Cooking for a Living: Professional Stainless Steel Cookware

When a person cooks for a living, he will need more features in his kitchen cookware than individuals who cook for their families at home. There are professional stainless steel cookware companies that specialize in the qualities that these chefs need in their pots and pans. The professional lines of stainless steel cookware usually come with a lifetime warrantee so that the cooks are making a great investment in their company and their cookware when they purchase these products. There are different pands that produce these lines such as Viking and All-Clad and many others.

Features

Part of the reason that the professional stainless steel cookware is so expensive is that it has to be made to handle a variety of different cooking surfaces, such as will be found in professional kitchens. There are often gas surfaces, electric surfaces, halogen, ceramic and induction. If the professional stainless steel cookware is not made in a certain way it will not stand up to all of these different conditions.

These professional stainless steel cookware sets will be made for easy cleanup as well, often being made to be dishwasher safe. They will be made with many different layers, usually seven, so that the heat that is applied to the pan will be distributed throughout the surface rather than just where the burner is. The handles are double riveted so that they are sturdy enough to handle the quick and hard cooking conditions in a busy kitchen. The handles are also made so that they do not become hot to the touch so that the chef does not have to use a towel or pot holder to move the pan around.

These professional stainless steel cookware sets can range in price from six hundred to two thousand dollars. One such set by Viking costs almost seven hundred dollars for a seven piece set, therefore costing about one hundred dollars per piece. This professional stainless steel cookware set contains an eight inch fry pan, a one and a half quart sauce pan, a two quart sauce pan and a five and a half quart stock pot. All of these items have a cover that goes with them. This particular cookware set has a lifetime guarantee on it so that the cook can have a piece replaced if there is a parts defect in it at any time. Chefs are usually very picky about the equipment that they use and will expect the best out of their investments.