What is Waterless Cooking and why should you consider it as your first choice for cooking method?

With waterless cooking, you use a heavy-gauge pan with a cover designed to create a vapor seal during the cooking process. You cook with a small amount of liquid – either added by you or present in the food itself. Food is then cooked on low heat, below the boiling point, by the steam rather than the hot water. Because heat is distributed evenly across the bottom and up the sides of the cookware, the food is able to cook in its own natural liquids making it a more nutritious and flavor-filled meal.   This method of cooking:

• Reduces Food Shrinkage
• Retains the nutritional value of your food
• Cooks food in its natural moisture which tenderizes and flavors the food
• Eliminates the use of fats and oils which are more difficult to digest and adds extra fat and calories to your meal.

With waterless cooking, you do not need water or oils to keep your food from burning nor do you rely on the water to transmit the heat in order to cook the food.  Instead, you rely on the waterless cookware to properly cook your food.  It is important to note however, that because stainless steel waterless cookware is well-designed clad construction, it can be used for conventional cooking as well as waterless cooking.

With waterless, greaseless cooking, you can even dry sauté your foods eliminating the need to use oil. The problem with sautéing vegetable in oil is not, necessarily, the oil but rather the process. Sautéing in oil does not allow the vegetables to caramelize and release their full flavors into the food being cooked. So why do we use oil? Because most pans, even coated ones, are not manufactured to allow you to sauté vegetables without oil.  If you try to do so, the vegetables will burn and stick to the pan.  Therefore, oil is needed to support the cooking process.  But then, oil coats the vegetables preventing them from caramelizing and releasing their natural flavors into the dish you are preparing.  In addition, the resulting oils in your food will further mask its natural taste. Waterless, greaseless cooking methods allow you to capture the food’s natural, wonderful flavors while also retaining your food’s maximum nutritional value.