Spend £50 or over on an order and get a free gift.

We are still offering customers who spend over £50 on the Pots and Pans online cookware shop a free Recycling Bag Set worth £7.00. Now though if you spend over £100 we are offering customers the opportunity to claim a free Maxwell & Williams Elemental Oil Pourer (pictured) worth £11.99 as their gift. To receive your free gift all you have to do is to add one to your order. The free gifts are only available while stocks last. There is only one free gift per order.

We are also offering free delivery when you spend over £75 on an order.

Win a Bosch Coffee Maker in our free prize draw this month

In this months free prize draw on our website we are giving one person the chance to win a Bosch Filter Coffee Maker. This coffee maker usually has a recommended retail price of £45. This particular coffee maker is part of Bosch’s ‘Private Collection’, the kettles and toasters from this range can be viewed on the Bosch Electricals page of our website.

This coffee maker from Bosch has a number of quality features built in. It has a 1.25 Litre capacity, this equates to between 10 and 15 cups. It also comes with integrated Brita water filter technology built in.

Details for how to enter this month’s free prize draw can be found on the competition page of the Pots and Pans website.

The winners of last month’s prize draw for the Henckels Four Star 6 Piece Knife Block Set has been notified.

New Portmeirion ranges and expanded range of Salter Scales added to our cookware shop

We are continuing to expand our online cookware shop, adding new ranges to our collection as well as expanding some of our existing ranges. The latest ranges that we have added are Crazy Daisy Tableware, Juicy Lucy Mugs and Coasters and Pimpernel Placemats. All three of these new ranges are produced by Portmeirion who are renowned in the housewares industry for their high quality and innovative designs.

The first of the new ranges, Crazy Daisy Tableware features distinctive designs which are full of colour. The designs are often described in reviews as being ‘fresh, fun and funky’. The products in this range have been designed to be not only fun but also practical. This Crazy Daisy mug features a modern pastel coloured floral design, perfect for brightening up the breakfast or dining table.

Juicy Lucy are best know for their stationary designs featuring their Juicy Lucy fairy character. They have now expanded this to include mugs and coasters which now also feature the Juicy Lucy fairy designs.

The third of ranges that we have added is Pimpernel Placemats, which is also produced by Portmeirion. The Pimpernel Placemats collection includes a wide variety of designs from which there should be something to suit every table. This collection is not limited to placemats, it also includes mug and coaster sets which feature their unique designs.

As well as adding new ranges to our website we have also expanded the range of Salter Scales that we stock. Salter are without a doubt the UK’s leading brand for domestic scales, they currently have a 40% market share. They produce both mechanical and digital scales.

Raymond Blanc by Anolon

Anolon have re-launched their existing cookware ranges as the Raymond Blanc by Anolon collection. This is not a new relationship between Raymond Blanc and Anolon - previously he had endorsed the Anolon Professional range.

Anolon are widely regarded as being one the industry leaders in the design and development of cookware and kitchen knives. Their cookware products combine quality and style with the overall aim of enabling the home chef to achieve professional results.

Raymond Blanc OBE is one of the most respected and honoured chefs not only in the UK but across Europe. Among his sizeable collection of awards is European Chef of the Year. He has a reputation, as the Good Hotel Guide points out, for “perfection”. The regard with which he is held within the culinary world coupled, with his attention to detail, makes him the ideal partner in the development of new ranges of cookware. Although famous for the use of the finest ingredients in his cooking, he is also fully aware of the importance of the role that equipment plays in cooking. It is for this reason that he was happy to become involved in the redevelopment of the Anolon range and also to give his name to the new ranges produced as a result of this exciting collaboration.

The new Raymond Blanc by Anolon ranges has seen the development of products that encompass all aspects of the cooking process, from pots to non-stick bakeware and from precision knives to essential kitchen tools and gadgets. The new portfolio features three new ranges of pans, Anodized Clad, Professional and Stainless Steel. All of which have been expertly created to ensure that they produce a professional cooking performance. Both sides of the partnership, Raymond Blanc and Anolon have worked hard in striving to reach perfectionism with the new products. All of the pans in the three new Raymond Blanc by Anolon ranges come with a lifetime guarantee.

How do you like your eggs cooked?

