While stainless steel pans are incredibly versatile, you’ll need to take a little extra care to keep them from rusting or sticking.

Copper cookware is best known for its luxurious finish and excellent heat conductivity, as well as for its price—a small copper saucepan can fetch around $200, while a stockpot can cost upwards of $1,000. This makes copper relatively uncommon as a cookware material, though many cooks swear by it.

    Additionally, adding cast iron skillets  to your cast iron cookware collection can complement other cast iron pieces, such as square cast iron frying pan, oval cast iron skillets, and cast iron round skillet.     Frying pans can be combined with these other pieces to expand your cooking capabilities.  For example, you can use a frying pan to cook bacon and eggs, while using a cast iron round skillet to make a savory sauce or a square skillet to sear a steak.

Skillets on the other hand, have semi-vertical sides that flare outwards from the base. This is unlike the frying pan because it does not have curved edges. Again, do not confuse skillets with saute pans as the skillet widen outwards while saute pan does not.