The 11 Best Cookware Brands in 2023, According to Guys Who Love to Cook

By Emily Lemon On Feb 2, 2023

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IF YOU value your time in the kitchen, you value good cookware. These cast-iron skillets, nonstick cookware sets, and pans are called upon time and time again, whether you’re making a simple meal for yourself or hosting a five-course dinner for guests. When you cook with the best of them, your dishes tend to reflect the extra later of quality at play.

The last thing you should be worrying about when you’re shoulder-deep in a baking recipe or trying to perfect that from-scratch lasagna is your cookware. These vessels should always be at the ready, willing to offer durability, functionality, and maybe even a bit of style. Like a good chef’s knife or apron, your cookware cavalry is your sous chef, your wingman, your assistant. You don’t need every invention out there, but you need a good core squad to elevate your culinary game. Here are the eleven best cookware brands to look out for to help you with all of your cooking adventures in 2023.

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Most Durable Cookware

Hestan

Most Reliable Cookware

Cuisinart

Best Food-Specific Cookware

De Buyer

Best Copper Cookware

Mauviel

Best Baking Cookware

Staub

Best Cast Iron Cookware

FINEX

Best Low and Slow Cookware

All-Clad

Best Enameled Cast Iron Cookware

Le Creuset

Most Refined Cookware

Sardel

Best High-Heat Cookware

Made In

Most Compact Cookware

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A simple frying pan or Dutch oven will allow you to get by but the best cookware brands offer a bit more. It’s important to consider certain features, like volume, material, and design. Good ratings and name brands can offer some insurance, but you also want to make sure the cookware works for you on a personal level. Somebody living solo in a tiny apartment in New York probably has different cookware needs than a father of two in a sprawling house with a newly-renovated kitchen.

Look for the pieces you’ll use most, like frying pans, pots big enough to boil pasta or make soup, or baking ware if that’s your thing. Think about the ingredients you cook with and what might accent that (as in a nice nonstick pan if you like making eggs in the morning) or something that can both sear and broil if you like to keep enjoying things you would normally grill, even in the offseason.

We made selections based on the analysis of several components, from value and ingenuity to personal experience with some of what’s listed below. Some of these we know well as they’ve wowed us before, like in last year’s Kitchen Awards. Others blew us away more recently with helpful features or space-and-time-saving innovations. We looked at cost, dependability, design, performance, and reputation.

Mark Stock
Mark Stock is a food, drink, and outdoors writer from Portland, Oregon.

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