I was discussing cookware with my niece, specifically, what pots and pans are the most useful?.  Like everyone else, I have my favorites.  But I wanted to see if the ones I think I use the most are the ones that I actually do.

I began keeping track of each pot, pan, skillet, or baking dish that I used, March 8th through May 1st, 2014 (104 data points)  I did not record utensils like knives, whisks, strainers, colanders, etc.  Nor did I log work bowls or serving platter, only things that I cooked something in, with the exception of our food processor.

The results matched my expectations fairly well:

Item	Usage		Manufacturer	Comments
12" cast iron fry pan	17%	18	Lodge	Great pan all around, but heavy
2.5 qt sauce pan	13%	14	Calphalon	Our go-to sauce pan
Jelly roll pan	13%	14	Various	Mostly for roasting vegetables
13" non stick fry pan	12%	12	T-fal	Cook's Illustrated's top non-stick
10" non stick fry pan	6%	6	Claphalon	Mainly for frying eggs
5 qt enamal Dutch oven	6%	6	Le Crueset	The workhorse Dutchie
4 qt sauce pan	5%	5	Cuisenart	Great for steaming vegetables, too
Baking dish	4%	4	Le Crueset	Finishing steaks in oven, baking potatoes, etc
7.5qt enamal Dutch oven	4%	4	Le Crueset	A must have, but not as much as the 5 qt
10" cast iron fry pan	4%	4	Unknown
1 qt sauce pan	3%	3	Falk copper
10" non stick skillet	2%	2	Calphalon	Good for pilaf
Broiler pan	2%	2
6" fry pan	2%	2	Calphalon
2.5qt Evasée pan	2%	2		Great for polenta and other things requiring a lot of stirring
Tea kettle	1%	1
8 qt stock pot	1%	1	Calphalon
2 cup sauce pan	1%	1	Calphalon
Food processor	1%	1	Cuisenart
10 * 14 baking dish	1%	1
8" fry pan	1%	1	Falk copper
	100%	104

I am surprised that I do not use my small, 1 quart sauce pans more.  And I have two of them, a stainless clad aluminum made by All Clad and a stainless clad copper by Falk (the Belgian company, not the Milwaukee gear people.)

I know, this should be a graph, but my cut and paste is not happening.