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published date: December 06, 2010
modified datt: February 02,2011

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My husband and I cook almost every night and believe me when I say that our cookware we got for our wedding was all but falling apart!  It was reliable but not top of the line or anything.  We coveted new cookware and let me tell you – this is what we were looking for – at a fraction of the cost!

Better Homes and Garden came to the rescue. First of all, the box is heavy, which tells you this is good stuff.  The thicker the cookware, the better it retains heat.  Developed with the famous Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen, the BHG 13-Piece Hard-Anodized Cookware Set includes well-designed pieces for preparing all of your family’s favorite recipes. Hard-anodized construction makes the set a durable choice for years of use, and the unique Triple Performance Grid, which looks kind of like a quilt in the bottom of the pans, ensures excellent browning and delicious flavor. The pans clean up quickly – no scrubbing.  In fact, we were unable to clean the 1.5 qt. saucepan until the next day after making a cream sauce for Thanksgiving and it came right off!

13-piece set includes:

  • Riveted silicone and stainless-steel handles for comfort
  • Glass lids to help monitor cooking progress
  • Oven safe to 400°F
  • Lifetime limited warranty
  • Hand washing recommended
  • 1 covered saucepan with lid 1.5-qt. (1.4L)
  • 1 covered saucepan with lid and steamer insert 2.5-qt. (2.3L)
  • 1 covered Dutch oven with lid 4-qt. (3.8L)
  • 1 covered stock pot with lid 8-qt. (7.5L)
  • 1 skillet 8.5″, 1 skillet 10″
  • 1 covered deep skillet with lid 4-qt. (3.8L)
  • Compatible with most all cook-tops with the exception of induction

In relation to this line, Better Homes and Gardens has more to offer. Three quality lines of pots and pans including the Non-Stick Hard-Anodized, Tri-Ply Clad 18/10 Stainless Steel, and Non-Stick Porcelain Enamel. Beyond Pots and Pans, BHG now has bakeware – cake, cookie, muffin, pie loaf and pizza pans,small appliances – blender, food processor, coffee pot and stand mixer; and Enamel Cast Iron pieces that are appropriate for from oven-to-table presentation. Look as well for kitchen gadgets, knives and food storage.

One of the best things about the Non-Stick Hard-Anodized Set, is that it is only is it from a trust brand but it is available at Walmart for an affordable price of $149.99!  If you order it online (after this giveaway, of course!), you can get it shipped Site to Store to save the shipping, although it is available in stores too.

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Comments

  1. Heather S says

    My worst pots and pan experience was a handle coming off as I tried to take it off the stove!

  3. Elizabeth Davis says

    I had one REALLY bad experience the first time I used stainless steel pots with my chicken and dumplings SCORCHING on the bottom because I did not know they STICK really badly on the surface of stainless steel. I was only accustomed to using teflon/nonstick before lol

  4. kristi v says

    My worst is experience with pots and pans is before the current technology where everything would “burn” at the bottom and sit there. Then you go to stir and there is now burnt clumps mixed in the rest of the food – yuck!

  8. Donna says

    I don’t know how many pots and pans I have bought whether expensive or cheap and they just do not last. Even the lifetime warranty ones get chipped no matter how I baby them.

  9. Elizabeth Davis says

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  10. kara says

    My worst experience was when I was making some kind of desert. I turned my back for a second and everything boiled over. What a sticky mess!!

  12. Alesha Kelley says

    My worst pot and pan experience also included a handle coming off, but it came off on the way to the sink to drain something and the pan hot food and all came down on my feet.

  15. Lauri says

    i am a chef now, in my 40s, but when i first married it was NOT the pots and pans….i could burn boiled water! now i am a cookware junkie!!

  17. Judy says

    My husband was helping me cook and had turned on the stove to start heating something up. Within minutes we heard a loud pop and clang. My darling husband had turned on the wrong burner, which our pizza stone was on, which caused the pizza stone to practically explode into several pieces. We then had to wait for dinner to heat up on the proper burner in our pot and were down a pizza stone :(

  19. stacey says

    When I first moved out on my own, tried to do a soup, but only had a skillet! Didn’t work out so well!

  22. Renee C. says

    My worst cooking experience would have to be turning down the back burner instead of the front, so the pan on the front stays way too hot and everything burned to a nice crisp before I realized it.

  23. Barb Crispens says

    My worst cooking experience would be letting a pan cook so long that it was virtually ruined and had to be thrown away!

  26. Alia Truex says

    I think almost everything I cooked when I was a newlywed may count! Dry, burned, or just plain gross!

  28. April Fox says

    No matter how careful I am with pots & pans, they always get stuff stuck and burnt on the bottom that I can’t get off no matter how hard I try.

  31. Laura says

    My worst cooking experience was making apple butter in a stainless steel pot. I didn’t stir it enough, and it burnt so bad. There are still some black spots on the bottom of the pan two years later! Now I make apple butter in a crockpot :)

  33. Sandy says

    My worst cooking experience was when I put a plastic spoon on top of a hot burner that I had finished using & it melted all over my glass top stov. What a mess & it smelled horrible.

  36. Aleksandra says

    I had this pot that always burned my rice and I would have to soak it forever and scrape it out. I always made my husband do it and he finally bought me some non-stick cookware :)

  37. Amy says

    My worse experience just involved boiling water! I was trying to make deviled eggs for a family gather with my in-laws and went to drain the water. I ended up dumping the pot of boiling water straight onto my belly. Pretty painful to say the least especially since I was 8 months pregnant at the time. I still have a huge scar on my belly from the horrible burn! I often still ask my husband to drain any hot water or liquids I may have.

  38. Angie says

    My worst cooking experiences generally have to do with getting distracted and letting things boil over and/or burn. New cookware would help motivate me to pay attention! Thanks for the entry!!

  39. Lynda H. says

    My worst cooking experience was when I was in junior high and thinking that french fries were cooked in water. Had no idea you cooked them in oil. I’ve since learned :D

  40. Tanya T. says

    One night I decided to cook spaghetti for dinner – but didn’t check whether my colander was clean. Murphy’s law being what it is, the strainer was dirty so I improvised – I held the lid on the large pan and tried to drain the water off the spaghetti. Gravity took over and the entire pot of water AND spaghetti went straight down the drain! Oh, and it got worse – I tried to run the garbage disposal and the pasta ended up clogging the pipes! My husband had to take the entire undersink plumbing apart to pull out the now coagulated pasta. I still haven’t lived this one down with my friends!

  41. Judy W says

    Mine was forgetting I had eggs in water boiling and I let it stay until all water had boiled out! What a stinking mess!! Never did that again. Always set a timer now!

  43. Katharina says

    my worst cooking was when I left a wooden spoon in the pot and well soup and spoon got burned, because i forgot all about it.
    We really could use a full set of pots, since my husbands exwife moved out we only have a bunch of different pots and pans.
    nothing really matches haha
    i follow you on FB!

  44. Becky Bean says

    One of my worst experiences is when the teflon started peeling up and got all in my eggs!

  45. Tiffany Herrera says

    MY WORST COOKING EXPERIENCE WAS HAVING A GLASS LID TO MY PAN SHATTER INTO A MILLION PIECES WHILE IT WAS COOKING.

  46. Daleene Fox says

    I made my Momma’s “homemade” Chicken and Noodles just the other day and I started smelling something funky. The bottom had scorched. I was so upset. I was so careful as to not stir the bottom of the pot so it wouldn’t get mixed up with the rest of it. It turned out great. I just threw the scorched part away.

  52. Kimberly Derda says

    I made a big pot of potato soup and when I tried to move it off the stove one of the handles came off:( The soup went every where and down the front of my legs – it was a bad day!

