A cookware system, including a cookware member, with an internal region for heating food and an outer edge disposed about a perimeter of the cookware member. The outer edge including a first pair of adjacent slots extending through a thickness of the outer edge and inwardly from the perimeter; the first pair of slots defining a first notch having a top surface and a bottom surface. There is a first removable handle, including a grip member at a first end, an engagement member at a second end, and an extension member interconnecting the grip member to the engagement member. The engagement member includes a first leg, a second leg, a first crossbar, and a second crossbar; and the first crossbar is interconnected between the first leg and the second leg and the second crossbar is spaced from the first crossbar and interconnected between the first leg and the second leg.