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Best cookware sets of 2024 (and they’re all on sale)
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Whether you have an assortment of random cookware in your kitchen or none at all, investing in a matching cookware set can be highly beneficial. Purchasing a cookware set for your kitchen provides a cohesive and organized look to your kitchen and can sometimes be more cost effective than buying individual pieces. Even if you have a small kitchen, there are mini cookware sets available to suit your needs.
Below, you’ll find some of the best cookware sets on the market from top brands like Our Place, HexClad, Caraway and more. These selections include pots, pans, Dutch ovens, and other essentials for home cooking.
Whether you have a limited budget or need cookware compatible with induction stovetops, we’ve gathered options for every type of range and need you can think of below.
Our Place Mini Home Cook Duo: Save 22%
Our Place
The mini versions of Our Place’s bestselling Perfect Pot and Always Pan are ideal for cooking for one without taking up too much kitchen space. When you bundle the minis, you can get 22% off your purchase.
The cookware is nonstick, oven-safe up to 450 degrees and comes with stirring utensils for each, as well as a dedicated nesting space on the cookware for easier storage. What’s more, the duo comes in multiple pretty color options, including blue, green, purple and more.
Caraway 4-piece cookware set: Save 27%
Caraway
Caraway is a direct-to-consumer ceramics line that uses a mineral-based, non-toxic, nonstick coating on its cookware. According to the Caraway website, Caraway cookware releases 60% less carbon dioxide than other nonstick models. On top of that, Caraway pots and pans are known for being especially easy on the eyes.
“I am struck by how great this cookware looks and performs,” a reviewer says. “I’ve used nearly all the pieces, and aside from the practical use of pots and pans, they clean and store very easily. I love the hanging slipcase for the lids as well.”
This Caraway cookware set includes a 10.5-inch fry pan, 3-quart saucepan, 4.5-quart sauté pan and a 6.5-quart Dutch oven. Purchase also includes magnetic pan racks and a canvas lid holder, which will make keeping your kitchen organized so much easier.
HexClad hybrid 6-piece cookware set with lids: Save 25%
HexClad
HexClad pans are worth the price because they combine the performance of stainless steel cookware, the durability of cast iron and the convenience of nonstick. The brand is even backed by Gordon Ramsay.
This set comes with a 12-, 8- and 10-inch fry pan as well as corresponding lids for each. It’s also dishwasher- and oven-safe and can be used on induction cooktops.
Right now, you can score this cookware set for 25% off the original price, translating to a savings of $132.
Ninja Foodi 12-piece NeverStick premium cookware set: Save 15%
Amazon
Get cooking with this top-rated, 12-piece, hard anodized set from Ninja. The set features a mix of frying pans, saucepans, sauté pans and pots in different sizes. All of the glass lid pots and pans included in the Ninja 12-piece cookware set have a scratch-resistant coating and are nonstick, oven-safe and dishwasher-safe.
The Ninja Foodi cookware set has a 4.5-star rating on Amazon. One reviewer wrote, “These pots and pans are simply amazing. They are beautiful, versatile, sturdy, easy to clean, the lids fit well. Love them.”
Great Jones 5-piece family-style cookware set: Save $65
Great Jones
Great Jones makes modern kitchen pieces that last. The female-founded brand boasts a wide variety of cookware and bakeware, plus mixing bowls, kettles and more.
This must-have cookware set has everything you need to cook a holiday feast, make a cozy Sunday night dinner or throw together a casual weeknight meal. The set includes an 8-quart stock pot, a deep sauté pan, a 3-quart saucepan, a nonstick frying pan made with a non-toxic ceramic coating, two stainless-steel lids and a gorgeous 6.75-quart enameled cast-iron Dutch oven that comes in seven colors. It is dishwasher safe, but hand washing is recommended.
Carote 11-piece nonstick pot and pan set: Save 50%
Amazon
The Carote 11-piece pot and pan set comes with detachable handles, which are game changers when it comes to saving space in cabinets and drawers.
With this set, you get two handles, which are about 7.5 inches long and easily snap into place onto the pots and pans. There are two pots, including two and three-quart saucepans, and three pans, including an 8-inch and 10-inch frying pan as well as a 10-inch saute pan. These sizes are pretty standard and will allow you to cook a variety of dishes, ranging from scrambled eggs to stir-fries.
Another standout attribute is the set’s 7-inch and 8-inch silicone storage lids, which allow the saucepans and 8-inch frying pan to double as food storage containers that you can put in your fridge. The set also comes with two traditional lids for cooking: one 8-inch and one 10-inch.
These pots and pans are compatible with all cooktops, including induction, and can be put in the oven and dishwasher. Just like all nonstick pans, the brand recommends you use gentle dish soap and nonabrasive sponges when cleaning to avoid damage. You should also refrain from using metal utensils, as that can easily scratch the pan.
The Carote 11-piece nonstick pot and pan set has a 4.4-star rating on Amazon. One reviewer wrote, “I love being able to take the handle off for easy storage. All cookware should be made this way! The extra lids are great, too. I can cook and store in the same pot!”
