Cookware 101

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Sets offer an economical way to equip your kitchen with all the cookware essentials for preparing delicious meals. A common approach is to acquire the basic cookware pieces in a set, then add individual pieces to your collection as needed. Whether you're starting your cookware collection from scratch or replacing your old set with a new one, you're sure find a configuration that meets your needs.


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One of the most frequently-used pans in any kitchen, skillets (also known as fry pans) are used for cooking omelets, pancakes, quesadillas, sautéing vegetables, searing steaks, fish and poultry. The sides of the pan are sloped so that foods slide out easily.


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Skillets

The saucepan, one of the workhorses of the kitchen, is used for everything from cooking sauces or rice to re-heating soup or chili and cooking vegetables.


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Saucepans

A serrated blade of the bread knife provides for neat, even slicing through soft, fresh loaves. Also great for foods such as tomatoes that have hard exteriors and a soft interior.


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Bread Knives

Wide and shallow with sloped sides and looped side handles. The shallow shape allows the pan to fit easily in your oven. It's wonderful for savory stews that are started on the stovetop and transferred to the oven for slow braising.


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Casseroles

A griddle has low sides that allow maximum access to the cooking surface, making it ideal for breakfast items like pancakes, eggs and french toast as well as grilled sandwiches and quesadillas.


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Griddles

Wide and shallow with sloped sides and looped side handles. The shallow shape allows the pan to fit easily in your oven. It's wonderful for savory stews that are started on the stovetop and transferred to the oven for slow braising.


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Casseroles

A griddle has low sides that allow maximum access to the cooking surface, making it ideal for breakfast items like pancakes, eggs and french toast as well as grilled sandwiches and quesadillas.


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Griddles

Wide and shallow with sloped sides and looped side handles. The shallow shape allows the pan to fit easily in your oven. It's wonderful for savory stews that are started on the stovetop and transferred to the oven for slow braising.


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Casseroles

A griddle has low sides that allow maximum access to the cooking surface, making it ideal for breakfast items like pancakes, eggs and french toast as well as grilled sandwiches and quesadillas.


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Griddles

Wide and shallow with sloped sides and looped side handles. The shallow shape allows the pan to fit easily in your oven. It's wonderful for savory stews that are started on the stovetop and transferred to the oven for slow braising.


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Casseroles

The chef knife is the most indispensable of knives. Chef's knives are designed for use when chopping, slicing and dicing.


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Chefs Knives

The sides of a chef's pan are gently sloped, just enough to round the edges of the pan. The rounded corners on the bottom of the pan make stirring or whisking more efficient. Ideal for slow-cooking broths, sauces, soups and risotto.


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Chef Pans

Perfect for roast beef, chicken, turkey or vegetables, roasters can be used on the stovetop or in the oven, allowing roasts to be browned on the range and finished in the oven.


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Roasters

The saucepot is a pan you'll use day in and day out. Whether you're boiling pasta, making a batch of chili or cooking rice, this pan is just the right size. When it's not on the stovetop, its two short side handles help it take up less space in your cabinet.


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Saucepots

Sauté pans have a long stick handle and a helper handle, and are generally used for sautéing meats and vegetables. Deep sides provide extra capacity to sear, braise, stew or deglaze.


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Sautes

Sets offer an economical way to equip your kitchen with all the cookware essentials for preparing delicious meals. A common approach is to acquire the basic cookware pieces in a set, then add individual pieces to your collection as needed. Whether you're starting your cookware collection from scratch or replacing your old set with a new one, you're sure find a configuration that meets your needs.


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A sauteuse fits easily in the oven and is convenient for tabletop serving. Straight, deep sides provide extra capacity allowing you to sear meats and add liquid to braise, stew or deglaze.


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Sauteuses

Grill pans have raised ridges that allow fats to drip down and away from the food, making for low fat cooking. A channel around the edge of the pan collects cooked-off fat. Great for grilling meats, fish, vegetables or sandwiches.


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Grill Pans

The stir-fry pan has a relatively deep bowl shape and one long handle. Proper stir-frying techniques call for fast rotating or stirring of ingredients. As the pan is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, frying can be done with less oil than with a straight-sided pan. Ideal for Asian cooking.


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Stir Frys

The stockpot is ideal for the slow, gentle simmering of soups, stocks, beans and chili, or the rapid boiling needed for pasta or lobster.


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Stockpots

An innovative locking lid allows you to drain pasta, vegetables or shellfish easily. Two different size holes on either side of the lid allow different size foods to be strained.


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Straining Pans

A must have in every kitchen, the parer or paring knife is a tool you will use daily for peeling, slicing, trimming and dicing small fruits and vegetables.


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Parers

Cake pans are one of the most commonly used pieces of bakeware that can be used to bake cakes, brownies and other flavorful dishes.


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Cake Pans

A santoku knife is a cleaver and chef knife combined, excellent for mincing and slicing, especially good for cutting raw fish, poultry and meat.


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Santokus

Induction burners are eco-friendly appliances that cook efficiently, quickly, safely, and are easy to clean.


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Burners

The saucier is ideal for slow-cooking broths, sauces, soups and risotto. The sloped sides of the saucier allow for easy whisking while the wider diameter at the top of the pan speeds reduction of sauces. Not just for sauces, you'll use this handy pan for risotto or soup too.


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Sauciers

Traditionally used in the cooking of pasta and vegetables, a colander is perforated to allow you to rinse fruit and vegetables, or drain pasta in the sink.


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Colanders

A cookie sheet is flat sheet of metal used to bake products with a thicker consistency like cookies, biscuits, pastries, etc.


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Cookie Sheets

Paired with a butane burner, a cradle allows you to cook your food at the table. Whether preparing stuffed bell peppers for a buffet line, or fajitas to serve at your family table, this accessory piece is the perfect complement to a casserole or griddle. Great for tabletop entertaining.


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Cradles

Double boiler inserts protect foods from the harsh direct heat of a burner. Non-reactive stainless steel is perfect for melting chocolate, making custards or preparing a fabulous hollandaise sauce.


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Double Boiler Inserts

Reduce splatter, accelerate cooking or govern the evaporation levels of any dish with a lid (also known as a cover). It is ideal for circulating moisture and preserving the nutrients.


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Lids

Utility knives are used for peeling, chopping and slicing foods such as tomatoes that have a hard exterior and delicate interior. The rounded tip also make this knife ideal for spreads such as butter or mayonnaise.


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Utility Knives

The steamer insert holds food over boiling water, allowing steam to circulate, cooking vegetables while reducing nutrient loss that occurs in boiling. This versatile insert fits a variety of pots, allowing you steam your favorite shrimp, broccoli or pot stickers with ease. Stock, lemon juice or herbs may be added for flavor.


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Steamer Inserts

A perfect accessory for any kitchen, a teakettle heats water to a rolling boil for freshly brewed tea.  But the uses for a teakettle don't stop at tea – it can also be used for gelatin, hot chocolate, or a cup of soup.


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Teakettles

Proper stir fry technique calls for fast rotating or stirring of ingredients while cooking, inspiring the rounded, sloped sides of the wok. The shape is similar to a salad bowl, designed for easy tossing of vegetables. This shape is also practical for deep frying foods such as tempura.


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Woks

Loaf pans are great for yeast breads, quick breads, and pound cakes and even meat loaf.


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Loaf Pans

A muffin pan is a pan with typically six or 12 cups connected to it and formed in the shape of a muffin.


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Muffin Pans