In the recipes, a certain mysterious stewpan is often mentioned, which causes bewilderment among some housewives, since not everyone uses it in the home kitchen. What is this stewpan and why is it suitable for cooking?
The purpose of the stewpan
In fact, a stewpan is a frying pan with high straight or inclined sides, which is designed for stewing, frying, boiling, browning and making various sauces. The saucepan is ideal for a range of dishes where you need to keep liquid until the very end of cooking. In it you can cook vegetables, heat soups, simmer pilaf or make tender mashed potatoes.
Usually the saucepan is equipped with a handle, which is small in size and makes it easier to use the saucepan when cooking small amounts of food.
Good casseroles are made of high-quality multilayer material (steel or aluminum), have a non-stick coating, massive weight, sufficient depth and thick sides / bottom. Thanks to these characteristics, the food in the saucepan is cooked faster and does not burn. The stewpan, consisting of 4-5-6 layers of ultra-strong aluminum alloys, has an almost unlimited service life and will serve for many years.
Choosing a stewpan
An ideal purchase for the kitchen is a double-sided steel-coated stewpan, which minimizes the likelihood of scratches on the surface of the stewpan. To reduce this probability to absolute zero, you can purchase products with a polymer sublayer that protects the saucepan from damage and exposure to abrasive substances.
A very useful function in modern saucepans is the temperature control scale, which records the amount of liquid.
Housewives who often prepare a variety of sauces and cereals should choose stainless steel cast pans with a non-stick coating. Their comfortable and lightweight design is ideal for preparing liquid dishes that will not stick to the steel bottom. Experienced users do not recommend buying inexpensive, simplified saucepans without a non-stick coating, since they are rather inconvenient to fry in them due to food sticking to an unprotected surface.
For use in a microwave oven, it is advisable to purchase special models of saucepans with a square shape, which are made for any type of hob. They are made of a variety of heat-resistant aluminum alloys, protected by a special coating, which provides better cooking than stamped cookware. Such saucepans allow you to quickly cook the most useful dishes in the microwave, in which almost all the vitamins and nutrients of the prepared products are preserved.
