually the pots are beat
> to hell and are replaced often while the lids often get little use...
> if a new lid was included with every pot purchased... well, you figure
> it out.
>

OTOH, one of my pots is now lidless, because it was a glass lid which I
accidentally left on a still-on gas hob. Hubby picked it up (with an oven
glove), and before I could say "Let it cool down in situ, because it may
shatter if you move it to a different temperature very quickly, I mean
you've got a masters in physics, you ought to know these things, didn't they
teach you anything of the properties of solids?" he had transferred it to a
slot in the dishwasher, and it shattered on contact. Bah. And I can't find
a lid to fit, because lids don't come in every single diameter, to the last
millimetre, and are difficult to buy without a pot.