All-Clad Copper Core Dutch Oven

by All-Clad

Product Features

• Beautiful round-sided Dutch oven holds 5 quarts
• Stainless-steel interior and exterior with elegant copper stripe
• Pure copper core for quick, even heating
• Comfortable lid and stay-cool loop handles riveted for strength
• Lifetime warranty against defects

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 11.7 x 5.4 inches ; 7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005AL1N
• Item model number: 6500 SS
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,701 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

The ultimate in beautiful, high-performance cookware, All-Clad's innovative Copper Core collection combines the unexcelled heat conductivity of copper with the easy maintenance of stainless steel. Crafted of a unique five-ply construction, the cookware contains a core of pure copper that spreads heat quickly and evenly across the bottoms of pots and pans and all the way up the sides. Aluminum layers bond the copper to a stainless-steel exterior and a stainless-steel interior. Enhancing the cookware's appearance, a stripe of the copper core elegantly encircles the gleaming, mirror-finish exterior. The interior is highly polished so it's stick- as well as corrosion-resistant. Rolled edges on pots and pans help prevent drips during pouring and ensure tight-fitting lids.

This beautiful 5-quart Dutch oven demonstrates why All-Clad's worldwide reputation is unsurpassed--the company makes cookware that is practical as well as beautiful. This pan is perfect for braising veal shanks, baking beans, or slow cooking choucroute under its domed lid. Because the aluminum core extends up the sides, foods cook uniformly, even though the oven is 4-1/4 inches deep (10-3/4 inches in diameter). And because the interior is nonreactive, tomatoes and other acidic foods won't taste metallic. Its polished 18/10 stainless-steel lid and stay-cool loop handles are riveted for strength and won't be harmed by an oven's heat. Hand washing this oven will preserve its jewel-like beauty during the lifetime warranty against defects--and beyond. --Fred Brack

Product Description

Up until now All-Clad's excellent heat conductivity has been a result of an aluminum core. Another metal equally efficient when it comes to conducting heat is copper. All-Clad now has a complete line of copper core stainless steel cookware which uses bonded 5-ply construction to achieve culinary perfection. The copper core is exposed in an attractive band around each piece, adding warmth, color, and authenticity. Unlike pans with an abundance of exposed copper, these pieces clean easily and are lined with durable food-safe stainless steel. Browning, simmering, stewing: these are all tasks well-suited to the Dutch oven. You'll find it works well both atop and inside the oven. The lid gives you the option of cooking with dry or moist heat, whichever your recipe requires.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of Dutch Ovens, July 24, 2003

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Eric Scott (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All-Clad Copper Core Dutch Oven (Kitchen)

Some years ago I was a professional chef, and I approach cooking in an analytical way, (cooking is science, plating is art). I learned the real value of slow cooking of some foods, especially in classical cuisine and much of ethnic cooking. The trick is a specialized slow-cook oven (expensive restaurant equipment) or a well-made Dutch oven. Assuming you are not reading this from the kitchen of a three star, the obvious choice is the Dutch oven.

My first really usable Dutch oven was a 50-year-old one, 18 pounds of solid aluminum! Eventually it pitted as to become unsafe. I've tried many of the current crop, and was very disappointed at the uneven heat distribution, with the propensity of food to caramelize and eventually burn at the transition point between the flat bottom and the sides (the metal thickness at this point is critical). In my testing, this pot is far and away the best designed, finished, and certainly the best cooking Dutch oven now being produced.

I purchased this item, and am thoroughly satisfied. The price for this superior "slow cooker" is steep, but if you really know how, and when to use this pot, you will marvel at the results, and it really beats the price tag of the restaurant "slow oven!"

Worth the price, and is in my opinion the best by far of all the offerings, spring for one, then really enjoy classical cuisine as it was once prepared!

Eric Scott PhD

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Just Another Pot, December 4, 2001

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"kawwwwww" (Cranston, RI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All-Clad Copper Core Dutch Oven (Kitchen)

Using anything as finely made as this is an education. Food cooks differently in this than it does in anything I've used previously. The level of control this allows is amazing, and the key to this is just how forgiving the cooking surface is. There are absolutely NO hot spots. You burn the stew in this pot, you may as well hang it up and condemn yourself to fast food. This 5-ply pot is the best thing that's ever happened to my kitchen.

This is the highest expression in cookware.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BUY THIS!, May 10, 2006

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Booksilly "booksilly" (Southern California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All-Clad Copper Core Dutch Oven (Kitchen)

Yes, buy this dutch oven. I own over a dozen All-Clad pieces and this is far and away my favorite. It's impossible to burn food in this oven. It cooks so evenly and makes heavenly stews, pot roasts, etc. I start my stews and roasts on the cooktop and finish in the oven at 325 degrees for 1-2 hours. Everything comes out perfectly. This All-Clad piece cleans up very easily. If there is any food particles that my plastic scrubber doesn't remove, an hour's soak with 1/2 inch of vinegar in the bottom of the oven makes it like new. If I had just one piece of cookware to take to a desert island, it would be the All-Clad Copper Core Dutch Oven. If I had two pieces to take, I'd add my All-Clad Copper-core 10 inch fry pan.