Review and Giveaway: ProWare Tri-ply Cookware
Have you ever watched an episode of Masterchef or some other foodie programme and had copper pan envy? I have. I have also often wondered why it is that chefs in professional kitchens use copper pans and why copper pans are not so popular in the domestic kitchen. The main reason, I’m sure, is the prohibitive cost. The French have been producing copper pans for generations, but they can be expensive and heavy. So, I was delighted this week to welcome into my kitchen a set of new ProWare tri-ply cookware – copper pans – lighter, reasonably priced, with a copper exterior, an aluminium core middle layer and a layer of stainless steel coating on the inside. Cooking during the festive season, with these on the stove, will be an absolute pleasure.
Professional chefs use copper pans because copper is known to be an excellent conductor of heat and it cools down very rapidly. So, for example, once a piece of meat, poultry or fish are perfectly cooked, taking the pan off the heat will stop the cooking process. But copper is also known to have certain reactive qualities, for example acidic foods do not get along well with copper and so the easy to clean, stainless steel interior of these pans is a wonderful idea. Better still, in the ProWare range, the 14cm Milk Pan, 24cm and 28cm Fry Pans also have non-stick coating.
You can use the ProWare copper pans on all heat sources, except for induction hobs. They are oven-safe to 150°C, so you can do that cheffy thing of searing your meat or poultry in the pan before placing it in the oven to finish off gently or keep warm. As with all copper cookware, these pans will naturally change colour (called tarnishing) over time and if you overheat them they may discolour, but in most cases, you can bring the copper back by using a copper cleaner. The cleaner that has been recommended by two different sources is Brasso, but you can also get good results with vinegar and salt. Unless your copper pans become extremely tarnished, they will continue to look as beautiful and iconic in your kitchen as they do in all respectable kitchens. Here’s how copper can change when heated –
Image credit: ProWare Kitchen
The range I am testing includes a 24cm tri-ply frying pan (with non-stick coating), a 20cm tri-ply saucepan with lid, a 16cm tri-ply saucepan with lid and the most adorable of the bunch – a mini copper tri-ply pan – my new favourite thing in the kitchen.
ProWare Kitchen are a new company launched in 2012, although they have drawn upon their experience in the kitchenware industry to develop this new range. You can connect with them on Twitter (@proware_kitchen) or on Facebook where they run competitions, too.
I’m going to continue to road-test my pans and I’m sure you’ll spot them featuring in many of my posts, as I’m a huge new fan!
How to enter the ProWare Kitchen and Fabulicious Food! giveaway:
Where to buy them
If you are still Christmas present shopping, I know that the foodie in your life would love any one of these. They are exclusively available at Lakeland and at the moment, are on a special 3 for 2 offer. The range at Lakeland starts at £19.00 (for the 9cm mini pan) and goes up to £89.00 for the 20cm saucepan with lid.
Disclosure: I was sent 4 copper pans to test and review and ProWare Kitchen are offering one of my readers a mini Tri-ply pan. I was not required to use any text or specific information in my post and was under no obligation to write a positive review. I contacted the company myself. With many thanks for my set.
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I’d cook a delicious veggie soup, perfect for the cold weather.
I wont be cooking with it, I pass all the cooking to my partner who is a brilliant cook, he will love this shiny pan
Spicy tomato and lentil soup yum
They are lovely looking pans-lovely for a tasty winter soup mmmm
all sorts! but first would make lamb curry for my husband
porridge oats
I would cook all sorts in these…my famous peppercorn sauce….or a beef stew. I would definitely get a lot of use out of this anyway xxx
A nice tasty Irish stew, something to warm me up as its rather cold up North!
I WOULD GET INTO SOME SERIOUS HOME COOKING FOR MY FAMILY ` I WHOLE HEART- IDLY LOVE THESE POTS`
I’d cook some homemade ravioli – plenty of room for it to boil.
some oozing caramel!
