All Clad Copper Core Porcelain Double Boiler Insert

by All-Clad

Product Features

• Sauce pan has 5-ply construction with copper center for supreme responsiveness to heat
• Double boiler is made of high quality white porcelain
• Set comes with two lids, one for the sauce pan and one for the insert
• Excelant for both chocolate and cheese sauces

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 6.5 x 7 inches ; 9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B001AT4WYA
• Item model number: 62025 SS
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,122 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
  • #53 in Kitchen & Dining > Cookware > Double Boilers

Product Description

Copper-Core's patented five-ply bonded design utilizes a copper center core to maximize heat conductivity and responsiveness. The copper ply is bonded to aluminim to enhance heat distribution while reducing weight. The bonded exterior and and interior layers are highest quality stainless steel, providing ideal cooking surface, ease of cleaning, extreme durability and sculpturesque aesthetic appeal. This 2-Quart Sauce Pan with Porcelain Double Boiler includes two lids, one for the sauce pan and one for the insert. The double boiler is made of high quality white porcelain and is excellant for both chocolate and cheese sauces.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Such a price for a double boiler?, December 24, 2011

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sdone (Bainbridge Island, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Clad Copper Core Porcelain Double Boiler Insert (Kitchen)

I grew up with a mother who baked pies. Cream pies were my personal favorite, plain and coconut cream. My mother made them from scratch and from my early youth I would stand at the stove on a chair stirring the cream custard in a double boiler, waiting anxiously for it to thicken. It seemed interminable then, in what I recall to have been a metal pot with an insert. In our marriage we have carried on the tradition and have had many different double boilers over the years, including aluminum and glass ones which we had up until the purchase of an induction range which precluded the use of glass. We have had All-Clad Ltd cookware almost since it was introduced, but it too had to be replaced, being mostly aluminum and not compatible with induction technology. We chose the All-Clad Copper Core induction compatible, and the double boiler seemed an extravagant, somewhat over the top purchase.
Now, I have been stirring custards for pies and ice creams for fully sixty years in double boilers, and having tried occasionally to do it without one, on the stove directly, I would do it no other way.
This double boiler with the porcelain insert is the best one I have ever used, hands down. I was a bit incredulous at first, but find it does the job both quickly and uniformly and without complications, providing a smooth custard every time. One must be cautious not to over fill the bottom pot to avoid splatter. The insert also does not seem to fit the nearly same size sauce pan, which is too snug a fit. As with all of the All-Clad line the workmanship is impeccable and flawless.
Is it worth the price? All my other pots and pans are already passed on to the second generation and still as good as new. With a little care, these items may well last forever. This set will undoubtedly outlast me.
The food prepared will only fail if the cook does. I highly recommend this product.