Pots and pans can be your friends in the kitchen. How?

Yes. Invest in good quality pots and pans and spatulas to use with them. They can actually be your friends in the kitchen. I always prefer good quality non-stick pots and pans.

The benefits of using good pots and pans are:

·        They can save you some money as they will need less heat to cook. Non-stick pans help uniform distribution of heat which is extremely important to cook food faster and hence save fuel (gas). Non-stick cookware evenly distributes heat so that food is cooked faster than regular cookware.

·        Due to the non-stick property, they make your life easier as they clean up easily.

·        They can help you to cook with less oil as compared to regular pots and pans. Thus, help you live a healthy life.

Care to be taken:

·        Although, most pots and pans are scratch resistant. The solid non-stick coating makes cookware scratch resistant. However, it is extremely important to use the right spoons for cooking in non-stick. Using steel or any other regular cooking spoon with your non-stick pans could spoil its non-stick coating. Hence, you must always use non-stick spoons and spatulas to maintain its coating. You can use some wooden ladles and spatulas.

·        If at all you burn food (which you should be more careful about), just soak the vessel in soapy water for few hours and wash. You need to take proper care to wash them so they don’t chip. You can make use of some kitchen sponge to clean them. Some of the pans come with their own cleaning sponges.