An X-BOX and Halo 2. It's got all you could ever want: racism.

You could also just make another 4 Thai dinners and not have to worry about this problem.

Hunh.

Vitriola's "blue" is, in fact, exactly the stuff we replaced our hopelessly-soot-damaged china with after the fire. It's durable as hell and looks pretty good. I give it two thumbs up.

Anyway, pinner, to answer your question, I've been cooking with All-Clad for years now. It's great, even when my darling wife boils all the chicken broth and lemongrass away and soots up the inside something fierce so I have to scrub and scrub and scrub until it is clean again.

Don't pay list for All-Clad, of course. But Williams-Sonoma sometimes has terrific sales on it. I don't know who else carries it offhand, but Bed Bath & Beyond or Linens & Things might. If you can get it at 50% off list or so it's completely worth it. Hell, it might even be worth list, but don't pay that for it.

Bruce

I'm just saying that to a corpse, those spending money on life-giving food, well, that's pretty gauche.

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother. Maybe when she dies she can send you her bed.[/quote]

I'm hoping for the dining set myself, but I gue---

[i][b]HEY!!!![/b][/i] Don't you talk about [i]Grammers[/i] that way!!!!!!!!

I [i]did[/i] make it clear that this was [i]my[/i] $500 we're talking about, right?

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I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother. Maybe when she dies she can send you her bed.

[url=http://denver.craigslist.org/hsh/52482646.html]I WANT IT.[/url]

Oooo, lookie, I can get [url=http://denver.craigslist.org/hsh/52502045.html]this.[/url]

I just haven't decided what I could be using it [i]for.[/i]

You've got me looking at the Craigslist housewares section for [url=http://denver.craigslist.org/hsh/]Denver.[/url] Dammit.

Out of nowhere, I got a $500 check from my old, dying grandmother today in the mail. I'm going to spend this on my kitchen, so I---

[quote="Anyone with a brain"]
Wait, do you have a bed yet?
[/quote]

No, I'm sleeping on my couch still, but what I'm tr---

[quote="Anyone with half a brain"]
And your "dining area" is still completely empty except for the three boxes you still refuse to unpack, right?
[/quote]

Well, yes. But we must have priorities. So this found money is going straight into the kitchen.

Now. $100 or so is going into a 10" chef knife. Period. I could have lived without this if I hadn't gone to cooking school and been allowed to use one. Now I have to have it. So, that leaves you with $400.

And, I'll tell you, what I want with that $400 is a nice set of pots and pans. Something snazzy. Something professional. Something with nonstick surfaces that you can still use metal with. Something that weighs more than three ounces. Something... [i]good[/i].

Tell me what to buy. I know a full "Calphalon One" set is about $500, and I'd be willing to splurge for the extra if it's really worth it, but I haven't studied this stuff, so I'm hoping one of you (not that I'm thinking specifically of Bruec here) will know more than I do, and be able to make decent recommendations.

Thank you for caring.