HOW HEALTH FRIENDLY IS YOUR COOKWARE?

Choosing a cookware can be a tough job both for one’s own health, as well as that of the family. Quality cookware helps you maintain good health and, in some cases, even enhances flavor.

Before making your next kitchen purchase, consider the reactivity of various tools and cookware and, whenever possible, favor inert or non-reactive. Or, as second choice, use moderately reactive pots and utensils. As possible, avoid more reactive cookware.

Listing Health-Friendly Cookware:

Earthenware and ceramic: These cookware are inert and emit a farinfrared heat, that’s most effective and beneficial heat for cooking, which enables a full range of subtle flavors to emerge. Excellent for lengthy simmering and baking

Glass: coffee pots and casserole dishes are inert and affordable. Favor glass containers for storing food

Bamboo: wooden spoons, chopsticks and crockery are non-reactive and modestly priced.

Enamel: With proper care, a fine enamel pot lasts a lifetime, whereas inexpensive enamel cookware from variety stores has such a thin enamel layer that it chips easily and is not worth its purchase price. Once chipped, discard enamel kitchenware or enamel fragments will find their way into your food and the underlying metal will react with food. If it’s affordable, favor enamel pots.

Stainless steel: It is the least reactive metal, and the most versatile and healthful cookware option. Once stainless steel has been scratched, through normal scouring, the leaching of metallic ions is more noticeable.