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ManPans restaurant-quality cookware is now available to home cooks.

Originally designed for commercial kitchens, these eco-friendly pots and pans make home cooking easier.

Finding hard-working non-stick cookware without harmful PTFE or PFOA is can be challenging. ManPans are made with anodized aluminum with a toxic-free, water-based coating that is safe for metal utensils.

ManPans has a full line of cookware that includes an array of frying pans, sauce pans, and eco bakeware. Their anodized aluminum construction ensures that all the cookie sheets, pie tins and loaf pans heat evenly without scorching hot spots.

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I must admit, I’m hooked on nonstick cookware. It’s the easiest way to make egg white omelettes and to pan-fry tilapia filets — two of my favorite eats. The more I’ve used my nonstick pans, the more uses I’ve found for them.

With all the heavy usage they get in my household, it’s important to make sure that they’re not causing any harm to my family’s health. I’m glad there are green alternatives for eco friendly cookware.

Have you ever really thought about what’s in your nonstick cookware, or what happens when you heat it up? Traditional nonstick cookware contains PTFE, which is more commonly known by one of its brand names: Teflon. (T-fal is also PTFE based.) Studies have been done on the health effects of PTFE fumes to humans (and pets) when PTFE reaches high temperatures during cooking. As for the environmental effects, petroleum byproducts created during manufacturing end up in the soil and water supply.

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There’s nothing quite like cooking a hearty breakfast at home. Pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, or hash browns? Yes, please! (I’ll take all of the above. I can never choose.)

Making a diner-style breakfast yourself is easy with an electric griddle, but breakfast is just the beginning. A nonstick electric griddle can cook up lunch and dinner too. Cook up juicy burgers, steaks, grilled cheese sandwiches, chicken breast and more.

Most electric griddles have some kind of fat-draining system to keep food as lowfat as it can be. Kitchen griddles clean up easily (they’re nonstick, after all), and many of them can be conveniently stored in a cabinet. There are foldable griddles too. But if you’re an electric griddle addict, you can keep it right on your countertop.

One of the main advantages of electric griddles over nonstick stove top griddles is even heating. Let’s take a look at that and other important features to look for when shopping for an electric griddle.

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A cast iron wok is one of the most versatile pieces of cookware to have in your kitchen, and there’s one cast iron wok that stands above them all.

With a Lodge Pro Logic cast iron wok, you can perform all sorts of cooking tasks including searing and braising beef, frying noodles, deep frying chicken, stir frying vegetables, steaming and browning. Cast iron woks are designed to heat and cook food quickly, so that it retains its flavor and nutrients.

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