Best Cookwares

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Best cookware- stainless steel set

A cookware set gives you a good value by including the basic pans needed to equip your kitchen. It includes saucepans for whisking a homemade sauce or cooking your morning oatmeal, a big stockpot for soups, stews or pasta, and skillets (probably the most used pan in any kitchen) for everything from seared tuna to vegetable saute. This set also includes two Prestige® kitchen tools to let you get started on your next culinary creation. Most important, they are safe cookwares.

Titanium Cookware - Name Games

Titanium cookware seems very hot now and is easily seen online. Acctually there is some confusion about the name. Most "titanium cookware" on the market are not made of titanium, atleast not pure titanium.

Titanium is a silver colored metallic material that has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of all metals. In other words, it is lightweight but has incredible strength and durability.  Pure titanium cookwares are  silver-colored. It is a big mistake that pure titanium cookware is nonstick. In fact, they are stick and thermally nonuniform, which means titanium is not a good material for cooking good quality foods. Titanium cookwares are goood for travellers because they extremely light.

Most "titanium cookwares" for everyday use are not made of pure titanium material. There are two kind of "titanium cookwares" in term of manufacturing process and materials. One "titanium cookware" has a covering layer of titanium oxide which is formed between 4000 to 10000 degrees C. The other "titanium cookware" is covered with nonstick layer with or without nonstick material similar to Teflon. All these "titanium" or "titanium reinforced" cookwares are scratch-resistant, very hard and durable. But they are obvious different from pure titanium cookwares. They are utilizing titanium name to promote market.

So if one is really concerned with Teflon problem, attention should be paid when considering titanium cookwares.

Which nonstick cookware is safe for cooking ? - your opinion helps

It is well known that some cookwares are safe when cooking. But none of these safe cookwares has good nonstick performance as nonstick cookware does. I have been looking for a good and safe nonstcik cookware for a while. But I am dispointed and reluctant to do it now because many of the nonstick cookwares on the market  are not really safe.

Many people know that traditional Teflon nonstick cookware is not safe because Teflon contains some dnagerous chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)—also known as C-8, which has been shown to cause cancer, low birth weight and a suppressed immune system in laboratory animals exposed to high doses of PFOA.  Teflon also releases toxic fumes at high temperatures and leads to many birth death each yaer. Although the effects of PFOA at lower doses in humans are disputed, there does seem to be a link between PFOA and raised levels of cholesterol.

Some cookware manufacturers  try to avoid the bad reputation of Teflon and claim that they don't use Teflon for their nonstick cookware coating. And thus their nonstick cookwares are safe because they use different materials or improved manufacturing processes. It is kind of true that they don't use Teflon because Teflon is a TM of DuPont. There might be some difference between these chemicals and Teflon. Some chemicals might contain less PFOA or other toxic substance. But the chemicals they used are basically similar to Teflon. It seems to be impossible to eliminate all toxic particle by improving manufacture process either.  So safety is still a concern even though new generations of nonstick chemicals make nonstick cookware coating harder and more scratch-resistant. These cookwares include nonstick titanium cookwares, titanium ceramic cookwares and Swiss diamond cookwares etc. Don't be fulled by the names of these nonstick cookwares because none of these nonstick cookware  coatingsare nade of titanium or diamond. It is probablye that they are made of the same or similar chemical as Teflon.

There are some other nonstick cookwares on the market like Greenpan Cookware, ManPans Green Cookware, Dr. Mercola's Ceramic Cookware etc.  I don't know if their are really safe and I can't find out by myself. I wish experts and people with insight or experience can put their comments or suggestion here. You can comment or suggest any nonstcik cookware here freely because this blog is all about cookware safety and is not related to any commercials. Your opinion will help consumers like me to find and identify a real safe nonstick cookware for cooking. Thanks in advance.