Advice on Calphalon and Anolon (Wedding Registry Stuff)
 

First off, thanks to anyone that can help.

My fiance and I are trying to register for cookware, and being that
I'm the one that cooks I'm in charge of picking the 'right cookware'.
Our current set consists of a few kind of crappy pots, a few crappy
pans, 2 Lodge Cast Iron Pans, a T-Fal Large Saute Pan, some Pyrex
bakeware, and a few misc. other things. Oh, and a nice wok.

Now, I'm figuring since I'm registering I can register for the
best/close to best stuff either individually or as a set. A set makes
things a bit harder since it would mean someone would have to spend
300-400$ for the give. That's just something that if you want to
comment on it would be good.

So, what I've been looking at is the Calphalon Contemporary Series.
They have a 8piece set
(http://www.calphalon.com/calphalon/c...pe=CLPAT000002)
that seems fairly nice and is a decent discount over buying things
individually since the stock pot alone retails for $200. That and if
people get it on sale it would be $200 - or $200 not on sale.

Now, after reading some posts on here I've read things that have only
confused me about the non-stick/stick/Calphalon one series,etc and I
can't figure out if this line has the handle problem and the hard to
get clean issues I've read about in some posts. Advice on that would
be great.

Also, any suggestions (or just pointing me to good places for more
info) on other brands would be great. Anonlon seems like a comparable
series but less money and not as well made.

Lastly, I was looking at some Anolon cutlery and was wondering peoples
opinion on their cutlery. I saw a nice little set that seemed fairly
nice to me. I was going to look at Henkels stuff, but with all of
their different lines I'm confused as to what is the 'good' Henkel's
and what is the cheaper stuff that just uses the name. ANy
suggestions on this would be great too.

Thanks in advance again to anyone that can help. (We actually blew an
hour trying to figure this out in the store before we decided to just
leave and do more research before we register for the stuff...)

Bob