| Should you invest? No Images? Click here  Everything You Need to Know About Copper pots and pans are a serious investment. Here's what you need to know about their advantages and disadvantages, and how to recognize quality.  The Pros and Cons of Copper Cookware We've spent years here at Serious Eats building a compendium of cookware information. But there's one classic material we've written almost nothing about: copper. Here we'll take a look at copper cookware to suss out its strengths and weaknesses, and try to help you decide whether you want to go deeper by investing in some. Our Recommendations Yes, copper pots are expensive. But if you're looking to take the dive, here are two of Daniel's recommended brands.  How to Clean and Care for Copper Cookware With the price of copper as high as it is, the last thing you want to do is invest in expensive copper cookware only to mistreat it into disrepair. Treating it right is relatively easy, as long as you know a few key things. The Maintenance Essentials  Bar Keepers Friend  Non-Scratch Scrubbers  Behind the Scenes: How Copper Pots Are Made In ancient times, copper was worked by hand with a hammer. Now, there are two modern methods for creating most pan shapes: spinning on a lathe or forming in a press. To learn more, we went to Duparquet Copper Cookware in Rhode Island, where owner Jim Hamann (who also runs a restoration service called East Coast Tinning) showed us how he spins his pans—and even let us try our hand at making our own.
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