Gourmet Standard:Tri-Ply Cookware

Gourmet Standard has provided the discriminate professional or home chef with an excellent resource with their Tri-Ply cookware. Cook’s Illustrated—the well-known kitchenware testers—rated Gourmet Standard’s Tri-Ply Sauté pan as the best buy, and going so far as to call it at least the equal of the much more expensive All-Clad sauté pan, which had thus far been the absolute favorite of the popular test team. Why is this Tri-Ply construction so succesful?

A Tri-Ply construction such as this consists of 2 outer layers of stainless steel, with an inner core of aluminum. The stainless steel give the pans a beautifully polished outlook and is nonreactive, while the aluminum core disk works as the main heat retainer. Aluminum retains heat better than stainless steel, and distributes it evenly. Aluminum is one of those materials (like copper and cast iron) that reacts detrimentally with some kinds of food (like acidic foods). This could even be toxic. The outer layers of stainless steel make sure that no such reactions occur during cooking. But, while aluminum is a great heat conductor, stainless steel conducts heat poorly. It is, as said, nonreactive, and also very hard, smooth and therefore easy to clean and polish. In this way, the Tri-Ply construction puts the two types of materials to their maximum use. The benefits of both are used optimally.

If you are looking for very high quality cookware that is safe and durable, but also gives excellent cooking results, Gourmet Standard’s Tri-Ply cookware line is a good option. This is especially true considering that Gourmet Standard offers their products for about half the price as some cookware of equal quality. Quality and relatively low pricing combined makes Gourmet Standard’s Tri-Ply cookware an excellent option.