Pots and pans dream has come true...

For a while the non-stick coating on our large pot (the one we use to cook pasta, risotto, soups in) has been slowly dying. In the past few weeks it has actually become a health hazard with little black bits of the coating lifting off and getting mixed in with our food while cooking (it is just over 6yrs old - it was a wedding present). So for a while I have been aware that we would have to replace it and so when I saw that Farmers (the closest equivelant to Myer or DJs) was having a one day sale, which included 20% of all pots, I thought this might be a good time to get a replacement.

I got Peter to check out their range a couple of days ago (the city store is on the ground floor of his building), but it was disappointing as they didn't have any non-stick pots, only frying pans. So he looked in the kitchenware store (also on the ground floor of his building), which have a reasonable range of non-stick pots (Circulon, Jamie Oliver, KitchenAid, Scanpan). But their prices weren't very encouraging (I should say that I was really wanting Scanpan stuff, which is a bit expensive, but if you know where to buy it you can save a lot off RRP - which in Australia was Peter's of Kensington). Anyway as Peter was on his normal ride home from work he noticed another kitchenware store on the main street, The Scullery, which had a 4 piece Scanpan set in the window, with a bit 'last one in stock' sign, for as cheap as it was going to be to get 2 pots from the other shop (and as cheap as we would be able to get the same set in Australia).

That night I managed to drop our large pot on the floor which flattened the edge on one side so that the lid didn't fit anymore. So that finalised the decision and Peter went back first thing in the morning and purchased the set (I also liked that 'The Scullery' is a local business). I now have 3 beautiful pots (milk pot, medium and large) and a small frying pan (which will come in handy as our other one is very large). And hopefully we now won't have to buy new pots for a very long time!