  53. Pamela M. says

    My worst experience is when I moved down to Florida, and never had cooked with electricity and my rice burned. Half of my pots stock was ruined till I figured out how to handle the different levels

  55. Conny says

    Worst cooking/pot experience came during my first use of a gas stove after only ever having cooked on electric burners. It is NOT the same … believe me. Ruined pot … ruined meal. :(

  57. Mama Mia says

    My worst cooking experience was making a delicious breakfast for the in-laws on their first visit to our home after we got married. I made scrambled eggs and sausage in my husband’s trusty, “survived his college years intact” non-stick skillet. I didn’t remember adding pepper but had lots of small black flakes mixed in with the food. As I served the food onto the plates, there were long, silver scratches on the non-stick skillet. Evidently, the skillet was in worse shape than we realized and the non-stick surface had come off during the cooking process. The good part was my mother-in-law took me that day to buy a new, top-of-the-line non-stick skillet that last 15 years and never said a word about my cooking.

  60. Kathryn says

    My worst cooking experience was when I was frying chicken and the grease bubbled out of the pan and caused a fire on the stove. Boy, was that scary!

  61. Kimery says

    Worst cooking in pans – would have to be trying to pop popcorn in a lightweight pan and I had to run pan outside to try to cut out the burning smell IN the house! LOL

  64. Jessica W says

    My pots right now were pretty expensive, but the darn handles are all metal. The first time I used them I grabbed the handle (which was really hot), burned my hand, and dropped the food :(

  67. Tiffany says

    I don’t know what’s worse when you burn food onto the bottom of the pan the wasted scorched food or having to try and clean that mess out of the pan. Either way I hate when that happens.

  72. Stephanie says

    I was simmering a pot of spaghetti sauce and completely forgot about it. It burned pretty bad on the bottom and I had to throw the whole pot of sauce away – it was a large stock pot 3/4 full!

  74. Ginny says

    The worse ever was the day I burned rice in my favorite saucepan . . . that poor pan has never been the same!

  78. Faryn Bardin says

    One of my roommates used forks to cook on my Teflon pans without me knowledge. Well the next time I cooked I ended up with Teflon flakes all in my food! Not appetizing at all, and probably not so good for you either!

  87. Julia S says

    I’m not really a cook at all so just about any experience w/ pots & pans is a bad experience for me. Thankfully I have a hubby that feeds me!

  88. Michelle B says

    I once made a no-bake cheese cake in a teflon pan with electric beaters…Needless to say I ruined the pan and the cheesecake:-( All the teflon flaked off!!!! I was not such a great cook but have greatly improved!!!! Would love some good cook ware to use, not hand me downs from parents

  91. Tammie Bennett says

    I worst pots and pan experience is everytime my Dad comes to visit. Why must he use a fork and ruin the bottom of my pots. I don’t have the heart to tell him so I just have to go out and replace it.

  94. Karen M. says

    I’ve had the same pots and pans since I got married. They are terrible! I LOVE to cook but get frustrated with how terrible my cookware is.

  96. Joanne says

    Seems everything I cook sticks and burns only in the center of the pan or pot. Guess it is not distributing the heat evenly throughout the pan. So every meal has become a mess

  97. Diane Woods says

    worst cooking experience I literally blew up a pyrex pan to a million pieces by leaving it on a burner that was on. I did not know the burner was on :)

  101. couponsue says

    Pasta would always boil over because I would keep the lid on. I’ve now learned to keep the lid off, much less clean up when the pot hasn’t been boiling over for 10 minutes because I left the room!

  103. Ceshia says

    A lot of my cooking attempts are horrindous. I do not have the best quality cookware, so a lot of my meals stick to the pan, get burnt, or end up in the trash.

  105. Tammie Bennett says

    My worst pots and pan experience is everytime my Dad comes to visit. Why must he use a fork and ruin the bottom of my pots. I don’t have the heart to tell him so I just have to go out and replace it.

  107. Suzy H says

    I ended up with a set of hand me down pots and pans when I 1st moved out. I was cooking sauce in one and the handle fell off as I picked the pan up. Needless to say a mess happened.

  108. Pat Swanson says

    I used my nicest saucepan to boil water for tea, and forgot about it for an hour. When I finally rescued the pan, it was red-hot and fused to my electric burner! What a mess!

  109. Brooke says

    My worst experience with pots and pans is the bottom of my pans get a bunch of black stuff on the bottoms of them and I can’t get it off no matter how hard I scrub at it.

  112. Suzy H says

    I got a few of the old non-stick pans. My brother used a metal spoon or something on one of them and took the coating right off the pan.

  114. Suzy H says

    I have a big pot that I use to cook chili in. I had the pot simmering on the stove and kept stiring up but ended up getting a big black patch of burnt chili on the bottom of the pan for some reason. Had to throw the whole pot of chili out. :(

  115. Bethann says

    I’m not a great cook, so the choice of bad experiences would be too long to list here. Let’s just say new pans may not be the cure all, but they certainly couldn’t hurt! ;-)

  116. Jennifer Dykhouse says

    I have a set of pans with innercore elements and my husband sets the smoke detector off everytime he tries to use them.

  117. Sarah S. says

    My worst is whenever I tried to use a stainless pan that was NOT nonstick. It would always leave the biggest stuck on mess so I got wise and bought some good nonstick pans.

  120. lisa says

    Burning soup that I try to thicken with cornstarch :-( Have and inch of burnt on the bottom of the pan…

  123. jr911 says

    My worst experience has to be with the cheap non stick aluminum pans I first had….it burned everything I cooked and I thought it was just me.

  126. Rhonda M says

    My worst cooking experience was just recently. We were making instant mashed potatoes for the soup kitchen, and I asked my husband to measure and mix the water and milk into the flakes. We use huge pots when we cook, and he didn’t mix all the way to the bottom. Before too long, the dry flakes on the bottom of the pot scorched, and it really stunk up the kitchen.

  130. Joy says

    Just left a plastic pancake turner in the pan under a grilled cheese sandwich. Melted the plastic and had stringy plastic all over the stove and sandwich when I tried to remove it.

  131. Carrie H says

    My worst cooking experience – I had some cookware which I thought was pretty good – was a QVC item that seemed to do well on their shows. It was non-stick and the bottom had the even-heat feature. I was cooking lima beans one day and was trying to get them cooked down well. I forgot about it and fell asleep! The water completely boiled out, the beans dried up and started to smoke, and the bottom of the pot come completely apart from the rest ofthe pot. I’d never seen anything like it!

  132. Tiffany says

    I think my worst experience has been the pots and pans themselves! I just bought a new set last year for my birthday in December and the large skillet has buckled up in the center and no longer cooks food appropriately! What a GREAT time for a cookware giveaway!! I would LOVE to win a new set so that I don’t have to buy a new one AGAIN this year! Thanks for the opportunity!

  135. Caitlin says

    I have, or should I say had great pots and pans that I have had for many years……When I got married my husband thought he was being helpful cleaning up for me, and put all my pots and pans in the dishwasher (on different occasions) and I now no longer have non-stick coating on any of them. Now anything I cook sticks and takes a lot of soaking and scrubbing to come clean. I am in desperate need of new pans!!!!

  140. 5alexanders says

    burned chicken in a fryer, husband set it outside because it smelled so bad, forgot about for a week. it had frozen, thawed, frozen, thawed for 5 days in a row. needless to say, the whole mess went in the trash :(

  144. Julie says

    My worst experience was actually teaching one of the kids to fry eggs. They had the heat up way to high and ruined the pan.

  146. Betsy Hoff says

    I once made a cheese dip and had to throw out the pan becuase it burned and would not come off!

