I need some good saucepans - any ideas?

[DimpledThighs]

Am sick of my rubbsih pans - i have to borrow my parents pan to make pancakes at the moment as mine is rubbish.

I remember COD saying tesco finest - any other good ones out there?

please - i know it is dull any not about sex or anything but just type in the name of your pans if they are any good!

I have these , they are good and half price at the minute.

The prestige ones btw

I love you tinker - thanks for replying (even if you are froim the future!)

I need to know the answer to this too DT.
I have looked at the QVC ones, they seem very reasonably priced and decent quality.

Sorry, don't have any ideas - in same situation as you!

Except I need them to be ceramic hob friendly.

Anyone any ideas?

(Sorry for hijack!)

I have ceramic hob too - am going to go to Debenhams and get the ones tinker says I think.

Analon, on same link as tinkerbell's but more expensive!!!
Are great though cant go in dishwasher....

Never get non stick. Try and get your grandparents' ones when they die or move into a home, because old fashioned ones are THE BEST. (Alternatively, sometimes find them in secondhand shops - proper metal ones, that you can SCRUB).

Sorry, for pancakes you do need a non-stick, but we reserve that JUST for pancakes.

Had to post.

Bought some Analon pans - they have transformed my life. I am rubbish at forgetting stuff on stove and getting food glued to the bottom. With Analon it sort of floats off.

Every one is amazed. I eat porridge more now simly because the pans make it easier (got sick of soaking cold porridge / concrete) in the sink.

Only downside most makes not dishwasher safe - I think Jamie Oliver ones are. But small price to pay for not scrubbing.

Do you actually need to buy pans which are ceramic hob friendly? Is there such a thing?

The link doesn't actually say if the pans are ok to use on them. [pathetic dithering woman emoticon]

Analon. Fantastic. Have also boiled mine into extinction once or twice and they are still going strong.

at buying pans that can't go in the dishwasher

at people who have a dishwasher!

Yep we have a halogen hob (even more bizarre and demanding than a ceramic hob) and they go on them, and in the dishwasher, but you do need to buy decent silicon spatulas to go with them otherwise you will knacker them.

LittleEasterLapin - not married then?

I married DH so I didn't have to do the washing up. He bought me a dishwasher so he didn't have to do it.

I put mine in the dishwasher anyway. Wears off the the outer surface to look rubbish but still have the magic quality that unsticks stuck burnt on food inside.

I would NEVER go back to normal pans.

Don't think you need special pans for ceramic, only halogen.

Oh and the only pans which AREN'T ceramic hob friendly are cast iron pans I think and the reason they aren't is because they are scratchy and take a dogs age to heat up (but when they do they are marvellous.

?? le crueset??

tinkerbellhadpiles - sorry being a bit thick. But is the spatula for the hob or the saucepans?

john lewis pans are good. i actually love mine (not physically, but almost)

busy2busy, are your analon pans really ok after the dishwasher?
Also use mine for porridge (hooray!) but am nervous about putting them through the dishwasher in case they get damaged...

A spatula is a fish slice without holes. For frying pans (so you can make pancakes for example). You can also get silicon spoons, bloody marvellous if you ask me, you can get the worst sort of sticky mess on them and they rinse clean. They also make good impromptu teething toys when LOs are in their bumbos watching you cook.

I even have a silicon brush - which is the dogs wotsits for basting and flicking olive oil on things.

Oooh the red ones are even cheaper!!!!

Tinkerbelle - DH IS the dishwasher . We're in Navy married quarters and there's no space in the kitchen for a dishwasher