Enamored with Enamel  

Love the Sarpaneva fish pot...
Love the Sarpaneva fish pot Spanky! I googled his design with the wooden handle for Rosenlew and that thing is truly a thing of beauty and the design is genius too with the wood handle being used to pick up the lid!

to guynsf - I have the same pan with no exposed iron!!!
I was wondering the same thing - mine is colored enamel all over, with no exposed iron or marking at the base. Does that mean it is a Copco look-alike? Or does that make it a later Copco paella pan?
Appreciate any info you all can share! It looks exactly (and I mean EXACTLY) like the Copco Paella Pan except that it is colored enamel on the bottom. Thanks so much for your insights in advance!!!

I think maybe the Copco pieces that
were intended to be serving pieces and not just stove-top cookware might have the enameled bottoms. I'm not sure why they're not marked but I've seen them all enameled.
Since my post of a few years ago in this thread where I said I would like to have a full set but was too cheap to buy it, well---I got over that and bought a bunch on Ebay and Etsy and now have everything I want in colors I like. Whee! It's all packed away right now waiting for my kitchen to be redone in the next couple of months. When I get it out, I'll try to remember to look at everything for marks and enameled bottoms or not.

And post some photos of the...
And post some photos of the enamel in the new kitchen. (I'm very curious what your kitchen remodel looks like)

Will do, Leif.
It'll be plain white cabinets, beech butcherblock counters, dark gray slate floor and white tiled backslash. My toaster is orange. The Copco will look great in there, I just hope i can put most of it out at any one time. Dunno about all of it, though. I can rotate it.

Hey, enameled cast iron people---
so my kitchen is almost done and I've washed all my Copco and all that remains is to decide which to display and how. I have an 11" deep butcherblock shelf finished with Waterlox tung oil varnish/whateveritis and this is the main display area.
The problem is that most of the Copco has un-enameled cast iron bottoms that are presently rusty. I don't want to put these rusty surfaces on the shelf because they'll scuzz up the finish in a permanent way.
Would seasoning the bottoms keep this from happening? It probably should be done anyway. I'm talking about flaxseed oil wiped on, wiped off, heated at 350 F. for an hour or two, cooled, repeat 5 more times. The shelf isn't like fine furniture but I don't want it to have big rusty scrape marks all over it. (I am not quite tall enough to see the top surface if I'm standing on flat feet but some of my guests will be.)
So does anyone out there season the bottoms of their beautiful enameled cast iron cookware? And does seasoning protect the shelf as well as the cookware?

Timo Sarpaneva whole fish pot
spanky
Nice Timo Sarpaneva whole fish pot. Please provide the manufacturers name.

Timo Sarpaneva and Enzo Mari
jesgord,
A wonderful collection. I certainly hope they are users. Beautiful.

niceguy,
Rosenslew & Co. made the enameled cast iron by Sarpaneva. They came in black, too---but red is more common.

I was lazy
spanky,
Yesterday I was lazy and did not feel like doing my "home work" I should have begun with the Saturnus pot and worked from that point. Thanks for the help. That is a great pot and the size is ideal for a large fish or whole lobsters.
Again, thank you.

As promised, here's a pic of my
Copco collection along with a Finel bowl and the Sarpaneva/Rosenslew terrine or whatever it is.
I like the fondue pot the best, at least for form. (Have yet to make fondue in it but there's always tomorrow.) My other fave is the little sauce pot on the warmer stand. I've used that one a lot. I used to see them at auctions all the time and got one for each of my kids, plus I have a leftover bottom for one.

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Quite impressive!
wow,
Aunt Mark

ps (blazed),
I love the varied colors within your collection, *spanky*.
oh goodness,
Aunt M.

Why thank you, Auntie!
I hope you still have your individual au gratins. The little orange loaf pan and the little rectangular baker are that same burnt orange color.
(I found the baker in its original box, never used, at the bottom of a big box of junky kitchenware at an even junkier auction, and got all of it for the opening bid of two bucks. I miss thrills like that.) (oh, also, it has its own wooden trivet with magnets. So handy.)

Fab *spanky*!!
I must confess that I sling my Le Creuset (sp?) pots and pan into the dishwasher. Maybe I shouldn't. I do. I........
Hi.
Aunt Mark