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Cookware Under 100 Dollars
Published December 10, 2011Can 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.
1. Cuisinart 77-10 Chef’s Classic Stainless Steel Cookware Set
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
Best Frual Kitchen Gadgets For Kitchen
Published November 12, 2011Without all small and big kitchen gadgets, cook’s job will be a lot harder. These inexpensive kitchen gadgets make cutting, chopping, kneading and otherwise mundane tasks much easy and quicker. Such that cook does not have to slave over the kitchen and cooking all day long. Here are our list of cheap and very useful kitchen Gadgets.
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Tri-Blade Plastic Spiral Vegetable Slicer
- Make quick work of fancy vegetable peeling with the spiral vegetable slicer
- Includes 3 sets of blades: 1/8-inch spacing, 1/4-inch spacing, and straight blade for ribbon cuts
- Simply place vegetable or fruit on prongs, turn wheel while pushing base toward blade
- Made of durable plastic
- Backed by a 1-year warranty
Click here to buy: Tri-Blade Spiral Vegetable Slicer
Norpro Silicone Egg Pancake Ring Round
Make shaped pancakes… Continue reading
What Type Of Pot Rack Is Right For You
Published August 15, 2011Image source: Pot rack With Lights
Pot racks:
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
Cookware HQ Articles, Reviews and Recipes
Published July 30, 2011
We at TheCookwareHQ.com Strive to get everything cookware and cooking related resources to make this a one stop site, cookware headquarters that has everything from cookware buying guides, frequently asked questions, cookware and small appliance reviews, recipes and health related posts;
Here are our some of the highlights from the site: Cookware Headquarters.
Cookware Reviews
- Cuisinart DLC 10 Cup Pro Class Food Processor
- Le Creuset 5 1/2 Quart Round French Oven
- Zojirushi Micom 5.5-Cup Rice Cooker and Warmer, Stainless Steel
- Cuisinart Chef’s Classic Stainless-Steel 10 Piece cookware set
- Best Kitchenaid Mixer
- Rice Cooker
- Calphalon Contemporary Nonstick 10- and 12-Inch Omelet Pans, Set of 2
- Vitamix: Ultimate Healthy Blender
- Thermal Cooker
- Calphalon Tri-Ply Copper 10-Piece Cookware Set
- Emerilware Pro Clad Stainless Steel Tri-Ply 12-Piece Cookware Set
- Rachel Ray Hard Anodized Nonstick 10-Piece Cookware Set, Orange
- Calphalon Commercial… Continue reading
Food Processor Guide
Published July 29, 2011Guide to Food Processor
First idea of a food processor, a helping machine came through a french catering sales man Pierre Verfun, whose clients were tired of time spent in kitchen, doing menial tasks such as chopping, shredding, grinding and mixing. In 1960s, he produced a simple machine with bowl and blade in a base to help with these tasks. It was not available to general public for a decade or so. Around early 1970s, domestic food processor called Magimix was ready for people’s kitchen in France, UK and North America. Now food processor as widely popular in available in every part of the world.
Having a food processor in your kitchen can come handy to do time consuming tasks such as chopping, shredding in short time, making whole cooking time more enjoyable. Food processor is convenient and can work… Continue reading
Wok Guide: Everything You Wanted To Know About Wok
Published July 29, 2011How I got started to Love and Cook in a Wok
When I was in college, me and my friends used to hang out at one place after classes that served great stir fry and spring rolls. Food was inexpensive enough for students, however when we started eating out almost every day, cost added up. Friend of mine and I decided to make same stir fry at home at fraction of cost. After making several failed attempts of making a stir fry in a frying pan, stainless steel pan, I bought a thin and inexpensive wok, it did not work as well as metal was too thin, I had no real patience of seasoning the wok.
Around that time I started watching “Yan can cook” in PBS cooking show and started to learn lot more about cooking Chinese food and… Continue reading
How To Season Your Carbon Steel Wok?
Published July 29, 2011How to season your carbon steel Wok?
Wok are one of the best way to cook quick and healthy Asian stir fries at home. I love cooking in wok, if you like to see our wok guide to learn more about types of wok and what are best features to look for in traditional wok and electric wok, check out our wok guide here.
Best traditional woks are made of carbon steel material. What is a carbon steel? Carbon steel is usually rolled or hammered into tiny thin sheets of material. Material supposed to be strong and holds heat well enough. Hand hammered and double to triple ply woks are generally best quality.
You got the carbon steel Wok and love it, what is next step to season it? Let’s look at ways to season your carbon steel wok.… Continue reading
Rice Cooker Guide
Published July 29, 2011Rice cooker Guide:
Rice cookers can date it existence from earliest of times as British Museum has a ceramic rice steamer dated to 1250 BC on display. Can you imagine that?
Japanese company Mitsubishi was the first one to make electric rice cooker in mid 1940s, it was basic set electric set up and not very user friendly. In mid 1950s Toshiba created first commercially successful rice cooker. It was a simple design, with rice pot was place in another larger pot with water in it, so outer post boiled the water rice was cooked.
Today rice cooker have changed a little bit, using similar ways of way using insulated outer pot to boil rice in inner pot. Many rice cooker inner bowls are non-stick type and Teflon type of material, making easy for rice not to stick at bottom.… Continue reading
Cookware Material Guide
Published July 27, 2011Here we will look at the various type of cookware materials, its advantages and disadvantages with our recommendations. We will look at the following cookware material
- Cast iron
- Copper
- Non-Stick
- Stainless Steel
- Hard anodized
- Multi-ply or Clad
- Carbon Steel
- Enamel coated cast iron
- Enamel over steel
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Cast Iron
Cast Iron can withheld high heating that makes it not only great for stove top cooking but also oven baking too. Cast Iron cookware are slow to heat up but once it hot, it holds its heat for longer period and great for even cooking. Cast Iron pans are great for searing and outdoor cooking as it holds heat better even if outside temperature fluctuates. If you season your cast iron pan, it can work almost like non-stick pan without chemical coating. It is not easy to maintain cookware though,… Continue reading
What is Multi-Ply or Clad Cookware?
Published July 25, 2011Multi-ply or Clad
Multi-ply or Clad cookware combines several metals in one cookware. Multi-ply cookware usually has a copper or aluminum core, with a stainless steel or nonstick interior. The exterior could be a aluminum or copper making stainless steel cookware to be better heat conductor. This combination of strengths makes multi-ply cookware cook friendly and desirable.
Advantages:
- Mixes various metal in to one making it beneficial to cooking
- Copper core cookware benefit without polishing work
- Versatile and user friendly
- Many (without non-stick) are dish washer safe
- Will not react with acidic food
Disadvantages:
- Can be expensive
Our recommendations:
We recommend buying a hand polished 18/10 stainless steel with inner core of pure aluminum or copper, not just at the bottom, but all the way up the sides. All three layers are bonded together for optimum heat retaining for even… Continue reading
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