I would cook a perennial favourite – Spaghetti bolognese
Fingers crossed great prize
Vegetable curry
I am forever cooking so this copper man would be took advantage of. I would make lentil soup which my family love or a lovely hot chicken curry!
A nice roux sauce
I’d love to be more experimental with things like sauces (bit scared of them!!) so this would be great inspiration to try new things 🙂
I’d make creamy tomato soup
I think its perfect size for melting chocolate and making delicate sauces
spag bol
I would make chocolate pots, yum yum!! 🙂
I’d make Ratatouille
I would make some choux pastry in it !!!
Beef stew
Fudge! My pans don’t have a heavy enough base and it all goes a bit wrong right now.
I’d just have to make some chicken soup
I would make a gorgeous sauce for my homemade cheese and olive filled pasta.
parsnip soup
I would make choux pastry for profiteroles!
I would make a lovely redcurrant Jus 🙂
a nice chilli
A quick apple and mint sauce
I would cook a bechamel sauce for a tasty fish pie for my family!
Nice pot of chilli – nom!! x
i would make scrambled eggs for my breakfast!
bechamel sauce to go on moussaka
I think they would be just right for making gravy in, to go with a nice roast dinner.
Oh homemade custard with orange zest in it – which I would then pour over bananas, top with whipped cream and flaked almonds….Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I would cook a vegetable curry
I’d cook my famous Sausage and Bean Casserole…..a family favourite!! And what a treat for the food to be cooked in such a luxurious pan!
A Chicken Rogan Josh! Perfectly fitting for new kitchenware.
Ideal size for cooking a portion of veg like mange tout
Some lovely home made soup
It would have to be something French – maybe a raspberry jus or a quick mushroon bordelaise.
I would cook pea and ham soup.
good old hotpot
caramel
chicken and parship stew
Cawl for me – it’s a Welsh soup basically and it’s gorgeous!!!
I would make some soup
Delicious spicy puttanesca sauce!!
the creme d, la creme in Cooking Pans.Chic,versatile,long life,absolutely the Pans of great Chefs.
They would grace any kitchen,(hopefully mine)
I,d have to use first to make some Sauces:)
pancakes
I would cook a Lamb curry
I would make a big pot of yummy chilli 🙂
I would cook Spaghetti Bolognaise 🙂
I would make spun sugar and turn them into baskets , perfect
I would make a curry
Great prize, I’d use it for lots of things!
I’d make a lovely lemony sauce to go with some fresh fish that I’m going to grill later.
I would make a creme anglaisse to go in a fruit tart.
I’d use it for everything from Pasta to gravy to vegetables to soup
Braised steak
A Chicken casserole
Bechamel sauce
I’d cook a white sauce and use it to make macaroni cheese, perfect comfort food for this weather!
A fab healthy fresh vegetable and bacon soup I think, fab for this awful wintery weather x
Oh, not sure really. Perhaps a white sauce.
I would make a delicious pork stew with parsnips
Lovely home made soup. x
a chicken curry
I’d make a lovely Beef Stew.
I would make a cheese sauce for macaroni cheese
I would cook a lovely spaghetti bolognaise!
vanilla custard
i would stew some berries for a crumble,also cook some home made ravioli obviously not in the same pan! they are lovely looking pans,
I can see it being very useful to cook all manor of sauces in.
would love cooking anything with these would be a pleasure
A lovely poached egg yummy 🙂
A nice chunky vegtable soup.
A Hollandaise sauce, to go with some salmon
Carrot and corriander soup 🙂
steak for hubby
I would make perfect custard
vanilla fudge
spag bol 🙂
A hearty winter stew!
Parsley Sauce
I’d make the Rum Sauce that goes with my mum’s homemade Christmas Pudding; I usually invite my mum for Christmas lunch but in 2013 she is going to my sister’s for Christmas so I’ll have to make my own; this pan will come into it’s own I’m sure and ensure my rum sauce is as good as my mum’s (but don’t tell her will you).
