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If a recipe calls for a heavy-bottomed saucepan, it can leave a lot of home chefs scratching their heads wondering whether their saucepans will be good for the job. Surely any old saucepan can get the job done? Does a saucepan really need a heavy bottom? We hope to answer these saucepan questions in this […]

If you want to buy a lid for your frying pan or replace a frying pan with the exact same sized pan, it’s nice to know the size of your frying pan. Thankfully, frying pans come in standard sizes, and all manufacturers of pans stick to these sizes. This means, of course, that glass lids

If you’re just moving out of home or you want to create the perfect kitchen arsenal of cookware to tackle even the biggest roast dinner, you might be wondering how many pots and pans you really need. Of course, this varies somewhat from household to household, but I hope the following info can help you

Have you ever wondered why your saucepans have wooden or plastic handles? Well, the answer to this saucepan riddle is pretty simple. You see, for hundreds of years, saucepans had metal handles that would heat up as the pan heated up. Of course, some saucepans do still have metal handles so that they can be

If you’ve just got an induction hob, you may be wondering why your saucepan isn’t working with it. Alternatively, you may be surprised to find that the saucepan that you used on your more traditional hob still works fine on an induction hob. Well, not all saucepans mix well with induction hobs. Many do, but

Saucepans come in a lot of sizes, and it can be tricky to find the perfect saucepan for your needs. Of course, you can purchase sets of saucepans that claim to cover all of the cooking you could ever want to do, but is that true? Is a large saucepan really going to be big

If your non-stick frying pan has seen better days, you may be wondering whether you can bring it back to life. While you cannot technically replace the non-stick coating at home, there are a few things that you can do to make it non-stick once more. Applying a non-stick coating to a pan is an

Ceramic pans have excellent non-stick properties. We have written several articles about ceramic frying pans praising the non-stick coatings. However, although this is rare, ceramic pans can sometimes lose their non-stick coating and leave you with a frying pan that is really frustrating to use. But can you bring a ceramic pan back to life?

If your non-stick pan has a strange smell coming from it, you’d probably like to know why. You’d also like to know how to stop this smell from returning. Well, thankfully, that’s what this article is all about. First up, we need to know why a non-stick pan might develop a smell. Now, pans with

Throughout the history of cast iron cookware, a question has plagued chefs and home cooks all over the world: what’s the best oil to use for seasoning? Now, every chef, cook and dinner lady has their preferred way of seasoning a cast iron skillet, but what is the right way? Well, it turns out seasoning