Stainless Steel Frying Pan Set
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- #1Dec 30, 2025
I never want to buy cookware again
Tramontina tri-ply clad stainless is as good at COOKING as the All-Clad D3, but isn’t as pretty. It won’t break the bank and will last forever. We are in year 10 of owning ours, along with our cast iron. We have a few non-stick pans in the rotation, but I find myself using them less lately.
View on Redditopen_in_new - #2Jul 5, 2025
Stainless steel pans
Tramontina Tri-ply stainless pans are perfectly adequate BIFL pans at a much lower price than the All Clad, and perform well in head to head against them. The feel/fit/finish of the All Clad stuff is better, but I did not consider it better enough to pay the big bump extra in price. We’ve been using ours since we got married in 2015, zero issues.
View on Redditopen_in_new - #3Jul 1, 2025
Name your top 5 BIFL items
1. Goodyear welted boots: Redwing, thorogood, grant stone, ETC. 2. Stainless steel pans: Tramontina tri-ply is an excellent value. 3. Kitchen Knife w/ honing steel: Global is my daily, but Wusthoff, or Henckels offer great value. 4. Duluth Jeans (For now, until quality inevitably gets bad) 5. A Socket Set with a carrying case: I can’t tell you how many times a socket set has saved me on the road, and around the house.
View on Redditopen_in_new - #4Jun 10, 2025
Need a nonstick Cookware Set without Teflon recommendation
Check out r/cookware, in particular the [Cookware Buying and Explanation Guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/cookware/s/EO1on5jQm6). This guide is extremely thorough and informative, and it includes brand recommendations for different types of cookware at different price points. My recommendation is Tramontina brand TriPly stainless steel pans or sets. You will need to learn how to cook on stainless steel if you haven't learned before, but in my opinion stainless steel is a huge upgrade over non-stick pans, and you can technically achieve non-stick performance with stainless, cast iron, and carbon steel.
View on Redditopen_in_new - #5Jan 2, 2025
Stainless steel cookware recommendations?
I like having fancy cookware but you can't beat the value of Tramontina from Costco, it's ridiculously cheap. Here's a big set online but there's smaller sets in the store, like just two skillets for $30 or so. [https://www.costco.com/tramontina-12-piece-tri-ply-clad-stainless-steel-cookware-set.product.100809273.html](https://www.costco.com/tramontina-12-piece-tri-ply-clad-stainless-steel-cookware-set.product.100809273.html) I have a mixture of All-Clad D3 pans and Tramontina tri ply. The All-clad is slightly nicer, but when cooking they perform the same. Personally I like All-Clads handles, probably because I grew up with them, but I think most people seem to like Tramontina's handles better. But for most things you'd want a non stick skillet for I would use a carbon steel or cast iron pan over a stainless, stainless is my go to for searing when I want some fond left behind to make a nice pan sauce, or simmering acidic foods. I use my carbon steel and cast iron skillets more often than my stainless steel skillets though. I also have some Hestan stainless steel stuff and that is very fancy, if you want to go all out I'd look at their NanoBond line. I don't have any since I can't justify the cost, but it would be nice.
View on Redditopen_in_new - #6Jan 2, 2025
Stainless steel cookware recommendations?
I really like the Tramontina Tri-Ply Clad Stainless set. It’s like 90% as good as All Clad or Made In but like 20% of the price.
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