topic Re: Cooks Essentials in Kitchen

Cooks Essentials

MKR14 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:58:52 GMT

I miss the Cooks Essentials line QVC used to sell. My air fryer is several years old and in excellent shape after all the meals it has served.

Do they have a brand in a different name of the same quality?

Re: Cooks Essentials

rockygems123 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 16:22:49 GMT

@MKR14

Techniques was before Cooks Essentials and they've brought back that line. Always thought they had the same quality as Cooks Essentials.

Prepology is another proprietary QVC line.

Who knows, manufacturing could be the same with all their own lines with a different label.

Re: Cooks Essentials

FranandZoe — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 16:48:47 GMT

I have a set of Cooks Essentials cookware that I bought years ago - still love it. I even bought a set for my niece as a shower gift.

Re: Cooks Essentials

mildoo — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 18:01:40 GMT

I have several pieces of Cooks Essentials and love them. Use them all the time. One is a saute pan and I loved it so much, I bought a backup. But the original is still in very good condition and so the backup is only used occasionally. Also, have a stock pot that I use for soups all the time. I have had these items a long time and they look like I just bought them. I wish they would bring Cooks Essentials back.

Re: Cooks Essentials

wagirl — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:08:55 GMT

I had alot of that type of cookware--but with the black non stick. I did get rid of them all due to the bad rap that type of coating has and replaced with ceramic nonstick by Curtis Stone. I was very careful with the old stuff so it looked pretty good but decided to buy new.

Re: Cooks Essentials

haddon9 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:14:29 GMT

@rockygems123 wrote:
@MKR14

Techniques was before Cooks Essentials and they've brought back that line. Always thought they had the same quality as Cooks Essentials.

Prepology is another proprietary QVC line.

Who knows, manufacturing could be the same with all their own lines with a different label.

I have a Techniques stainless frying pan that I purchased many years ago when it was being discontinued and on sale for a great price! I have used that frying pan a lot and it has held up very well!!...so much so that I was disappointed when the line no longer offered stainless pans.

Re: Cooks Essentials

ciao_bella — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:06:06 GMT

Still using my Cook's Essential oval Pressure Cooker. I purchased this in red many years ago (probably 15 years or more) as a Today's Special Value. It's still going strong.

Re: Cooks Essentials

Razzy 7 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:37:17 GMT

That's wonderful ciao bella. I've been using my Instant Pot pressure cooker for a number of years now and love it. It has absolutely changed the way I cook. I own more than 100 pressure cooking cookbooks (I said I love pressure cooking!). Also whenever I want to cook something I also search the Internet using Google for the name of the recipe and the word "pressure."

Re: Cooks Essentials

ULY — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 23:53:52 GMT

The cooks essentials cookware we bought (years ago) was wonderful. The presenter always said it was restaurant kitchen quality and I agree. Now I never try and abuse my cookware but sometimes it happens and it held up very well. Over the years two pans were worn beyond belief and while QVC couldn't offer replacements, I was given credit on my account for each piece.

The remaining pieces I still have work fine even to this day and we are talking double digit years of ownership.

Re: Cooks Essentials

faeriemoon — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:07:20 GMT

I have a Techniques frying pan that is still going strong. It has held up really well. I think it was a premium line on the Q; a step above Cooks Essentials.

Re: Cooks Essentials

Carmie — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:33:11 GMT

I never had much luck with Cook Essentials. My pressure cooker didn't last long....less than a year. When I called for the warranty, I was told only the non stick vessel was warranted.

I ended up sending my lid, gasket and removable vessel to a poster on these forums and threw the rest of the pressure out. It stopped working while I was cooking something. It just stopped half way through.

My cookware never lasted either. I had several types including hard anodized ...all gone now and I even have two cast iron vessels like La Creuset. The white interiors wore away and now the black cast iron is showing through.

I cook every day and from scratch. It takes a really good product to last and to impresses me....Cooks Essentials. wasn't it.

I still use my stainless steel Revere Ware. It looks beautiful and it is 51....soon to be 52 years old. Now that is good stuff.

Re: Cooks Essentials

Northerngal — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:30:46 GMT

I miss the old Cooks Essentials enameled cast iron skillets. My husband is asking for a skillet but I don't want to pay $100 or more for one of the higher end brands.