"Nancy2" > wrote:
> All-Clad makes Emerilware - sold at department stores, usually, for
> less money - and it is great! Mine is all stainless with heavy
> layered bottoms and clear glass lids. All-Clad honors the warranty
> for Emerilware. It cleans up beautifully and easily. I have a 10-
> piece set, brand-new, that I got for $150 on eBay (from a seller with
> a great feedback rating), and recently purchased a 1-quart saucepan
> for $15 during a department store sale.

Just as a point of information, I'm not so sure I'd say that All Clad
"makes" Emerilware. I'd more say they designed it with input from Emeril,
and contract it out (in China, from what I recall). Some All Clad branded
products (utensils, aluminum disk bottom cookware) is also contracted out.

Not that Emerilware isn't great cookware, it just might not have been made
by who you thought.

The Menu Foods thing with the pet food ought to be a lesson to us all. You
really don't know who is making a product these days (unless you research it
thoroughly). Initially it was thought that Menu Foods was confined to store
brands, with some people on their high horse stating that the vaunted pet
food brands that they used (such as Iams or Eukanuba) would never have such
problems. It seems that names don't mean much these days, EVERYTHING is
contracted out! ;-)

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