I stopped buying sets... stopped that a long time ago and went with individual purpose-driven pots and pans. I have one large stock pot that is stainless steel, one 8 quart that is a heavy professional grade anodized aluminum pot, and a smaller 4 qt ceramic clad aluminum nonstick 4 qt soup/saucepan. That's it for pots. I've also got two cookie sheets and one jelly roll pan, again, heavy anodized aluminum. I've got one cast iron and one ceramic clad aluminum Dutch oven. Then I've got an 11" all-purpose deep pan that has a nonstick ceramic coating over aluminum, and an 8" frying/sauté pan that is copper with a nonstick ceramic coating.
Of course bread and cake pans too.
Nothing matches and are all from different manufacturers, each picked for what I use it for. I like aluminum becasue it heats evenly and I prefer ceramic for nonstick coatings.