Food Network 10-piece Farmstead nonstick ceramic cookware set: Save 34%
Kohl’s
This Food Network nonstick cookware set includes a 1.5-quart covered saucepan, a 2.5-quart covered saucepan, a 3-quart covered sauté pan, a 6-quart covered Dutch oven, an 8-inch open fry pan and a 10-inch open fry pan. Crafted with titanium-infused ceramic nonstick coating, these pans are safe for use on gas, electric and glass or ceramic cooktops, and they’re oven-safe (without lids) in heat up to 350 degrees.
“Well, this set is holding up and still looks great after a year of good cooking,” a reviewer says of this nonstick cookware. “Easy to clean, beautiful appearance and perfect for everyday use.”
TRENTON, N.J. — Democratic Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver has defeated Republican small businessman Carmen Bucco in a contest in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District that opened up because of the death of Rep. Donald Payne Jr. in April.
McIver will serve out the remainder of Payne’s term, which ends in January. She and Bucco will face a rematch on the November ballot for the full term.
McIver said in a statement Wednesday that she stands on the “shoulders of giants,” naming Payne as chief among them.
She cast ahead to the November election, saying the right to make reproductive health choices was on the ballot as well as whether the economy should benefit the wealthy or “hard working Americans.”
“I will fight because the purpose of politics and the purpose of our vote is to give the people of our communities and our nation a bold voice,” she said.
Bucco congratulated McIver on the victory in a statement but said he’s looking forward to the rematch in November.
“I am not going anywhere,” he said in an email. “We still have a second chance to make district 10 great again!”
Who are LaMonica McIver and Carmen Bucco?
McIver emerged as the Democratic candidate in a crowded field in the July special election. A member of the city council of New Jersey’s biggest city since 2018, she also worked for Montclair Public Schools as a personnel director and plans to focus on affordability, infrastructure, abortion rights and “protecting our democracy,” she told The Associated Press earlier this summer.
Bucco describes himself on his campaign website as a small-business owner influenced by his upbringing in the foster system. He lists support for law enforcement and ending corruption as top issues.
The 10th District lies in a heavily Democratic and majority-Black region of northern New Jersey. Republicans are outnumbered by more than 6 to 1.
It’s been a volatile year for Democrats in New Jersey, where the party dominates state government and the congressional delegation.
Among the developments were the conviction on federal bribery charges of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, who has denied the charges, and the demise of the so-called county party line — a system in which local political leaders give their preferred candidates favorable position on the primary ballot.
Democratic Rep. Andy Kim, who’s running for Menendez’s seat, and other Democrats brought a federal lawsuit challenging the practice as part of his campaign to oust Menendez, who has resigned since his conviction.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs at same Brooklyn detention center that held R. Kelly, Sam Bankman-Fried, other high-profile inmates
A second judge refused to grant bail to Sean “Diddy” Combs on Wednesday and he could remain in federal custody at a Brooklyn detention center until his trial for sex trafficking charges. Combs joins other high-profile inmates, such as singer R. Kelly, fallen cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, rapper Ja Rule —even Al Sharpton served a brief stint— who were held at the same federal detention center.
Notorious for its horrible conditions —inmates won a $10 million class action settlement after enduring frigid conditions during an 8-day blackout in 2019— the waterfront industrial complex, MDC Brooklyn, houses 1,200 inmates.
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Violence and corruption have long plagued the facility; U.S. District Judge Gary R. Brown of the Eastern District of New York wrote the detention center had “dangerous, barbaric conditions” in a recent sentencing opinion. Two inmates were stabbed to death in recent months and several correction officers have been convicted for smuggling contraband and accepting bribes.
Combs joins a list of high-profile personalities that have landed at the MDC Brooklyn, partly because the city’s other federal detention center, MDC New York, closed in 2021, also due to horrible conditions. The disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in his cell there in 2019. “Numerous and serious” instances of misconduct among corrections staff gave Epstein the opportunity to kill himself, a subsequent federal watchdog investigation found.
Kelly sued the federal detention center in 2022 for wrongly putting him on suicide watch after his sentencing. Kelly sought $100 million because he said the detention center knew he wasn’t suicidal after he was convicted in 2021 for racketeering and violating the Mann Act, which bars transporting people across state lines for prostitution.
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Former crypto billionaire Bankman-Fried survived on bread, water and sometimes peanut butter when he was in the MDC Brooklyn, his attorney said, because the detention center continued to serve him a “flesh diet” despite requests for vegan dishes.
Ja Rule stayed at the MDC Brooklyn for a brief time before being released after serving most of his two-year sentence for illegal gun possession. Most of his prison time was spent in a state prison in New York.
Sharpton served a 90-day sentence in 2001 and went on a hunger strike for protesting the U.S. Navy bombing of the island of Vieques, in Puerto Rico.
Combs was taken into custody on Monday and according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday he was charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution.
His attorney Marc Agnifilo told CBS News, “It’s impossible to prepare for a trial from where he is,” after a first federal judge denied Combs bail on Tuesday.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn Tarnofsky agreed with prosecutors who argued the hip-hop mogul, who is accused of using his business empire as a criminal enterprise to conceal his alleged abuse of women, is a flight risk and poses an ongoing threat to the safety of the community.
Agnifilo said the part of the detention center where Combs is being held is “a very difficult place to be.”
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