We thought we would do something different with this blog posting. We have decided to highlight some of the different 'egg' related products that we sell on our website.
Progressive 5-in-1 Egg Slicer This Egg Slicer will enable you to easily slice, pierce, dice, half or wedge your eggs.
Judge Vista 4 Hole Egg Poacher Ever had problems poaching your eggs? If you have then this could be ideal for you. This gadget will enable you to poach up to 4 eggs at the same time. It has a vented glass lid to enable you to monitor the progress of the eggs during cooking. It is also dishwasher safe.
Alessi Mr Chin Egg Cup Alessi products are famous for the innovative, stylish and often quirky design. This Mr Chin egg cup fits all these criteria. It was designed by Stefano Giovannion and Rumiko Takedo.
Egg Perfect Colour Changing Egg Timer This gadget has been created so that your boiled eggs will turn out how you want every time. It changes colour so that you can see when your eggs are ready. It will let you know when your eggs are soft, medium or hard boiled. It works by sensing the heat and not by measuring time. It can take into account the number of eggs that you are cooking, the amount of eggs and even the altitude at which the eggs are being cooked.
Eddingtons Set of 2 Poach Perfect Silicone Egg Poachers This egg poacher is both fun and practical as well as being easy to use. Its silicone construction makes it exceedingly flexible, this means that all you need to do is turn the mould inside out to remove the egg. It is heat resistant up to 250C as well as being dishwater, microwave and freezer safe. It can if you want also be used for cooking desserts. This gadget was the GOLD Winner in the Cookware and Bakeware category at the 2009 Industry Awards.
Eddingtons Large Egg Spatula This novelty fried egg design spatula is perfect for flipping eggs. Don't be fooled by its fun design, it is exceedingly practical, it's use is not limited to flipping eggs, if you wish you could also use it for turning omelettes and pancakes.
Born to Shop I Love Morning Time for Breakfast Set This breakfast set is the ideal way to brighten up your mornings. As well as the scatter tray and china mug it comes with a I Love Morning Time eggcup.
Master Class Stainless Steel Egg Slicer This egg slicer from Master Class has 8 stainless steel cutting wires designed for specifically slicing eggs perfectly time after time.
Alessi Coccodandy Egg Basket Another product that is easily identifiable as being an Alessi design. Like all Alessi products behind the innovative and stylised design is a product with a practical purpose. In the case of this gadget it is a basket that enables you to boil four eggs simultaneously.
Eddingtons Double Egg Poacher Double Egg Poachers. Hang on the rim or stand on the bottom of the pan. Non-stick peel. Designed to make it easy to poach two eggs simultaneously. It has been designed so that it will either hang on the rim of a pan or sit on the bottom of a pan.
Progressive Non-Stick Triple Egg Poacher This gadget has been designed to enable you to poach three eggs simultaneously, also guarantees that your poached eggs out with a consistent neat shape.
Kitchen Craft Stainless Steel Egg Rings Set These simple stainless steel rings have been designed to ensure that your fried eggs always turn out neatly with a consistent shape.

Do you have a favourite or do you have any experience of using any of the above products? Did any of the gadgets designed for poaching an egg enable you to make the 'perfect' poached egg. Let us know what you think of them.

New ranges from Dunoon, Creative Tops and Typhoon added to our website

We continually add new stock to our online shop and we like to ensure that we stock the products that people actually want. This week has seen us add a series of new ranges from three major brands to our online store.

These include a new designs from Dunoon mugs. Dunoon ceramics are without doubt one of the market leaders in the manufacture of fine bone quality china mugs and teapots. They like to ensure that their products are contemporary, often their ranges are only available for between 6 and 12 months. They have launched a new range of Signs of the Zodiac mugs. The 12 mugs in this collection each feature an individual sign of the zodiac. As well as adding the Sign of the Zodiac range we have also added two new individual mugs by Dunoon. For patriotic people there is a choice of a new Born and Bred in England or Born and Bred in Scotland mug.

We have also expanded our collection of Creative Tops placemats that we sell. We have added the new V&A Brompton Rose, V&A Brocade Placemats and the V&A Victoria Placemats ranges to the website. The designs for the three new ranges of placemats mirror the designs of the V&A fine bone mugs that were produced earlier this year by Creative Tops which proved to be a phenomenal success.

Another new collection that we have added to the website is the GreenPan range from Typhoon. These pans gave been described as a ‘revolution in cookware’. They have been manufactured with a Thermolon non-stick coating, which results in 60% less CO2 being emitted during the manufacturing process. Another added extra bonus is the non-stick coating will not be destroyed if you overheat these pans, as the ceramic construction will withstand temperatures of 450C/850F.

We expect to be able to announce several other new exciting additions to our range shortly, as soon as we have that information we will add it here.

The new Jamie Oliver series

Last night I saw the trailer for the new Jamie Oliver series, Jamie’s American Road Trip. The show features as the name suggests Jamie Oliver travelling and cooking in the US. The advert for the show has him dressed up as all six characters from the Village People. If you are too young or just not familiar with the Village People it would not be an understatement to say that they did not dress conservatively. I will leave it you to Google them if you are that interested in how they looked. It is good to see that Jamie Oliver can still laugh at himself.

I don’t know if the Americans will take to Jamie’s personality. Besides filming this show he has also spent a considerable amount of time over the ‘pond’ working on building the ‘Jamie Oliver’ brand.

In this country he is almost as well known for his campaign to improve school dinners, change unhealthy diets and cooking habits as he is as a chef. To some extent he was fortunate in that his ‘rise’ corresponded with people becoming more conscious about their food, the so called rise of the ‘foodie’. This was the time when chefs became media personalities, one newspaper even making the claim that “cooking was the new rock ‘n’ roll”.

It is interesting as a cookware retailer to see the effect a chef having a new television series can have on the particular chefs own cookware ranges. Although there have only been adverts for the new show so far we have already noticed an increase in activity on the Jamie Oliver Cookware pages of our website. This has helped raise the profiles the two ranges that he launched last month, the Jamie Oliver Knife Range and the Jamie Oliver Tools Range. There has definitely been an increased interest in Jamie Oliver branded cookware, as well as an increase in sales. This proves that Jamie Oliver still has the ability to inspire people to be more adventurous in their cooking, which has got be a good thing?