Cookware Reviews

If you make sushi at home, you need an efficient way to cool the sushi rice while you mix the vinegar mixture. I used to use the fan and a plastic bucket, but the way it should be done is with a Oke hangiri. The wooden tub allows the absorption of moisture in rice and also cools it down. The experienced sushi makers should know.

Once you have this set, you won't need anything else for your stove top. Both pans and pots heat up evenly and quickly and look great in the kitchen (the design and the greenish color of the set are very attractive).

The large pot is perfect for boiling pasta, making soups, etc. and it's tall enough that nothing spills over. The handles of the large pot heat up a little bit during cooking, but not very much. The handles of both pots and pans are pretty comfortable.

The lids are quite ingenious - as advertised, when turned upside down on the kitchen counter, they can be used as a place to rest the utensils used during cooking.

In addition to the usual use of the pans, I found that the small pan is excellent for making crepes and the large one is great for cooking risotto. Both pans can also be used in place of a griddle since they don't require much (if any) oil to function properly.

One of the best features of the set is that everything can be cleaned extremely easily. If one is careful not to use metal utensils that can scratch the surface, then everything can look as good as new even with continuous use.

One word about the utensils provided -- I didn't find them very useful since they are made of some plastic that heats up if you are stirring things continuously and can be easily ruined. I find that using standard wooden utensils works a lot better.

I was skeptical at first when I got this oddly shaped pan, thinking T-Fal was trying to cash in on the style of IKEA. But after making my first dish with it -- an omelette that was the best one I had ever made up to that point -- I was hooked. Now I can't go a weekend without using it for great omelettes or pancakes. Yes, pancakes! The oval shape makes for a thicker hotcake and slides out of the pan easily when it's done. The spatula can find its way under the food easily, too. I prefer to use another pan for sauteeing (the Calphalon 4-quart hard anodized), though for the non-extravagant at-home cook, this pan works pretty good for caramelizing onions, browning and searing. But it's the breakfast dishes that can be made from it that make this pan worth owning.

Hi, I think the T-Fal products are just great!! They make cooking fat-free, are so easy to maintain and clean. Never found a scratch, never burnt a dish!

This stir fry pan is ideal for making a quick meal. It can be used to make a variety of cusines, be it a chinese noodles or japanese tempura. Overall, I think the product is very good, and ideal for all types of homes.

Well worth the money - I justified the cost by remembering how much money had been lost when spaghetti sauce had burned when I was too busy to stir it, how many times I couldn't make homemade turkey soup because I didn't have a pot big enough to hold the carcass,etc. Yes, you can make smaller batches but they're not as good and you end up using 2-3 pots and burners on the stove so you're limited from other cooking and paying more in fuel to cook the food. I just got my pot last week and have used it to make Farmer's Pasta with Clam Sauce and U.S.Senate Bean Soup - the recipes never turned out as good as they did with this pot! This is one purchase you will not regret.

Being summer and all, I wish I had a grill. However, I don't. I'm also not very gifted when it comes to the kitchen. But cooking with this pan, it doesn't matter how bad you are. It's impossible to burn anything onto this pan. It just wipes off. I've had to throw pans away before because I burned them so bad. Not this one.

i love t-fal and love this stir fry pan. i have also tried calphalon but t-fal never sticks. i had to return my calphalon to the store because it sticks. i just wish that t-fal would offer open stock fry pan/skillets with lids.

This set is surprising solid and well made for its price. The handles are very comfortable and sturdy, and the pans are easy to clean without soaking, even if they've been left sitting for some time. You can also use them for low-fat oil-free stirfrys without having any food get stuck to the pans. Admittedly, the thermospot is useless and really doesn't do anything but look strange, but it doesn't hurt anything either.

I received this pot from my honey, who loves innovative kitchenware almost as much as he likes being fed. The Nissan Thermal cookpot isn't inexpensive, but it is indispensible in certain circumstances.

1. We used to live in a cold climate where the power regularly went out during the winter. We'd huddle downstairs by the fireplace, waiting for the powerlines to be restored from yet another ice storm. I would often make a stew or rice dish in the Nissan and we'd be ready for bad weather. You can heat up the ingredients for a stew in the inner pot even over a Primus (camping) stove.

2. And for camping, same thing. We'd cook breakfast over the Coleman stove, and while we ate, I'd stir up a beef stew. You only need to heat the ingredients to a boil and do that for about five minutes. Then I'd pop the inner pot with the stew-to-be into the insulated shell, and we'd go off fishing or motorcycling for the day. When we all came back to the campsite, tired and hungry, a hot dinner was waiting, all cooked and ready to serve. No one could believe how we could cook gourmet food out of an ice chest, on the camp stove.

3. This is equally good for church suppers, potlucks, going out for the day and not needing to attend the cooking. And for summer, this reduces the heat in the kitchen. Also nice for motorhomes.

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