Pots and Pans

All-Clad Cop-R-Chef 7-Piece Cookware Set

All-Clad Cop-R-Chef 7-Piece Cookware Set

All Clad Cookware brand has been trusted by many cooks including professional chefs in restaurants and Television. This cookware set is no different from other All Clad Cookware, it comes with life time warranty and quality cookware pieces. It simply shines with Old World elegance, All-Clad’s Cop-R-Chef copper-clad cookware dresses up a kitchen while providing serious and professional cooks with all the virtues that make All-Clad’s worldwide reputation unmatched. Key to its high performance is a triple-ply, bonded construction. Sandwiched between the bright copper exterior and an 18/10 stainless-steel interior lies a thick core of pure aluminum that spreads heat evenly across the bottoms of pots and pans and all the way up the sides. The interior is highly polished so it’s stick- as well as corrosion-resistant.

If you take proper care, the copper exterior… Continue reading

Matfer 915901 8 Piece Bourgeat Copper Cookware Set

Matfer 915901 8 Piece Bourgeat Copper Cookware Set

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

How To Choose Right Blender: Blender Guide

What are Blenders used for?

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.

  • Icy drinks, and ice crushing
  • Ice-cream shake
  • Smoothie
  • Alcoholic drinks such as margaritas or Mississippi mudslide drinks
  • Soups
  • Sauces
  • Pureed vegetables and meat for burger etc.
  • Baby food
  • Mixing oil and liquid type food
  • Grinding meat
  • Making Hummus, Pate and Meat loaf etc

Depending on what you will use your blenders for… Continue reading

What Are Small Appliances?

What are small appliances?

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

Cookware Under 100 Dollars

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.

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

Calphalon DS9DC Commercial 9-Piece Hard-Anodized Cookware Set Review

Calphalon DS9DC Commercial 9-Piece Hard-Anodized Cookware Set

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

Best Bakeware Set For Your Home

Cooking and backing is part of many family’s life, be for for your kids or friend’s potluck we can make delicious recipes. Here are the top rated Bakeware that our team has tried, tested and love them. Things we did not like or love, did not make it in this list.

Also check out our article on bakingware:How Many Type Of Bake Ware Are There?

Bakeware

 

Silicone Solutions 10-Piece Essential Baking Set

Note: This set also comes in blue and sometimes red.

This 10-piece essentials set includes all the pans you need to bake cakes, brownies, muffins, cupcakes, meat loafs and more! Silicone Solutions bakeware is the ultimate non-stick product. Made from premium quality food grade silicone, this product provides ample flexibility and a non-stick easy to clean finish so your baked goods are easily and quickly released.… Continue reading

What Type Of Pot Rack Is Right For You

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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

Zojirushi Micom 5.5-Cup Rice Cooker and Warmer, Stainless Steel

Zojirushi Micom 5.5-Cup Rice Cooker and Warmer, Stainless Steel

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.

Fuzzy Logic Technology

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

Cuisinart Chef’s Classic Stainless-Steel 10 Piece cookware set

Cuisinart Chef’s Classic Stainless-Steel 10 Piece cookware set

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