Customer Reviews

Mauviel Cuprinox Style 9.4-Inch Round Copper Frying Pan

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I felt so guilty about spending the money on this when I first placed the order, and yet I was getting sick to death (perhaps literally) of Teflon pans, of skillets (even stainless steel ones) "Made in China" that seemed to impart weird flavors to my morning bacon and eggs, et al. The vague feelings of guilt persisted -- until the pan arrived and I started using it. This is wonderful cookware: it uses a substantially lower flame for cooking than other skillets I have, it cooks with amazingly even distribution of heat, and -- this was one of my biggest concerns -- it cleans very easily, I've experienced little difference between cleaning this and cleaning Teflon skillets. So, the comparable Teflon-coated skillet I once used has now been cheerfully tossed into the trash. True: few of us can afford a whole line of Mauviel Cuprinox, but really you should have at least one of these in your kitchen; I feel much safer cooking my food in it, and ultimately it's a lifetime investment.

I always admired copper pans for their legendary performance. But until I actually bought one myself I didn't realize just how legendary that performance was.

This wasn't my first copper pan. The first was a "casserole", which most people call a saucepan. I needed to warm up some pasta sauce quickly, so I poured it into my copper pan, turned the heat up way too high, and then ran into the other room to do something and completely forgot it. When the smell wafted to me, I ran back to the kitchen. Any other pan I have would have burnt the sauce. My other pans often burn the sauce if the heat is too high even if I stay and watch them. My pasta sauce was at a rolling boil in the copper pan, but not burnt. Shortly thereafter I started buying more pans to make a whole set of copper.

This frying pan is just as astounding as the saucepan was. I can pan fry things better than I've ever been able too in my other pans. And, in the long run, this pan isn't much more expensive than its high end stainless-steel clad competitors.

The best thing is that this pan cooks some of the most evenly cooked bacon outside of roasting the bacon in the over. It's also the perfect size to make an omelet. With the sloped sides I can flip things without a spatula.

Splurge. It's worth it. Mauviel does make some cheaper pans, so make sure you're getting Cuprinox. It's thicker, and thickness counts.