Sunshine, yes Teflon is really nasty stuff.

My first experience with using glass was with these organic baked french fries I make. Used to use a teflon cookie sheet (which is what most us use to cook stuff like that). Used a rectangular glass baking pan (not one of the visions corning pieces I bought) to make the french fries. With the teflon they would be very hard and greasy. With the glass they come up crisp but tender inside and with very little grease and they tasted noticeably better. So the cooking benefits of glass are very nice too.

I don't know if you buy on ebay or not but here's the visions corning glass cookware that I bought. I really do like these pieces a lot. Got the 1-1 liter saucepan, 1-2.5 liter saucepan, 1-4.5 liter soup pot/stew pot and 1-10" skillet. There's a lot of other pieces but really that is all a person really needs. I think you can find these same items on Amazon but they cost quite a bit more Here's the ebay link: http://search.ebay.com/search/searc...title=corning+visions&category0=

If you wanted to start with a small investment to try these pieces then this is what I'd recommend: the 2.5 liter saucepan and the 10" frying pan. http://cgi.ebay.com/3-Piece-Visions...747QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem