Judge Vista 5-piece saucepan set. This lovely pan set was a gamble I took when I finally decided I had grown out of my grotty student pots and pans. I'm still studying, and still broke, but since I adore cooking, I think there are a few essential things in the kitchen you need to spend a certain amount of money on. (The first is a good knife.) I went into the store thinking I'd buy two or three good pans, and was seduced into buying a set of five. They're worth every penny, and even beat my mother's copper-bottomed pans that were a wedding present to her thirty years ago (she's threatening to leave them to me in her will, but I ...  Read the complete review

I've been using my set of Judge stainless steel saucepans for 18 months and think they are brilliant. I don't know the name of my set bu they are the ones with the transparent,glass lids. The set came as three saucepans with lids, one milkpan without lid, and a large frying pan with lid. The lids have a hole to let the steam out so things rarely boil over unless the gas is too high. They have been dropped and haven't bent and have had a very wide variety of foods cooked in them. They clean up very well and being stainless steel you can clean them quite harshly. The outside of the pans are as sparkly as if they were new. The insides have dulled with use ...  Read the complete review