Pastel pans are hitting Lidl’s middle aisle this weekend for £15 – but I’ve spotted an even better deal

PASTEL cookware lands in Lidl’s middle aisle on Sunday, and the pink 28cm serving pan is the piece most likely to go first. It’s £14.99, part of the Silvercrest Pastel Kitchen range arriving in stores from 16 August. The Lidl middle aisle items hit shelves this SundayCredit: Lidl For that you get a cast aluminium pan with an ILAG non-stick coating, a 6mm base, a glass lid with a steam vent and two soft-touch handles. It works on every hob type, including induction; it’s dishwasher safe, oven safe to 160°C, and it carries a three-year warranty, which is more than most middle-aisle buys come with. Sign up for the Money newsletter Thank you! The catch is that it’s just one pan and Lidl middle-aisle stock isn’t replenished once it’s gone, so if it’s the Lidl pan you’re after, it should be in your diary for Sunday morning. If you’re kitting out a whole kitchen rather than replacing a single wok, Amazon has an 11-piece pink set from M MELENTA for £54.99, and on value it’s the stronger buy of the two. The Amazon set will brighten up your kitchen Credit: Amazon M MELENTA 11-Piece Pink Pots and Pans Set: £54.99 (was £66.98) at Amazon You get 20cm and 24cm frying pans, 16cm and 18cm saucepans and a 20cm casserole, with lids on the pots and three utensils included. Five pans for £54.99 works out at just under £11 each, or about £4 less per pan than Lidl is charging for its one. The ceramic coating is free from PFAS, PFOA and PTFE, the gold knob lids are a smarter finish than the price suggests, and it works on induction just as the Lidl pan does. Most read in Money M MELENTA sizes it for one to three people or a compact kitchen, so it suits a first flat or a narrow galley rather than a family of five. Reviewers rate it well, with one five-star buyer saying she had been about to order one of the usual Tefal sets before switching to these, and found them easy to cook on and easy to clean. Another noted the pans are “very resistant and easy to clean”, while another rated the sizing “not too big [but] not small”. A minority report a shorter life than they had hoped for, with one buyer sharing that the pans “wear down a bit easily”. If you still want to shop around, read our reviews of the aesthetically pleasing Our Place Always Pan and Gordon Ramsay-endorsed Hexclad pans. Plus shoppers are snapping up a Le Creuset lookalike that’s ‘built to last’ – it’s over £300 cheaper than the real thing. Comment now