A nice warming parsnip soup.
Stewing Steak, Plenty of Potatoes, Peas, Dumplings and Oxo’s – my version of Scouse 🙂
I’d make a cheese sauce
I would make a lovely winter casserole with leftovers from Christmas, which I have frozen 🙂
A nice vegetable soup
Chicken curry
I would use it to make a variety of pasta sauces, as I have just treated myself to a pasta making machine x
probably porridge or rice. (really sophisticated me) 🙂
soup
Fish Stew
Thai Green Curry
A nice chicken curry
Muchas gracias. ?Como puedo iniciar sesion?
Actually I’m pretty rubbish at cooking, I’m not really sure what I’d try! But, if I win, I vow to buy a cookery book and finally learn some decent recipes ^_^
Everything! I’d use them all the time.
Thai chicken curry
a lovely stew 🙂
I would ‘donate’ these to my boyfriend so he could make me one of his amazing beef casseroles
id cook a cheesy pasta dish
a broccoli soup
I’d cook up some really nice chicken stew – a firm favourite in this family in the winter!
pasta x
A lovely comforting sausage casserole
I would use it to warm the milk for my customary winter evening hot cocoa 🙂
I’d cook everything in these pans!
A nice home made pea and ham soup
Use them to cook the vegetables for the Sunday lunch
Vanilla Fudge
Pasta and Cheese
Fish Soup
A hearty home made soup with some freshly baked bread
Georgeous pots
I’d make Ratatouille!
I would have a go at different savoury stocks and sauces and experiment with fruity sauces, jellies etc – I’d like to add more dairy-free recipes to my menu too. Whenever I go off daydreaming about the big old farmhouse in the country I would want to buy with a lottery win, a proper farmhouse kitchen with an Aga wood-burning stove and copper pans hanging up always feature. The copper adds warmth often lacking in more modern kitchens, though I’m sure these classically timeless pans would look great even in state-of-the-art kitchens. I can imagine this little pan will get a lot of use wherever it’s new home is – fingers crossed for a little New Year luck here.
I would cook a nice mushroom curry.
a lovely mushroom sauce x
A good test for a new pan is always – scrabled eggs!
I’d make a warming winter beef stew
I would cook fish,rice and loads of veggie
corn chowder, mmmmmm
I would cook a lovely french Beef Bourguignon xx
Lots of lovely sauces
A lovely Beef Casserole 🙂
Homemade soup possibly pea and ham or carrot, corriander and lentil.
Stewed apple and custard 😉
Cheese sauce to put on steamed cauliflower. I like to put mustard and a touch of nutmeg in my cheese sauce.
a beef stew and dumplings
I’ve been cooking lots of hearty stews and soups this winter, so would use this pan to help with my wholesome cooking!
I would cook a lovely spicy satay sauce, just the thing to warm me up in this cold weather.
I’d cook a lovely chicken casserole with herb dumplings, my husbands favourite.
I’d poach a pear!
A prawn risotto I think…yum!
I would make vegetable curry, stewed apple, lots of onion gravy in fact anything that I can cook or part cook in a saucepan.
i would cook lots of nice healthy meals to kick start the diet after all the rubbish we have eaten over christmas
rice pudding!
I would cook a sausage casserole 🙂
I would cook a nice curry! mmm i could just eat it now!
I’d do some home made jam, blackberry and apple, pear and fig, all fruit from my garden 🙂
mushrooms
I would make a rich peppercorn sauce to pour over a tender, medium rare steak.
i would cook some salmon
I would love these…I envy those who can n make sauces. Mine are just lumpy and/or tasteless !! With these I would sauce like a pro!
A beautiful mature cheddar cheese sauce to top of some cauliflower mmmmmmm <3
Goan Fish Curry
A lovely curry. My son would really enjoy it as hes just started on “big people” food.
I’d make carrot and coriander soup to kickstart my new year diet.
It would have to be a lovely beef so warming on these cold winter day.
