THE IDEAL COOKWARE FOR YOUR STOVE
How do I pick the best cookware for me? There is a lot to learn and choose from if you want to buy good cookware. One important thing is the ingredients which you love cooking, frying or baking with the most. Your cooking style also plays a major role in your choice and we offer you the right one for all your preferences. Finally, you may want your new cookware to match your hob. We’ll help you to find the cookware that suits you.
These days there really is an abundant choice of hob types for proud kitchen owners. That wasn’t always the case. A few years ago the choice was simply between an electric or gas hob. Do you really need more? Some manufacturers think so, especially since the good old electric stove with its high energy consumption is no longer considered up-to-date. It is being pushed out of the market more and more and replaced by ceramic glass or induction cookers. Steel plate stoves are also appearing, particularly in the catering trade.
If you work in the catering trade or in a large kitchen, you’ll know the steel plate stove: large, full-length steel plates are heated to high temperatures over the entire surface with a lot of energy and bring all types of pans and pots to the boil.
The principle is based on heating elements that heat the overlying glass plates. Red and infrared radiation elements, which are absorbed by the cookware, pass through the glass. The advantages of this principle are ease of use, quick heating and good energy efficiency.
You can use almost any cookware with a high temperature tolerance on a gas hob. Professionals who do not use a steel plate stove, swear by gas hobs, because the heat can be regulated quickly and efficiently.
However, gas is an energy source that you can only use if you have a connection for it in your house, otherwise you have to regularly change bottles. In addition, constant caution is a must with an open flame.
Is your cookware suitable for an induction honb? It’s one of the questions many of our customers ask when buying pots and pans.
Do you feel the same way? We’ll help you find the answer: induction stoves are state-of-the-art. Visually they are similar to ceramic hobs, but they do not heat the hob surface. The magnetic coils under the ceramic glass plate induct current into the cookware and thus heat up its base. The hob plates themselves remain cold, so there is no open heat source as with all previously mentioned types of hob. Induction hobs heat up very rapidly and react virtually instantaneously to changes in temperature. If you are looking for a disadvantage, the only one is that not all cookware is suitable for induction hobs.
We’ll help you find the right cookware for your induction hob. Whether cookware is suitable for an induction hob is dependent on the material the cookware is made of. The cookware must be magnetic to be suitable for induction heat. Only then does the principle described above work, to generate heat in the pot or pan. Iron is an important component of this.
So when you buy your cookware, look out for information as to whether it is compatible with induction. Basically all the cast iron and stainless steel ranges in the ZWILLING online store are compatible with induction.
Our tip, in case you are still not sure: If you have a magnet in the house, you can test it directly. If the magnet sticks to the cookware base, then it is induction-compatible.
Iron cookware is very good, but other materials can also make cookware induction-compatible, if they are ferromagnetic. Pots and pans made of aluminium or steel with a coating for induction hobs can also be suitable, as long as they have a magnetic base. Look out for cookware with the spiral symbol.
You don’t have to worry about anything happening if you put non-induction compatible cookware on an induction hob, as actually nothing at all will happen! The induction hob will literally leave cookware completely cold, as the magnetic coils do not produce any effect on non-magnetic material. In such cases many induction hobs will emit a warning beep.
Find your perfect cookware match in the ZWILLING online store. Steel, gas, ceramic or induction — you can buy the right cookware for all technical kitchen equipment in our substantial range.
