re: Where to start for lifetime use cookware

Staub is heavy duty stuff, quality for sure. I just prefer the lighter colored LC interiors to the black Staub. I cook on a high BTU stove that will scorch if you aren’t eagle eyed. There’s a fine line between browned and burnt. Light interior helps me keep from crossing that line.

Love the Mauviel and other high end recs, but I’m not spending that much on cookware. I’d rather have a couple of de Buyer carbon steel pans than the heavy clad stainless stuff.

Oh, and everyone needs a 12” cast iron skillet. Just because.

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Love the Mauviel and other high end recs, but I’m not spending that much on cookware.

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Well, the retail prices are absurd, to be sure. However, if one watches sales, he can get Mauviel M250C for about the same price as all-clad and le creuset.

For example: the Mauviel sauté I listed earlier - the price always fluctuates on the WS website. I got it from them listed for $280 during one of their (frequent)20% off sales. So it ended up being roughly $225 with free shipping. I got the big skillet for $150.

No one should buy Mauviel 150. That’s for people who want to buy something shiny and expensive at Williams-Sonoma or SLT and don’t know anything about performance.