Mom doesn't cook much anymore. This shiny copper pan is now a decoration in mom's kitchen.When my son was visiting last year she somehow managed to blow up a blueberry cobbler! She took the cobbler out of the oven and placed it on the still hot eletric heating element on top of the stove. The whole thing blew up and flung cobbler bits all over the kitchen.It was upsetting to her, but he had a good laugh and now they have a funny story to share. Not such a disaster, huh?