Cookware for Meal Prep
Cookware, your primary kitchen tools, are integral to cooking and meal prep. With such a wide range of different cooking mediums from around the globe, it’s important that you find cookware made with materials that suit what’s available in your kitchen. By finding the right match you can elevate any meal to its fullest potential, helping you create weekly meal plans that excite you rather than feel like a chore to eat.
New cookware also grants us the ability to expand our creativity by opening up new recipes to match our growing arsenal of pots and pans. Not only does this allow you to travel the world through cooking, but it can also introduce you to healthy new ingredients that might be cheaper or more regionally abundant.
Bakeware
More than just bread and pastries, bakeware grants us a lot of different use cases in our ovens. There are all kinds of different racks and dishes that can be used for roasting, broiling and more. They’re especially great for Autumn and Winter seasonal cooking, bringing that rich warmth to slow cooked foods and perfect for weekly storage.
Bring your favorite vegetables to life by roasting them, creating vibrant fragrances with pumpkin, squash, or zucchini. Or with your favorite glazed ham with honey and pineapple. The ideas are endless; and while bread can be a challenge for meal prep, there’s nothing quite like the smell of a freshly baked loaf.
Cookware Sets
Don’t know where to start? Confused or worried about going over budget on what’s necessary and what isn’t? Have no fear, cooking sets are some of the best starter packs for beginners and experienced cooks alike. Whether they’re high quality or budget friendly and entry level, cookware sets jump us right into the middle of cooking action.
What makes cookware sets even better though is how you can build around them. As your cooking experience grows so will your need for new pots or pans, and by building off of a cooking set you’ll be able to fine tune your future needs much more accurately.
Pans
A hot skillet, it’s where the magic happens. Once the heat’s turned up, the smells, sounds, sights, all swirl together as our future meals begin to take shape. But with so many different pans out there it’s important to choose the right one for you because you’ll spend a lot of time with them at the stove.
Fortunately, a lot of these questions are easy to answer based on what’s available in your kitchen. That will help you determine the right materials and sizes. Not only does a pan heat up your food, but you can also use it as a measuring device too by choosing one that can cook what you consider a week’s worth of food in a single batch.
Pots
Pots are great for flavorful, yet simple recipes. Putting everything into a big pot and simmering it isn’t too hard, but the pay off is tremendous. Of course there can be a lot more steps in between, but at its core level, pots provide great opportunities for use to produce some of our favorite stocks, soups, stews, chilis, and more.
That’s not even counting how great they are for preparing ingredients as well. Rice, for example, is a well known tenant of the meal prep doctrine and is usually cooked in a pot. Beans, another unsung hero of meal prep, is also usually cooked in a pot. We’ll make sure you find the best pot to suit your meal prep needs.
Specialty
To name every pot and pan in the world is to name every grain of sand on the beach, it’s impossible. There’s just so many ways that food is prepared, and with our belief that anyone around the world can adhere to a meal prep lifestyle, we can’t categorize them all indefinitely.
But just because we can’t group it, doesn’t mean we can ignore it either. Cooking is an endless learning experience and what’s exotic to one is commonplace to another. Rest assured, if there’s a type of cookware that doesn’t fit in our more general categories, we will still find a place for it in the wonderfully wide world of meal prep.