These type of pans (like so many others) start off great and then the honeymoon is over and everything sticks. Even when you use bacon grease and silicone tools.
@katbyter there’s a layer of caramelized proteins & sugars that bond to the ceramic and are almost invisible- scrubbing with baking soda or a dedicated “non-stick safe” scouring pad will clean it back to base level.
@katbyter@narfcake-,Wha, wha, wha, What? Cheez, if I ever gotta scrub the skillet I might as well keep my heavy iron skillet, narfy!! What kind of advice is that¿ I’ll just forget I’m frying some refried beans so I can use my SOS pads!! Woopee!!
@nogoodwithnames Yup! There was a set of these in my Fuko that looked to have been returns (a bit banged up). I was pleased at first because I have some ceramic non-sticks I bought on clearance from a restaurant supply store, that I use often. However, the first thing I noticed when I took these out of the packing material was how rough all the metal edges were and the second thing was that the overall quality (weight, balance, etc.) was poor. I promptly repacked them to drop off at Goodwill.
@thismyusername idk what you’re even going for here. Copper is not a dangerous metal and most likey all of your drinking water plumbing in your house is made out of safe copper pipe. Unless you have pex. OMG SCARY PLASTIC. Or even worse lead. Do you just buy all your tap water in expensive bottles that contaminate it? Cause you know bottled water is the same as or worse. I hope.
I wouldn’t buy a copper pan because get non stick or stainless or cast iron. Copper adds nothing and Is just a gimic. But copper poisoning? Be serious
@unksol I am saying it is very odd to use something we know causes ill effect as a marketing tool… copper is what it is… and in excess it has adverse effects… it’s just a fact for us humans.
wow you sound afraid of plastic… can you show me the toxicity studies on that?
but my point is… why copper… why do they think we would think that is a good thing when we have known for hundreds of years about what it does to us… before you know it they will be slapping some radioactive element as a buzzword to sell crap…
The benefit of four pans is not that you can cook four things at once, it’s that you can cook two things at once twice without washing dishes in between.
But my experience of ceramic pans is that you can do that about 12 times and after that you can only cook two things at once onto the pans rather than just in the pans.
If those pictures are at all accurate, no one’s gonna mistake them for copper. I think the whole damn company was founded by marketing dweebs.
“Let’s call ourselves Copper Cook and sell non-copper pans called Copper Pans, so we can get ‘copper’ in the name twice! If you say something twice everyone will believe you — it’s a scientific fact! And we won’t have to spend money on actual copper!”
I got these in a fuko. I would be angry if I spent $39 on them. $20 seems more realistic. For $5 I am happy.
The handles are absolutely terrible. Not only are they really uncomfortable, they get super hot when cooking anything longer than five minutes. The largest pot is pretty small. I think most standard sets have a 4qt+. The other pot is fine for reheating a can of soup or cooking some ramen. I basically only use the fry pans for cooking eggs. They work well for this except the terrible handles. Oh, and one of them doesn’t sit flat on the burner until you put something in it. I tried to bend the handle to fix the balance, but ended up bending the pan instead.
For the price, you can get this Farberware set that comes with a bigger pot, an extra piece of cookware, and utensils. It’s nonstick, but not ceramic. More comfortable handles as well. My last set of Farberware wasn’t dishwasher safe and I’ve had it 7+ years and I always put it in the dishwasher. I got rid of the fry pans when I got this set just because the nonstick was getting damaged on the edges. Still have my pots.
Eventually I’ll replace the fry pans with something nicer. I have a giant calphalon that I’m in love with, but it’s a bit cumbersome just for a few eggs.
I received a set of these in a fuko as well. I have the same issue as @riotdemon in that one of the skillets does not sit flat without weight added. I also concur that the handles get super hot on the pans and the lids.
That said, I do use them and they work well for bacon, eggs, soups, etc. I am cooking for four so no cooking entrees in these but they are nice if I am making something small for a side or for only one.
