Healthy & Green Cookware
Many people think that cooking in clay pots is the new fad, but this is far from the truth. In fact, cooking with clay cookware dates back to our earliest and oldest civilizations. Despite the numerous differences with civilizations of the past, the one binding feature seems to have been...
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Living Cancer Free: What Cookware to Use?
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...
READ MORESafest Cookware | Why Glazing Was Not An Option.
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...
READ MOREWhat Exactly Is A Dutch Oven, And Which Is The Best?
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,...
READ MOREIs Ascorbic Acid really Vitamin C?
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)...
READ MOREMake Jams, Jellies & Pickles -- Without any Additives
Fresh Strawberry Jam made without additives or thickeners, in MEC pure clay pots.Ingredients:
3 -4 cups of Strawberries – washed and sliced
11/4 cup of brown sugar or Jaggery (sugar cane syrup)
1 medium sized lemon juice and zest.
A pinch of salt.
Recipe Cooking Method:
Add sugar, salt, lemon juice and zest to your MEC...
READ MOREHow is MEC different from Ceramic, stoneware, porcelain, and glazed ware?
Ceramic clay, porcelain, stoneware are a composition of different chemicals, oxides and metal ores. Unfortunately the glazes and enamel used as coating on top of this ware is also made from toxic ingredeints - best not used/consumed with food. The percentage of natural clay, if atall used, is anywhere from 4...
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MEC’s Pure Clay Cookware
Metal, Ceramic, Enameled, Glazed cookware.
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Is 100% Inert. No metals, chemicals or toxins. No leaching.
Many different metals, chemicals, inorganic oxides are used in the making. Highly reactive & prone to leaching.
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Food cooks with a gentle form of heat that helps retains all its nutrients.
Harsh form of heat destroys...
READ MORECooking for your kids – a different challenge today
We all remember the times where the most important thing for a child food-wise was to eat his or her vegetables. Today, it’s not that simple anymore. Today, cooking for your kids, for you entire family in fact, has become a real challenge, because you have to take be careful...
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