Why Choose Healthy Cookware?

The truly green cookware would be the one that cooks food in a way that keeps not just the food healthy but also the environment. But the irony is – most cookware that come labelled as ‘green’ are neither good for the health of food nor the environment. This is because they contaminate the food while cooking and pollute the environment in different ways from start to finish. Out of numerous choices available out there, let’s find out which one truly qualifies as the best green cookware:  Continue reading Are You Using A Truly Green Cookware? Find out

As we trend more into healthier ways of living and cooking, it’s a good time to take a long and hard look at the cookware we use in our kitchens. If you are not aware of this already, you should know that the cooking pot is as important to the health and nutritional value of the food as the food itself. Why? Because cooking healthy ingredients in a toxic pot that leaches chemicals and metals is of no value. And such pots don’t cook food by retaining nutrients. The nutrients are dead by the end of the slow cooking process. 

So, if cooking for health, you need to consider the pot and choose the one that makes the perfect slow cooker!  Continue reading The Perfect Slow Cooker – Non-toxic & Eco friendly

When looking for cookware in the market, you will come across pots and pans made from mainly three kinds of material – different kind of metals and alloys (combination of metals), ceramics (man-made material that resembles clay), and some, clay cookware. Most are coated further with glazes, liquid metals, Teflon and the like. Let’s have a look at each one of them to find out which one makes the safest cookware.  Continue reading Which Material makes the Safest Cookware: Metals, Ceramics or Pure-Clay?

For something to be considered “best” it has to serve its purpose fully. With Dutch ovens, the ideal would be one that cooks food in the healthiest way. 

A Dutch oven is one of the most useful pieces of cookware. It is flexible and can be used to prepare a variety of dishes. Some can be used both in the oven and on the stove top. When choosing the best Dutch oven, one considers the shape, weight, design, color and such parameters, but is that enough, how about the raw material that it’s made of?  Continue reading Healthy Dutch Oven: Why Pure Clay is the Best Choice?

The lives of people have changed so much over past few decades and so have their choices when it comes to buying things. ‘Convenience comes first’ is the new rule when we do any household chore and cooking is no different. This is probably the reason slow cooking has become so popular these days. 

Cooking in a slow cooker is very convenient because all you have to do is put in all the ingredients, set the right temperature and forget about it for the whole day. When you come back home from work in the evening, your food will be ready to serve.  Continue reading Did You Check If Your Slow Cooker Was 100% Non-Toxic When You Purchased It?

What determines if your food is safe? The way it is grown, harvested and packaged is important but one factor plays a key role in determining how safe and healthy your food is in its edible state – and that is the cookware you use. How is that possible, isn’t cookware meant to just cook your food, how can it influence the safety and purity of the food? 

The cookware you use affects the health of your food in 2 ways: 

1. It ultimately determines how toxic your food is, and
2. How much nutrients are preserved post cooking 

Continue reading How Safe is Your Food? Your Cookware Determines This!

For someone recovering from an illness and trying to build back their strength and stamina, bone broth may be one of the top things on their list because of its many benefits. It boosts immunity, alleviates common cold, strengthens muscles, bones & teeth, promotes weight loss and replenishes the gut system. Cooking this nutritious and healthy food the right way, however, is very important so you get the real benefits. 

Using a healthy and non-toxic pot helps preserves nutrients and keeps your bone broth non-toxic and healthy. Regular pots made from metals or ceramics leach while cooking and contaminate food, this calls for a 100% non-toxic alternative. MEC’s pure clay pots are the only all-natural pots that are inert and cook food in the healthiest way possible.  Continue reading Best Slow Cooker: Making Bone Broth in MEC’s Pure Clay Slow Cookers

Pressure cooker – a modern invention that cooks food quickly – just what we need to save some time in our busy schedule. A conventional pressure cooker consists of the following parts: 

1. A metal pot with a silicon covered handle 
2. A metal lid and its handle with a locking mechanism 
3. A gasket or a rubber sealing ring 
4. A steam vent and release valves 

As excessive steam pressure is created by boiling water in a closed pot it causes temperature and pressure to build up inside and forces food to cook faster. In the end, pressure is released through the vent so the lid can be opened safely.  Continue reading The Best Pressure Cooker: All Natural, Timeless and Healthy