Waterless Cooking with Stainless Steel Cookware: Benefits and Advantages

In recent years, celebrity chefs have promoted conscious cooking and conscious eating. Health-conscious cooks who love tasty food have one more reason to choose stainless steel cookware as their preferred pots and pans. Stainless steel cookware is ideal for use in waterless cooking, a method of cooking that retains as much as 98 percent of the minerals and vitamins found in whole, raw vegetables. The waterless cooking method offers many benefits in flavor, ease and health, and stainless steel cookware provides many advantages for waterless cooking.

Flavorful Cooking with Stainless Steel Cookware

Many people choose aluminum cookware because it's less expensive and easily available. Professional chefs know better. Aluminum leaches into many foods - particularly acidic vegetables and fruits - affecting the flavor and adding the unhealthy metals to your foods. Stainless steel pots and pans don't leach metals into your foods. The surgical grade stainless steel is, in fact, one of the most stable metals of all for cooking.

Waterless cookware made of stainless steel is specially made to heat evenly across the bottom, guaranteeing that there are no hot spots to burn or scorch. The multiple plies of metal provide a better heating surface, and the close-fitting lids retain the food's own moisture so that you don't need to add water to perfectly steam your vegetables. The lids also have a built-in sensor to tell you when the pan has reached the perfect cooking temperature, alerting you to turn down the heat and allow food to finish cooking.

Meat, poultry and fish sear instantly when they hit the hot bottom of the pan, sealing in the natural juices and preventing coagulation that often results in sticking. That means you use less - or no - fats or oils in cooking your meat, reducing the calorie count and making the food tastier and healthier.

More Nutritious Cooking with Stainless Steel Cookware

When you cook vegetables and grains in water, you lose up to 42 percent of the nutrients into the liquid. That's fine if you're making a broth that you'll be eating or drinking along with the veggies. It's not so great if you're straining the vegetables to eat on their own. Cooking the waterless way in stainless steel cookware leaves the vitamins and minerals in the vegetables, so that every delicious bite is packed full of healthy goodness. You'll taste the difference the very first time you cook your vegetables without water.

You'll also see the difference. Scientists have found that many of the phytonutrients, including antioxidants, found in fresh fruits and vegetables are found in the pigments that give the foods their color. When you cook the foods in their own juices as you do with waterless cooking, the colors are brighter and darker, and the flavors are richer and more complex. You'll never be happy with limp, soggy vegetables again.

Cooking with Waterless Cookware is Easy

Cooking with the waterless way with stainless steel cookware couldn't be easier. Just prepare your food for cooking as you normally would, and then put the food into the waterless utensil. Most foods need no water at all, though some foods that have little moisture content might need a little bit - spaghetti or grains, for example, will need water to cover the bottom of the pan.

Turn the heat on medium, cover the pan and wait till the moisture begins to turn to steam. In most cases, it only takes a few minutes for the pan to heat to that point. If you're using a waterless cookware system, the steam valve in the lid will whistle to let you know that it's time to turn the heat down. You won't have to babysit the pot - it will tell you when it's ready to lower the heat.

Turn down the heat, or turn it off completely, and let the food finish cooking - usually only a matter of minutes. That's all there is to it.

If you're looking for the best, healthiest ways to prepare meals for your family, check out the many types and styles of stainless steel cookware made especially for waterless cooking. You'll never be happy with food cooked any other way.

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