Much to my pleasure, the negative comments have not been experienced. Yes, you cannot put it in your dishwasher, but it cleans up like a dream, and requires little if any effort. Actually, it has been in my kitchen now for over six months, and am really glad that I invested in this high end cookware. Fast even cooking. Stay cool handles.
Sets are expensive.
Fifteen years ago my sister bought a set of Calphalon Hard Anodized cookware which I eyed suspiciously for over a decade. Literature on the cookware was filled with superlatives, but contained a dearth of hard info. My mother bought a 21 piece set of the Calphalon Commercial Hard-Anodized cookware. That was the best day for me personally, becuase she pasted down her full set of Farberware Millenium to me. I love the Millenium set, but ever time I went to help my mother cook on her set of Calphalon, I ended up burning something on the bottom of the Pots.