Cooking Surfaces
Buying a cooking set can be an enjoyable experience, but also a challenge due to the variety of choices of them on the market. Whether you’re looking for your first set or replacing an old one, there are 5 important things you should consider before you go shopping:
3. Which Types of Cooking Surfaces?
- Non-Stick: Nonstick is one of the most wanted features for every kitchen tools. Non-stick pots and pans are coated surface allowed for healthier cooking and easy to clean. It is recommended including at least a smooth frying pan in your kitchen for happier cooking time. However, for safer use, Aerosol cooking sprays should NOT used on the surface. For Teflon and other traditional nonstick, this type of pots and pans are easy to scratch and best use in low temperature for food safety.
- Porcelain Enamel: Enameled cookware is often found on good heat conductor like cast iron, which feel smooth surface and easy to clean. This kind of surface great for slow cooking tools such as, Dutch ovens, stock pots and roasters.
- Stick-resistant: Stick resistant is non-coated surface that mostly used for baking tools. It can be found in stainless steel and pre-seasoned cast iron cookware and best use at a moderate temperature with little oil.
- Scratch-resistant: This can be found in newly technology cookware, hard-anodized, which made from electro-chemical process to maker aluminum more harder.
