These beautiful, heat-responsive, pricey pans have a long history in fine cooking, but do they have a place in home kitchens today?
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I'm sorry but no chopper or stainless steel should ever be used. Stainless steel releases chromium into your food. Any non stick pan is no good either. The healthiest option is cast iron or carbon steel.
Outstanding video
I think they look nice but I need my pan to go into the dishwasher 😂
I bought two orange/copper coated non-stick pans and cooked one egg without spray. The pans were returned the next day.
I have two sizes of Falk sauciers and love them. I use them every day even for boiling eggs. I bought them for their cooking performance not the cosmetics of shiny copper exteriors. I only remove burnt-on grease from the exteriors, not the warmly-colored patina. The satin texture of the stainless steel exterior cleans easily and is no more sticky than a mirror-finished stainless steel. Barkeeper's Friend is great for removing the occasional stubborn bits or stains from the interior. Falk offers cast iron or hollow stainless steel handles, I have the latter and the remain cool on a gas stove except near the pan. Falk also has an induction capable, 3-ply line.
It's a pity the test kitchen isn't familiar with the equipment. You should know how to use tinned copper before you try cooking in it. Tin is far more nonstick than stainless and food will always taste better in it. It's not for nothing that most of the top chefs use tin lined copper.
Worst choices ever to be honest, were are the Falk, Mauviel 250 and Matfer Bourgeat? I don't think most would consider your choices copper pans at all.
Wasn't ATK's whole thing supposed to be that they don't accept advertising? Or is that only the magazine? Because the affiliate links to All Clad and Hestan products in the video description provide the same disincentive to review the products objectively as traditional ads. The whole video reads like advertorial for clad cookware, between the dubious claims about how adding less conductive metals to copper improves performance and the tester melting the tin obviously on purpose (browned butter would be black and badly smoking by the time you hit tin's melting point of 450F).
Gee with copper at less than $4.00 a pound how could that possibly account for the absurdly high prices?
sorry , All Clad handles are just awful. Deyemere deserves super consideration in the clad department as it's 7 ply with a copper core.
I have a Demeyere and it blows All-Clad copper core out the water.
You can use copper core on induction flat cooktop and I like it.
good reviews
Wasn’t nickel used as a coating ? , would that be better than tin ?
Thanks for the review , All-Clad would be my choice
No wallflowers here- let 'em color up !!
Most of my pans are second/or third hand All Clads (thanks to your vids) that I bought at Ebay or the rare thrift store find. They're not as pretty as new. But, their toughness means that doesn't matter and my recent conversion to an induction cooktop hasn't been affected by them at all. BTW: thanks to how frequently these are given as gifts to people that downsize, they can found on Ebay for a pretty good price.
Apart from not induction friendly, thin copper skillets (like Mauviel 150) also curls easily, so using them on flattops isn’t the best idea
“You don’t need a copper skillet, but you want one” so true, gold
little disappointed in my all clad…. word of warning warranty is only for buyers in the USA. Imported a D3 and a few other bits from Amazon and Unfortunaly got a dud frypan… handle is coming off after 6 months … great stuff when working but for anyone outside USA be careful…
AMT has long been my go to for kitchen equipment recommendations. I purchased the All-Clad copper core a few years ago. It's excellent! But honestly, I I wish I had gone with your recommendation of purchasing the basic All-Clad cookware. Don't get me wrong, I love my All-Clad copper core cookware! I have about 20 pieces! Since I have been cooking with All-clad, cooking has been a joy and clean up a breeze! Thank you AMT!