Over a million synthetic pots and pans are tossed in landfills every year. These nonstick wonders don’t seem to last very long, 3 to 5 years is common. If you’re re-investing in new belgique cookware reviews, 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 some serious 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 serious health hazard as does leaching from soft metal cooking surfaces like copper, aluminum, cast iron and others.
Stainless steel waterless utensils confidently provide the ideal nonstick cooking surface free of toxic risk or continuous ‘seasoning’ to manage rust, “…the closest thing we have to the ideal 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 enjoy the most hygienic, responsive, food-friendly, cook-friendly, earth-friendly and health-friendly set of pots and pans you can own. Yes, ‘friendly’ because cooks, food 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 important 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 honest foods, no ‘fortified’ material worthy of the name ‘whole food’ (search ‘waterless cookware, the healthy choice‘).
The Value
It’s no secret that much of today’s food has evolved for the sake of convenience and not nutrition. The composition and function of modern 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’ applied to lesser grades of steel used in fabrication. Look below the skin for a lifetime of value.
Let’s revisit the purpose of food (and the cookware that cooks it) to more fully appreciate the value of quality stainless steel waterless cookware:
Cooking is actually a moment of truth, a culmination of nature’s food cycle, a moment when the vital cache of earth’s nutrient goodness is tastefully enhanced or sadly wasted. A pot or pan is more than an appliance to heat processed food material or boil away nature’s precious minerals, vitamins, enzymes and antioxidants. Real food deserves better. There’s simply more to the enriching soils of organic vegetables and free-range meats, more to engage the palate, the nose, the eyes, more to savor and certainly more to revitalize and re-energize. We are, after all, only as healthy as the health of that which we eat. To that end, pots and pans are a huge contributor to the nutritional and savory fate of foods. Much can be gained or lost in the simple act of cooking.
Stainless steel waterless cookware honors and retains the goodness of nature’s honest efforts. As with good friends or marriage or other maturing relationships, a partnership with food and cooking takes time to appreciate and thrive. It helps to have cookware that’s reliable, steady, dependable, trusted, capable of ideal cooking conditions simply and easily mastered. Cooking is life long. We might as well mature a friendship with cookware durable and worthy enough to nurture and sustain this kind of relationship.
