The Best Stainless Steel Cookware Set
About a year ago a reader told us about a particular stainless steel cookware set that she had purchased. She couldn’t say enough good things about it. Now it took us a while to get around to reviewing this set…not sure why really but let’s just say that we are glad we eventually did.
Well were we surprised! After all of our research we could finally understand our readers enthusiastic praise for this cookware set.
This has all the qualitites of an All Clad cookware set but at a quarter of the price.
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I enjoy using Stainless Steel Cookware, the looks of Stainless Steel stand alone. Each set has its own elegance, whether sitting on the stove top, or hanging together as a set the sparkle and shine lets Stainless Steel stand or hang in it’s own beauty. It doesn’t matter your favorite, if its the Stainless Steel Cookware with copper cores, or being fuse with an aluminum core, each has the same elegant style that Stainless Steel Cookware has become known for. In all my years of using and enjoying my set of Stainless Steel I’ve never once had a problem with the flavors being changed in a bad way because of the metal products used in good quality sets of Stainless Steel.
Cooking with Stainless Steel gives you benefits you just don’t get from the other styles of cookware that are available on the market today. Being able to brown foods, pulling the flavors of the proteins, and sugars, your not just cooking the food your changing the compounds to bring out true flavors. The French call this process the “Fond”, the first step in pulling all the flavors that we want from our foods. Deglazing the pan is the next step, pulling all those flavors you’ve just created together, by adding liquids to the pan to loosen all those cooked on nuggets stuck on the pan. By doing this we get the pan sauces that will begin to add even more flavor to all your dishes.
Cleaning is as easy as any non stick, or ceramic cookware. After the browning, deglazing of your pans you’ve taken all the stuck on foods that might be considered difficult to clean away, resulting in a job that can be easily handled by some minor elbow grease, and rubbing. Non stick cookware really doesn’t compare in my opinion, because what you gain if anything with the ease of cleanup, you lose in not being able to pull out the true flavors from the foods.
Disadvantages of Stainless Steel, for me I haven’t really come across any that would dissuade me from buying, or using it. While with a non stick pan you really can’t brown foods to pull out those flavor producing sugars and proteins. If your cooking some really sticky foods then naturally a non stick pan is what you would want to use. Ceramic cookware has its advantages, but also disadvantages, like not being able to sear foods, then bringing it to a slow simmer. Ceramic cookware is slow to heat and change temperatures, which can result in burning foods because it holds the heat so much longer.
There are uses for all the different types of cookware available to us these days, but for the versatility of Stainless Steel I really don’t feel there is a comparison. Being able to use on the stove top, or in the oven, or saving for your leftover dinners by placing in the refrigerator. Stainless Steel Cookware is the best choice for all modern kitchens.