Review on 🍳 MICHELANGELO Hard Anodized Cookware Set: 13-Piece Professional Nonstick Pots and Pans with Granite-Derived Coating, Induction Compatible, Blue Silicone Handles by Emily Armstrong

Let's face it, this is a beautiful eleven piece dinnerware set. If you want to consider a cheap plastic spatula and spoon as part of a dinnerware set, okay, this is a thirteen-piece set. But for most people, this is an eleven-piece dinner set. It's good? It really looks like it has a solid basic construction of handles, lid and base that reminds me and my wife of the elements of the more expensive cookware we've had and it makes good meals. But to be honest, it's hard for me to judge how well the dishes cook. My wife cooks delicious food out of the crappy utensils every time we camp. Given basic cooking skills, the main questions a review can answer are the quality of build and how it performs initially and over time as a nonstick surface. Unfortunately, I can't judge these criteria precisely enough at the moment. I received this kit in exchange for a review, but review must be completed 30 days from receipt of item. With an item like this I can speak of original quality and culinary prowess but use over time is really the best way to judge this and I have to go back to fix this. So let me just say that there are reviews of Michelangelo's old kitchenware. It says it doesn't work well for cooking on induction. This set features flat-bottomed surfaces that are distinctly different from the concentric rings and ribbed surfaces found on obscure Michelangelo cookware. I don't have an induction hob, but I know this steel flush base set works significantly better on induction hobs. The handles of these pots and pans are covered with thick silicone. The silicone helps with hot use, but also hides the rather cheap metal parts underneath. I don't think it's a big deal, but if you like fancy metal buttons, you won't find them here. The handles are riveted to the sides of the harness. Some kitchen utensils use their own screws to attach the handles and over time this has come in handy when loosening the handles to re-tighten them, but these rivets may never come loose. Durability of the non-stick coating. Michelangelo does not specify whether it is a form of non-stick coating: PTFE (Teflon) or ceramic. Ceramic is a relatively newly developed coating that involves mixing clay and/or sand with other materials to create a sprayable slurry, which is then applied to dishes and fired in a kiln to form a hard, slippery surface. The resulting coating has a very long service life and is much more resistant to high temperatures than PTFE. However, the non-stick lubricity of ceramic cookware is lost even faster when heated than PTFE cookware. The coating remains intact despite the high temperature, but the non-stick properties of the coating are lost more quickly than with PTFE (Teflon). But I don't think it's ceramic utensils. Michelangelo advertised earlier versions of his cookware as ceramic, but did not claim it was ceramic and actually advertised the cookware as "free of PFAS, PFOA, lead, and cadmium," which are components of various types of ceramic coatings. .However, there are bits of material in this coating, and it seems to me that it is a copy of the proprietary "Granitium" coating, which uses small pieces of granite material mixed with PTFE to increase wear resistance. Non-stick, PTFE and ceramic are heat and this cookware suffers from heat like any other non-stick cookware. So this is a good dinnerware set, no frills, simple and quite cheap. Finally, I should add that the eight-inch pan and 1.5-liter saucepan are small. I would prefer a 2.5 or 3 liter pot in addition to the 2 liter pot and an 11 or 12 inch pan in addition to the 10 inch model.