  149. Riley says

    My worst cooking experience has to be the time I used a frying pan that didn’t have a nonstick finish on it to make dinner. What a mess… it took forever to clean up! Thanks for the awesome chance to win this cook ware!

  152. Ida says

    I was making white cheese sauce for macaroni and cheese and the bottom of the pot had burned sauce mixture. I had the pot soaking overnight to loosen the burnt mixture. What a mess! It also took alot of elbow grease to clean that pot!

  153. Laurie L. says

    I recently forgot that I had a pot of rice cooking on the stove and went out to play with my dogs. I was out about an hour and when I came back in I had a brick of nicely scorched, and extra burned smelling, rice on my stove, and a favorite cooking pot that will never be useable again. Thanks for bringing up such a painful memory! :)

  158. Danielle G. says

    My husband and I are still using our cheapy first set of pots and pans – the handles get so hot we need oven mitts to do anything – I can’t tell you how many burns we have nursed in the past few years.

  162. Tammy says

    My worst experience is when i forgot about some eggs that i was boiling, big mess when they explode and stick to the ceiling!!!!

  164. Heather V says

    My worst cooking experience- trying to make split pea soup for the first time. Not only did it boil over and mess up my stove pretty good but it also burned the whole bottom of the soup.

  165. Tara B says

    My worst cooking experience would be when O had 15 people coming over for dinner. I was making sausage and meatballs with spaghetti sauce. I was heading in the shower and asked my husband to stir the pot of sauce every 10 minutes or so. I came out and checked on the sauce, it was boiling over the side and was completely burnt about 1/3 way up the pot. He was on the phone with his mother, who was not invited to dinner, and she said I was stupid to slave over a pot, to turn the flame up and put a lid on it and leave it, it will be perfect. So he did. It smelled like cigarettes! It was awful!! Needless to say, we ended up using jarred sauce over pasta and ordering some pizzas. I hate my mother in law and she did this on purpose. She gladly brings it up when she can and smirks. And I just remember the other day, Hubby was making something on the stove and I asked him when he stirred it, he goes, I just turned it up and put a lid on it. Oh boy, the man will never learn!!

  168. Cayman says

    My parents were trying to sell there house. My mom left some peas cooking on the stove, and forgot to turn them off. They ended up being Blackened BB’s by the time we got home.

  175. Melisa Mayer says

    Pasta boil over, took lid off and got an in home steam facial. Now I bring to boil with lid on, then stir once, replace lid and turn off burner. Cooks in 5min with less electricity and mess.

  176. courtney says

    we have a pan that is warped a little, food cooks fast in the dead center but not anywhere else.

  177. Leah says

    my worst cooking experience was when i made a huge pot of potato soup in a stock pot that was too thin, scorched the whole soup and burned the bottom of the pot so bad i had to throw it away

  182. Rachelle says

    When cooking eggs and forgetting to spray Pam and it taking forever to clean the pan afterwards!

  184. Amy says

    I had teflon pans when I got married and finally got rid of them when the bottom of them started peeling off into my food. Gross! Now I use some mismatched stainless pots/pans.

  186. kay henderson says

    My worst cooking story was once when I was trying to cook fish in the oven. I had put the fish on a cookie sheet (first mistake) and goodness only knows what all I had actually put on it. Anyway, somehow the fish started flaming and I didn’t realize it right away. I realized it after I heard a cracking sound and ran into the kitchen. The flames had cracked the glass in my oven door from the fire. I was able to put it out without burning down my house but it was a BAD experience. I didn’t cook with the stove or oven for awhile after that. If it couldn’t go into the microwave then I didn’t go near it. :-)

  188. Lynn R says

    I have burned things in pots on a couple of occassions, a real mess and a horrible smell in the kitchen. Yuck!

  189. Stephanie says

    a bad cooking experience was when I pulled the garlic bread out of the oven too late so it was burnt on top and then I unknowingly sat the cookie sheet on a burner that was turned on so that the bottom of the bread was burnt too

  190. Lynn says

    I have put the wrong amount of salt in a recipe before and ended up with a terrible salty mess. Had to throw everything away. Bummer and a waste of time and money. Oh well, at least those things only happen once in a blue moon.

  191. April says

    Worst experience has to be boiling eggs for too long and there being no water left in the pot. What a stink and a huge mess to the eggs and the pots!!

  192. megan h. says

    My worst experience is when I dropped one of the lids into a HOT pot of spaghetti sauce (Because the lid was way too hot) and it splattered all over my Christmas outfit, all over my new christmas kitchen towels (That my husband had given me minutes before) and all over my feet-

  194. Cheryl K. says

    I was cooking a large dinner for my husband’s family of about 25 people. I was cooking and trying to make sure the entire house was pristine, and got busy messing with one area, forgetting I had bread still in the oven. Doorbell rings, oven catches fire, DISASTER!!

  195. Jennifer S. says

    would proably have to be when I was making fudge for Christmas on my Mom’s flat top stove and I needed to bring the mixture to a boil. well, I overcooked it because the combo of the stove and glass pot wouldn’t bring it to a boil!

  198. Susan says

    My worst experience was spilling a whole pan of rice and cornish hens in the floor before I got them in the oven. What a mess.

  201. Kelly N. says

    I had to get rid of my regular set of pots and pans that I bought fourteen years ago, because the nasty teflon that has been peeling off. I always got scared that it is going to be added as an extra garnish on out food, lol…not a good thing.

  208. Nikki Cross says

    I forgot about a lasguana in the oven and it was pretty much impossible to get the dried up and burnt sauce and noodles off of the baking dish. Tried soaking and scrubbing but it was baked on for good!!

  209. Laura Hopkins says

    I had my in friends over for dinner one night. I decided to do salmon patties since they all enjoy them. As I was cooking them the teflon from my frying pan started coming off in the patties. I was so embarrassed and had to end up doing frozen pizza for everyone. I was mortified!

  212. lauren lonergan says

    I used a fork on my brand new pink kitchen aid pot! And now the teflon flakes off in my food!

  213. Ashley I says

    My worse was making Mac & Cheese in a non stick pot and when I mixed the cheese sauce in I had little black peices of the non stick all in it,I was so mad and had to throw it away.

  216. leslie says

    I forgot to turn a burner off once, then took out a pan of hot rolls and sat on the burner. I didn’t realize until the rolls were smoking — and burnt.

  217. Lexie says

    I made this asian thing in my new non-stick wok. It was so non-stick that the Teflon came off too. Not to mention that the food in addition to having Teflon in it tasted a lot like lysol! Yuck.

  221. Carla says

    Cooking noodles that were supposed to be cooked along w/ the ingredients in the entree therefore ruining an entire entree by scorching the noodles due to overcooking!

  222. Shelly in SoCal says

    I was browning rice on the stove when someone knocked on the front door… before I remembered the food on the stove, my kitchen was filled with smoke and my pan would never be the same again… It is warped and blackened to this day (why do I still have it??)

  225. Rita says

    I would love new pots & pans. For the past 20 years i have the same one. I have frogotten about steaming carrots and the outside bottom of the pot actually was melting. Let’s see, another time & this was recently, i forgot about chocolate pudding. Oh man the smell of the burnt pudding and what the bottom of that pot looked like…ewww. I had to throw it out!
    So yeah i could definitely use new pots!

  228. Tracy T says

    My worst cooking experience with pots and pans is probably back when I was first starting to cook, I would burn whatever I was cooking EVERY TIME!!! So the house would stink, and the pot would be almost ruined and such a pain to clean!!

  233. Reb says

    Worst cooking expereience; trying to bake a giant cookie and getting baking soda and baking powder mixed up!

    @nola727

  239. CatM says

    My worst experience was when I put graham cracker crust on my chicken pot pie. DH does love to tell that story.

