About a year ago I remodeled my kitchen and I bought a set of heavy stainless steel pots and pans to go with my new kitchen. They were made by Emeril, which is a division of All-Clad. I'm not much of a cook but I was tired of using the old pots I had. The new set had a strip of copper around the sides. They looked great, but the heat had to be on the lowest simmer or everything would burn. And then even though I washed and dried them immediately after using them, they stained. I don't get why they call these stainless steel. There's nothing stainless about them. And the copper strip was impossible to clean, even with copper cleaner.
Yesterday I forgot I had a sauce pan of water cooking. I waited too long and the water evaporated. When I turned off the stove, the copper strip leaked aluminum drops all over the burner. Apparently, the copper strip was soldered to the pot by a layer of aluminum which becomes liquid if overheated.
I put the pot in the sink because it was making sizzling noises. I didn't realize the aluminum continued to leak from beneath the copper strip. Later, when I turned on the garbage disposal, it was jammed with hardened aluminum. I managed to chip out some of the aluminum, but not all of it. And it doesn't work anymore. So now I need a new sauce pan and a new garbage disposal.
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