Best Hard Anodized Cookware

This is my top recommendation. The pans comes with stainless steel handles wrapped in stay-cool silicon. The lids are made of tempered glass. The entire set is exceptionally well built.

Here is what is in the box: 3 covered saucepans (1 quart, 2 quarts and 3 quarts); an 8 quart covered stockpot, two skillets (an 8 inch and one 10 inch), plus a 12 inch covered saute pan. 

This set also has glass lids and silicon covered stainless steel handles. What is interesting is the composition of the set - it includes two stockpots.

Here is what you get: two covered saucepans (2 quarts and 3 quarts), two covered stockpots (4 quarts and 8 quarts), one covered 5 quart saute pan and one 10 inch skillet.

Get this set if you do a lot of stockpot cooking, but don't use frying pans much (this set has just one skillet, as opposed to two as in the KitchenAid set.

This set has ten pieces rather than twelve - here's what you get:

Two covered saucepans (1 quart and 2 quarts), two skillets (8 inch and 10 inches), an 8 quart stockpot and a 10.3 quart saute pan.

It's very similar to the KitchenAid set, except you don't get the 3 quart saucepan - and the cost of the Kitchen Aid set is similar. I included this set because the saute pan was so big (much bigger than in all the other sets). If you do a lot of saute pan cooking, then this is the one to go for. Otherwise pick the KitchenAid set.