Basic Cookware Care
Congratulations on your decision to purchase the Health Craft Nutritional Cooking System. Your decision will pay lifelong dividends in healthful, flavorful and nutritional foods. The vapor seal method of cooking assures you of maximum food value retention, and allows you to prepare your foods without water or added fats. Take a moment now to acquaint yourself with the proper use and care of these fine utensils. By following a few simple steps you will enjoy the maximum benefits and become an expert with Healthy Craft waterless, greaseless, induction cookware.
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Cleaning Before First Use
Before using the cookware, wash each piece thoroughly in one-half cup vinegar and hot, soapy water. This initial washing is essential to insure that all manufacturing oils are removed before cooking food. After this initial washing, normal washing by hand or in a dishwasher is all that is necessary to clean your cookware.
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Daily Care
After each use, wash your cookware in warm soapy water with a dish cloth or nylon plastic net. Do not use metal scouring pads, as they will scratch the surface of the cookware. Your cookware may also be placed in the dishwasher.
Discoloration
Occasionally, when cooking starchy foods or searing meats a stain may appear on the inside surface of the pan. A blue or golden brown discoloration may also appear on the outside of the pan from overheating the unit. These stains are easily removed with a good non-abrasive stainless steel cleaner. First, make a paste with the cleaner and water. Then, using a paper towel or cloth, rub the paste over the stained area, rinse and dry.
Recommended Stainless Steel Cleaners; Barkeeper’s Friend, Kleen King liquid cleaner, and Cameo.
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Burned Foods When finished cooking, fill the pan with warm water and let it soak while you enjoy your meal. If burned foods are not easily removed by normal washing, fill the pan partially full of water and bring to a boil long enough to loosen the food, then clean with stainless steel cleaner.
Dried Fruits
Do not place the cover on the pan when cooking sulfur dried foods or food labeled sulfites added as it may stain the cover. Boil liquid 10 minutes prior to covering when cooking these foods.
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Surface Care
While our surgical stainless steel quality cookware is made of extremely durable metal, it is not impervious to corrosion, pitting or spotting. Foods such as mustard, mayonnaise, lemon juice, tomatoes, tomato paste, vinegar, salt, dressings, or condiments may etch stainless steel if allowed to remain in contact with the surface for a long period of time. Strong bleaches can have the same effect.
Pitting may result if salt is allowed to remain on the bottom of the pan. Pitting looks like small white spots. This pitting does not, in any way, affect the performance or usefulness of your pans, nor are they a defect in the metal or the workmanship. To avoid pitting, salt should only be added to boiling liquid and stirred until it is completely dissolved.
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The Vapor Seal Method
Mother Nature designed foods to give us everything we need, naturally. Food contains abundant flavor, vitamins, minerals, digestive enzymes, and color. However, many cooking methods can rob food of its natural qualities.
Fortunately, the Vapor Seal method of Health Craft waterless, greaseless cookware saves money, work, time, energy, flavor, vitamins, minerals and enzymes. “Waterless, Greaseless” cooking is possible because a vapor seal is created around the lid; and heat is distributed evenly across the bottom and up the sides of the cookware.
This process cooks food in its own natural liquids for nutrition, flavor-filled meals. Food shrinkage is greatly reduced, making waterless, greaseless cooking more economical than ordinary cooking methods. The seal is maintained by using low heat. Health Craft cookware is the most energy efficient cookware on the market.
The vapor seal method retains the nutritional value of your foods by eliminating the following process that drains food of its natural goodness. Peeling fruits and vegetables removes the vitamins and minerals directly beneath the skin. We do not recommend you peel these foods; a good scrub with a vegetable brush is all that is necessary. Boiling sterilizes food, dissolves water soluble minerals, and destroys both the flavor and color. The vapor seal method cooks food completely in its own natural moisture, without added water and without boiling.
High temperature destroys vitamins and minerals and causes food to dehydrate and shrink. For example when you smell a roast cooking in the oven you’re really smelling the natural meat juices that have been transformed in to vapor. The high temperature combined with open cooking greatly adds to meat shrinkage. The Vapor Seal Method cooks meats on medium to low heat, retaining the natural juices which tenderize and flavor the meat. This method also retains the natural juices and flavor and decreases meat shrinkage dramatically.
Oxidation of food occurs when cooking without a cover exposing food to the air, and reduces the quality of the food significantly. These qualities are locked into the food when the vapor seal is formed, keeping the aroma and natural goodness in the pan. For example, you will not know if broccoli or cabbage is being cooked until the cover is removed from the pan.
Last but not least, adding fat and oil in food preparation make food seven times harder to digest, and it adds excessive calories. Using the vapor seal method, the natural properties of the food keeps it from sticking to the high quality stainless steel pan. Plus the vapor seal method retains natural flavors without the need to add salt, butter or oil after cooking to restore flavor.
