Anybody have the as seen on TV copper nonstick pan?? (restaurant, French)
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I have a set of the copperclad skillets.
They are decent. Use them for saute and quick-frying meats, and such.
They actually work pretty well. decent all-purpose fryers.
We had one: worked well at first, but we were always not sure if it is leaching some bad chemical into our food.( Especially acidic type food)
However, the coating did not last, even though we were careful to only use wooden utensils for stirring and scooping...and hand washing- we started seeing light scratches on the surface and some pitting-a few tiny dark dots.
I’d say maybe we had it for 3 months?
We stopped using it and did not replace it. We did not want a metal underneath the coating to leach into our food.
I loved using it when brand new, but shortly thereafter- it started to deteriorate- and was not as sleek and non- stick as at the beginning.
Back to stainless, cast iron and an enameled cast iron...
It's not the metal underneath the coating leaching into your food that's bad, it's the coating itself getting into your food. Possibly cancerous.
Things "Seen on TV" are usually mediocre quality.
For every day quick non-stick frying I use a ceramic pan.
For cooking/searing - glazed iron pan or shallow Le Creuset skillet.
The Copper Chef pans seen on TV are not made of copper, although they are the color of copper. The base metal is aluminum and the interior has a ceramic coating that is non-stick. They are not related to copper lined cookware, which is more expensive. They are also not related to real copper cookware, such as Mauviel. That is the bomb!
I have 2 pieces of the Copper Chef for my outdoor kitchen. It came from Amazon as a 2-piece set. It's not the best quality, but it's not bad either. With reasonable care, the non-stick coating lasts well. It's easy to hand wash, and I have never put it in the wife's dishwasher. I would recommend it for camping, RVing, outdoor cooking, or young people starting out who need pans that are inexpensive. It seems to be better than Teflon.
All the non stick pans I've ever seen have such short lives, I don't see the point in buying them. I have a T-Fal that I've babied for 6 years, and though it is not as slippery as before, it still is non stickish. I mainly use it for eggs.
The thing is, you usually can't wash them in the dishwasher, and you aren't supposed to use them with high heat. High heat destroys the finish. And if you have induction, there are few of these copperish or enamel non-stick pans that work well with induction.
If you must have non stick, I recommend T-Fal, but you will still have to baby them.
Cheap pans of any description are seldom worth buying, with the exception of decent cast iron. But even then, the best cast iron are vintage pans, IMO.
I have several Copper Chef fry pans I got from Walmart...I use them on my Nuwave cooktop (induction) which I usually use instead of my electric stove...
I have one of the "copper clad" as seen on TV pans. Just like all non-stick cookware, they work great for a few months. By one year old, pretty much every type of Teflon or other non-stick pan will not be non stick anymore.
I have seen some new ones for sale at Grocery outlet type stores, might be cheaper there, than on tv.
Bizarrely, the as seen on tv brand is cheaper at Target and Amazon (depends on the size which is cheaper).
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