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February 26th, 2010 |

Over a million synthetic pots and pans are tossed in landfills each year. These nonstick wonders don’t seem to last very long, 3 to 5 years is common. If you’re re-investing in new cookware, consider replacing your Teflon with a far more cost-effective solution. Consider the value of Stainless Steel Waterless cookware.

The Investment

Comparably priced nonstick stainless steel waterless cookware (between $150 and $250) will save numerous severe coin over the years. These quality pots and pans are warranted to last for your lifetime.

The Bargain

Durability is a good measure of value. If cookware doesn’t last, it’s no bargain. Too, it’s best to cook on a nonstick surface free of toxicity. Teflon fuming, peeling and erosion represent a severe health hazard as does leaching from soft metal cooking surfaces like copper, aluminum, cast iron and others.

Stainless steel waterless utensils confidently provide the idealisti nonstick cooking surface free of toxic risk or ceaseless ‘seasoning’ to manage rust, “…the nearest thing we have to the idealisti chemically inert but thermally responsive pan” says Harold McGee in On Food and Cooking: the Science and Lore of the Kitchen: Scribner 2004, page 791. (Search ‘Waterless Cookware: Hype or the Real Thing’ for more on McGee).

The Bonus

Imagine the value of having a lifetime to explore and take delight in the most hygienic, responsive, food-friendly, cook-friendly, earth-friendly and health-friendly set of pots and pans you may own. Yes, ‘friendly’ because cooks, feed and cookware are best served when engaged in a supportive relationship, one of consistent service and celebration, learning and triumph.

Included in this friendship are family, friends and another very necessary fellow member to be invited, seated and served at the dining table, one of robust taste and aroma, of natural nutrients and energy, of wholesome vitality and healing health. There’s no substitute for nature’s honorable foods, no ‘fortified’ material worthy of the name ‘whole food’ (search ‘waterless cookware, the healthful choice‘).

The Value

It’s no mystery that much of today’s feed has evolved for the sake of comfortableness and not nutrition. The composition and function of progressed cookware has evolved as well, and not for the better. For example, synthetic or ceramic coatings on the inside and colorful enameled coatings on the outside don’t reflect cookware value, good health or good sense. Coatings are cosmetic at best, ‘cover-ups’ employed to lesser grades of steel used in fabrication. Look beneath the skin for a lifetime of value.

Let’s revisit the intention of feed (and the cookware that cooks it) to more wholly be grateful for the value of quality stainless steel waterless cookware:

Cooking is in truth a moment of truth, a culmination of nature’s feed cycle, a moment when the critical cache of earth’s nutrient goodness is tastefully intensified or sadly wasted. A pot or pan is more than an appliance to heat processed feed material or boil away nature’s precious minerals, vitamins, enzymes and antioxidants. Real feed deserves better. There’s plainly more to the improving soils of organic vegetables and free-range meats, more to engage the palate, the nose, the eyes, more to savor and surely more to revitalize and re-energize. We are, after all, only as healthful as the health of that which we eat. To that end, pots and pans are a big contributor to the nutritional and savory fate of foods. Much may be gained or lost in the simple act of cooking.

Stainless steel waterless cookware honors and retains the goodness of nature’s honorable efforts. As with good friends or marriage or other maturing relationships, a cooperative relationship with feed and cooking takes time to be grateful for and thrive. It helps to have cookware that’s reliable, steady, dependable, trusted, capable of idealisti cooking conditions plainly and effortlessly mastered. Cooking is life long. We might as well mature a friendship with cookware lasting and worthy sufficient to nurture and sustain this kind of relationship.

The Return on Investment

Your grandma likely employed similar pots and pans way back when. Stainless Steel cookware isn’t new, but grandma’s originals lacked a heap of of today’s Waterless features:

- Multi-ply stainless steel fabrication, 5-, 7-, or 9-ply 18/10 chromium/nickel construction for quality

- Capsulated heat-conductive elements (copper, aluminum, etc.) for unparalleled low-heat cooking

- Steam Control covers to entirely preserve and retain nutritious vitamins, minerals, enzymes and antioxidants

- Thermally responsive, effective utensils to cook faster, safer, more evenly and economically

These and a great deal of other improvements now render today’s waterless utensil competent of cooking feed the way it was meant to be cooked, the way Mother Nature intended her vegetables and meats to be served, wholly appreciated, entirely valued, totally themselves. To serve anything less isn’t a bargain, it’s a wasted prospect for all concerned, specially food.

When real feed is experienced (cooked as Mother Nature intended), one have a tendancy to manufacture an honorable taste and firm loyalty. My acquired personal preference of 30 years as family cook, and my business specialty, is Stainless Steel Waterless pots and pans. Being in the business I’m convinced I speak for others in this special line of work when I percentage this fact: not a day goes by without hearing from folks looking to replace a pot handle or lid knob on their cookware. These little attachments, lasting as they are, in the end wear out. Here’s a sample of today’s client requests from ChoiceCookery’s on-line Contact Us page:

“I have a set of Flavor-Seal by Cory cookware that I purchased in 1963. I need to replace the handles on the huge fry pan. Are they available?”

“My mom has a set of Miracle Maid pans she got when she was married. She loves them, but the electric fry pan has a short in the cord and we would like to get a new cord. Can you help us?”

“I need to replace the vented knobs on my Royal Queen waterless cookware. I have had it for 27 years and I love it but over time the knobs have started out to lose their capacity to seal the moisture in. Could you give me selective information with regards to how to order? Thank you in advance.”

“I can’t find Nutri-Seal anywhere. Can you aid me? I need a new handle on my 8qt stock pot.”

“I’d like to order a vent knob for my set, Maxam KT17. It has been thirty years since I brought them home, lots of cooking mishaps along the way and the handle on my roaster in the long run broke. Please call me.”

We called. And yes, all these cooks were relieved to know replacements are still available.

1) Trust a brand that’s here to stay. Maxam, the brand we represent, has been innovating and fabricating stainless steel waterless cookware for over 60 years.

2) For businesses like ours, there’s a pretty sarcasm here. Unlike disposable bargain cookware, our pots and pans last a lifetime. Our clients return of course, ordinarily to buy a set of cookware for their grown children or a grandchild’s wedding, perhaps a handle or knob for themselves (a $12 substitute effortlessly attached, adding another 30 years of cookware service and value). These folks tend to share the good news with family and friends. Too, they’re experiencing a cookware cooperative relationship they are not regarding to give up! Loyalty is candidly earned and yes, priceless.

The Bottom Line

Look beyond 3-to-5 years. Invest in cookware that matures your kinship with feed and cooking. For me, it’s in regards to two hats I wear and a bond that ties them together, a hat I experience each day as family cook and a friendship with clients embracing the simple joys and lifelong value of waterless pots and pans.

Your friendship with feed and cooking plainly can’t be explored, experienced and enjoyed using cookware less competent than stainless steel waterless pots and pans. Bargain prices and cosmetic glitz just can’t be grateful for in value. Consider cookware you’ll never have to (or want to) replace. Real value keeps giving for your lifetime, but that’s just our warranty. Cook healthy, eat honestly, and thrive.