  241. Nic says

    My worst cooking fiasco was leaving a plastic/nylon spoon in a simmering pot of spaghetti sauce. The spoon started to melt into my sauce.

  254. Jenni says

    I also like you on FB. I AM IN A BAD NEED OF PANS MYSELF I HAVE HAD MINE FOR 12 YR.& PLUS MY HUBBY HAD SOME OF HIS OWN WHEN WE GOT MARRIED I BELIVE THEY MAY BE FROM 1980’S .LOL.
    I NEVER WON ANYTHING IN MY LIFE WISH I WOULD. WELL AT LEAST IT’S A TRY.

  255. Angela says

    The time I burned holes in my brand new Farberware stock pot by letting my green beans go dry right after I first got married – luckily I called Farberware and they sent me a new pan!

  256. Teri says

    My worst experience is when I was in the middle of cooking and the handle broke off of the pot I was cooking in. Needless to say it was difficult to drain the water from the noodles without the handle.

  260. Claudia N says

    I would say cooking beans,and I forgot about cooking ,then they burned so bad that I had to throw the beans and the pan away!

  266. Michelle says

    I need new pots and pans desperately. All of mine are hand-me-downs from my mother and it definitely effects my cooking.

  270. Pollyana says

    When my mom tried to use the thin-bottomed double boiler pan as a regular pan. The bottom popped out and sauce spilled everywhere.

  272. Courtney Steele says

    My worst experiences are usually all the sticking and burning that happens when I make any kind of sauce, especially if its a large quantity. Then its a disaster to try to clean! Or worse yet when you get a bite of burned sauce!

  276. Sonya says

    Using a brand new nonstick pot to make fudge and not knowing to not beat it with a metal spoon. Totally ruined the nonstick coating. Bummer.

  277. colleen says

    I bought a cheap cookware set when we first got married. I had my family over for dinner and I was making mashed potatoes from a pouch and the bottom of the pan started flaking off and mixing in with the food. Thankfully I noticed before I served them to my parents.

  279. Sanford says

    I some times burn cookies , but my wife is always getting distracted by the kids and burning things … she’s a great cook otherwise. I can only focus on one thing at a time, so if the kids aren’t hurt I don’t leave the kitchen. It would be so nice to have a nice set of cookware.

    Glad I found this site!

  282. Lynette says

    I have just hand me down from when we were in a tornado 7 years ago. I just use what we were given. It would be so nice to have new complete set.

  286. Sarah says

    I bought a cheap pan and everything would sick—it drove me crazy. No matter how muc I sprayed it with cooking spray, food stuck to the bottom of it. Basically I spent my money on something cheap trying to save money and then ended up having to go out and get something more expensive anyway.

  287. Linda B says

    I REALLY burnt chili in my dutch oven. It was best to just throw it away. The pan and the chili.

  289. Bridget says

    I turned the curry down on low and forgot all about it. Went out to do some weeding in the garden. Started smelling something, wondered what it could be. When I came inside it was all burnt and stuck to the bottom of the pot, and for weeks I could still smell that burnt smell in the curtains and the chair cushions. This was before the days of Febreeze.

  290. Kristin says

    I was making fried chicken, and after taking the chicken out of the pan, I forgot to turn off the stove top. After dinner I saw that my normally orange pan had turned WHITE! AHHHHHHH!!! Turned it off quickly, but it is forever scorched! I still use it, which is why it would by nice to have new pots and pans, lol!

  295. Christy says

    One time I was cooking some broccoli florets in a small pan with water on the stove. I went to another room to do something before the water started boiling. I hear hubby holler “what’s that burning on the stove?” I thought he was just being a smarty pants because the broccoli wouldn’t be burning, its in water for pete’s sake! Then I realized I forgot to add the water! My house reeked of burnt brocolli for a week. I even had to throw away the pan.

  296. Kristyn says

    Set off the smoke alarm when browning eggplant on my circulon because the first batch left some residue in the grooves that continuted to cook (and therefore burn) with the second batch!

  297. Kat says

    My worst cooking experience would have to be when I was boiling potatoes in the pressure cooker and I thought it had cooled enough but it hadnt and it shot potato to the ceiling and all over my kitchen. Luckily I wasnt burned much, just a few specks got on me.

  301. Debbie says

    set off the smoke alarm cooking bacon on the skillet…..and also left a brown stain on the stainless pan

  302. Krystal Colon says

    My worst cooking experience was when I burned the dinner I was making for my 1st-time meet in-laws.

  304. Courtney says

    What a great price on the cookware! There are many disasters, but one that comes to mind is leaving a spoon in a casserole dish and putting it in the oven. Not my brightest moment!!!

  305. Beth says

    Nothing too bad. My worst experience would be deciding to try to cook something only to realize that I don’t have the pot or the pan I need to cook it.

  308. Laci W. says

    Worst experience. I’ll actually give 2, one was my fault the other my pans.
    I had picked up my Grandma and brought her to my house, while we waited for my aunt to come to take her the rest of the way home. So I decided to make dinner for her. She slept on the couch the whole time(she was mad at the world, and just slept all the time for her last few months). So I put the powder gravy(I believe it was McCormick even, it can go with the other giveaway …lol) in the pot on the stove, then realized I was out of milk to put in the mashed potatoes, so I was going to go to the neighbors to borrow milk. As I was walking out the door the smoke alarm started going off….ugh I didn’t put water in the gravy, Pot was ruined. And we have decided not to replace it, as we are getting married and if I don’t win these, we are going to use wedding money to get new ones:)
    @2nd, I realized the last time that I used my largest skillet(my fav until now) the Teflon is peeling out of it, wonder how much of that we have actually eaten?

  313. Carrie Smart says

    My worst cooking experience with pots would be when I first started cooking and I put 2 whole boxes of spaghetti into one pot….they turned into a clumpy glue like consistency and I had a hard time getting the pot clean.

  316. Mindi says

    My worst cooking experience is anytime I try to attempt to make gravy! I just can’t get it right and I love gravy:(

  320. Amber says

    i have found out stainless still pots are not good for homemade chicken and noodles or it could have just been me lol

  324. Liz says

    I don’t honestly have many but one that comes to mind is the one time I’ve tried to make fried onion rings…I didn’t know that oil in a pan would reach it’s flash point so quickly…I stay away from fried things now.

  325. Beth K. says

    I haven’t had too many bad experiences. My most frustrating seems to be constantly having pans with food stuck to them:(

  328. Renee B says

    I have 4 children and cook all the time. My worst cooking has been often lately because my husband used a metal fork on our best pan and now everything sticks to it even if I spray non-stick cooking spray on it. I would LOVE to win this!

  330. cathy says

    I was heating up some soup. Forgot about it and when I remembered the pot was empty and the house filling with smoke.

  338. beth says

    Burned my roommates pot to death making popcorn. Seriously, how do you burn popcorn that badly!!!

  341. Jennifer says

    I usually use rice cooker for rice, but for once I attempted doing it on the stove….let’s just say that it did not come out white and fluffy but rather burnt and black :-(

  344. shellie says

    Im not the cook in the household, but decided one day to heat up oil. Yea…. bad idea, the pot was literally black by the time I remembered I was doing something in the kitchen!

  348. Karen says

    The worst thing I ever did with a pot was to leave it dirty and empty on the stove and not realize the burner was still on. No recovery on that one!

  350. TESS says

    I get your emails and enjoy reading them. I can say I have burnt one pan so bad it had to be throwed out it had macaroni& cheese in it I thougth the burner was off and went outside to get the mail and came back in to a bunrt pan needless to say I had to make more mac&cheese.

