3 Piece Non-Stick Carbon Steel Saucepan Set with Glass Lids – 16cm 18cm 20cm Pans for Gas Electric & Halogen Hobs

Every kitchen gets to that point eventually. The pan collection just stops making sense. One lid fits two different pans if you hold it at the right angle. Another pan has a handle that burns your hand every time. One of them has gone past the point where the non-stick does anything useful and now everything just sticks to it anyway. You manage it for months, maybe longer, and then one day you just bin the lot and start fresh.

This is the fresh start.

Three saucepans, three lids that actually fit them, six pieces that belong together and work together from the day you unpack them.

The pans are carbon steel and that is the right choice for a pan you are reaching for every single day. It gets hot quickly and that heat spreads properly across the whole base rather than concentrating in one spot while the rest of the pan lags behind. The non-stick inside means less oil goes in, food comes off cleanly when it is cooked, and the washing up afterwards is not a battle. A quick wipe or a rinse and they are done. Anyone who has spent ten minutes scrubbing burnt sauce off a bare metal pan will appreciate that more than anything.

Handles are bakelite and they stay cool. That is it, that is the whole point of a bakelite handle. The pan can be on full heat and you pick it up normally. No searching for a tea towel, no putting it down quickly because your palm started burning, no awkward side-grip trying to avoid the hot part. You just pick it up and move it. When three pans are going at once and things need moving around fast, cool handles stop small problems becoming bigger ones.

The lids are glass and that is one of those things that sounds like a small detail until you actually use it. Lift a solid lid to check on something and you let the steam out, drop the temperature, and interrupt whatever is cooking. A glass lid means you look through it, see exactly what is happening, and leave it alone until it actually needs attention. Soup about to boil over, pasta just starting to bubble, sauce nearly ready — you see it and act on it rather than guessing.

Sixteen centimetres is the everyday small pan. Beans, a sauce for two, heating something up, making gravy. Eighteen centimetres handles the mid-sized jobs — soup for the family, vegetables, pasta for a few people. Twenty centimetres is when you need real room — batch cooking, big portions of rice or pasta, anything that would crowd a smaller pan and cook unevenly.

Gas hob, electric hob, halogen and solid hot plate all work fine.

What is in the box:

• 16cm x 7.5cm saucepan with tempered glass lid
• 18cm x 8cm saucepan with tempered glass lid
• 20cm x 9cm saucepan with tempered glass lid
• 3 pieces in total

How it is built:

• Carbon steel with non-stick coating inside
• Bakelite handles and lid knobs — stay cool on the hob
• Tempered glass lids
• Deep carbon steel bowls
• Step and rolled edges
• Gas, electric, halogen and solid hotplate compatible

Why people buy this set:

• Three sizes so the right pan is always there for the job
• Glass lids — see inside without lifting and losing heat
• Non-stick that works properly and cleans up in seconds
• Handles that never get hot no matter what is on the hob
• Everything matches and stores together without any hunting around

One decent set of pans makes cooking noticeably less annoying every single day. This is that set.