The best saucepan sets for hearty home cooking

This versatile three-piece set offers chic, minimal designs and heavyweight construction. As well as doing its job flawlessly, each item looks and feels like something to cherish.

Circulon’s Momentum cookware set is brilliantly balanced. These pots and pans are sturdy yet light enough for easy handling, high-quality yet low maintenance.

TV chef Jamie Oliver teamed up with the French cookware giant Tefal to create this clever, three-pan set that comes with a single detachable handle – making it a godsend for those with crowded cupboards.

The beautiful Showstopper set from Le Creuset is a wonderful thing to have on hand when cooking for a dinner party, or for a big family. It isn’t cheap, but it does make for great presentation.

Tefal’s “Thermo-Spot” technology – a red circle in the middle of each pan – changes in appearance when the pan reaches the right temperature to cook. It’s quite useful for novice or nervous home cooks.