nothinflat
Assistant Cook
- Joined
- Jul 1, 2008
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Hi everyone,
I recently went to a Lifetime Cookware "pot party" where a representative cooks a complete meal (+cake!) in their waterless cookware and tells you of all the health benefits (retaining more nutrients, plus no leaching of metals into your food because of the surgical steel construction of the pan), the speed of cooking, and energy efficiency of it all because you never use high heat and can stack cook.
I was very impressed with the whole thing but the price was over $3000 for a decent set, so I went online to do some research on alternatives that were comparible.
I found a lot of different sets and lots of different surgical steel with various plys and elements and all the other terminology until my head was spinning.
I found a "12 element Stainless steel" 22 pc cookware set by Chef's Secret that was about a 10th of the price of the Lifetime. Now I'm wondering what the differences are between the 2?
Lifetime quotes their "Exclusive 12 Element Solar Cap (R) Construction", while the Chef's Secret gives "12 Element" as well, but with a different composition. Does it matter what layers are inside, as long as the outsides are the surgical stainless steel? How many ply would be the minimal for even cooking?
There are also cookware sets with thermal control knobs, and some with whistles to tell you when it's up to temperature. Any ideas on what's best here?
Anyone have any experience with waterless cooking, and if you really "get what you pay for"? Basically I'm just wondering if the higher priced Lifetime cookware is worth the money when compared the the much cheaper Chef's Secret sets?
Thanks in advance!
I recently went to a Lifetime Cookware "pot party" where a representative cooks a complete meal (+cake!) in their waterless cookware and tells you of all the health benefits (retaining more nutrients, plus no leaching of metals into your food because of the surgical steel construction of the pan), the speed of cooking, and energy efficiency of it all because you never use high heat and can stack cook.
I was very impressed with the whole thing but the price was over $3000 for a decent set, so I went online to do some research on alternatives that were comparible.
I found a lot of different sets and lots of different surgical steel with various plys and elements and all the other terminology until my head was spinning.
I found a "12 element Stainless steel" 22 pc cookware set by Chef's Secret that was about a 10th of the price of the Lifetime. Now I'm wondering what the differences are between the 2?
Lifetime quotes their "Exclusive 12 Element Solar Cap (R) Construction", while the Chef's Secret gives "12 Element" as well, but with a different composition. Does it matter what layers are inside, as long as the outsides are the surgical stainless steel? How many ply would be the minimal for even cooking?
There are also cookware sets with thermal control knobs, and some with whistles to tell you when it's up to temperature. Any ideas on what's best here?
Anyone have any experience with waterless cooking, and if you really "get what you pay for"? Basically I'm just wondering if the higher priced Lifetime cookware is worth the money when compared the the much cheaper Chef's Secret sets?
Thanks in advance!