It's my fault for not checking the sizes on this cookware. But the dutch oven is huge and too big to use on a day-to-day basis. It would be good for a DOUBLE batch of soup, but yesterday I made a single recipe of soup and it filled only about 1/4 of the pot. Also, there are no small sauce pans. The kind that fits one or two cans of vegetables. The smallest sauce pan was the medium size of my last set. The outsides of them remind me of some kind of slate, like a chalkboard material. They are not dishwasher safe, but I'm too lazy to hand wash pots and pans, so in the dishwasher they went. Finally, the lid handles get pretty warm to the touch. But they are pretty heavy and seem to be of good quality.