Pots and Pans

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

What cookware is best for your kitchen?

There is a bewildering array of pots and pans on offer: stainless steel saucepans, cast iron skillets, even 10-in-1 cookware systems that use layers of various materials. But do they deliver on their promises to help you reach culinary bliss? Listener Emily wants to know if the ones she's seen live up to the hype or are just marketing BS. What do all the materials do? What about cleaning them? And just what is the much-vaunted 'hot spot' that lights up at a certain temperature?!

There are also lingering concerns about non-stick coatings. Are they safe? And what about the alternatives if you're not sure?

Please do keep your suggestions coming of wonder products for me to investigate. If you?ve seen an ad, trend or wonder product promising to make you happier, healthier or greener and want to know if there?s any evidence behind it, then email us: [email protected] or you can send a voice note to our WhatsApp number: 07543 306807

Presenter: Greg Foot Producer: Simon Hoban

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
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0:46.0	Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that hunts for the facts behind the fads.
0:51.1	If you have seen a wonder product you would like me to investigate, please do send it over.
0:57.0	Either on email to sliced.bred at BBC.co.com. Or as a voice note on WhatsApp to 07-543-307, which is just what Emily Rising in South London did.
1:06.0	Hi, Greg. I'd love to find out more about pots and pans, not very glamorous, but I've been looking
1:13.4	into non-stick and there's so many options. Is it better to get aluminium or stainless steel
1:21.9	or copper or enamel lined ones? Coatings have like anodized titanium stuff, no idea what actually makes a difference.
1:32.3	And the professional cookware seems to have nothing at all. It would also be great to know whether you really need one of those hot spot things.
1:41.3	And then last of all, cleaning them, I really lose track of what I meant to do
1:46.4	with each of my pans, any information. I'd love to know. Thanks so much. Bye.
1:52.2	Thanks, Emily. I thought a good place to start with this episode could be to find out what
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