So I cook for a family and was wondering what type of cookware is safest to use. Currently I use stainless steel but I imagine it is leeching metals into the food.

Is ceramic the next best thing? Is all ceramic cookware the same? I notice they are cheap so all the better. I would only need 2 saucepans.

I use glass. They do not make it anymore, Vision, but I find it at flea markets and yard sales.

Stainless steel is perfectly good, it's not leaching anything into food. Ceramic is generally cooked in a kiln at extremely high temperatures which causes the coating to become as hard as glass, it also should not leach anything into food. Glass ware should be the same but you should know that heavy metals like cadmium etc are used in the production of glass and ceramics.

We use Xtrema Cookware, but it's expensive. It doesn't burn up and set the house on fire if you totally forget you're got something on the stove --

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Clay, enamel, stainless steel. Glass.

unscratched nonstick cookware also. PFOS and PFOA exposure does not occur with unbroken nonstick.

The worst.... aluminum, polycarbonate (under heat)_

Paul

Not nonstick, it's toxic when heated, it doesn't have to be scratched.

Coco,

Could you tell me more about nonstick being toxic heated? I didn't know this.

Paul

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Teflon is plastic, heat it even just on high for just a couple of minutes and you're breathing it and it's in your food. Go cast iron and properly season and care for it if you need a non-stick surface for cooking.

Coco,

I'm reserving judgment for the moment. But I appreciate the citations. I intend to look further and report back. Best.

Paul

I'm just not taking any chances, no plastic food storage containers, no plastic utensils, dishes or cups/glasses, no food in cans or plastic or tetra paks, no teflon, no shrink wrap. Just glass, crockery and stainless.

If your cooking, Life Time is the best on the market! also lots of $s


Greaseless Cooking
Why use oils and fats when cooking? Because fats and oils keep foods from sticking or burning in the cooking process. With Lifetime® Cookware’s superior construction, there is no need to use fats or oils to keep your meals from sticking or burning. Contact a distributor to arrange a personal demonstration of this remarkable feature.
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Reduces volume shrinkage and cooking odors
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Vitamin and Mineral Retention
Compare the differences on the chart below, showing water covered cooking versus cooking with Lifetime® Cookware's minimum moisture method.

You will have to go to Life Time cookware site and see the chart on vits and mins
vs other. study done by Yale Nutrition Laboratory Yale University School Of Medicine. I had a set of Life Time pots and pans food taste so much better
cooked with their product than any other cook ware. price is high, but they back the set for life. It will be the last set you will ever have to buy and you can pas them on with life time backing. I know this is the best you will find in cookware. 10 piece set $2175



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That's more than I'd pay to buy a whole car! Wow. I have one large pot, one med, one small, one pan (lagostina, sp?) and 2 sizes of cast iron that I hardly ever use.

I know people that Have their great grand parent cast iron skillets. Imagine if those pans could talk oh the stories they would tell

...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist




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Yes a lot of money for cookware, although no other comes close to saving its nutrition value as this LifeTime product. So mabey on that note if your cooking
it may be a bargin if you count nutition levels

If I'm cooking and counting nutrition levels I should stop cooking and just eat it raw . Cooking is for, well, I don't know what. Getting the kids to eat more veggies I guess.