Do they heat fast if you want to boil water? Can you use it at high heat on a stove?
1416903
Yes but after a year I'm looking to get another set. The warranty is a joke you have to call hassle around and pay to send them back to be recoated before they are replaced. When they were new they worked great just doesn't hold up to cooking for family of five. Ps we never used any metal on the pans just wood and plastic spatulas.
1416904
I have found tht it takes awhile to get water to boil. It does heat evenly when cooking,. I don't usually còok using high heat.
1652476
That will, of course, depend on how high you run them. These burners can be set very low, which is why I bought this stove. All I can offer is that I was replacing a cylinder every few days while camping with my wife in a fashion that avoided prolonged use of the stove. Basically, we would cook breakfast, including pan frying potatoes and peppers. We also boiled a quart of water several times a day for drinks (coffee, cocoa, instant noodles) and to wash dishes. Dinner meals were typically cooked over the fire. My impression is that it runs through about a third more gas than a low-profile 1970's old coleman propane stove that has similar-styled, but lower-BTU burners. If you were going to run it at full blast a lot, I would not use 1 lb containers. Instead I would get a converter hose and use 5, 10 or 20lb refillable bottles.
1554321
I have the same question, can you actually cook meals and boil water, or doesnt it get hot enough, except to keep already cooked food warm?
1654583
You keep food warm but these are not like a Dutch Oven. I wouldn't try to bake something in them. Stove top is obviously great but not in the oven at high temps.
1998493
While the output from butane isn't equal to propane these units are more than capable of that temp in my opinion. I can get a 5 gallon pot of water to a boil pretty quickly. For emergencies, camping and remote use you can't beat them for the $.
1472565
Yes they can. They are all stainless so stovetop temp will have no effect on performance.
774746
Yes they do as you can see they are attached to the steel so they get pretty hot. This unit is a traditional Chinese Wok. Mean to be cooked over natural gas setting the wok inside with another steel and wood (handle) flange to lift it. Most folks don't have this. The cooking is lighting fast. Gotta season it. I have that kind of stove. If you aren't against teflon, there are many and they will have a safe handle. But if you have a large burner stove and lots of ventilation, you will be happy. Or you can use this but caution hot.
2256304
These are flat frying pans, so I would choose a sauce pan for boiling water, but as with all these types of pans, in order to keep them from losing the nonstick finish they should never be preheated over 350 degrees and should be hand washed, so if you were boiling water in them you would need to do it at that temperature and let it heat up a bit slower instead of blasting it on high for a quick boil.
1813742
Absolutely, but a reminder most of the new cookware is to be used as directed. They do NOT have to be on the highest heat, mainly because you boil the nutrition out of anything you are cooking. Bring your product to a boil and turn down the heat. Incidentally, I have a glass top stove. Happy Cooking J.
1545689
On my gas stove my pot gets a rolling boil when I make soup and use medium to low heat. So I think you should be able to easily boil water in it. I still love my pot and use it even when making relatively small amounts of food.
1464065
Yes. The handle does get hot, and you will need a glove or towel. The beauty of these authentic pans is that they get hot very fast...and hence are great for bringing liquids to a boil. The surface discourages sticking, too!
1445508
No, they haven't for me. I do not use high heat, though. Medium high is best.
2193327
I use it boil water using a volcano stove set up. So at least hot enough to boil water.
907807
Yes, they work great on a glass stove top. The only issue I have noticed is that on some of the lids on the pots tend to get hot.
171005
No. Definitely not. In fact, they are kind of like the opposite of non-stick pans. You have to be pretty careful when cooking foods that have a high risk of sticking to things in these pans. If you burn stuff on, it can be a chore to get all the burnt residue off. That being said, I think they're great pans. They heat very quickly and get very, very hot. In my experience they heat much faster, and get much hotter than any non-stick pan that I have seen (and I've seen a lot). They'll give you great control over what you're cooking (much better control than a non-stick pan), and you can cook some more creative things in them, but they are certainly not the pans to be looking for if you just want to make some quick scrambled eggs and have no chance of any egg sticking to the pan and being hard to clean. (All that said, there is one big advantage to cleaning these over cleaning a non-stick pan: you can stick it in the water immediately after using! Even if it's still hot. Doing that to a non-stick pan will destroy it. With these, it's no problem. In fact, being sure to do this is the best way to make sure that you don't end up with any hard-to-remove stains/residue)
1859990
I use them on a regular coil type electric stove. They heat so evenly and quickly it is not necessary to turn heat above about 2/3 for anything. The mfr recommends not overheating them.
776726
The metal parts are hot just like a teakettle on the stove. It holds about two cups of water that will boil in four minutes. They are well made. I use mine several times a day for tea water.