Can someone clarify when does Demeyere put a “7” or “7-layer” marking on the bottom of the 7-layer Atlantis pans, and when do they leave that off?
I don’t know if they stopped marking it but my one remaining proline pan purchased in '17 has 7 above the Demeyere name and 7 ply below in smaller print.
The frying pans are definitely clearly marked as 7 layer. But saute and pots with the thin single-layer sidewalls are apparently not always marked as 7-layer.
Do they even make a 7 layer clad saute pan? I think the most was 5 in that other line. That Atlantis saute pans are disc base.
Yes, the Atlantis saute pans and pots are 7-layer on the base. See the attached image. The materials they use for the 7-layer saucier and frying pan are different, and that is also clarified in the attached image. My understanding is that copper/silver gives the best performance, but using copper silver up the sides of the curved saucier or frying pan would be extremely expensive and would make the pieces even heavier.
My Atlantis saucepans that I still use purchased in the same time period do not have a 7 on the bottom, neither does one of the saute pans I dug out to look at.
What are you getting at with this anyway?
I want to be able to turn a saute pan upside down and identify whether it is 7-layer.
I don’t think that’s going to happen. You’ll have to trust their printed specs.
There has to be a way to identify a Saute pan as Atlantis, other than just the style of the handle?
You can’t identify them by everything else? Do you think there are knock offs?
I’ve purchased antique ceramics and some have no markings at all but you learn how to identify them in all other ways and they are genuine.