A lovely stew nice warm and hearty for the winter
A yummy braised beef steak stew!
Salmon fillets with hollandaise sauce
tomato spup
I would stew up some rhubarb and make a crumble with real custard!
A nice stew
Beef casserole
Gorgeous pans. I would make carrot and orange soup as I seem to have loads of carrots at the moment
I would keep it simple and poach and egg.
I’d probably cook fish with a sauce.
Turkey soup 🙂
i’d cook a nice curry with plenty of fresh spinach
I would cook some delicious beef stew.
Lots of sauces!
I’d try making sauces properly rather than using packet mixes.
A lovely sticky sauce for my pork steaks 😀
Custard, yum!
I’d make a lovely warming batch of chilli!
sauces
Fish Soup
Those are gorgeous! I’d make a spicy curry.
I would try out a sauce to go with salmon
A beef stew
I would make a pasta dish 🙂
Butter chicken curry
oh yes please xx
A healthy homemade soup.
I would make tablet!
lots of healthy veg
beef and ale casserole
I would make a lovely winter beef stew 🙂
Ermmm, as I can’t cook, what a way to “learn” using these great pans. But what would I want to learn first… hmm, it may be a bit too advanced for me, but I’d love to try cooking a curry 🙂
Great looking and usability fantastic.
Chicken in white wine sauce
Wife will still manage to burn the dinner with these i bet.
I have serious pan envy! I’d cook everything in them – in fact to prove myself worthy, I’d probably have to book myself into Swinton Park and Rosemary Shrager’s cookery school to perfect the art of Sauce Bernaise
spaghetti bolognese
With this weather, a nice beef stew and dumplings would be good.
Chicken chasseur
stew
I think it would be good for gravies and sauces
A Thai green curry. My favourite.
probably beef curry
hot chocolate sauce for ice-cream
a beef stew
I would make a risotto!
A really good breakfast omelette, no better way to try a new pan but first thing in the morning.
A nice red wine sauce to go on top of a juicy steak *licks lips in anticipation*
I’d make home made sweet and sour sauce! as I have to dissolve brown sugar it always sticks and burns to my horrible cheapy pans.. i bet these pans don’t do that! haha 🙂 x
They look like good saucepans I think i’d try to make some custard in it.
Beef stew would be lovely in those fab pans.
i would cook spaghetti bolognese
A curry would be first
I’d make a lovely chutney
some delicious Moroccan harira soup I think
I would break in the lovely new pan with some yummy homemade hamburgers!
Semolina…yum comfort food!
Spag Bol
bacon and mushroom risotto 🙂
Some nice soup. Broccoli and Stilton. X
A nice soup plenty of veg and a bit off chorzo
I would cook a tasty home made chicken curry
A green pepper sauce for my steak au poivre
Beef Stew and Herbal dumplings
I’d make a rich, warming soup
I’d make a vanilla custard, ready to be made into ice- cream
A lush curry
Blueberry Jam
Nigella’s salted caramel sauce
I’d make a lovely “proper” vanilla custard for winter puddings.
I would make a lovely carbonara sauce 😉
I’d make my lovely bolognese
I’d use it to warm the cream for some truffles.
scrambled egg on toast
I’d make a lovely pot of bolognese
Risotto
Perfect for making my home made chilli!
I would make a chicken phal curry.
Beautiful Lentil Soup
It would have to be my speciality…Beans on toast
I’d make a tomato and pepper sauce and fry off a steak to go with it!
Scrambled egg with black truffle
I would photograph first then cook my favourite – beef and spinach curry
My boyfriend would make a tuna curry.
I want to learn hoe to make red onion relish, this pan looks like a superb start to the process
My daughters favourite chicken and sweetcorn soup.
