Waterless Cookware Blog

Retaining Mother Nature’s honest nutritive values, tastes, aromas and texture is easily preserved with Stainless Steel Waterless cookware; but the phrase itself, ‘Waterless Cooking’ can just as easily be misunderstood.  For example, a question from a new user:

Comments/Questions:
My instruction book for waterless cookware has a recipe for greaseless fried chicken but it says to keep turning the chicken. I thought you were supposed to keep the top on and now I’m lost. How do you cook greaseless fried chicken?

Response:
The beauty of Stainless Steel Waterless pots & pans is that you have the option and capability to use the waterless cooking method if you want to; but that doesn’t mean you have to cook waterlessly.  You can use these utensils in ways more familiar to you as you learn and become comfortable with waterless cooking.

We use the lid when searing meats to capture and keep the natural fluids (fats, oils & water) inside the pot or pan.  I recommend keeping the lid on during the searing process to optimize the capture of these savory fluids.  Once the sear is completed (3 to 4 minutes at medium heat), the lid can be removed to ‘fry’ meats.  I again prefer to leave the lid on because doing so reduces cooking time and retains the natural moisture, but it’s not necessary.

I know the waterless cooking method recommends ‘no peek’ cooking—but that’s a common misnomer.  Feel free to remove the lid, turn your chicken.  Reapply the lid if you wish—but you don’t have to.  Without the lid, some of the natural moisture is lost, and foods require a bit more cooking time.  But this is not a huge concern.  Over time, you will notice the difference between foods cooked without the lid (less moist, tender, savory & flavorful) and foods cooked with the lid on.  Simply a matter of befriending your new cookware, becoming familiar with it over time and adjusting your technique to fit your tastes.

In the meantime, understand that you can cook conventionally with these fine utensils (the way most of us learned to cook), but you also have the capability to cook using the waterless method which has a host of tasty & nutritional benefits.

Cook healthy, eat honestly, and thrive