What the cookware catalog includes

What the catalog covers

The catalog covers cookware sets and single pans sold in the US, with the specifications their makers publish. It's a chosen selection, not every pan on sale. Browse by material, cooking job or brand, then check the exact model on its product page.

Pots and pans, counted apart from lids

Each set's drawing shows its pots and pans, lids, inserts, utensils and pan protectors separately, so you can see how many pans a 10-piece set really holds. The size on the label, the flat base and the capacity are listed separately too, and every piece in the box is on the product page.

When a figure is blank

If a maker doesn't publish a weight, a base size or a lid temperature, we leave it blank rather than borrow it from another model. When you filter for induction or for covered oven cooking, pans whose makers don't say are left out, so everything you see has the maker's word behind it.

Drawings and photographs

The drawings are ours: they show each kind of pan, not the exact model. A product photo appears only when it shows the exact model you're looking at, and photos from Amazon are taken down when they go out of date. A photo on a maker's own site isn't one we're free to copy, so we don't.

Where each specification comes from

The Sources page lists the maker's pages behind each model. What a maker says about one model doesn't hold for every size or coating in the same line, so each limit belongs to the exact product it's listed with.

Corrections to the catalog

Use the Contact page to tell us the product, the figure and where you saw the right one. We check it against the exact model before changing the catalog.

Kitchen conversion sources

Ingredient weights come from USDA FoodData Central household portions. Preparation matters: packed sugar and sifted flour are different measurements. Yeast is the one exception: it is converted by the packet, 7 grams to about 2 1/4 teaspoons, as Fleischmann's and Red Star print it. The footer's Sources page carries the original references and update dates.

Use the kitchen conversion charts for the weights and volumes, or choose an ingredient in the converter.