"aem" > wrote in message
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> D.Currie wrote:
>> Tuesday Morning has a sale on the Cuisinart pots with the copper
>> exteriors.
>> Anybody got any experience with them? They have some good reviews, but my
>> hesitation is the copper exterior coating. I use my pots, I don't hang
>> them
>> up as decorations, and I don't want to spend more time cleaning the
>> copper
>> than I do cooking with the pots.
>>
> I don't know the Cuisinart brand line of pots, but I have a
> copper-bottomed stainless steel frypan that I use all the time, second
> only to the wok. The great advantage of copper is its responsiveness
> to changes in heat, up or down. It's a delight once you get used to
> its speed. That responsiveness is probably not as needed or desirable
> in a pot the way it is for a frypan. I've heard there are people who
> polish/shine the copper bottoms of pans but I've never done it. I just
> clean it the same as any other pan. After at least fifteen years it's
> still working fine. -aem
>

The copper on these covers the whole exterior with an aluminum core and
stainless inside.

This is one of them:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...lance&n=284507

Thanks for the opinion!

Donna