The Vapor Seal Cooking Method is very different from traditional cooking methods because you do not need to add moisture or fats. Everything else you already know about cooking applies, once you know the Vapor Seal Method.
Simple Basic Rules
Always use the correct size pan, one that the food nearly fills. Cooking with a pan too large for the food can destroy vitamins and minerals, dry your foods, and possibly cause the food to burn.
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Create a Vapor Seal Fill a pan with fresh or frozen vegetables. Rinse in cold water and drain, the water that clings to the food combine with natural juices to cook the waterless way. Cover the pan, close the vent, and place the pan over low heat. When the cover is hot to the touch and the cover spins freely on a cushion of water, the vapor seal is formed. Continue cooking until done. This is the waterless part of this new cooking method. TIP: If the heat is too low, the cover will not spin. If the heat is too high, the cover will spit moisture. If you cook several vegetables together with little or no water there will be no interchange of flavor or colors. Each vegetable will be full of its own flavor and valuable nutrients.
Waterless, greaseless cooking is a lower-temperature method that can be used on any type of range. Lower heat retains moisture and keeps food from burning. The following are general rules for heat use. MEDIUM-HIGH HEAT For heating utensils to sear or brown meat For re-moisturizing dried foods by steaming over water until the water boils. For pan broiling thick steaks or chops (1/4” or thicker) MEDIUM HEAT For pan broiling thin steaks, chops, hamburger or chicken breast For quick starting fresh fruits and vegetables until vapor seal is forms To start direct top-of-the-range baking LOW OR SIMMER For cooking roasts and meatloaf after browning For cooking fresh vegetables and fruits after the vapor seal forms For cooking less tender cuts of meat after browning all sides For finishing top-of-the-range baking after the pan cover is hot Don’t Peek Resist the urge to peek: When the cover is removed during the cooking period, heat and moisture escape and the vapor seal is broken. This lengthens the cooking time.
Follow time charts, recipes and general instructions for meats, vegetables, fruits, etc., under their specific headings.
Some gas and commercial gas ranges may not allow you to lower the heat enough before the flame goes out. Health Craft is designed to cook at lower temperatures, and cooking at high temperatures may cause your handles to get extremely hot and may even blister. This can be easily solved with a heat diffuser, which defuses the flame, allowing you to cook at lower temperatures. |
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Cooking Meats without Grease
TIP: Always roast meat in the smallest utensil into which it will fit. This will result in a tender, juicy cut, and it will shrink less, providing more servings per pound, and savings on food dollars. Proper Temperature for Roasting: To obtain the proper cooking temperature for roasting, the cover must spin freely on a cushion of moisture emitting tiny bubbles. If the cover spits moisture, the temperature is too hot. |
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Top-of-the-Range Baking
Health Craft waterless greaseless cookware is designed to bake cakes, cornbreads, cookies, casseroles, meatloaf, ribs and lasagna in the pan on top of the range more efficiently than in the oven. For example, to bake a small cake, coat the inside of a small fry pan or 2-qt with non-stick cooking spray. Then pour the cake batter into the pan until the pan is half full, cover and close the vent. Set the pan on a burner and adjust the heat to medium. When the lid is hot to touch (about 5 minutes), reduce the heat to low and finish baking (about 10-12 minutes). NOTE: Higher altitudes require longer baking times. |
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Eggs & Omelets
Some food items with an egg base; omelets, pancakes, crepes, French toast, etc., have no natural oil lubricant and will require oil or butter to cook with to prevent sticking. For detailed instruction, see section of Eggs & Cheese. |
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Features to Consider when purchasing Waterless Cookware
Don’t be fooled by imitations and look-a-likes… Waterless, greaseless cookware is available in many styles, brand names, and price points. Health Craft Cookware is made in the USA, but most of the low priced waterless cookware is made in China.
What’s the difference?
To be labeled stainless steel and pan must be at least 18/8 stainless, meaning 18 parts Chromium and 8 parts Nickel, for a total of 26 parts. What then are the other 74 parts? Foreign made stainless will often rust, corrode, turn blue, black and grey, and may even warp, buckle or bend. In essence, you get what you pay for.
Health Craft’s surgical stainless steel alloys combine chromium, nickel, vanadium, titanium and steel to create a hard outer ply surface that is durable, resistant to wear, easy to clean, sanitary, and can be highly polished for an attractive, permanent finish.
While most of our competitors place a slab of aluminum on the bottom of their stainless steel cookware to conduct heat, Health Craft is induction compatible surgical stainless steel with Multi-Ply Full Body aluminum core, and weighted vented covers that form the essential Vapor Seal for waterless cooking.
