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[quote=Anonymous]Go to a local store, Macys.. Williams Sonoma.. Bed Bath.. feel the pots. Each has different feeling. Some are heavy some are light.
Look at the handles, some are uncomfortable and others are comfy. Look at the lids. Some are glass, others metal. Some have hole in them
others don't.

My personal preference:
Thick bottom for great heat transfer, no hot spots and sturdy sitting on the stove. 
Handles that are long and not too heavy but also not tin and shallow as they transfer heat fast and make your hand burn.
I like glass leads exclusively. I like to see where my thing is at as it is cooking. It helps to reduce heat and see how the dish replies.
I love to have a little hole in the lead to let some steam out so I can leave the whole lid close completely if I like knowing
it will not overboil.
I don't like pots with lids designed so that you can not flip and set to rest on the top of the handle with edge put under
the lip of the pot, kind of like an open cattle with flip lid situation. You must be able to do this and not every design supports this.

I would NEVER touch a non stick pans with a ten yard pole. There are great, wonderful stainless pans that you just have
to season with the salt as needed even if at one point or another it would stick from making something acidic, you
just reseason .. happens maybe once every two years? Otherwise they can go to the dishwasher just like everything else.

I would look into chef's sets. There are tons out there. Rachel R... Emeril..  Wolfgang Puck, Jacq Pepin.

If you can afford them, I would go with one. Chefs know what they are doing and what the pot needs to be great, they also
have to be careful what they put their name on.

Avoid the lowest end sets that are for amateur cooks. Go with higher end. If you want to go overboard go with Jack Pepin's
copper on the outside stainless still inside set but this is brutal to keep clean :). It makes you look like a pro chef
if you want to make that impression though. Instant impact.

I also find Williams Sonoma sets in most cases very well design for the purpose.

Other option is Home Goods, the dumpster of the fancy world. They tend to have unbelievable sets for fraction of the retail.
You need to know really well what you are looking for and go from there.

I personally do not care about sets. I want specific pots for specific things and I feel free to buy whatever I want
whenever I feel from whatever brand. It makes life much easier. Sets are very .. cookie cutter. Most of them
fit your very basic standard needs so yes,  you can get and expand. But more often then not a family has
specific  needs and the set is not best fit. I for one use a lot of small tinny pots loving to have few so
I can always have one in the works, one in the cabinet and one in the dishwasher.. or more if needed.
Ltos of milage, lots of use with kids when you make small amounts of stuff as needed and easy to
clean and small job for dishwasher, does not take up too much space.

I LOVE two handle pans without long handle as they are just wonderful for stews and bake ins.
They come with lid and almost NEVE in a set.

If I were you, I would ask the parents for a gift car for your pots and go and get them myself
giving them credit for buying them for me. The would be always looked a "the pot that
I got from parents" pots :).

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