[107barney]

I think copper is amazingly pretty and great to cook on. But, I prefer to cook on cast iron. Anything in a pot rather than a skillet is in heavy bottomed enamel coated cast iron. Nothing more evenly distributes heat than cast iron IMO. I do a lot of braising followed by slow cooking from stove top to oven or pan searing stove top so copper would never work for the kind of cooking I do. If you're going to get copper pots, you should buy ones that you know are not lined with cheap tin. Meaning you may have to invest and that means not buying at a discount store that usually just has cheap knock offs.