Because of the unique design and the purity of the raw material, MEC pots have the ability to naturally lock almost all the steam inside the pot, letting food cook with its own steam. There are many valuable benefits to using MEC pressure pots instead of a conventional pressure cooker and those benefits are discussed here:
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When evaluating something to be the best, the most important criteria is to find out how well it can fulfill its core purpose: in this case it is to cook your food safely and nutritiously?
Unfortunately most conventional pressure cookers are made of highly reactive metals and the high amounts of pressure inside can quickly and easily destroy the delicate nutritive cells in your food.
As a result of this forceful cooking, your food…
If I were to explain this in simple terms, ascorbic acid that is added as a preservatives to packaged food (including baby food), that which is conveniently labeled Vitamin C is not really vitamin C. It is a synthetically derived ingredient that is chemically extracted from corn (most probably GMO) or rice starch. This derivative is 10 times more acidic than the pure & natural one found in a vitamin complex as found in whole foods…
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You can make excellent healthy, home made yogurt in your MEC pots. It turns out more delicious, thicker and for sure healthier… and all you need is the pot! No need for any additional gadgets.
It’s easy to make, and there are 3 steps involved: heat the milk to just before boiling point (till small bubbles form on the surface), let it cool down to about 110 degrees. Add yogurt culture. Set in the oven with lid on and oven light on. Let it incubate for 6-8 hours….
Read MoreThe thickness of the walls, the difference in finishing the bottom versus the side walls, the inert and toxic free nature of the raw material, the design and position of the stay-cool handles… all of these features make it by far the best and safest Dutch Oven in the market.
The thickness determine the weight, so with extensive testing & research we’ve arrived at just the right thickness that will allow food to cook perfectly without burning and at the same time make the pot lighter and easy to carry, For example…
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If you are looking for a healthy substitute for meat, lentils are for you. Teeming with nutrition especially protein and Iron and low in fat, lentils fill you up without feeling the need for fatty foods. Lentils are tiny beans belonging to the legume family. They add color to your kitchen racks as they come in black, green, red, white, yellow and brown shades. Lentils are available throughout the year and can be stored fresh in air tight containers for up to 2 years!
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By Definition, a Dutch Oven is a name given to a two piece cooking utensil that includes a pot along with its well fitting lid. It has thicker walls than a regular pot and it is used on the stove top or in the oven for cooking anything from soups, stews to all kinds of rice and other casseroles dishes.
Ideally a Dutch oven should work both on the stove-top and in the oven; this gives the pot greater flexibility & makes it multi functional.
…MEC Dutch ovens require little to no monitoring when cooking. You’ll have to stir only occasionally. Heat given to the pot is held inside so all recipes can cook beautifully just on medium heat, and many times you can conveniently…
Read MoreIf you are looking for a healthy substitute for meat, lentils are for you. Teeming with nutrition and low in …
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So what is so bad and unsafe about this paint like substance and why is it strictly labeled “toxic, do not pour in the drain”? Glaze is a composition of about 10-17 different chemicals –different ones put together to form a ceramic paint that is toxic in its raw form and generates toxic fumes during firing. How much of it could then leach into food, and the harm thereof, was another big question?
Just out of curiosity, I searched some more to see if there were really any non-toxic glazes –surprisingly…
Read MoreThe directions are the same when cooking pasta in your pot. You don’t have to wait for the water to boil.
Add pasta to water on the stove (don’t wait for the water to boil), close the lid and let it cook, check the pot in 20-25 minutes. Using a fork, press the pasta against the wall of the pot to check if it’s cooked. If it’s not cooked give it a few more minutes, check again in a few minutes and turn the stove off when the pasta looks like it’s almost done. Turn the stove off and give it 5 minutes and until al dente…
Is it just a coincidence or is there something more to the fact that many, many civilizations around the world that cooked and eat food from pure-clay pots were also cancer-free??
The community that I come from is living proof of this fact. I come from a community in South India and lived there 24 years of my life. I knew one person in all my years that had cancer (and that one person was a tobacco addict—so the connection there is obvious). And no, it’s not because people there couldn’t diagnose it—India is one place that a pressing health problem, especially one that has such drastic results, cannot go un-diagnosed. The medical science has been around for more than 4 to 5 thousand years.
I think it’s because by cooking in clay people were able to eliminate one main way for carcinogens…
Read MoreOne of the first things that convinced me that Clay Cooking was a worthy pursuit to dedicate my life was after tasting a soup with lentils cooked in a clay pot! So many years later I still remember the taste, it was like nothing I’d tasted before, there was so much more flavor and richness to each grain of lentil. My experience since that 1st time has only increased in appreciation for food cooked in clay…
It’s very easy and quick to make soups in your clay pots. Here’s a list of few things to keep in mind:
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Love the idea of home cooked beans, but having trouble getting them to cook right? Beans turning out half cooked? Dry or Thirsty? Cook them in your MEC clay pots to get evenly cooked, moist, delicious & nutritious beans or lentils every time.
All pots are not made equal and depending on the pot you’re using, the food can have different results. When made in an inert, unglazed 100% natural clay pot, the pot does not react to the food and there is no leaching of it’s ingredients — like with metal, glazed or enameled pots. Your beans & lentils cook with far-infrared heat emitting from the walls,..
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It’s very easy to steam vegetables in your MEC pots. All you need is your pot and its lid, no additional gadgets needed. Steaming vegetables in you MEC clay pot takes less time and the vegetables get cooked more thoroughly without losing their shape, taste AND Nutritional Value. Steam locking lids hold all the steam inside making your veggies very juicy and delicious!
Read MoreAs much as we are about clay cookware we are also about cooking healthy food in the clay pot so to that end we have started our blog where you will find many healthy clay pot recipes from around the world, cooking tips and How-To tutorials on using your pots for the multi-cooking functionality it was…
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