I ended up buying a t-fal and returning a cheaper one from Amazon. Use it all the time, only plastic utensils, been working great for half a year. No copper colour, tho. Drab grey but cool and balanced handles. There is also a max temp for ceramic pans.
@misobrilliant Yes–if you look at the box, it says “induction”. As the pans are ceramic, I expect that there is an induction disk embedded inside or on the bottom.
That said, I don’t know what you mean by “Are the lids induction ready?” Only the bottom of the pans need to be ferrous to work with induction.
Yikes- copper-colored overpriced ceramic pans! No thanks, I’ll stick with the Tramontina stuff you can get at Costco. It works well, heats evenly, has nice handles, cleans easily, and lasts a few years. It’s not the absolute best cookware, but for $8/pan (for the 8/10/12" basic frypan trio), it’s expendable.
I purchased a Green Life pan from Walmart that’s amazingly good. The ceramic coating is very thick (unlike these) and I had it for months and it still looks brand new. I’m planning on buying a set from them when I have some expendable cash. Oh, and it has a silicone handle. No pain, no pain.
i hadn’t heard about this updated name (or perhaps it’s just for the website, i haven’t looked that far into it) but it amused me because my gramma loves to shop there (i’m sure many grammas do) but also she says “and that” all the time, the way some people say “like” or “um” when talking. i have never heard anyone else say it and always wondered where she picked it up, if her mom said it or if it’s a regional thing or what. (she & my grampa were both in the navy so they lived several places before i was born.)
“oh you know, i ran some errands today, down to the home depot and the christmas tree shop and that…stopped at the commesary and saw jane from church and that…”
it sounds natural when she says it though, like you’re never thinking “and that what?”
One good iron skillet, one OK pot for boiling pasta/rice, a big knife, a metal spatula, one silicone spatula, a bowl big enough to mix and serve things in, and a whisk and a cheap cutting board. Stop right there, you can do 90% of everything with those. No room for crap pots and pans in a kitchen budget, they are not a good deal.
If you have money to throw away on kitchen stuff, this doesn’t seem like a good deal.
If you have not much money for kitchen stuff, this does not seem like what you should spend it on.
@robin0575 Totally agree. Maybe a peeler or perhaps a set of measuring cups, spoons until you get the hang of how small a teaspoon and how large a tablespoon are.
@hockeybum it’s clay and copper. Two different materials. Not sure how you can get more natural. They find it in the ground? It’s a shitty product but you’re being extremely… just wow
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x 10” fry pan with lid
1x 8” fry pan with lid
1x 2.8 quart pot with lid
1x 1.7 sauté pan with lid
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Was $81 at Amazon
$49 at… Christmas Tree Shops And That (?!)
Warranty
90 day Mediocre
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Nope
Meh
Sqeh
These type of pans (like so many others) start off great and then the honeymoon is over and everything sticks. Even when you use bacon grease and silicone tools.
@katbyter Scrub it with baking soda.
@katbyter there’s a layer of caramelized proteins & sugars that bond to the ceramic and are almost invisible- scrubbing with baking soda or a dedicated “non-stick safe” scouring pad will clean it back to base level.
@katbyter @narfcake-,Wha, wha, wha, What? Cheez, if I ever gotta scrub the skillet I might as well keep my heavy iron skillet, narfy!! What kind of advice is that¿ I’ll just forget I’m frying some refried beans so I can use my SOS pads!! Woopee!!
@narfcake I’ve tried baking soda, with limited success. Helps to scrub with baking soda paste, then add vinegar and let it bubble.
Hey copper — what’s cooking?
Man do those handles look unpleasant.
@nogoodwithnames wow I didn’t even notice that.
@nogoodwithnames- They aren’t Unpleasant, they’re Hot as Hell. Wear those Gloves you bought on the Home Shopping Network,…or meh!!