  351. christi s says

    My worst cooking was when I was first married and trying to make breakfast for my husband and I. I burnt the eggs to the pan but instead of admitting defeat I kept scraping and scraping at the pan to get all of the last bit of egg off. As we started to eat we realized the eggs tasted funny and I realized I had scraped the teflon off the pan and into our eggs… Ughh!!!

  353. Connie says

    I was making a cream based soup and someone came to the door. It overflowed and burned on the bottom. I should have taken it off the burner before I answered the door. Lesson learned.

  357. jodee crocker says

    Shortly after I was married I forgot I had something on the stove. It was so burnt that it was unrecognizable and I had to throw out the pan. A few days later the bird died, they think from teflon posioning.

  359. Emily Ward says

    I forgot I was cooking soup one day and fell asleep. Needless to say, I had soup all over the floor and and my fire alarm went off!

  363. Tracy Meighan says

    My worst experience was my chicken nuggets caught fire and burned up the whole kitchen wall!! I get you by email.

  366. crystal h. says

    I scraped my new stainless steel cookware up b/c I didn’t realize you had to cook with oil/butter……it is not non-stick!!!!

  372. Elizabeth says

    My worst cooking experience is when I was cooking soup and threw in some garlic that had gone bad. Oh, the smell! It ruined everything. And on top of that, the bottom of the pot burned too!

  375. Kelly Sullivan says

    Worst was probably when I was boiling water on the stove, went outside to let the dog out and locked myself out.

  378. Amanda says

    My worst cooking experience with pots and pans? Oh you would want to hear about how my “blueberry pie” set the oven on fire as I was cooking dinner for the family. When you see flames blazing from your burners.. totally not a good thing! Darn, blue berries!

  382. Ashley S. says

    I’ve forgotten about things I am cooking and totally burned whatever it was I was making. We had pizza instead… :)

  384. Sarah H says

    I don’t have any bad cooking ones but last Thanksgiving I made green bean cassarole and when my brought me my bag with dishes back in it. I didn’t check to see if they were clean and needless to say someone forgot to clean the cassarole dish and I threw it out because it kept making me gag everytime I tried to clean it.

  387. Alyssa Hoskins says

    My worst experience cooking is when I burned rice, and had to let the pan soak for days.

  388. Brenda B says

    I’ve gone through several non-stick skillets that started peeling and had to be thrown away. Yuck.

  391. Ashley says

    I made some pancakes and forgot about them when they were cooking. I still have the big burnt mark on my pan.

  396. Andrea says

    Just the other day, I was trying to tend to dinner AND my two-year old. Needless to say, the butter beans that I had cooking in chicken broth got forgotten until I started smelling something that was burning. By the time I got the them, the broth was gone, and the beans were burning to the bottom of the pan. I scrubbed it forever, and I STILL can’t get the gunk out! :(

  403. Jennifer H says

    Hmm I can’t think of something too disasterous off the top of my head, other than burning stuff!

  404. Courtney says

    I “like” you on facebook!

    Worst cooking experience with pans. Everytime I use the hot plate it takes forever to heat up then all of a sudden it is super hot and everything burns!! In need of a new set badly!

  405. Tammie R. says

    When I was cooking bacon in my pan, the oil spilled down the sides of the pan. That was a mess to clean up!

  410. Kelly says

    Our cookware is SO bad that every time we cook is a bad cooking experience. We never want guests to see the pots and pans because although they are “clean,” they look gross. We are definitely in need of some new cookware!

  411. Amanda Y. says

    Transitioning from cheap nonstick to stainless steel…still learning how hard it is to cook and not stick/burn stuff in stainless steel!

  415. Amanda says

    I dont know that it is the worst but it is the most recent. I actually burnt spaghetti noodles to the pan this evening. We were eating dinner and I asked if anyone thought they would want second and I would put some more noodles on. One child said yes but by the time he was finished he didn’t want anymore so we all finished and guess what? Mommy forgot about them until I started smelling the burn. EWWWW!

  416. Mirm says

    I remember the time that I left the house without remembering that there was some salmon cooking on my stove… Thank goodness my husband was home to smell the burnt dish, but what a mess to clean up!

  417. shel says

    I burn things…a lot! Worst ever was when I was melting Velveeta cheese in a saucepan on the stove. I got distracted by something in the living room and when I came back, it was blackened to the bottom of the pan. I stirred and all this charred cheese came off and ruined the entire pot. It was terrible trying to clean that pot too.

  420. eM says

    Haven’t had a “worse cooking experience” with pots & pans (thankfully!) But the other comments on this post have really bad ones!

  421. Sarah B. says

    I burn things all the time. I don’t have one specific experience but I’ve melted a few spoons and all of my cookware looks nasty on the bottom because I’ve burned it so many times! haha

  425. Jessica Nelson says

    i have such old cheap pans and once i was lifting a hot and heavy pot full of boiling water off the stove and the handle broke off and the water scalding me and went everywhere!

  430. Wendy C says

    Knock on wood, I haven’t had any major cooking mishaps. But it’s a disappointment when the food doesn’t taste as great as I’ve hoped, even though I’ve spent a lot of money buying ingredients and time preparing and cooking.

  433. Tawnya Sather says

    I was helping my mom cook dinner. She added some water to a glass pyrex pan and it shattered! There was glass all over inside the stove, in the food, under the stove, and everywhere. Some really hot pieces melted the floor.

  437. Heather D. says

    My husband wanted to steam broccoli and green beans, he didn’t put in enough water for boiling, pot got ruined and the vegetables smelled bad…

  447. Erika says

    Forgot to turn down the heat for the mac and cheese the other day and the noodles burnt to the pot and the smoke alarm went off:( First time I did that! Busy time of year with 3 kids under 3!

  455. Alison says

    One of my many bad cooking experiences is when I try to cook rice. I never get it right. It always burns to the bottom and leaves a huge mess in my pot that takes me forever to clean up.

  456. Amy says

    I sometimes burn things. Recently I scorched the homemade pudding that I was trying to make. I still haven’t been able to the stainless stell pot to look clean. Grrr……

  459. jamie k says

    mine would be the iron skillets- my granny use to make them but i wasn’t aware that she put them back in the oven to dry them so mine rusted

  465. Joyce Mlinek says

    I bought a bargain non stick skillet at the store and after about 5 uses all the teflon had scraped off the bottom of the skillet so I had to throw it away.

  470. Lynn R says

    I have burned things in pots before – like burned rice – and made huge messes. Also ruined a few pans this way.

  478. christinia smith says

    I don’t cook as often as I’d like… by the time we get off of work, pick up my daughter from daycare and get home, it’s usually pretty late… that combined with church and praise band practice, it seems the only meals i’m cooking anymore is quick meals… but I LOVE to cook when I have time to do so!

  479. Milian O says

    My worst experience is forgetting boiling eggs on the stove and coming back to a smoking warped pot with an exploded egg. Yuck!

  481. GWEN says

    I HAVE TURNED ON THE WRONG BURNER AND LEFT THE ROOM, COMPLETELY DESTROYING MY EMPTY PAN ON THAT BURNER!

  488. Katy P says

    My worst cooking experience with pans- was using an old non stick coated pan to cook in- then having non stick coating come off in the food!

  491. Vicki Beasley says

    Besides burning things on cheap pans and having to throw them out b/c they wouldn’t come clean, ruining a great iron skillet because I was young and didn’t know how to take care of it, and putting a cheap skillet in the oven and melting the handle….I have also put a pot of water on to boil to get some humidity in the house and forgot about it and almost burned my house down. Good times. :)

  492. Flyn says

    My worse experience was burning caramel in a pot. It was such a mess that I had to throw the pot away.

