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7 Best All-Clad Black Friday Deals (2025)

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All-Clad is the best, with a price tag to match. These Black Friday deals can help you save some cash. All-Clad Black Friday deals are in full swing, including discounts on brand-new products and a ton of additional options from the Factory Seconds Sale. This spendy cookware is the gold standard and used by home cooks and chefs alike, including several of us on the WIRED Reviews team . Nearly everything is backed by a lifetime warranty, and your investment will pay off in the form of reliable cookware that'll probably outlast you.


Score rare deals on All-Clad stainless steel and non-stick cookware during Amazon's Black Friday sale

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We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. All-Clad's stainless steel and nonstick cookware doesn't go on deep discount very often, which makes these current Amazon deals especially appealing if you've been waiting to upgrade your pots, pans, or bakeware. We've pulled together the standouts from All-Clad's sale page so you can focus on the best options for everything from searing steaks to baking sheet-pan dinners. Then you can go on Tik Tok and brag about how good you are at cooking on stainless cookware. Don't settle for a gift card again this year.


The best induction cookware for 2026

Popular Science

This top-notch cookware will keep pumping out perfect food for years to come. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. While many people use gas-powered appliances or convection cooking that heats up whatever is directly atop the burner, others pick induction cooktops --cooking surfaces with a copper coil that creates a magnetic field to heat the pan and food. However, these appliances need the proper cookware to achieve optimal results. Don't worry; we've got you covered.


Are induction stoves better? These chefs think so.

Popular Science

Induction stoves use electromagnetism to heat food more efficiently than any other kind of stovetop. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Ask someone in the United States about "electric cooking" and they'll probably describe one of those awful coil stoves, the ones that take forever to heat up and then burn your dinner to a crisp the moment you take your eyes off it. This unfortunate association is perhaps one reason why induction cooking hasn't quite taken off in the U.S. the way it has elsewhere in the world--in Europe, for example, where induction stoves are commonplace. How do induction stoves differ from electric stoves?


Save 30 on This All-Clad Nonstick Frying Pan Set

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Life is too short to use bad nonstick cookware. These All-Clad pans are the gold standard, and they're less expensive than usual. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. It can be hard to build an Adulting Arsenal.


The Biggest Fall Deals at Home Depot (2025)

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All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Fall is for nesting--and for feathering your nest with whatever will keep you sane during the winter. Which is why a number of retailers, including The Home Depot, drop prices on home goods with big fall deals. The Home Depot fall savings event for 2025 is unusually broad, because The Home Depot itself is unusually broad--the store that first brought the home improvement superstore nationwide.


Why induction stoves are better than gas

Popular Science

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A few years ago I upgraded from gas to induction. This sentence might confuse you. Gas stoves have a reputation as being the best, mostly because of marketing, so you might think I'm only saying I "upgraded" to induction because of environmental conviction. And I'll admit using less energy motivated the switch (I like saving money) but efficiency alone is not why I'm saying that induction is better.


Generative Explore-Exploit: Training-free Optimization of Generative Recommender Systems using LLM Optimizers

Senel, Lütfi Kerem, Fetahu, Besnik, Yoshida, Davis, Chen, Zhiyu, Castellucci, Giuseppe, Vedula, Nikhita, Choi, Jason, Malmasi, Shervin

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Recommender systems are widely used to suggest engaging content, and Large Language Models (LLMs) have given rise to generative recommenders. Such systems can directly generate items, including for open-set tasks like question suggestion. While the world knowledge of LLMs enable good recommendations, improving the generated content through user feedback is challenging as continuously fine-tuning LLMs is prohibitively expensive. We present a training-free approach for optimizing generative recommenders by connecting user feedback loops to LLM-based optimizers. We propose a generative explore-exploit method that can not only exploit generated items with known high engagement, but also actively explore and discover hidden population preferences to improve recommendation quality. We evaluate our approach on question generation in two domains (e-commerce and general knowledge), and model user feedback with Click Through Rate (CTR). Experiments show our LLM-based explore-exploit approach can iteratively improve recommendations, and consistently increase CTR. Ablation analysis shows that generative exploration is key to learning user preferences, avoiding the pitfalls of greedy exploit-only approaches. A human evaluation strongly supports our quantitative findings.


Taylor Swift fake AI ad dupes fans

FOX News

A new ad featuring an AI-generated Taylor Swift offering a giveaway of high-end cookware is not the real deal. An ad for Le Creuset appeared on social media this month, featuring a likeness of Swift and a fake version of her voice with images of the company's cookware to promote a giveaway, according to multiple outlets. "Hey you all, it's Taylor Swift here," the voice says, according to NBC News. A spokesperson for Meta, Facebook's parent company, confirmed to Fox News Digital that the ad has been removed from the platform. WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)? Taylor Swift's AI-generated likeness and voice were used in an unauthorized ad for cookware company Le Creuset.


16 Walmart Black Friday Deals (2023): TVs, Cookware.

WIRED

Walmart must be feeling nostalgic for the days when zombie-apocalypse-level hordes would await the opening of the doors on Black Friday. So fill up your digital shopping cart with these Walmart Black Friday deals an entire week early. Maybe it should be called Extra Early Black Friday. More deals are constantly being added, but even this first batch has some of our favorite gear on sale from Walmart. Also, be sure to check out our main early Black Friday Deals post.