Heritage Steel stainless cookware

Which Heritage Steel pan or set to buy

Every piece here is the Titanium Series: five-ply and fully clad, with a 316Ti stainless cooking surface strengthened with titanium, three aluminum layers and a magnetic outer layer. Heritage Steel says it works on every stove, induction included, goes in the oven to 800°F and under the broiler, and takes metal utensils, short of anything especially sharp. It recommends washing by hand and doesn’t say whether the dishwasher is allowed, so our tables say “Not stated” there.

The 10-piece set is five pans, each with its lid: the 10.5-inch fry pan, 1.5- and 4-quart sauté pans, a 3-quart saucepan and an 8-quart stockpot. It doubles up on sauté pans and leaves out a small frying pan and a second saucepan, so add a small saucepan if you often keep two things going at once.

The fry pan is 10.5 inches across but has a 7-inch flat cooking surface, the figure to check against your burner or zone. The 4-quart sauté pan and the 8-quart stockpot share an 11-inch rim and a 9.5-inch base. Heritage Steel gives no weights.

Heritage Steel makes every pan and lid at its factory in Clarksville, Tennessee, and says plainly that the clad steel itself comes from South Korea, which is why it labels the cookware “Made in USA with Global Materials”. Its lifetime warranty promises to repair or replace a piece that breaks or behaves unexpectedly in normal cooking; you start with a claim form on its site.