  496. Jen Chapman says

    Worst experience was using a new stove in my new apartment. Apparently it gets hotter than normal stoves. … I was using my new grill pan for quesadillas … and filled the place with smoke, and blackened the ‘dilla. It was definitely disastrous.

  498. Jocelyn A. says

    My worst experience has been getting distracted and burning food to the bottom of the pan a couple of times!

  499. Renata says

    My worst experience with my poor skillet is when the non-stick coating was no longer non-stick and the eggs were burnt.

  501. Scott says

    We need this new cookware because our old set is no longer non-stick. Half our pork chops stick to the pan.

  506. Renee says

    When my youngest cat (then a kitten) decided to taste one of my dishes and her fur burned onto the outside of the pot! Ouch!

  508. Amanda says

    When I was first learning to cook, it seemed like everytime I was in the kitchen, something boiled over. What a mess!

  509. Lori says

    I set the kitchen on fire in our 1st apartment trying to make mac&cheese. All my friends say “only Lori can mess up boiling water!” & they are correct. I caught a dish towel on fire and the curtain over the sink caught as well. My roommate ran in with the fire extinguisher and saved the day!

  514. Kelly W. says

    My worst experience involved using a so called teflon pan. The metal inside the pan started peeling while I was cooking. Needless to say.. Dinner was ruined and we went out to eat that night.

  519. Jesica says

    My husband burned eggs so badly in the bottom of my stainless steel skillet that we had to throw it away!

  522. Jamie says

    That would be this Thanksgiving. My family came to my house and my grandma was going to make gravy, she needed a skillet and I was sooo embarrased to show her mine because it used to be a black pan, but now the bottom is like brown and all the non stick stuff has come off. She asked me what happened to my skillet and I just told her its wore out. I wish I could just throw it away! The garbage probably wouldn’t even

  525. Jenn says

    I once made a chocolate pie and didn’t listen when the directions said “stir constantly”. Needless to say, it was almost easier to just throw the pan out than to clean it. Luckily my husband was sweet enough to clean it for me.

  527. Alissabeth says

    I can’t say I’ve had a bad experience, however, I have an annoying skillet where the handle won’t stay screwed in and it makes it very difficult to not burn myself or be worried that I will drop a hot skillet!

  533. Danielle says

    My worst experiece has been either food sticking to the pans or burning myself on the metal handles.

  536. Eliza Klinger says

    I hate it when I burn food in pots and have to scrape and scrub the burnt food out. Obviously I need non stick pans!

  541. Sandra U. says

    My worst cooking experience happened recently. I was boiling eggs and forgot about them. They boiled until the water ran out, the eggs burned the bottom of my pan and I had to toss it. What can I say? I have 8 kids and my mind was elsewhere, LOL. I could really use this, I cook daily and put lots of wear and tear on my pots & pans.

  545. Barb S. says

    Worst cooking experience: making spaghetti sauce in a pot that wasn’t QUITE big enough. My entire stove top was spattered in red sauce!

  548. Michelle says

    I could use some new cookware. When I was a kid I was trying to make my mom a treat and I stuck a pot in the microwave to melt something and luckly it didn’t cause a fire but it ruined the pot and the house smelled of smoke. Learned my lesson.

  553. Candice says

    Worst cooking experience was a few days ago when I attempted to make hot chocolate the old fashion way on the stove..I turned my back for a split second and the milk boiled over and ended up all over the stove and the floor! Needless to say there was no hot chocolate that day :(

  557. Jennifer Teague says

    My worst cooking experience was when I left my wok on by accident. The thing turned a nasty shade of black and had to be thrown in the trash.

  566. D Tyo says

    My worst experience was when my brand new skillet started peeling it’s non-sick coating into the eggs I was scrambling.

  569. Jennifer Tyo says

    My worst thing was one time I actually managed to burn my chili…in the slow cooker :)

  576. Becca says

    In my old apartment they had installed a smoke detector in the kitchen. Everytime I fried things or even had a lot of steam, the smoke alarm would go off and I’d have to open the windows to air it out. I’m sure the neighbors thought I was a terrible cook!

  577. Heather M. says

    I have two. I once cooked dinner in a pyrex dish on the stove top and of course it exploded. The other time is when I put some oil to warm in a pan and forgot about it and it caught on fire. I really am a good cook though :)

  579. Kimberly says

    In my favorite sauté pan I overcooked some onions and boy was that pan hard to clean afterwards!

  580. Patricia says

    I would love to win this, as our pots and pans were a hand me down and would love a new pair of pans for myself

  583. Vanessa says

    My worst cooking was the time I put on a pot of water to boil and forgot about it for hours … the pot turned black

  584. Deb S. says

    My pots and pans now are really bad! The handles are cracked and they pinch my skin whenever I quickly move them from the stove to the sink to drain something. LOL…maybe Santa will leave me a new set under the tree.

  585. Andrea H says

    My worst experience with pots and pans is when I was trying to fry some chicken, I was waiting for the oil to heat up and it cooked the teflon right off of the inside of the bottom of the pot! It was horrible and needless to say, we didn’t have fried chicken that night.

  588. bexriz says

    My worst cooking experience is setting off the smoke alarm in our apartment because of my horrible saute pan sticking and burning! I would just love to have some quality cookware!

  590. Sunnie says

    Id have to say when I was a kid and I stayed home sick. I think I was making something, and I fell asleep while the burner was on. No fire or anything, but I burned the pan bad.

  600. Amy says

    I don’t have one example……unfortunately I have too many to list! I am a horrible cook and have burnt many many dinners!! Getting the burnt food off of the pans is quite a chore! You would think I would be used to it!!

  601. Wendy says

    I started a fire when my stock pot overflowed onto the old fashioned electric stove. Luckily everything was ok but I did receive a fire extinguisher that Christmas!

  604. Anne says

    I remember making a pot of chili and adding cayene pepper by the tablespoon fulls! Oh my gosh it was so hot. My Dad’s head was sweating. Which was really funny be cause he was mostly bald. We ended up having to throw out the chili. There was no way to fix it. Boy did I learn my leason.

  605. Trisha says

    My worst experience is finding a suitable one in my mom’s kitchen when I visit her. these would be for her if I win!

  606. Melissa N. says

    my husband said he thought scrambled eggs werent supposed to be able to stick to the pan. i proved him wrong. lol

  611. pamela cox says

    My worst cooking experience was cooking broccoli in my steamer insert failed to put enough water in for the boil burned the bottom inside and bottom on the ouside of the pan, means it was broccoli the smell was paralyzing.Still i think i smell it in my kitchen.LOL

  613. karin ellis says

    I would love to get this new cookware. Mine is my original from when I was married, 15 years ago.

  615. Crystal says

    I think my husbands worst cooking experience is when we just got engaged and he came over to cook spaggetti before I got home from work… He comes from a family that NEVER cooked! Reading the directions on the GLASS Ragu jar, it says to heat the sauce… He put the JAR ON THE EYE OF THE STOVE instead of pouring it into the pan!! The glass shattered and made a HUGE MESS! When I got home, he was cleaning up glass and sauce off the cabinets still! I couldnt help but laugh!!!!

  616. Stephanie says

    I would LOVE to win this set!!! I have used my pots and pans to the max. I really need to replace them, but I am waiting for money to be freed up so I can (we have 3 small kids and don’t have a steady income like so many other people). My pots and pans have lost their “non-stick” quality long ago…lol. Burning food and having half of it sticl to the pan would be my worst experience. Thank you for giving so many people the chance to win this!!

  617. Ali says

    My worst cooking experience hasn’t happened yet because I don’t have cookware because I microwave everything – Sure would be nice to have a stove top meal!