I would cook Mexican chilli chicken
Now those are pans that I could enjoy cooking with
Would make seafood soup 🙂
I’d use them to make breakfast, lunch and tea. 🙂
Yummy curry
Seeing as the weather is miserable I would make a nice stew and dumplings
Anything I can, it’s the only time i’ll actually cook! lol
Custard for ice cream
Great functional pans that i would certainly use every day and look great in the kitchen when not in use! I would cook a lovely beef goulash, so warm and comforting in the winter with lots of rice, Happy New Year to all x
A yummy custard to go with my jam roly poly which I made today.x
Some sort of pasta
I would cook lots of veg and use all the pans and have a lovely roast dinner
wow these are amazing, I would make chicken soup in mine.
i would learn to cook 🙂
A lovely beef stew and dumplings – can’t beat it!
A yummy sauce to accompany a succulent salmon fillet!
Nothing for a while. I would just stand and admire them!
vegatable soup 🙂
Hot Chocolate
A hearty winter stew
I would make Cullen Skink
I would cook rice
some yummy soup
pot roast brisket
Beef stew
butternut squash soup
cheese and mustard sauce
I would cook a warming beef stew, fantastic on these cold winter nights.
some rice pudding
I’d make a Broccoli and Stilton soup – hmmmm
a nice cheese sauce x
A fish sauce, recently found my family love homemade fish pie so would start it all off in this pan.
A lovely filling, warming stew
I would cook a warming winter broth made !!!
beautiful pans
Spaghetti Carbonara.
Yummy Spag Bol
I would make some pancakes in the frying pan
I would make my favourite Chicken, Chickpea and Chorizo stew.
I would make my lady a wonderful meal as she worked so hard over Christmas feeding all the family. Mind you, be a shame to spoil these lovely pans. I may just look at them and send out for chinese….
I would make some Chilli Con Carne!
I would make pasta
Home-made apple sauce to go with roast pork
Creamy mashed potato
Big pot of Irish stew
Seafood in white wine sauce to serve with some fresh pasta
Absolutely everything
I would use them to cook a creamy mushroom risotto
I would make a lovely creamy carbonarra sauce
i would make a yummy irish stew 🙂 xx
Oooh a lovely winter soup – just what I need in this weather! xoxo
a new recipe :0)
Plums from my tree for crumble
I would cook soup
Cook in it? That would have to wait until I’d finished admiring it 🙂 Then I’d probably make a Thai curry sauce in it, because it’s my favourite thing to cook
They’re beautiful! I’d use some of my homegrown artichokes and make a creamy Jerusalem Artichoke soup – yummy
i would make my homemade chicken pathia 🙂
Turkey soup
A warming leek and potato soup
A nice rich cheese and mustard sauce to go on a lovely fresh cooked pasta dish.
Everything! Mmmm, I think I would start with a delicious home made pasta sauce.
Prawn Curry
A nice chicken curry
Definately a beef stew with dumplings bubbling on top as i havent a pot big enough at the moment 🙂
I would start with a beef stew
A carrot and corriander soup
I use small pans a lot because often cooking just for myself so this pan would be ideal for a portion of sprouts or some french glazed carrots.
chorizo pasta sauce
love the colour xx
Copper pans – I would cook some brandy snap basket desserts
I would make some soup to keep me warm on a cold winters day
I’d cook a good old spag bol!x
Beef Casserole.
A nice curry, Not sure what type but with lot’s of fresh vegetables.
I once did a test; I made risotto with a copper pan and with a good stainless steel pan. The one made with the copper pan was noticeably creamier and better in texture.
I only have one copper pan, but hope to afford a whole set one day.
Ren: I would also like some advice on how to use this spooky sour grey mixture in a bottle that I bought in a Polish shop. I’ve heard you can put it in soup.
Spaghetti!
I’d cook a chunky vegetable soup!
I like the idea that you can pop them in the oven, so I would probably cook a fritata
My mum’s special lentil soup
Spaghetti Bolognaise
I would make vegetable soup thanks
i’d boil a couple of eggs
I’d make my favourite homemade soup – sweet potato, red pepper and chilli.
