Brown chicken, sauté onions and potatoes, then turn the cooking juices into a sauce. De Buyer's straight-sided Prima Matera sauté pan combines a copper exterior with a stainless steel cooking surface for quick, even heating and cooling. Its low, straight walls are designed to let moisture evaporate and encourage caramelization, making it a useful shape for browning and reducing in the same pan.

This is the straight-sided sauté pan, not the conical Prima Matera pan or a sloping-sided fry pan. Choose it when you want a straight wall around the cooking area. The 9.5-inch size is the 24 cm model, with a long cast stainless steel handle secured by rivets. The handle's French-style curve gives you a shaped grip when moving the pan between cooking and serving.

The material construction is 90% copper and 10% AISI 304 stainless steel. Compared with traditional tin-lined copper cookware, the stainless interior eliminates the need to re-tin the pan. Copper provides the heat-conducting body, while stainless steel forms the food-contact surface. This is an uncoated stainless cooking surface, not a nonstick pan.

Prima Matera also has a special induction base. Unlike copper cookware without an induction-compatible base, it can be used on induction as well as gas, electric and glass-ceramic cooktops. That combination is the reason to consider it if you want copper cookware but have an induction range.

Made in France, the pan has a polished copper exterior suitable for serving at the table as well as cooking. At Athens Cooks, we recommend it for cooks who want responsive copper for browning and sauce work, with the maintenance advantage of stainless lining over tin. Compared with an all-stainless sauté pan, you are also choosing an exterior that needs copper-specific care.

Wash the stainless interior by hand and use polishing paste for the copper exterior. Keep those care requirements in mind when choosing a pan you will cook with regularly.

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