You do not need to use a SOS pad or scrubber of any kind to remove scorched food if you have Dawn Power Dissolver. You just spray it on and let it sit overnight, and the pan will wipe clean the next day. It reminds me of how oven cleaners used to work, but it is not toxic the way they were.

I wish I could find a haul like you did! How lucky you were! I'm out of storage space also, but if I found those, I would get rid of some of my old pans.

I guess you learned from Rita that your pan is Caphalon.

I'd have given $26 for the small skillet and the butter melter....great haul!

Lars, I didn't have the Power Dissolver, and I did have an SOS pad. Although I scrubbed, my hands were not strong enough to remove the "scorch", and so Elery did it pretty quickly. It's nice and shiny now. I did learn from Rita that the pan is Calphalon. So that box contained two All Clad, one Cuisinart, one Revereware, the buttermelter has no markings, the other three are Calphalon.

Like you, I'll get rid of some old stuff and keep this much better stuff. Somehow, though, I'm thinking my girls are going to want me to share, LOL.

LindaC, I think it's a great haul too, that was quite a find for me. I've never used a butter melter, though. Madison thinks she'd like it for her toy "kitchen", LOL, just the right size. I vetoed that idea, I could see she and her sister hitting each other with it and it's HEAVY.

What else would something that size be used for, though? Too small for gravy, not enough stirring room for hot fudge sauce. Hmmmm.....

Annie

Good haul. i have the same All-Clad. A favorite.

My baby pot is copper. I use it for my quick pickles and quick salad slaws.

I should call it 5min pickles. So easy no need to even measure since the baby pots hold just enough liquid, 2/3 full, to cover a jar of veggies.

""What else would something that size be used for, though?""

A couple of hard boiled or soft boiled eggs?

Wow, Annie, that's an incredible haul for $26!!! far less than the tax would be here!

Your smallest pan is so cute!!! it looks like 2 cups? I have a mini copper-bottom Revere pan -- I think it's 1 cup. Great for melting butter, but I have reserved mine for melting wax. Here's my tip: tiny pots are a PITA to deal with on some grated burners for gas stoves, so I place the tiny pot inside a larger dry cast iron pan and heat things that way. :)

ETA: that Calphalon logo looked a lot like a double-stamped Mercedes logo when I saw it on my ipad. lol!

You can pour some ammonia in the skillet with scorch and then put it in a plastic bag, set it away over night and the scorch will clean right off. I've heard that oven cleaner works too but I use ammonia for scorch.

I used my butter melter Thursday night. I made blender hollandaise and melted the butter in there. I also use it to warm hot fudge sauce.....and it's cute enough to put on the table. I have also used it on a candle warmer to keep hot melted butter on the table when serving crab and lobster.

I probably shouldn't ask this, but what's this online auction site you're getting such good deals on?

Yes, that's a wonderful haul. Only one time in 30 years of garage sales have I gotten a better deal. It was an old, used but still in great shape charcoal Char-Broil BBQ. I paid $20 and just had to roll it two blocks home. It lasted 27 more years of weekly year round use.

FOAS: I think I can drop your heart rate a little. If not mistaken, annie's sale 'though online bidding, is a local pick up deal.

Chas, you're right, it's a local pick up. It's called JNJ Online Auction and they sell anything except used clothing and bedding or stuffed animals. But they'll sell hunting coats and vests, and used boots, apparently they aren't clothing, LOL.

Anyway, they sell everything from guns to Ugg boots and designer purses to rice cookers, furniture, lots of depression glass, old tractors, campers, cars, local honey and maple syrup they've even sold a couple of pieces of real estate and one parrot. I like it because I can go to their place and actually look at something, pick it up, check it out, try it on, then decide whether I want to bid on it. If I win the item at auction I have one week to go pay for it and pick it up.

I've gotten some great buys there, and got burned a couple of times because didn't go check before I bought something. Elery has gotten a lot of tools there, including the two tile saws we used when we did all that tile here at this house and his son bought snowboards and brand new never used tennis rackets for his kids.

You never know, though, what people like. I've seen some things sell for more money than they cost new at the store, I guess they get carried away bidding. Then other things, like these pans, just don't seem to attract a lot of attention.

Annie

Wow, Annie, what a haul! I have the skillet and use it constantly. That would have brought more on e-bay than you paid for the whole lot. Enjoy!

Calphalon insignia:

One word says it for me... JEALOUS!

Well, wait a second... maybe "envy"?

Nice haul.