When it comes to cookware, you have a ton of different options to choose from. But if you do a lot of cooking in your kitchen day after day and if you’ve got the money to spare, then you really should go with copper cookware and there’s really only one undisputed leader of copper cookware sets, and that is Mauviel Cookware.
First started in a small Normandy village back in 1830, Mauviel has grown over the centuries into the world-class cookware company that we know and love today. While they do offer many different varieties of stainless steel cookware, they are known far and wide because of their copper.
I’m not really sure what it is about copper cookware that makes it such an outstanding cooking tool. I’m sure a chemist or metallurgist could explain to me the fact that copper distributes heat more efficiently than anything else, or something like that, but I probably wouldn’t understand them anyway. All I know is that copper is a dream to cook with and I can’t imagine using anything else day after day.
There is a major downside though, and that’s price. Copper cookware is among the most expensive cookware pieces that you could possibly ever have in your kitchen. Copper just cost more money than everything else, and it’s as simple as that. It’s not a marketing gimmick to get more money out of you, it just physically costs more money to produce theses pieces.
So what can you expect to pay, approximately?
As an example, a seven piece M’héritage Copper set with stainless steel is going to cost you around $1,350. At the same time a single Mauviel Cuprinox Extra-Thick 2.5 mm 1.3-Quart Saucepan with lid is going to run you a little over $200 for a single piece.
Of course, in this world you really do get what you pay for and nowhere does that saying hold more true than with Mauviel cookware. You’re going to spend an arm and a leg on them, but these pieces will hold up for many lifetimes as long as you take care of them correctly. So does a $200 pot or pan really cost $200 if it lasts you the rest of your life and you don’t ever have to buy another one? What’s the alternative, buy seven $40 pots, one every few years as they fall apart? In the end you could very well spend less money on the one copper pot than on the seven or eight cheap ones.
Plus Mauviel cookware are real copper cookware pieces, they don’t just use bits of copper or a percentage of copper like some companies do in order to make cheaper pots and pans. No, Mauviel is copper through and through and it’s that kind of attention to detail that makes these pieces last forever.
