What are the Best Cookware Brands?

Are you a passionate cook who loves to try various cuisines? Certainly, cooking tasks become comfortable if you pick the right kitchen utensils. However, not all manufacturers maintain proper standard in the production of their kitchen utensils. In this article, we are going to discuss the best cookware brands considering their history, the legacy of producing quality products, popularity, customer feedback, etc.

All-clad

A renowned metallurgist named John Ulam founded All-clad company in 1967. All-clad headquarters are located at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in the USA. If you love to collect Made-in-USA cookware sets that offer elegant appears in addition to superb cooking performance, then pick the All-clad cookware.

The prime product-lines of All-clad include stainless steel cookware, copper cookware, kitchenware, kitchen accessories, etc. Though All-clad is one of the priciest brands, their products are worth price-tags for their unbeatable performance.

Anolon

Anolon is owned by Meyer Corporation, the largest cookware supplier/distributor company in the USA. Starting journey from 1984 Anolon has been producing quality kitchenware under affordable price ranges. It’s a sister company of renowned Circulon brand. For several years Circulon had been producing nonstick cookware products. Then, Anolon brought their groundbreaking production, hard anodized nonstick cookware sets. They also manufactured specialized cookware for chefs as well as home cooks. Consumers highly admire the cozy grip pans produced by Anolon.

Calphalon

Continuous Research, Innovation, and development is the walking path of Calphalon, another popular cookware brand in 2018. Ronald Kasperzak bought a metal spinning company and relaunched it with a new identity called ‘Commercial Aluminum Cookware’. This company started their journey with advanced Aluminum cookware.

Commercial Aluminum Cookware company is the pioneer who first attempted to implement Hard Anodized Cookware production technology in their new product line called ‘Calphalon’. After that, this brand expanded their production and business towards nonstick cookware, triply stainless steel cookware, nonstick bakeware, etc.

Cuisinart

Cuisinart, owned by the Conair Corporation acquired it’s place among the top-rated home appliance brands in the USA. Cuisinart started their glorious journey in the year of 1971 with an electrically powered food processor. Cuisinart is working with the motto of minimizing the time requirement in food preparation by reducing the repetitive actions in the cooking tasks, and baking process.

Cuisinart has produced a variety of kitchen appliances, like cookware, bakeware, blenders, coffee makers, oven, rice cooker, toaster, mixer, cutlery, etc. Cuisinart products are rich in design, materials, and quality.

Circulon

Like Anolon, Circulon is another famous line of cookware owned by the same manufacturing company Meyer Corporation. Stanley K. Cheng, a talented cookware producer, cum supplier founded Circulon in 1971. He sought solutions for two significant cooking hardships. First, can any hard anodized pan be easy-to-clean? Next, would the nonstick layer of the pan last longer?

The solution was Circulon. How? the Circulon cookware line brought the groundbreaking innovation of nonstick hard-anodized pans. They brilliantly combined the premium grade nonstick coatings with hard anodized cookware. The Circulon pans do offer durable nonstick surface along with easy-to-clean cooking surface.

KitchenAid

Here goes a century-old American Home/Kitchen Appliance manufacturing brand, KitchenAid. Hobert Corporation founded KitchenAid in the year of 1919 and their first production was a stand mixer. Later KitchenAid expanded their product lines from expresso maker to kitchen cutlery to stovetops. After many ups and downs, KitchenAid was acquired by the Whirlpool Corporation in 1986.

KitchenAid promises that you would extract the highest gain from making. Kitchenaid products help you can every single task involved in cooking, baking, blending, brewing, etc. In 2016, KitchenAid has announced a new step in their glorious path. They are in the process of manufacturing and supplying food mixes with the cooperation of a Food Company from Michigan, named Franzese USA, Inc.

Farberware

Farberware is another kitchen appliance manufacturing company bearing a rich history of more than hundred years. Farberware Brand was founded in the city of New York in the year of 1990 by Simon Farber, a Russian immigrant. This company went through the ownership changing process several times in their first century until it was sold to the Meyer Corporation in 1997.

The scratch-proof nonstick pan manufactured by Farberware truly amazed the world. Farberware is one of the pioneer brands in the United States who produce and distribute the stainless steel cookware.

The Cookware Company (GreenPan)

The Cookware Company is a comparative youngster in our list of top-rated cookware brands. This company was founded in 2007 in Belgium bearing the name of their original brand ‘GreenPan’. The Cookware Company has acquired a huge reputation as a global cookware brand through their efficient distribution process around the world.

The Cookware Company took the nonstick cooking technology one step forward by inventing nonstick coated pans free of PTFE. Starting with GreenPan brand, The Cookware Company introduced several sister companies/brands including VitaVerde, GreenLife, Michel Roux and Twiztt. In recent years, they are working with the Homer Laughlin China Co. to manufacture a Fiesta Cookware.

Scanpan

Scanpan is a Danish Company founded in the year of 1956. For more than six decades Scanpan has been manufacturing exclusive nonstick cooking pans. The pioneered in producing patented Ceramic Titanium coated cast aluminum cookware.

Their groundbreaking success is the innovation of Green Tek technology. This special kind of coating is put on nonstick cookware surface. This patented Green Tek technology makes the nonstick surface totally free from hazardous chemicals like PFOA, PFOS, etc.

Later ScanPan has brilliantly combined their two great innovations – Ceramic Titanium and Green Tek technology – to produce more durable and sturdier nonstick cookware. ScanPan Headquarters, as well as factories, are located in Denmark. It has offices in the United States, Norway, China, and Singapore.

Tramontina

After the inception in 1911 by Italian Immigrant’s son Valentin Tramontina, the home appliance and cookware brand Tramontina assumed their position as a top-level Brazilian company. Their headquarters are located at Carlos Barbosa in Rio Grande do Sul of Brazil.

Tramontina has worldwide offices including the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Peru, South Africa, Germany, China, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Ecuador, Panama, Honduras, Mexico, Chile, Nigeria, and Colombia.

Other Best Cookware Brands

Besides the aforementioned best cookware brands there are many other popular cookware and kitchen appliance manufacturing companies, who produce quality products, like Cook n Home, GreenLife, Paula Deen, Rachael Ray, Tfal, etc.