The Copper Kettle Call the shop

Asheville, North Carolina

Every kitchen starts with a list.

Cookware, bakeware, knives, barware and the tools in between, on the shelves of a small shop in Asheville — where you can pick a pan up before you decide anything about it.

Consultation notes

  • dutch oven
  • chef’s knife
  • sheet pans
  • stock pot

We write the rest of the list with you at the counter.

Cookware · Bakeware · Knives · Tools · Barware

Five things worth holding before you decide.

We keep the pieces people come back for — and we’re glad to talk any of them through with you at the counter, one pan at a time.

A well-used sauté pan on a lit burner in a home kitchen

01

Cookware

The pan you reach for before you’ve decided anything else. Come hold a few and find the weight that suits your hand.

A ceramic pie dish with a crimped crust on a flour-dusted counter

02

Bakeware

Dishes that go from oven to table without asking anything of you in between. We’ll find the sizes your oven actually fits.

Chef's knives laid out on a dark wooden board on a shop counter

03

Knives

One good knife first. The rest of the block can wait until you know what you’ve been missing.

A whisk, a wooden spoon and a scoop standing in a crock on a shop counter

04

Kitchen tools

The small things that keep a kitchen moving — the whisk, the scoop, the wooden spoon with the flat side worn into it.

Cocktail and wine glasses on a shelf under warm pendant light

05

Barware

Glassware for the evenings that run longer than you planned. Bring us the drink and we’ll find the glass it belongs in.

Gift registry

A registry isn’t a wish list. It’s the first page of a kitchen.

We sit down with you at the shop and write it out together — what you need first, what can wait a year, and what you’ll still be cooking on long after the thank-you notes are done.

Bring a list you’ve started, or come with nothing and we’ll begin at the first line.

Book a registry visit

The appointment

Book a consultation and we’ll start your list.

Tell us what you cook on a Tuesday night and what you’d like to cook on a Sunday, and we’ll take it from there.

Call the shop
  1. 01

    Call the shop

    Tell us roughly when you’re free and what you’re setting up.

  2. 02

    Tell us what you cook

    The weeknight dinners, the once-a-year pies, the cocktails.

  3. 03

    Walk the shelves with us

    Hold things. Compare weights. Ask the awkward questions.

  4. 04

    Leave with your list

    Written out, in order, so you can keep adding to it at home.

A shopkeeper wrapping a cast-iron pan in brown paper at a wooden counter
Wrapping up at the counter, Asheville.
A small kitchenware shop interior with shelves of pots and stacked bowls
Asheville, North Carolina.

The showroom

Come stand at the shelf.

A photograph of a pot tells you almost nothing. Picking it up, feeling where the handle sits, hearing the lid settle — that’s the part we can’t do over the phone. Cookware, bakeware, knives, tools, barware and the gift registry are all out where you can reach them.