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As one data point, I own 4, of varying sizes and quality.
We’ve got… 5 - a 3 (or is it 3.5?) quart All-Clad saucepan, a 1.5 qt All-Clad saucepan, an ancient 2 qt Ekco stainless one that was my wife’s grandmother’s , a Farberware 2.5 qt that the previous owners left at the house, and a 2.5 qt “Basics” (some kind of Macy’s house brand from a decade ago) saucepan that we got for our wedding that we didn’t register for.
We have a LOT of cookware though; we’re fairly inveterate home cooks, so it’s not unusual to have one of something in the wash cycle while we’re using another.
I have five - from large to small. Not a set, all just accumulated over time.
Now frying pans… I have a lot of them. Love me my cast iron.
I own 3, and what’s even more shocking, I own two colanders!
Suacepans with handles: 4. Dutch ovens, stock pots, etc. without long handles: 4. Frying pans, woks, & similar: 5.
As much as I cook (usually 4-5 days a week), I only have one small one, and I use it maybe twice a week. I do have three Dutch ovens, and five frying pans of various sizes and materials, though. And a couple of cheap-ass pots.
I have a small saucepan and a Dutch oven.
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I have five. Two are pretty small, two medium, and one larger, but none of them are huge. There are just the two of us here, and I probably don’t need five.
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I think the OP was hoping for something more than just a poll, but since it looks like a poll of SDMB users is about the best we’re probably going to get, let’s go ahead and move this to IMHO (from GQ).
If someone does happen to stumble across a survey or some other type of factual cite, this of course may still be posted here. I’m sure the OP would appreciate it.
Does anyone have the link to this thread? That was awesome, but I don’t remember anyone’s name.
We have 2 technical saucepans–I’m assuming a saucepan must have one long handle. But several more pots that also suffice for cooking stuff on the stove.
Four - all Pyrex.
My first reaction is, wth is a saucepan lol I’m assuming you mean a pot. My definition of pot is anything I can boil water in lol I’ve got like 4 as well. Varying sizes.
If a saucepan has one long-ish handle, deeper than it is wide, I have 3. They came as a set.
Then there are the dutch ovens, the pasta pot, and all of the various skillets/frying pans.
Fun starts here.
A saucepan is a deep cooking vessel with a flat bottom and one long handle. If it has 2 small handles it’s a pot. If it’s deep but bowl shaped, it’s a saucier. If it’s shallow, it’s a pan.
I wasn’t including dutch ovens and pasta-pots. We have five cast-iron dutch ovens (or did we get rid of the oldest one?) of varying sizes, as well as a big pasta pot, a homebrewing pot, and a stockpot.
We have 4 (or five if you count the tiny one that’s only useful for melting butter).
Rookie. I have 5 colanders: a large round stainless one that I hate, but my wife likes for veggies; a very fine one for straining rice and other small grains; a tall one for spaghetti; a small red plastic one that the wife uses for washing a serving of fruit; and another large oval stainless pasta strainer that has handles that extend out so you can hang it over the sink, sorta like this one.
Sauce pans: 6; a set of four stainless (including a stock pot) and two that are non-stick for things like rice.
Frying: nine or so (it’s a sickness)
Dutch: one Le Creuset
And one wok