Hi @JPie !
Forgive my ignorance, but I thought those were just for decorative use? Can you actually cook with them? I am very curious to know more! What temperatures work for them? Do you use them for any particular type of food? My parents had a huge collection but only used them as decoration in their kitchen...
They can be decorative & functional! The silver lining of my pan has a very high melting point, and both copper & silver are better at conducting heat than cast iron or stainless steel. It essentially gives you a greater degree of control over cook temp.; if you remove a copper pan from the heat source, there's less carryover heat from the hot metal to overcook and ruin your dish. You can cook just about anything that needs up to medium heat.
Traditionally, copper cookware was lined with tin or sometimes nickel. Tin is great in that it doesn't react to foods and is naturally less inclined to stick than stainless steel cookware. The drawback is that tin has a very low melting point in the 400 degree F range, so one must be careful never to heat the pan empty and exceed medium heat. Modern copper cookware is often lined with stainless steel.
If your parents' collection is lined, you can definitely cook with it. If it's unlined, then the applications are more limited because of the risk of copper leaching into your food.
@JPie -
How do you clean it?
ETA It's SUPER gorgeous! I love virtually everything you post on PS - you have wonderful good taste!
Le Creuset is fantastic! Did you go for a set in the same color, or mixed?They are so beautiful! It might change your cooking game, depending on what you cook. As you mentioned, the copper is very responsive. This is helpful with cooking things like fish, sauces or chocolate. I personally can't justify the value for it (unlike my treasured le creuset collection ) but I know a few who love it!
It would look gorgeous on the dinner table for sure!This would get me to serve straight from the pan (NTS)
It's a colloquialism for cooking technique/expertise/etc.HI:
What's your cooking game?
cheers--Sharon
That sounds lovely, though I could see how it might not get much use aside from tempering chocolate or making delicate sauces.oooo so nice!!! The only copperware I have is my grandmother's double boiler. the outter is copper pan the inner is porcelain. It was used a lot when I was growing up, but these days its more or less sitting on the shelf! I did look and I don't see a name on it.
Oh these would be great for that!I thought these pretty pans only existed for the scenes in movies like lifetime movies for someone to whack someone else upside the head with.
@JPie I'd love a colourful kitchen of mixed colours, but my husband did not like that idea haha. So we have only cherry. I love those pans, but man they are expensive lol.
How is this working for you @JPie
I’m always on the lookout for a better little skillet for over easy eggs.
They are expensive, but with proper care they can outlast us!