Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

People may have complaints about where it's made (where is ANYTHING made anymore) or not being fully All Clad in its construction, but look at the price! I've got the 10 piece set; my daughter, after helping me cook with it, asked for (and got) a set for Christmas; I know of three dinner guests who after watching the cooking and cleanup, have gotten the set. When you're cooking the bottoms get really hot, really fast, so if you're not used to good cookware you can be surprised. It conducts heat so well I notice changes in how long it takes me to make things that I make often. I still can't get used to the handles not getting hot. But they don't get hot. The lid handles don't get too hot for my bare hands, either, even when cooking sauces for hours - and I am the biggest wimp about hot handles. They clean up great - I've done blackened everything, and never had to use more than a nylon dish brush on a pan to clean it. Have also done panfried steaks where the pan bottom is black and crusted and then you make sauce in it, and the sauce cleaned out the pan bottom. The heat is even - when doing blackened stuff, it blackens evenly everywhere. If you've lived with non-stick cookware, you need to learn to use a little oil when cooking with this stuff. Hey, olive oil is good for you! Frankly, I'd have bought it sooner if it didn't have Emeril's name on it, because it's an exceptional deal and I hate the whole celebrity endorsement thing. But this is really good stuff. I don't mind having his name in the kitchen with me if I can use cookware this good at this price. Now if his knives would only be the same quality...