Thank you Butterly team for choosing me to try out the Canadian made PADERNO 5-Ply Copper Core Stainless Steel Cookware 12-piece Set.
Surprisingly, these 5 layers pots and pan heat up half of the time FASTER than my usual stain steel pots and pan. All the pots and pan are PERFECTLY straight on the bottom and sit evenly onto the stoves without sliding and blending through the heat inducting.
Currently using a Japanese electrical thermos kettle at home, instantly pumped in some 200 Celsius hot boiling water into the pot and turned on the stove, it needs to be praised that water instantly bubbly and boils less than 10 seconds.
Used the pan to sear two piece of prime rib steaks and pork chops, heat went perfectly evenly and browned the steak evenly. Stickiness to the steak, I finished with a little piece of butter, it slide off easily, brown stain, yes, of course, any pans will do. Pan-fried fish, need a bit more oil, the skin of the fish I fried stick onto the pan.
Making stew, protein cooked perfectly tender, covered with the lid, cooking time was one third faster my normal time and make sure adding the vegetable the last especially the green, therefore the veggie in the stew would turn brown if you covered with the lid.
For the pot come with a particular FANCY coriander, got to say it is a bit useless, honestly who does not carry a coriander at home. The only thing I could think of using it for blanching veggies or cooking pasta, not much of a use I would say.
For this set there is too many lids, recall when I was cooking with the set, there is TWO sets of SAME sizes lids for all the pots and pan, however, they takes too much spaces inside my cabinet. As well, quite disappointed to me is the sizes of the pots are too close, probably a liter extra next to each sizes.
If you cook every day for a family minimum of five or you are preparing for a party, you can tell the difference right of the bat as the size of the every single pot in this set will not even let you cook enough for a family (Big eaters family like mine).
Dont use the set when you are prepping for a party as all you will be doing is keeping cooking because you will be running out of food in seconds. One single example is how can you sear five pieces of steak in one pan, then of course, you have to repeat the work twice.
Also notice there was film looking like stain after I washed the pots and pan. If you want to achieve the shininess like new, I washed them twice and polished it, yes, it is quite a hassle.
My PERSONAL experience for this set is the packing -- IF this PARTICULAR set can replace a BIGGER pot like a STOCK pot or add an extra 9 frying pan PLUS took away the smallest pot as well as the TWO EXTRA LIDS and the NOT VERY USEFUL CORIANDER, which would be more a better selling set to me.
In general, the metal quality for the set is EXCELLENT, the packing contents is lacking, and the pots itself are quite heavy. It suits to a small family daily use.
