Tableware for glass-ceramic plates: choose the best

Can you be congratulated on purchasing a new glass ceramic hob? Should disappoint you a little. The fact is that you will have to say goodbye to your old (and maybe not so old) frying pans and saucepans. Perhaps they will serve you at the dacha, but you will have to change your home cooking utensils. This is necessary to ensure that your hob serves you as long as possible. You will need special dishes for glass-ceramic plates.

Why are your favorite and well-proven pots and pans not suitable for a new and long-awaited cooker? If you used to cook on a gas stove, the bottom of your dishes became uneven, as it is heated unevenly by the flame. The same can be said about the electric stove. Modern and demanded glass heat-resistant dishes for too long warm up, and it is difficult, and sometimes impossible to quickly reduce the temperature, so it is not very convenient to use.

Badly conducts heat glassware, and pots and pans with an aluminum or copper bottom melt, leaving almost unremovable traces on the surface of the plate. It would seem that there is no choice, but let's listen to the recommendations of the manufacturers of hobs, perhaps they know what utensils their plates need.

It turns out that it's not so difficult to make a choice. The dishes for glass-ceramic plates should have a perfectly flat and flat bottom. This ensures a greater return of heat from the hot plate to the dishes. It is important that the bottom does not have any roughness, relief patterns. Ideally, it should be dark and matte. It is equally important to pay attention to the thickness of the bottom. It should be thick. Due to this, it is not deformed, and, consequently, the thermal conductivity is maintained.

Special dishes for glass-ceramic plates, or rather, its bottom, is a three- and five-layer "sandwiches" made of various metals and their alloys. Such a bottom is called heat distribution. For example, quite often two layers of stainless steel are used to make a similar "sandwich", between which a layer of pure aluminum is laid.

If your hob is equipped with an induction hob, then, by buying pots for glass-ceramic plates, stock up with a magnet. The induction plate is designed in such a way that it can work exclusively with ferromagnetic materials. If the magnet easily sticks to the bottom, then do not hesitate, this frying pan suits you. Glass, ceramic, brass, copper and aluminum dishes on such a panel will be useless. Due to such high requirements for the dishes, the feedback on the glass ceramic plates is often quite negative. Many housewives simply do not want to part with their favorite pots and pans, which are used to preparing delicious lunches and dinners.

Tableware for glass-ceramic plates has many engineering and technological solutions. Every element is calculated in it. For example, the lid handle is thermally insulated, so you will not get a burn, accidentally grabbing it by hand.

Today, a large number of dishes are on display in stores, which domestic and foreign manufacturers position as suitable for glass ceramics. Do not flatter yourself, it does not always turn out to be true. In all this diversity is only a small part - really dishes for glass-ceramic plates. Look at the marking, it will be indicated there that this is the model you are looking for.