Waterless Cookware Knowledge Center
How to Cook with waterless Cookware?

 Get Ready to Cook: Food Preparation, Add No Water (or Little Water) to Waterless Cookware

Clean and prepare your food like you normally would. Then put the food into waterless cookware with no water added (or with a very small amount of water depending on how watery your food is). Now you are ready to cook!

Add or not Add Water?

• If you are cooking dry foods like rice or spaghetti, you will need a small amount of water, just enough to cover the bottom of the pot.
• If you are cooking food like vegetables, you don't generally need to add water. The vegetables will cook in their natural juices.

 Waterless Cooking is Easy

1. Start cooking on medium heat.
2. Wait for natural liquid to begin to turn to steam, preferably with the assistance of advanced knobs (see below).
3. Turn the heat to low or off and simmer to finish cooking.

When to Turn down/off the Heat?

You turn down or off the heat when natural liquid of the food begin to turn to steam. How do you know? You can either manually watch it like you do with conventional cookware or you can use advanced knobs coming with some of the Waterless Cookware to assist you.

• Knobs with Stream Control Valve( Waterless Cookware Steam Control System): once the juices have sealed the lid and formed enough steam, a steam valve sounds a warning for you to close the value and turn the heat to low.
• Knobs with Thermo Control( Waterless Cookware Thermo Control System): a color coded thermometer on the knob helps you to regulate the cooking temperature quickly and easily. Once the desired temperature is reached you can turn the heat to low and simmer to finish cooking.

Personally, I prefer knobs with Steam Control Valve, a whistle will sound to let you know that the heat can be reduced or turned off completely, this reduces your effort of "pot-baby-sitting".

This method of cooking takes some getting used to but once you get the hang of it, you will never go back to conventional cookware.

 You Can Stack Cook With Waterless Cookware!

This picture illustrates how you might cook a roast or chicken with potatoes and carrots in the bottom and a vegetable in the middle pan and another one in the top pan. When stack cooking, remember to always start cooking each individual pan on a burner until you hear the steam valve whistle, then close the valve and stack to finish cooking. Heat is transferred from the bottom pan to the top. (Not all waterless cookware is suitable for stacked cooking.)

Conclusion:

This method of waterless cooking takes some getting used to but once you get the hang of it, you will never go back to conventional cookware.

About the author: Joyce Walker is an enthusiastic cook. Over decades of cooking, she's experienced diverse cuisines and has utilized many kinds of specialty cookware. She has extensive knowledge of natural food and health and many years of practice of Tai chi and Yoga. She has come to recognize waterless cooking as the ultimate cooking technique for healthier and tastier meals for a person or family with a busy lifestyle.