  622. Katrina S says

    When we first got married I remember the lid on the potatoes somehow suctioned onto the pot and my husband used a screwdriver to get the lid off….. when your new at cooking stuff like that is serious ;) lol

  630. judi says

    Worst cooking event – – When I caught 2 kernals of popcorn on fire in my home ec class in high school. I was the teacher first fire ever in 25 years.

  633. Heather Thomas says

    Worst cooking experience: My husband was cooking up a fast dinner for our large family (usually my job!), when the power went off. We scramble to find a flashlight and calm the kids. We end up having cereal for dinner and went to bed early. Power turns on in the early morning hours and we find our dinner burned to a blacked mess on top of the stove with the charred remains of a plastic cooking spoon still in the pot. In the confussion my hubby forgot to take it off our electric stove or remove it from the burner! What we learned- hubby doesn’t get to cook during storms!

  634. Lorianne says

    I put a metal pot in the microwave and it made crazy lightening inside the microwave! I was terrified and screamed so loud the whole house came running to witness my incompetence in the kitchen!

  636. Sharon says

    One of the worst experiences was when one of the side handles broke off. I was able to set it back down or fall down slower as I held on with the other handle.

  637. J Bartoff says

    Hi, THis is a great giveaway!!! I have had most of the pots and pans we own for more than 12 years! It would be so special to have a matching set and such a beautiful set it is!! THanks!

  639. heather king says

    When I first got married I didn’t know how to cook much less how to use any pots and pans. When I first met my husband I basically only knew how to cook peas and cornbread, so by the time we got married he definatly didn’t want that anymore. On occasion I still have burned somethings and smoked up the house. it seems when I do that it takes forever to take get the smoked cleared. Now I feel I can cook anything and my kitchen is my best friend. I love to cook for my family and my husband loves my cooking and says I can cook anything. He even brags….. I would love to have those pots and pans.

  645. Corrine F says

    I forgot I was boiling some noodles…by time I remembered, all the water was gone and the noodles were glued to the bottom of the pan.

  654. Rita says

    I would love new pots, mine are about 20 years old and not so nice looking, missing pieces and lids. I follow you on Facebook.

  655. Lindsay says

    My worse was when I cooked soup in a small pot and half the teflon came off the bottom of the pan when I poured the soup out. EW.

  659. Kathy says

    I don’t know if this counts as cooking, but when I was little I tried to help my mom by defrosting meat for her in a paper bag, no pan mind you, over an open burner. Needless to say, that did not turn out well. It ended in my mom streaking through the house naked as she was getting a bath at the time. In my defense I was smart enogh to go get her and I was only 2 yrs old.

  661. Jon says

    A few years ago I went to heat up the oven. We store pots & pan & corning ware in the oven. In my infinite wizdom I thought that it was all heat proof. Well I melted some corning ware plastic lids to the corning ware and melted the handles off of the pots & pans. So we had to throw alot of stuff away as I destroyed it. That taught me to remove the items from the oven before heating it up.

  670. Jennifer says

    I’ve had stuff burned on soooooooooo bad and then I’ve had to leave stuff more than 24 hours to soak!

  674. ACMommy says

    My worst experience with pots and pans…I was warming up some oil in preparation for sauteing, and I went to answer the door to a neighbor…forgot about the oil, came back to find a pot on fire! :-P Lost a pot that day!

  676. lis piquette says

    My favorite pans are my onieda stainless pans , i have more expensive pans , but these are my favs

  677. Lisa says

    My worst experience with pots and pans was ALMOST serving my mother-in-law tephlon!!
    I didn’t realize it until I was spooning the mushrooms (that were to top the steaks) that the tephlon had worn off the bottom of the pan and transfered to the mushrooms!! YOWSA!!!

  678. Mel says

    Wen I was 14 I burnt a pan beyond recognition and to keepmfrom getting in trouble, I threw it in the woods.

  680. Shannon says

    I am subscribed to you through Facebook and e-mails. I love getting the updates on deals.

    As for my worst cooking experience, I was watching a new friend’s son at her house and I tried to make breakfast for the kids. Well, I ended up ruining her pan and her house smelled like I tried to burn it down., 12 years later, we are still friends and I am pretty sure she doesn’t even remember our incident. Of course, I will never cook at another house again….well, except for my mother’s.

  686. Becky says

    Worst Cooking experience was on Valentine’s day. It wasn’t may story, but my husband’s. He was cooking an extravagant dinner for me and had steak in the pan in the oven. When I got home he was just finishing up and he brought it out and placed it on top of the stove. In the craziness of trying to complete everything, he tried to move the pan while forgetting it was still super hot. He ended up with a burn on his hand and we called a nurse friend to check it out to make sure he didn’t need medical attention. Needless to say, that Valentine’s Day was not a very good one. The food was good though. :)

  689. Danyell says

    My worst cooking story has turned into a book and every chapter reads the same thing. How to make rice soup…what is rice soup you ask, it’s me not knowing how to make rice and I always, always add too much water. It is get way to soft and there’s still water left. :(

  694. Tarissa says

    Worst experience would probably be the day that we hid our un-washed pots and pans in the oven–to keep them out of sight from our guests. However, later on, when we preheated the oven to cook supper for our company, there was a bit of a crackling noise and perhaps a faint burnt smell. That’s when we dashed to the oven to pull out the hidden pots and pans!

  696. katklaw777 says

    Easy one…In college using a hot plate to make Mac n Cheese. Eat half and leave other half in pot to keep warm while I take a walk down the hall to visit friend. Come back to find smoke and bottom of pot filled with burnt food. Get in trouble for cooking in my room. Throw ruined pot out!!! lol

  701. danielle verdi says

    I definately need a new set of pots! Mine are all mismatched and burned! Brillo doesn’t get them clean anymore!

  704. gaitha says

    Worst experience with a copper bottom pot …… I turned on the wrong burner and realized that I was heating an empty pot, without thinking I grab it and throw it in the sink and turn on cold water……It wwas too much for the pot to handle and the copper exploded off the bottom of the pot….it sounded like a gunshot, scared me SO bad! and ruined my pot :(ggp42304(at)gmail(dot)com

  707. Sara says

    I once forgot I had the burner on and didn’t have anything in the pan. Consequently, the pan was ruined.

  708. Mandy H. says

    Worst cooking experience – burning popcorn in the pot that we used for cooking on the stove-top. The burnt butter and popcorn and all was NASTY. Took SO long to clean, too!

  712. Donna B. says

    I cooked some macaroni in a non-stick pot – and went next door to talk to the neighbor. For almost 3 hours. The smell was awful – it took days to get the stick out of the apartment.

  716. Michelle says

    I used a metal spoon on my boyfriends nice pan. He wasnt very happy. These will replace those :)

  717. tammy says

    i have the large pot that has a strainer insert that lifts out to strain things easier, too bad it boiled over on thanksgiving and put out the pilot lights to the stove!!

    Thank you for the opportunity to win!

  718. Tina W says

    I once had a cute stainless teakettle that I accidentally left on when I took a bottle down to the barn to feed a baby calf. Completely forgot about it for several hours. It ended up scorched and the bottom warped like crazy. I ended up using it in the garden to plant herbs.

  719. Rebecca says

    I don’t like scrubbing cooked eggs out of my pans – getting these would be big help I’m sure!

  725. Cori Westphal says

    I don’t think I’ve had too bad of experiences before. Maybe the time my hubs decided he could put a cookie sheet on the grill to cook on. Of course it ruined the pan, and the coating flaked off into the food so we couldn’t eat it either!

    coriwestphal at msn dot com

  729. Linda says

    my worst experience(s) have been when my huband leaves something boiling on the stove and burns the pan dry

  739. Judy Ward says

    When my first child was only about 2 months old I fell asleep while he was napping. I had left some green beans on the stove cooking and when I woke up they so badly burnt that the pot ruined.

