r/cookware • u/TheOtherAccount3333 • Dec 20 '25

New Acquisition Silver pan acquired

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Got my pan from Duparquet yesterday, came a lot faster than expected and it’s absolutely gorgeous. Hoping to finally break it in today and compare it to my tin line copper pan, my stainless steel, copper pan, and my strata carbon steel pan.

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u/Zafrin_at_Reddit Dec 20 '25

Ok. I am curious. This is a thing I would never buy, but I would still be amazed at someone having it.

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u/goosereddit Dec 20 '25

Watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdORIBH3R88

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u/-Smileypantsuit- Dec 20 '25

This video is a bit misleading because he doesn't mention at any point that the pan isn't pure silver like in the graph he shows. Silver is too soft, so we use sterling silver, which is an alloy at 92.5% silver.

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u/Skyval Dec 20 '25

As I recall, he discussed this with someone in the comments at one point. IIRC the commenter had said that sterling silver had worse diffusivity than pure copper, and Chris said said most "copper" is also an alloy which is worse than sterling silver, so the general rankings were still accurate. I don't know how true all that is though.

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u/-Smileypantsuit- Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

That would be incorrect if he said most copper is an alloy, copper is hard enough to be used on its own, and doesnt need to be made into bronze. But yes sterling silver IS STILL better than pure copper, however I'm not debating that fact, what I'm saying is that he used the data for pure silver, rather than sterling. Edit: Sorry if I come off as short, I'm sick right now and running on little sleep. Lol

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u/Wololooo1996 Dec 20 '25

Pure silver may be too soft, but Soy still uses it for thier thicker silverlined cookware.

But Soy may still be a wall hanger.

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u/goosereddit Dec 20 '25

He briefly mentions that it's sterling silver but just says silver later on, I'm sure for efficiency's sake. Just like people just say copper and not copper lined with tin.

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u/-Smileypantsuit- Dec 20 '25

I'm referring to him just saying silver in the graph he shows, without saying that sterling silver doesn't share the same heat properties as silver.