Your food preferences is one thing you'll have to take into account.

When you need a frying pan to cook fluffy omelets, a skillet to brown mushrooms, or a sheet pan for baking an afternoon treat of chocolate chip cookies, it’s tempting to reach for something nonstick.

There’s no denying the convenience of nonstick cookware. Food slides around the pan while you’re making it and releases from the surface in seconds when you serve it, plus clean-up is a breeze.

There's no substitute for a quality nonstick frying pan when time is of the essence and there isn't any extra built in for scrubbing a dirty skillet. Nonstick skillets can be had for cheap -- some as ...