It’s comfort food, but not stodgy bad-for-you comfort food, healthy good-for-you comfort food!
treacle toffee
A gorgeous vegetable soup.
3 cheese omelete 🙂 the family fave!
Potato and leek soup
Would cook a thai curry I think ….
I would cook a delicious risotto.
Oh anything and everything – these will look fab in my new kitchen.
carrot and coriander soup
A lovely traditional beef stew and dumplimgs!
Jam
Marmalade
Custard
Home made soup!
Baked Beans – I know, I’m so daring …….
A lovely rich meaty stew!
Tomato and lentil soup. It’s thick, warming and perfect for this time of year and I’m sure the pan would do it justice!
I would have a go at making a sauce that I have never made before
A lovely chicken curry!!
A lovely rich chicken stew with dumplings
a home made soup
I’d cook gravy
Definitely a cheese sauce. Good luck to everyone x
maybe a little individual fritatta for when I have to make dinner for just me – it would be the perfect size!
I’d do a nice cheese sauce.
Custard or gravy would be my first two
Chicken soup
First thing I would make would be a vegetarian chilli con carne.
it would be to warm up some organic milk to go with my fresh brewed espresso 🙂
Scrambled egg mmmmmmmmmmmm
a stew
I would cook soups, casseroles and just about everything!!
I would cook lot’s of Brocolli, one of the superfoods I actually like! xxx
What a delight to see a lighter weight copper pan set , i have always fancied owning a set but are normaly so heavy for me to use.
i would cook almost anything daily in them and hubbby can buff them after use 🙂
A beef stew
any Indian curry
A lovely warming boeuf bourguignon
Sausage cassorole
Pasta.
a cassoulet
not a cassoulet in a small pan! A pepper sauce maybe.
bechamel sauce with truffle oil in
A big pan of corned beef hash I love it
Probably a curry
A nice stew!
I would cook a tasty tikka dish, all from scratch i think!
Handy, and so very practical.
a cheese or parsley sauce to go with some yummy fish and fresh vegetables
I’d make an omelette first! Lovely pans.
bubble and sqeak or leftover soup. yummy.
Cider and cream sauce to go with pork.
hmmmm, not sure yet, maybe if i won them it would give me some inspiration! Merry Christmas
Just the thing for the wife.
a white sauce to top my home made lasagne
How do the pans fare both on and in an Aga?
I would make some Chicken soup – thanks for the chance to win such a lovely prize and Merry Christmas x
I would cook a lovely warming beef casserole
I would cook a mushroom sauce
veggie soup
I would make a curry.
Cheese sauce
Lamb paprika casserole with dumplings,
having just decorated my kitchen these would look fab in there x.
i’d make some sauces
I would cook Spaghetti Bolognaise. Lovely Pans
I would cook soup!
Another reason why the professional chefs use copper pans is that they have skivvies (sorry, “Plongeurs”) to wash and polish them!
All the best for Christmas, Ren. Looking forward to seeing what you write about Polish festive food.
Thank you Mark! Best wishes to you and your family, too 🙂
I’d use it to make gravy.
Copper pan envy I’m green with jealousy! This ProWare Tri-ply Cookware is just beautiful!
I’d cook something mini-eggy — perhaps some tomatoes and red peppers with lots of parsley and then drop an egg on top to finish!
trying again as I don’t think this worked last time.
L
I would cook a nice curry.
They look great
They do look beautiful Ren. I have a copper frying fan and it is definitely on the tarnished side!
I feel that it should be some kind of buttery french sauce, or maybe a custard
I’d cook yummy sausage casserole!
a nice fish stew
a beef stew warm me up in this cold weather
I would cook fish,rice and loads of veggie
mmmmm I think I would make mushroom sauce to go with steak
Georgeous poys!
I’d make Ratatouille!
They are soooo pretty!
I think some classic French sauces, Bearnaise, Sauce Supreme. But actually, probably EVERYTHING!