Copper Cook 8-Piece Nonstick Copper Pan Set
- These copper cooking pans are actually not copper. They look pretty like copper but function like ceramic.
- 8 pieces means 4 pieces and 4 lids for those four pieces, which, fine, we can admit that makes sense–a lid is technically a piece–but let’s also admit that it was probably thought up by some marketing dweeb who’s more likely to say, “allow me to play devil’s advocate for a moment” than “thank you.”
- Non-stick, scratch resistant, and can go in the oven.
- Like, they’re pots and pans. You understand how this works.
- Model: TEK106, and considering 106 is a high number, that makes this some HI-TEK cookware! Look, I’m sorry, okay?
Dreams Don't Always Pan Out
When you see an 8-piece cookware set like this–which is really a 4-piece cookware set with a lid for each item–there’s likely an image that comes to mind.
You see yourself standing at the stove, each of the four burners occupied by one of the pots or pans. Perhaps a sauce simmers in one and water comes to a boil in another for pasta that you rolled yourself. You’re sautéing some garlic and onions in yet another, and not with a spatula; instead, with just a flick of your wrist you are cycling it through the air like they do in cooking shows. In the final pan, you brown your steaks before moving them to the oven, where they will cook to a perfect medium rare.
But this image is a fantasy. You can’t actually manage cooking four precise things at once. Honestly, if your stove had only one or two burners, it would work just fine. It might free up some counter space for dealing with the onions you forgot to mince until after your butter had already melted (and burned) in the frying pan.
Thus, purchasing four pots and pans all at once is not necessary, but it is aspirational. You need to keep the dream alive, of wowing your friends and family members with perfectly balanced 4-part meals that make use of descriptors like “deconstructed” or “molecular” or “done three ways.” To have only one pan or one pot would be to admit defeat, to shut the door on your glorious dreams.
In the meantime, great news: you can make your signature “pasta a la butter and a handful of shredded cheese” in one of these just fine! And if you want to make the same thing tomorrow, even more great news: you don’t even need to do the dishes because you’ve got three other cooking vessels just waiting for a turn!
