All About All Clad Cookware
All Clad Cookware is professional-grade cookware. You will find that most any 4-star chef in the world will use All Clad exclusively in their kitchen. This is because this cookware has superior heat conduction due to the various layers of metal.
All Clad Cookware can be aluminum, stainless steel or copper. It has exterior, interior and ‘core’ layers in different combinations. Some designs include as many as 5-layers of metal. All Clad comes in non-stick or regular varieties. Most of the products provide signature ‘stay-cool’ handles, which is a very good option to have when choosing a cookware set.
Aluminum was, in the beginning, the main metal used for the core. Recently copper has begun to be more popular. Copper provides the best heat conduction. It allows for more even distribution of heat at a greater speed.
The best metal for the interior of the pan is stainless steel. It is the least reactive of the metals and imparts less metallic ‘taste’. This can be coated with non-stick. Even without non-stick coating, stainless steel is the easiest to clean. All Clad Cookware uses 18/10 grade stainless steel. The ‘top-of-the line also includes an exterior coating that is scratch and chip resistant.
The exterior metal can vary greatly, depending on your preference. You can buy the brand in a variety of finishes and colors, to compliment your kitchen’s decorative scheme. You may also consider what you will use it for – whether you will mainly prepare dishes that require a low level of heat over a long period, such as stews, or other foods that require less time.
We are not talking cheap cookware when we are discussing All Clad Cookware. However, there are different levels of quality that you could buy, and of course this would determine how much you are willing to spend. I think you can safely say that it will last quite a while as it is so well-made. In fact All Clad offers a ‘limited lifetime warranty’.
Of all the basic designs, the stainless collection is the most popular and economical for the everyday family kitchen. Another consideration if you prefer the prettier copper exterior is that this is not recommended for the dishwasher. So this is another thing to consider when making your decision on which design you prefer.
Inimitable All Clad Cookware
Founded in 1973, with a premier line of cookware featuring a special bonding process originally designed to meet the demands of professional chefs, All Clad cookware, the brand name of All-Clad Metalcrafters Inc. is the only American cookware company to create a complete line of cookware from raw materials produced in its own rolling mill. Metallurgist and company founder John B. Ulam discovered that by simultaneously engaging heat and pressure, three different metals could be permanently bonded together. Ulam patented this roll-bonding process, and began to manufacture disks of the bonded metals.
All Clad cookware still continues to be the undisputed leader in master-chefs kitchens throughout the world. This cookware can be found in elite restaurants such as Spago, Emeril’s, Charlie Trotter’s, and Zuni Café. Renowned chefs such as Emeril Lagasse, Bobby Flay, Ming Tsai, and Wolfgang Puck craft their culinary masterpieces using All Clad cookware.
Master Chefs across the world seek All-Clad’s cookware for its exquisite styling and impeccable balance, and, home cooks like you and me for its superior performance. The secret its superior performance is bonded material. The multi-layered construction utilizes the best of three worlds, namely attributes of stainless steel, aluminum, and copper. Stainless steel surface imparts the cookware its non-reactive nature and easy cleanup. The thick aluminum or copper core offers excellent heat conductivity and equitable distribution. The exterior metal fitted on All-Clad’s cookware varies to appeal to a wide range of tastes. The most prominent feature of this cookware is that the manufacturer provides a lifetime guarantee for all its five-cookware collections, namely LTD, Stainless, Cop-R-Chef, Master Chef 2 and Copper Core.
It is rare to find utensils possessing such unique characteristics and commitment like All Clad cookware. All of All-Clad’s cooking containers, as well as the nonstick ones, rise to this singular standard. All its cookware features an inimitable triple-ply construction, bonded to disburse heat evenly and cook healthy. All cookware feature a pure 18/10 stainless steel, elongated, stay-cool handles, attached with non-corrosive, stainless rivets. All products are meticulously created with hand-polished stainless steel interiors that do not react with food.