Materials for Pots & Pans

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"Hi, my name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I?m going to take a few minutes to show you what to look for when buying yourself a new set of pots and pans. Hi, my name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I?m going to take a few minutes to show you what to look for when buying yourself a new set of pots and pans. This is also iron, it's actually a Dutch oven. The difference here though is that you can see on the outside that its nice and bright red and the inside is a nice cream color. This is a porcelain enamel over caste iron. This has all the same plus's of iron in the fact that it?s easy to heat, its super resilient, it holds its temperature very, very, very well. The down-side to the porcelain enamel coated stuff, is that it's kind of delicate. On one hand this is a really nice kind of non-stick surface. On the other hand if you cool this wrong you can crack it. If you drop it you can crack it. And if you over heat it you can crack it too. So you want to be careful with that. Typically, though they do make an enamel wear, which is what they refer to as enamel wear saut? pans. I typically don't recommend them because they are so fragile and so heavy. They are also really, really, really expensive. The other option that I don't have here to show you is copper. Copper is pretty much the finest material that you can get, from a ductility standpoint, from a conductivity standpoint. In usability it's lightweight, it's easy to manage. It cools great. If you can afford it, copper is defiantly the way to go. The advantages outweigh everything here. The disadvantages are the facts that it's really hard to maintain it, because it tarnishes and also the fact that quite simply is that it's horribly expensive. This pan, I believe was forty or fifty dollars. This same pan in copper, is two or three hundred depending on the maker. Sometimes depending on the maker it could be as much as a thousand. That?s why most of the copper sets that you're going to see are going to have copper outsides and stainless steel insides. Solid copper sets are really, really, really horrendously expensive. Which is why I don't have one here to show you. That being said let?s move on to our individual pans and what to look for when buying them."