Cooking

I have recently (ie. within the past year) decided that I really enjoy cooking.  I actually like baking even more, but thats to be saved for another day.  This summer, while I was making money working, I decided that I was going to buy some serious pots and pans.  I learned that pots and pans come in all different metals for your cooking desires.  A serious cook knows that the material used to make the pot can have a big impact on how the food is cooked.  You can get copper bottoms, aluminum, titanium and a whole bunch of other types of metal for your pans.  I found this to be incredibly overwhelming.  I did my best to research the pros and cons of each material and decided I was going to go with a copper bottom set of pots and pans.  So I got in my car and drove off to Sears (where all the good pots and pans are sold…more like where they were all on sale at the time) in search of my new pots and pans. 

Do you know how much good pots and pans cost?  I don’t even want to talk about it.  Because at Sears, a set could easily cost upwards of $500!!!  At Sears!!!  Ouch.  Anyways I found a set with copper bottoms.  That was more than $500.  It had a lot of nice stuff in it, the typical pots and matching lids plus however many pans and of course the warranty and all that fun stuff.  I thought to myself, “I should at least look at the other stuff before spending half a grand on these bad boys.”

I spent a really long time in Sears comparing different sets.  I ended up with a ten piece Lagostina set, which didn’t have copper bottoms, but had some alloy which promised to do the job of heating up that pot evenly.  And Lagostina makes pots with a lifetime warranty.  They’re pretty high quality pots and pans, and I really like using them.  They were $500 originally, and with the sale price, the value couldn’t be beat.

Tonight I made stirfry with them.  And it was absolutely delicious.