@nogoodwithnames Yup! There was a set of these in my Fuko that looked to have been returns (a bit banged up). I was pleased at first because I have some ceramic non-sticks I bought on clearance from a restaurant supply store, that I use often. However, the first thing I noticed when I took these out of the packing material was how rough all the metal edges were and the second thing was that the overall quality (weight, balance, etc.) was poor. I promptly repacked them to drop off at Goodwill.
Is this where we share what we cooked? Because I cold brewed a spiked tea yesterday that turned out well.
All Clad or GTFO. Non stick sucks.
I still don’t understand this marketing trend of using poisonous materials as a selling point?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_toxicity
I mean I know these have zero copper in them, because, well, copper is valuable… but still a weird trend.
@thismyusername idk what you’re even going for here. Copper is not a dangerous metal and most likey all of your drinking water plumbing in your house is made out of safe copper pipe. Unless you have pex. OMG SCARY PLASTIC. Or even worse lead. Do you just buy all your tap water in expensive bottles that contaminate it? Cause you know bottled water is the same as or worse. I hope.
I wouldn’t buy a copper pan because get non stick or stainless or cast iron. Copper adds nothing and Is just a gimic. But copper poisoning? Be serious
@unksol I am saying it is very odd to use something we know causes ill effect as a marketing tool… copper is what it is… and in excess it has adverse effects… it’s just a fact for us humans.
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~toxmetal/toxic-metals/more-metals/copper-faq.html
wow you sound afraid of plastic… can you show me the toxicity studies on that?
but my point is… why copper… why do they think we would think that is a good thing when we have known for hundreds of years about what it does to us… before you know it they will be slapping some radioactive element as a buzzword to sell crap…
@thismyusername Heeeey! I happen to enjoy my Polonio’s!
Let’s see how this pans out…
kinda worth it for the lids alone…
I’m fairly certain there will be no dreams coming out of these pans.
Hmmm - the “Buy It” screen is mostly blank for me…
???
@Pufferfishy looks to be working from here. Try refreshing and maybe clear cache?
Yep - just my craptastic browser. It’s fine in Chrome.
The benefit of four pans is not that you can cook four things at once, it’s that you can cook two things at once twice without washing dishes in between.
But my experience of ceramic pans is that you can do that about 12 times and after that you can only cook two things at once onto the pans rather than just in the pans.
Anyone notice today’s badge:
looks like a mouth speculum?
@mike808
/giphy no
Peter has become a copper. I guess he finally grew up.
welcome to groupon…
If those pictures are at all accurate, no one’s gonna mistake them for copper. I think the whole damn company was founded by marketing dweebs.
“Let’s call ourselves Copper Cook and sell non-copper pans called Copper Pans, so we can get ‘copper’ in the name twice! If you say something twice everyone will believe you — it’s a scientific fact! And we won’t have to spend money on actual copper!”
Oh look it’s “copper” cookware.
/giphy air quotes
plz sell some tupperware sets
I got these in a fuko. I would be angry if I spent $39 on them. $20 seems more realistic. For $5 I am happy.
The handles are absolutely terrible. Not only are they really uncomfortable, they get super hot when cooking anything longer than five minutes. The largest pot is pretty small. I think most standard sets have a 4qt+. The other pot is fine for reheating a can of soup or cooking some ramen. I basically only use the fry pans for cooking eggs. They work well for this except the terrible handles. Oh, and one of them doesn’t sit flat on the burner until you put something in it. I tried to bend the handle to fix the balance, but ended up bending the pan instead.
For the price, you can get this Farberware set that comes with a bigger pot, an extra piece of cookware, and utensils. It’s nonstick, but not ceramic. More comfortable handles as well. My last set of Farberware wasn’t dishwasher safe and I’ve had it 7+ years and I always put it in the dishwasher. I got rid of the fry pans when I got this set just because the nonstick was getting damaged on the edges. Still have my pots.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Farberware-Easy-Clean-Dishwasher-Safe-Aluminum-Nonstick-12-Piece-Cookware-Set/53904789?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222228044586291&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=87659651209&wl4=aud-273067695102:pla-194064809089&wl5=9012442&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=53904789&wl13=&veh=sem
Eventually I’ll replace the fry pans with something nicer. I have a giant calphalon that I’m in love with, but it’s a bit cumbersome just for a few eggs.
