Patent ID: 8123067

Claim:
A cooking pan set, comprising: a plurality of cooking pans each including a pan body with a base, an upper rim and at least one handle, wherein the pan bodies are of progressively smaller diameter and height and are stacked, one within the other, for storage purposes, and, when so stacked, each pan body is completely received within a next larger pan body with its base parallel to the base of the next larger pan, with each pan handle from a smallest pan to a second largest pan in the set extending over the upper rim of the next larger pan in the set, closely to overlie a corresponding handle of the next larger pan in the set, and wherein each handle is provided with a location profile so that, when a handle closely overlies a corresponding handle of the next larger pan in the set, the two overlying handles locate together as one so that the so located handles are used to lift the stacked pans of the set.