Stainless Steel is one of common type of cookware found in most home. Stainless steel is actually an alloy of metals including steel, carbon, nickel and chromium. Its gets its name because it does not stain and is because of its ability to resist dents and scratches. It does not react with acidic or alkaline food type. It is relatively cheaper but poor heat conductor. In order to overcome this quality choose stainless steel cookware that has copper or an aluminum core, so that food can be cooked evenly.
Stainless steel cookware has universal appeal for many of us for many reasons. First stainless steel material is strong, looks great and reasonably priced. You can get great looking and quality stainless steel cookware set for decent price to most expensive side. What make stainless steel material even stronger is my… Continue reading
If you take proper care, the copper exterior… Continue reading
I had never heard of Matfer brand earlier, but as our cookware reviews site chugged along, I learned more about many other brands that were great. In america, we consumer tend to look for frugal products as we like to save money unlike our european counter part. This Matfer brand is reputable and well known else where. It is expensive, costing around $1500-$2000 range, so buying it for review was out of question for me. So, I asked my one of the chef friend locally San Francisco area, for his opinion with Matfer Bourgeat Cookware, which he had been using for past 8 years. I conducted small interview with him, so I can write this review.
First thing I noticed was the quality of cookware was great despite being used for over… Continue reading
Blenders are usually very handy tool in the kitchen and used to make icy drinks, smoothie, chopping vegetables or pureeing soup, sauces, pureeing vegetables and sometime meat. Blenders comes in various colors and great look to show it off on your kitchen counter as well.
Blenders have two basic part, a motor on bottom part and glass, and steel or hard plastic container on top with blade inside. It may have a various speed and features and functionality depending on brands and prices.
Depending on what you will use your blenders for… Continue reading
Small appliances for kitchen refers to mostly portable or semi portable kitchen products that can be used over the table top, counter top in the kitchen. These small appliance can be electric, battery powered, gas powered or manually operated. All small appliances can be useful kitchenware and comes in home version and professional industrial version. Many small appliances come varied price range, such as simple can opener is very cheap to special espresso machines that can cost in thousands range.
Some example of small appliances for kitchen are; blenders, food processors, deep fat fryers, grills, pressure cooker, slow cooker and more that helps you cook various type of food in your home kitchen. Check out top rated and best selling kitchen appliances and our small appliance reviews for best mixer, best rice cooker, best blender, thermal… Continue reading
Can you buy good quality cookware under $100? As many say; “You get what you pay for”, while in most cases it is true. We have found some reasonably good quality cookware and kitchenware for around $100 and under. We thought to provide our readers with value of finding best cookware that little money can buy.
Here are some of our favorites cookware sets around and under $100.
We always thought that buying All Clad and Calphalon cookware was the best thing for any home and professional chefs until friend of ours bought and proved us wrong. Since then we have bought Cuisinart Multi Proclad Cookware Set and we love it. For those of you are looking for good cookware in reasonable price, I would strongly recommend Cuisinart 77-10 Chef’s… Continue reading
You can update your kitchen with this great looking nine-piece cookware set from Calphalon. The charcoal-gray matte finish of the Commercial Hard-Anodized series not only looks sophisticated but is impressive in performance: Pan from this set can sears meats over medium heat, cooks evenly, and stays stick-resistant without having a nonstick finish that can eventually peel. Moreover, hard-anodized pots and pans are safe to use with metal utensils and under the broiler. Riveted on for strength, the stainless-steel long handles stay cool during stovetop cooking and are oven-safe and lids are oven safe as well.
Heavy-gauge aluminum is responsive to temperature changes. These pans feature the original Calphalon hard anodized surface, which is non stick without the Teflon coating and worry about the peeling. You do not have to also worry… Continue reading
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Pot racks are very functional kitchen item to hold and display cooking pots and pans. Pot racks comes in various material such as wood, wrought iron and steel. Pot racks can have same finish or stain to match your pots and your kitchen decor.
Some of the benefits are not only for storing your pots and pan and also looks beautiful, specially if you have nice stainless steel or copper cookware to show off. Other benefit that for me, is ease of reaching during cooking, I do not have to bend down in bottom cabinet to find right pot or pan, it is right there in front of me. It is also easier to place on the rack after each use and cleaning. It also saves much needed space in kitchen cabinets.… Continue reading
The New Zojirushi Micom Rice Cooker and Warmer is a three cup rice cooker. It has a micro computerized Fuzzy logic technology and is famously called fuzzy logic rice cooker type with more than basic automated features. The exterior of this rice cooker and is shiny, clean and clear-coated stainless steel which makes it unique in design. It has a automatic keep warm feature and a spherical inner cooking pan and heating system.
This rice cooker produces a restaurant quality and fluffy rice at home. You can not burn this rice, even when you forget it for hours as it is practically foolproof with this 3-cup electric rice cooker and warmer. Multi-menu selections using micro-computerized Fuzzy logic technology control the temperature for efficient cooking of many different… Continue reading
This stainless steel set is well liked by many professional chef and home cook and comes at very reasonable price for 10 pieces of cookware set. This Cuisinart chef classic cookware set is endorsed by none other than the legendary French chef Paul Bocuse. For those who are not aware of Chef Paul Bocuse, he is the only restaurateur in the world to be awarded the prestigious Michelin 3 Stars for over 36 consecutive years. Cuisinart’s Chef’s Classic stainless cookware is high quality stainless steel cookware set, yet it is very affordable for many cooks.Unlike some other line of cookware, this cookware can go in the dishwasher for easy clean up. It comes with aluminum core within the base provides even and efficient heating. If you are in market or thinking of… Continue reading