Copper colored pot
Not really made of copper
A dirty mean trick
@nolrak nice poem, bro.
@nolrak A star for the haiku
I received a set of these in a fuko as well. I have the same issue as @riotdemon in that one of the skillets does not sit flat without weight added. I also concur that the handles get super hot on the pans and the lids.
That said, I do use them and they work well for bacon, eggs, soups, etc. I am cooking for four so no cooking entrees in these but they are nice if I am making something small for a side or for only one.
I ended up buying a t-fal and returning a cheaper one from Amazon. Use it all the time, only plastic utensils, been working great for half a year. No copper colour, tho. Drab grey but cool and balanced handles. There is also a max temp for ceramic pans.
Are these induction ready? Are the lids induction ready?
@misobrilliant Yes–if you look at the box, it says “induction”. As the pans are ceramic, I expect that there is an induction disk embedded inside or on the bottom.
That said, I don’t know what you mean by “Are the lids induction ready?” Only the bottom of the pans need to be ferrous to work with induction.
Yikes- copper-colored overpriced ceramic pans! No thanks, I’ll stick with the Tramontina stuff you can get at Costco. It works well, heats evenly, has nice handles, cleans easily, and lasts a few years. It’s not the absolute best cookware, but for $8/pan (for the 8/10/12" basic frypan trio), it’s expendable.
I purchased a Green Life pan from Walmart that’s amazingly good. The ceramic coating is very thick (unlike these) and I had it for months and it still looks brand new. I’m planning on buying a set from them when I have some expendable cash. Oh, and it has a silicone handle. No pain, no pain.
christmas tree shops…and that!
i hadn’t heard about this updated name (or perhaps it’s just for the website, i haven’t looked that far into it) but it amused me because my gramma loves to shop there (i’m sure many grammas do) but also she says “and that” all the time, the way some people say “like” or “um” when talking. i have never heard anyone else say it and always wondered where she picked it up, if her mom said it or if it’s a regional thing or what. (she & my grampa were both in the navy so they lived several places before i was born.)
“oh you know, i ran some errands today, down to the home depot and the christmas tree shop and that…stopped at the commesary and saw jane from church and that…”
it sounds natural when she says it though, like you’re never thinking “and that what?”
No.
No.
No.
If you are short on funds:
One good iron skillet, one OK pot for boiling pasta/rice, a big knife, a metal spatula, one silicone spatula, a bowl big enough to mix and serve things in, and a whisk and a cheap cutting board. Stop right there, you can do 90% of everything with those. No room for crap pots and pans in a kitchen budget, they are not a good deal.
If you have money to throw away on kitchen stuff, this doesn’t seem like a good deal.
If you have not much money for kitchen stuff, this does not seem like what you should spend it on.
I cannot figure out the market for these pans.
@robin0575 Totally agree. Maybe a peeler or perhaps a set of measuring cups, spoons until you get the hang of how small a teaspoon and how large a tablespoon are.
What the hell? No shot of Glen, Irk or baby arm? I’m out!
“Natural Ceramic Copper”
WTF is that?
@hockeybum it’s clay and copper. Two different materials. Not sure how you can get more natural. They find it in the ground? It’s a shitty product but you’re being extremely… just wow
My wife bought a “copper” skillet from Target.
I bought a skillet treated with Quantanium from Aldi’s. Guess which one continues to pass the egg test.
Great buy, looking forward to it.
/giphy weathered-glowing-bridge
Went to a flea market today that was Meh
@callow how much were the fleas though? The pictures of pans seems unrelated to your post
@callow Color is still off.
Pan set for a little person. Not happy with the size at all.