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Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Eric Wynkoop - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

This event was on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Join Chef Eric Wynkoop in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to co… Read More.

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Question:

When looking for new alloys / designs in sauté pans what should we be looking for?

— Nancy Johnson-Cramer

Answer:

I think if we buy solid, um, uh, cookware, uh, that's got, you know, multiple layers of metal, you know, at at least two layers, but very often it's gonna have three or four that's sandwiched together. Uh, often it's gonna be aluminum, stainless steel, aluminum, copper, aluminum, sort of, uh, uh, uh, of a layering in order to evenly distribute heat. Um, then we're good. Uh, we're gonna have cookware that can be used for the rest of our life. And, um, you know, we have, uh, these new companies that will introduce, uh, uh, they, they'll rearrange the order of the copper or the aluminum, or maybe add another layer of copper to the one that's already in there, uh, in order to get your attention, you know, every couple of years in order to sell a new line of products. And, um, I'm not saying that those products are inferior, um, but I am saying that they're probably unnecessary.
Eric Wynkoop

Eric Wynkoop

Director of Culinary Instruction

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