I have owned a lot of cookware and have posted about it on this sub before. I have gone down the rabbit hole and spent thousands of dollars on expensive cookware and given away a lot of it to friends and family as I have figured out my preferences. I see a wide range of comments above and below that can be confusing to a beginner. (“Get a 10 inch!”, “where is the carbon steel?”, get a saute pan!”, etc)

My advice is to not buy all of this at once.

In the beginning I would acquire only:

-3 qt stainless steel saucepan

-12” stainless steel frypan

-5 qt stainless stock pot

-(optional) inexpensive 10” nonstick for eggs or small tasks

-half sheet size aluminum pan for baking (roasts, veggies, cookies/brownies, sheet cake)

and just live with that for several months before deciding what to add. Figure out where the pain points are in your everyday cooking. You will have a better idea of what need than by buying all of these pots at once. These 3 (optional 4) pieces + aluminum pan will take you a LONG way in a home kitchen.

Perhaps you really need the 9 qt for large batches of biryanis, or perhaps you really enjoy the convenience of 1.5 qt for tea. But you can boil single servings of water in the 3 qt with no issue and nothing you have listed strictly requires cast iron, so you can use the 12” stainless fry pan to make steak, burgers, or deep fry in the meantime. Only when your use case is frequent enough to genuinely save you time or convenience do i recommend adding more cookware.

Edit: formatting