Cooking food depends on one’s taste: boiled, steamed, oven cooked or braised. It is of course, the cooking method that will make the difference and will allow you to diversify your dishes.

The pressure cooker is a sophisticated and long lasting cooking item. To sear, roast, simmer, and defrost while preserving the vitamins and minerals, are the pressure cooker’s assets. 90% of all homes have one. How does it work? It cooks your food protected from contact with the air, under pressure with very little water. The vapor is released by a valve.

In recent years, the steamer has come forth. Often esthetic, and influenced by asian cooking, it keeps the wonders of vegetables tastes and their essential nutrients. Oval for fish, stackable with the numerous vapor baskets, adaptable since the basket can be fitted on a regular saucepan, transparent when made out of punctuated pyrex or in inox, steamers are very seductive.
The Cooking pot is still a necessity, handed down from generation to generation, its lines and colors are very fashionable: celadon green stoneware, oval cast iron, vivid enameled colors… the casserole is essential for stewing and rediscovering the authentic tastes of the past.
For daily cooking or gastronomic dinners for friends require you to possess a few essential items : saucepan, stewpot, frying pan, sauté-pan, stockpot, bain marie, stewpan, casserole, wok… kitchen equipment that should be as practical as necessary.

Each season brings its share of new ingredients; to cook them you should use specific tools : the couscouss cooker : conceived to cook couscous, it is made of two piled up recipients. The bottom one is a stewpot where vegetables and fish, or meat according to the recipe simmer. In the top one, the semolina cooks with the bouillon steam and thus takes in the flavors of the dish. The bottom of the top recipient is perforated.
The tajine dish is a nice cooking pottery, made of a bottom dish and of a cone top, ideal to savor typical oriental food.

The pancake pan, the asparagus cooker, the snail pan, the blinis pan, the paella pan, the fish kettle, and the fondue set… all these cooking objects allow you to make regional dishes that will be appreciated.

The saucepan ? Where would be the culinary art without the saucepan, i.e. the major ornament?

In copper, stainless steel, enameled with vivid colors, with a removable handle, the sauscepan has many tricks up its sleeve. You can warm up any liquid, prepare and cook vegetables, some fruit, meat or fish… For the long life of your saucepans, maintain them well. The smallest deterioration would be enough to ruin or to bring a bad taste to your dish.
The kettle is essential when preparing tea; it is the symbol of a house with warmth. It can be made of stainless steel with a charming whistle, or it can be electric in chromed brass, cordless and handy, or even translucent in order to check the water level. All these kettles boil water in very little time, with an immerging resistance and an automatic stop for the device when boiling.

The cake tin whether in brass, steel, white iron, aluminum, porcelain, glass, or silicone, will tell of the festivities calendar, the customs and traditions of our regions. The silicone tin is stress less. Supple and non-stick, this material allows a fast and easy turnout without having to butter the tin beforehand. These tins can remain in the freezer, or the fridge, they can be heated with their contents in the microwave (from -40 to + 250°C) and stand a dishwasher.
These tins come in different shapes and sizes and therefore allow you to make brioches, charlotte, dariole, génoise, madeleines, savarin, tarts and tartlets.

Beautiful, classy, competent, range cookers like pianos are by far your best ally for pleasurable cooking. Traditional, or modern, cookers not only allow you to simmer, size or roast; they are now adaptable to your kitchen’s dimensions. They are made of steel, enamelled cast iron, stainless steel, and can be either gas, electric, or solid fuel.
They can come with one, two or four ovens, all with multifunction, with catalyze, with pulsed air or static electricity ; they have two to seven burners, a fast cooking or a stewing ring, a compartment to use as a pressure cooker, draws for putting your utensils away.
The current cookers borrow past decoration elements that have made their success, all while being at the top of technology .
The hobs constitutes the central element in the kitchen. The cooking element is more powerful, safer, more intelligent, and more elegant. Using gas, electricity, waves, or induction, the hob combines energy and features to make life and cooking easier.

The oven is the king of fitted elements. It is set at the desired height in the wall or is pushed under a working surface. It is a pure technology product. It programs the cooking time, pilots the temperature to the degree, and ensures a fast rise to the initial temperature after opening the door. Microwaves have existed since 1945 and owe their presence to the birth of radar. The microwave makes the water molecules in the food vibrate and this, which by rubbing against the other particles produce fast heat. It is the first choice for express cooking and energy savings.

Cooking isn’t only all about setting festive tables for grand occasions, it is also about bringing simple but tasty food to everday’s table.