  742. Jes says

    I’m a subscriber and could use some nice, durable pots & pans like these! I’ve just collected odd pieces here and there from others, would be really nice to have a matching set!

  743. DONNA HOPE says

    I was cooking dinner and went outside to get the mail and was stopped by a neighbor and she wanted to talk. Yak yak yak and suddenly I remembered the dinner! It was burning so I had to throw it all out!!!

  747. Lindsay says

    Just last week I had one of my lids for one of my pans on top of a burner that I didn’t know that was one and it burnt the whole plastic handle of my lid. =( I sure could use a new set of pots and pans.

  754. Karina House says

    Worst pot experience: My mother-in-law (who lives with us and suffers from a traumatic brain injury) decided to sterilize the then baby’s pacifiers – and forgot about them! The water boiled away and the pacifiers disintegrated INTO the pot! Needless to say we don’t have that pot anymore – and it was a good Pampered Chef one, too.

  756. Phyl says

    I tried to make some divinity one time & thought I was going to have to throw away my pan because I could not get the candy out.

  759. Mandi S says

    Nearly ALL my cooking experiences are a nightmare.. I bought myself some great stainless steel pots & pans so I can cook like I like to… vs what my husband, who never cooks, wanted.. lol

  762. Beth H. says

    My worst experience with pots and pans was when my daughter was making macaroni and cheese and she forgot about it and the noodles stuck to the pan when all the water boiled out. The burner was still on so the noodles then burnt. The worst part was that it killed our Cockatiel and Parakeet from the fumes. I had a mess that never would come off and my heart was broken! :( I’ve been wanting a decent set of cookware for a long while now.

  766. Maggie T says

    I burned some cookies so bad – it wasn’t the pan, it was the oven (rental house oven burned EVERYTHING!)

  770. Lauren says

    Worst experience: I am a special education teacher and bake every week for academic team meeting. I decide to make my famous oatmeal raisin cookies. I had just moved into a new apartment and could not find my cookie sheet so I decided to use my roommate non stick cookie sheet. After the cookies cooked for 12 minutes I started to smell smoke. I went to check on them and found they were burned black and they would not unstick from the sheet. 15 minutes letter when I had all the burnt cookies in the trash I had to wash a black cookie sheet. After washing the sheet several time it is still stained a golden color and is no longer non-stick.

  771. Jenn says

    I am bad about leaving stuff on the stove until all liquid cooks out and I have burned ? left stuck to the pan!!

  774. Becky H. says

    So, my worst experience with pots and pans was the time I started making rice and forgot I was making rice, thus making a solid layer of rice on the bottom of my pan.

    So, some new pans would be nice…..

  779. Sherry says

    My worst cooking experience would be forgetting that I had put the actual pot in the oven and touching it after it came out. Bad burn! Ouch! Thank you for the great giveaway!

  783. Irma says

    all the kids over for sunday lunch and it’s late because i don’t have enough pots to make everytrhing at once :( it was good when we finally did eat

  788. Brandi says

    my worst experience is burning potatoes for making mashed potatoes. i had a newborn who was crying and i forgot and i burned them and they stunk for hours.

  792. Kelly D says

    Just last year my kids bought me some iron cast skillets for Christmas – what a laugh it was trying to cook in those but I didn’t want to hurt their feelings.

  796. Just Coupons says

    Worst cooking experience that I can think of is leaving the pan on the burner with nothing in it. I’ve done that a few times

  800. Eileen says

    My worst could very well have been tonight. My big dutch oven doenst cook evenly and it over heated, burned the bottom inch of chilli BLACK and the rest smelled like diesel fuel and tasted Horrible, even when I tried to scoop into another pan. I sure hope I win this set cuz I am NOT going to clean up that pan til I find out! LOL!

  805. Kristi Kavicky says

    Maybe not my “worst” cooking experience. But, when I was in college I decided that eggs wouldn’t burn. I was making scrambled eggs. OH MY!! Do they ever?! Do you know how hard they are to clean out of a pan? =)

  808. Amber Robinson says

    I didn’t know bundt pans came in larger sizes. So I followed and recipe and poured the batter in. A few minutes later—all the batter was in my oven!!

  811. lynda says

    the worst time was when I was making oatmeal…it stuck to the bottom of the pan and I had to throw the pan away because it was like cement

  812. Heather H. says

    I was trying to make a Grilled Cheese Sandwich and there wasn’t enough stick so all it did was stick to the pan and we had to eat cereal.
    hmhenderson AT yahoo DOT com

  819. Jennifer says

    My worst cooking experience was cooking cream of wheat. When it burns you can just forget cleaning the pan out, had to throw it away!

  822. chantal cooper says

    My worst experience was when food sticks to the pan. I hate that!
    chantal cooper
    chantalgiardina (at) yahoo (dot) com

  830. Jennifer Captain says

    I haven’t had a new pan in SOOO long, but the worst experience is a handle falling off when I went to cook!! Bummer!!!

  833. Kara says

    I was cooking ribs and forgot about them. They burnt to the bottom of the pan and took five days of soaking before everything came off.

  834. Rachel G says

    Stainless steel & easy clean up would make me excited to win & try these out. This momma needs some new pots & pans!

  835. Wendyc33 says

    Ive had many cooking disasters. I would say just when i burn my green beans in the pan, which is alot. lol. I forget about them.

  840. kay henderson says

    I have been looking for new cookware since mine is all but beautiful anymore. I purchased what I have now used from an estate sale so you can see how I would need new stuff. My skillets are embarrassing. The coating has come off of everything. Its time for new but I never know what to buy and what is good. Thanks for sharing your input on this set.

  841. Arie says

    Being that I’m 26 and newly in my own home, there have been LOTS of horrible cooking experiences! (I grew up in a single-dad home, and give him all the credit in the world for raising us, but cooking was NOT his thing!)

    My most recent had to be when I was cooking the Thanksgiving turkey…. I didn’t know that “Convection Bake” and “Bake” are different. I set the temp at 350 and put it on convection bake. I also seemed to remember something about “always keeping the turkey on the top rack, closest to the heat.” Ummm, apparently that was do NOT keep the turkey on the top rack, close to the heat!

    Add to the mix that I couldn’t find a cover for the roasting pan, so used a cookie sheet instead (only later was I told to use tin foil….) The cookie sheet was balanced ontop of the turkey, which was on the top rack, in a convection oven….

    Long (and smokey) story short – my turkey skin burn under the cookie sheet, which made it like concrete, and the cookie pan got so warped from being on the direct heat of the spinny fan thingie in the convection oven that it got stuck, and I had to ask a friend to drive to my city to help me get it out of the oven.

    HORRIBLE experience!

    Thank you for the chance to win, and good luck to everyone else :)

  851. abitnerdy says

    I was in middle school and my parents never baked much.. my worst and most hilarious baking moment was wanting to make a cake.. but didnt know if i was allowed to use the ‘big’ oven so i used a toaster oven… .and then i put the cake batter in…… plastic tubber and put it in the oven. my friend and i stared through the glass watching plastic melt.

    gosh. i’m a lot smarter now, promise. hehehe.

  859. sue says

    My most recent bad experience was burning rice in a pot. It stunk to high heaven for days in my house and I had to scrub the pan forever, to get rid of it.

  862. jen j says

    My worst pots and pans experience…is making a casserole for my family and as i stir the food in preperation all the black comes off the bottom of the pan and blended into my food…It was horrible!!!

  865. Sharon says

    I thought it turned out nice. I made a soup with cabbage and hamburger. My husband came in from a walk and was very upset. It tasted ok, just not like my neighbor who had previously made it for me. It was edible. My husband was just disgusted.