PAN!

Stainless has relatively poor conductivity so you are sacrificing that for improved cleanability (or less so if there's a layer of copper between outer skins of stainless.

Personally, I rate the John Lewis cast iron stuff (Le Creuset lookalike but a fair bit cheaper) https://www.johnlewis.com/browse/home-garden/cooking-baking/pots-pans/casserole-stockpots/cast-iron/_/N-7d3bZ1z0wxa1Zoriw

You need to treat them with a bit more care than stainless and you can't put them in a dishwasher, but nicer to cook with and I suspect more efficient.

It might be sacrilegious, but the big heavy iron frying pan from Ikea has impressed me. I'd not go back to 'non-stick' stainless now.

I got some good stainless pans (Chef Set), including a mahoosive stockpot, in my 20s, as presents, and stupidly they remind me of my mortality, as I imagine they will still be going strong, maybe via a charity shop, when I'm dead. They're almost as good as new nearly 40 years later.

Other way around, cheaper frying pans and expensive sauce pans.

Try Nisbets online, they supply to lots and lots of restaurants. Their essentials frying pans are £12-18 a piece depending on size and more than good enough for home cooking. Their vogue stainless steel saucepan range are top quality. About £40-70 again size dependent but they will last you years. I trained as a chef some years back and the catering college used Nisbets.

Don't be tempted by their essentials saucepans, they aren't bad but nowhere near the vogue range.

IKEA do some decent pans as long as you ignore the super budget ranges aimed at students etc.

We had some lovely copper bottomed stainless steel pans but when we switched to an induction hob we had to replace the lot. Sad day. Passed them on to the offspring who take much less care of them ☹️

We had to change all our cookware- 3 saucepans, large casserole/paella pan, large frying pan, wok, 2 small frying pans, skillet and crepe pan, after a major kitchen refurb which included the fitting of an induction hob (Bora of course). Our existing pots and pans etc., weren't compatible. Opted for Kuhn Rikon kit as everything had to look the part due to the kitchen now being part of a whole living/dining/cooking/entertaining set up and my wife insisting on things looking stylish. Been using Kuhn Rikon for the last 3+ years and no complaints.

A bit pricey in comparison to the usual suspects tbf but they are, imo, quality kit and look as good today as they did out of the box. Scrubbed up well after a potato burning incident, ☢️ 🙄. Glass lids are good to. If the others are manual 105, the Kuhn Rikon are Ultegra Di2. Went daft on Japanese made proper swanky knives too - defo Dura Ace.

Same as in the bike and bike kit department, the old adage of buy cheap, pay twice applies.

Those pots look exactly like the Meyer set I mentioned before so I had a look and now Meyer do not offer anything like them. 🤔 I suspect a whole lot of rebranding exists in the industry.