Our multi-ply full body aluminum core pans are excellent heat conductors, providing the most efficient use of energy while cooking. They spread heat evenly to prevent hot spots, and the surgical stainless steel cooking surface keep food from sticking and burning.
Health Craft is made in the USA, providing jobs for Americans.
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Self Storing Covers When selecting a brand, self storing covers, where the lids can be inverted and nest perfectly in the pan for easy storage should be a consideration.
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The top knob should rest on a finger guard to prevent your fingers from touching the hot lid. Both the knob and the finger guard should be made of heat resistant material that will handle oven temperatures up to 350°F (on bake). The top knob insert should also have a stainless steel or brass fitting to prevent stripping, andtThe handles and top knobs should also be dishwasher safe.
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Snap-On Handles with Flame Guards
Old fashioned handles that screw on are 1940’s technology; look for Snap-On handles with secure stainless steel fittings. The handle should be protected by a stainless steel flame guard between the handle and pan. Attachment by stainless steel fittings welded to the pan will ensure stability, resistant to corrosion, stay tight and locked into position. Health Craft features a push-button and snap-on handles that can be easily removed, turning the pans into Bakeware.
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Exclusive Pushbutton Long Handle on the 3/4 QT Saucepan, 1.25-QT Sauté/Saucepan and the Medium Sauté Skillet remove easily for oven baking and on the grill. |
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Self Serving Covers... |
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Rivets and Rolled Edges No rivets should penetrate the inside of the pans. Bacteria from grease and food particles can become trapped around rivets, making such a pan design much more difficult to clean. Rolled edges around the top of the rim also trap food, grease and bacteria. Edges should be smooth and polished for easy cleaning and sanitation.
Warp Resistant Bottoms
The bottom of the pans should be designed to assure the utensil hugs the burner for maximum heat efficiency, but should also be slightly concave (paneled) in the center so the pan will flatten out when heated and contract when cooled to prevent warping, making the pans practical for use on all types of ranges, including smooth glass top surfaces and the new induction cook-tops. Health Craft is one of only a few waterless, greaseless cookware’s to panel the bottoms of the pans to prevent warping.
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Stack Cooking Stack cooking lets you cook with more pans than you have burners. You'll appreciate this when you’re cooking for a large family gathering or a special holiday dinner. A number of foods can be cooked on a single burner, saving energy and money. Where you see a saucepan sitting on top of a dome cover or an inverted pan, it may not have started out there. You must begin cooking most raw vegetables in a vegetable saucepan on a burner at low or medium-low heat. When you have formed the Vapor Seal and the lid spins freely on a cushion of water, place the saucepan on the dome cover to finish cooking. Precooked foods such as canned vegetables or thawed frozen vegetables are the exceptions. You can start them out on top of a stack. Health Craft Waterless, Greaseless Cookware manufactured with Full Body Construction provides the best controlled method of cooking. It allows you to cook your meals with low temperatures and even heat distribution giving you all the health benefits of waterless cooking & greaseless cooking and the convenience of stack cooking, thanks to the vapor-sealed covers that lock in flavor and nutrients. Our Health Craft cookware sets combine innovative design and the highest quality materials to create cookware that provide more stack cooking combinations than any other cookware in the industry, and it will last you a lifetime.
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Multi-Ply Metal in Health Craft developed by MIT
Our NEW and innovative Health Craft Induction Cookware incorporates Full-Body Construction to provide perfect heat conduction, preventing heat loss during and after cooking. The technology used in creating our Full Body Construction cookware was developed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and is exclusive to Health Craft.
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Exclusive Features* Thermal-Plex Plenco™ Handles & Knobs oven safe to 300°F “White” 350°F “Black”*
Cut and Polished Rims for a Better Look, Better Vapor Seal, and Easy to Clean*
Stainless Steel Ferrules and Connections to Avoid Stripping and Rusting*
Name, Size of Pan, and Customer Service Phone Number on each Pan*
Snap-On & Push Button Handles (no screws to continuously tighten)*
No Screws, Rivets, or Weld Marks to collect Food and Bacteria*
Designed for all stovetops including Induction
Recommended by Leading Cookbook Authors*
Stack Cooking 5-ply High Dome Covers*
Packed by Sets with No Duplications*
Self Serving and Self Storing Covers*
Vapor-Sealed Weighted Covers*
Hanging Loop on all Handles*
Flame Guards on all Handles
Dishwasher Safe
Vapor Vent™*
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Induction Cooking Health Craft uses the principles of electromagnetism to heat the 438 magnetic Surgical Stainless Steel on the outside, transferring heat quickly and efficiently to the inside. Induction Technology offers levels of efficiency, control and safety unavailable from electric and gas cook-tops or microwave ovens. With ever increasing energy costs Induction Cookware is quickly becoming the choice of millions of homeowners and professionals worldwide.
