I never went towards Teflon so there is nothing to move away from.
I have quite a bit of older All Clad, including the full Copper sheathed pieces. A bunch of cast, including enameled La Creuset. Three pieces of Bourgeat copper, 2 Sauce/chefs pans wt lids and a 10 inch skillet ($100 total). And some old Revere Ware including a 12 QT and 16 QT Stock Pots. Those copper bottomed RW Stock pots are tough to beat for the money.
I have two Pressure cookers a Fissler 4.5L and a Kuhn Rikon 5.5L...I got both of those for about $20.00 total.
Then we can go to Kitchen Knives...a Matasomoto
Masamoto Sohonten | KORIN for $1.00, Henckels, Wusthof, Victorinox, Dexter, Chicago, Sabatier for $2.00 and $3.00 each. I mean like 8 to 10 inch chefs knives.
I've got a Italian pro deli Slicing machine for $100, a coupla Juicers Acme and Champion, a coupla pro Oster Blenders, an old Cuisinart French made Food Processor with all the excessories. A Dualit toaster...a Simac 500 Ice cream machine with built in freezer, I even picked up a nice Simac Pasta Maker for $2.00 recently..just couldn't pass it by.
I even picked up a coupla JURA $1800 Espresso automatic machines for $60 total. Or how bout a virtually new Roper 22.5 Cu foot Refer and GE electric stove for $180.
Now do ya wana talk about shoes...and cloths.