"Stewart" > wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I'm currently upgrading my kitchen stuff. I've just bought quite a
> bit of the Scanpan titanium non-stick (black) cookware. I need three
> (16+18+20) saucepans and am considering two Scanpan lines -
>
> Scanpan Fusion 5
> - Aluminium coated in stainless on interior and exterior. Approx $200
> Australian.
>
> Scanpan Fusion CS5
> - Aluminium coated in stainless interior (as above) but with a copper
> whole exterior. Look much cooler than the above but might be a pain
> to clean the copper exteriors? Approx $280 Australian
>
> Simply they both have aluminium inside and stainless on the interior
> (cooking part) of the saucepan. The CS5 however has Copper on the
> exterior and the other has stainless. These are on the web site
> www.scanpan.com under products.
>
> So my question is should I go the ones with copper on the exterior or
> the stainless ones. Does anyone have experience with what cleaning is
> needed for copper exteriored saucepans (I'm not too fussy on
> appearance - just as long as they don't look too unsightly). Or are
> there other brands I should be looking at?
>

I would forget about the copper. I doubt it has any functional advantage
over the stainless as the copper will be very thin.