The induction cook-top has inductor coils under the ceramic surface, when a pan is set on the range an electric current passes through the coil creating a pulsing magnetic field. The metals of the pan have a natural resistance to the movement of electrons causing the pan to heat up.
It’s the pan, not the cook-top that heats up and cooks the food. Nothing outside the pan is affected by the magnetic field. As soon as the pan is removed, the range shuts off, and heat generation ceases immediately, saving energy dollars.
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Seven (7) key advantages of Health Craft Induction Cookware: 1. FASTER because energy is directly transferred within the pan’s T430 Surgical Stainless Steel metal, heating is faster than gas! 2. SAFER because there is no open flame, red-hot coil or other radiant heat source to ignite fumes or flammable materials, the Health Craft Cookware helps to prevent burns and kitchen fires. 3. CLEANER because with no grates or carbon build-up to worry about, clean up is a breeze; just use a damp cloth and wipe over the smooth, easy-to-clean ceramic glass surface. 4. COOLER because gas ranges produce unused heat that goes into your kitchen, increasing your cooling costs, with Health Craft Induction Cookware, almost no wasted heat is produced since all the heat is being generated within the pan itself. 5. CHEAPER because 80% of every dollar you spend on energy goes right into the pan! Gas delivers 43% of the energy you pay for to the pan and electric about 44 to 53%. Plus, when you remove the pan from the induction surface, the unit immediately goes into standby mode, using virtually no energy whatsoever. 6. EVEN HEATING because the T430 magnetic stainless steel on the outside of the Health Craft cookware heats at the same level uniformly, there can be no hot spots. The computerized monitoring feature allows maximum heating of the pan. 7. PORTABLE the Health Craft Induction Cooking Unit can be used safely and efficiently in a boat or recreational vehicle. |
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Warranty
Health Craft Cookware: Health Craft warrants your Cookware and accessory pieces will be free from defects in material and workmanship, and will not permanently stain, rust, pit, or corrode for 50 years from the date of purchase, and will be replaced FREE of charge if found to be defective. Handles, Vent Discs, and Top Knobs will be replaced for the cost of the part plus handling, packaging and USPS shipping. See Replacement Parts
Health Craft Kitchen Machine Food Cutter: Health Craft warrants that your Health Craft Kitchen Machine will be free from defects in material and workmanship for 10 years. The square suction cup base is warranted for 1 year from the date of purchase.
Cutlery: Health Craft warrants that our Cutlery will be free from defects in materials and workmanship, and will not permanently stain, chip, melt or break for 50 years from the date of purchase. See www.ArrowheadCutlery.com for warranty for lifetime sharpening and reconditioning.
Note: Knives should be able to maintain a keen cutting edge provided they are used properly and periodically sharpened. Knives with serrated edges should be realigned with a ceramic sharpener or sharpening steel. We do not recommend electric sharpeners or placing your knives in the dishwasher. We recommend hand washing and drying.
Implied Warranties: ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES WHICH THE PURCHASER MAY HAVE ARE LIMITED IN DURATION TO THE SAME DURATION AS THE WRITTEN WARRANTY DESCRIBED ABOVE FOR YOUR COVERED PRODUCT. Some states do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, accordingly, the above limitation may not apply to you.
Warranty Performance: Should your covered product not comply with our warranty, return it to Health Craft postage prepaid and Health Craft will, at its option, either repair or replace the product. Health Craft may replace the product with any equivalent product or with a product incorporating a new technology or design.
Damage in Shipment: Health Craft will replace any covered product damaged in shipment free of charge if you notify Health Craft within 30 days after your receipt of the product. Simply contact the Customer Service Center. As a condition to replacement, Health Craft may require you to make the damaged product available for pick-up at Health Craft’s expense.
Purchase Option: If your covered product is damaged by fire or storm, or is stolen, you may purchase new replacement product at one-half (50%) of current retail price. A valid police or fire report is required for discounted purchase.
Limitation of Remedies: No representative or other person is authorized to assume for Health Craft any other liability in connection with the sale of covered products. Repair or replacement, at Health Craft's option, shall be your remedy under this warranty and in no event shall Health Craft be liable for any incidental or consequential damages, losses or expenses. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, accordingly, the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.
Legal Rights: This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights which vary from State to State.
Return of Product: To obtain warranty service and for a Return Authorization Number and vendor or manufacture address. DO NOT Return a Product for Repair or Warranty without receiving a Return Authorization Number RA# and Vendor Address.
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