Saladmaster

True enough after the demo, I was so impressed with the Saladmaster products, particularly with the food processor and EOC. I was thinking, I could cut down my prep time with the food processor. Even though I love to cook, I’m not so fond of prepping stages especially with onions as after many years of “dealing” with them, I still shed tears chopping them. Still, though very taken with the products, I did not sign up to buy right there and then after the demo. I still need to think of it thoroughly as it is very expensive even with a free item that comes with any set that you purchase. Fortunately, it can be purchased through easy and manageable installment terms.

We first used the food processor when my partner and I made a new batch of our “Achara” or pickled green papaya. The fast chopping and shredding ability; and ease of assembly of the cones, we manage to reduce our preparation and cooking to almost half of our original time. As for the EOC, I was glad that I was able to use it to make one of our favorite foods, Pork Belly Barbecue sans the long wait for the charcoal to be ready and the great amount of smoke emitted during the traditional barbecuing method.

However, as any other good product, the Saladmaster EOC, skillet or pans do have a disadvantage. Unlike with non-stick pans or cookwares, when I do pan-frying or grilling, there will be a lot of burnt materials that would stick to it; and I would really have to wait for the Saladmaster powdered cleanser to work itself and sometimes I would repeat the cleaning or washing process.

Nevertheless, this slight drawback cannot outweigh the financial and health benefits. The product may be expensive at first glance but you are able to own it through easy payment terms, and not shell out a big sum in one go. The product may not be easy to clean if used for barbecuing or pan-frying but there’s the assurance of not putting additional “unwanted and unhealthy items” in your food (In the case when you use non-stick pans that have Teflon or PTFE as coating materials which may be harmful to health especially when used at very high temperature).

I initially invested in a basic Salad master cookware set and over the years my collection has expanded and I love them all to bits. In fact I have thrown all my other pots and pans in the house, they are so easy to clean and their after sales is excellent, I had an issue with a handle and it was replaced with no questions.... Overall I think this is the best investment we have made and one thing my husband and I agree.

2. Low heat yet original complete flavour Cantonese soup - The heat from stream that hold inside the pot help the Cantonese soup cook evenly and thoroughly bring out original complete flavour or the soup. You take about half the times or lesser to get the results of boiling soup at low fire on a normal pot for 2 or more hours.

Cooking is an art, I am enjoy creating different dishes using Saladmaster. My favourite dishes are: Korean kimchee soup, stream dimsum (Cantonese "siu mai"), Chicken rice, my husband chicken Briyanni Rice and butterfly chicken. It brings many joy when my husband and myself rush to cook for our dinner and feeling so proud for ourselves when the dinner served so delicious????

I repeated all dishes from memory and was pretty pleased. Sadly I've made micro scratches because I prefer using metal utensils over plastic/silicone. But it's OK as the pots are stainless steel. They just don't look in mint condition anymore but I believe their stainless steel cleaner can help to polish it. Funny story, one of the attendees I met that night, I hooked up with her years later and she's now my wife enjoying my set today, so that night was a double win. :) I didn't get the electric skillet or the shredder which were demo-ed because they weren't in the set and my spend that night was more than I had planned.

Let us do some thinking. You drive for 10 minutes to your local steakhouse and skim the menu, realising there’s nothing under $50 for a nice piece of juicy steak. Your credit card starts to cry as you receive a 600 gram oily chunk of meat with one small leaf, demolished in 10 seconds and failing to make you fool. Now imagine never having these worries, Saladmaster is here. Anyone, regardless of skill, can cook a 5 star restaurant level plate of food that is juicy and beautiful, packed with many different flavours that’ll make your tongue in awe, and leave large amounts of money back into your pocket, for life!

The build quality of the kitchenware is tough and well-built, with it being made out of 316Ti hard stainless steel, that gives many of its incredible and impressive cooking properties and a sense of luxury worth using it, every time you cook. It’s a shame that the amount of oil in the average plate of food is abundant, that can really damage your body if consumed for a long time. However, with the Saladmaster we can flip the tables around, because you do not need oil at all, you may as well chuck it in the bin, because our cooked food is packed with the maximum amount of daily vitamins and minerals in a healthy dose of beautifully cooked food. You can live the life of eating tasty healthy food without the worries of oil and lack of nutrients.

In fact, only a small amount of work is needed to produce these amazing types of foods. You just pop the food in the pan and close the lid. Wallah. Has it ever been this easy to cook delicious healthy food with minimal effort before? It’s got to the point that I can pause the typing of this review, quickly put some dough and some olives and other vegetables to make a pizza, putting it in the Saladmaster pot in 10 minutes, creating a pizza worth $30 in Pizza shops.

On a personal level, this really has revolutionised the way we eat. Within a few months we’ve cycled between beautiful salmon, porterhouse steak, pizza, fish, and chips and more frequently every week. We leave the table with smiles, and plates completely cleaned and wiped of food, rarely seeing any leftovers. Now this will go on for decades as the Saladmaster passes down the family, making it 110% worth the money. Just as the iPhone completely took the phone industry by storm, the Saladmaster has been revolutionising the cooking industry. All in all, this is one of if not the best investment I’ve ever made, and cannot recommend the Saladmaster kitchenware enough for others to try. I can bet my money that when you try this, you’ll never go back.

When I brought up the separation at the lips they blamed it on the dishwasher and yes, we did put them in the dishwasher but we were told it was fine. I guess it was because they were now willing to replace them. With shipping, replacing the pots will cost around $600. When looking at a retail price of $5,200. It is worth it but after having owned this cookware for 15 years I don't think it is worth $600 let alone $5,200. Is it nice cookware? Yes and if it hadn't warped or began separating I would have kept using it without complaint. In the end I bought a Rolls Royce but I'm not paying the price of two Camrys to replace it.

Now, there are a lot of types of stainless that are called "medical grade", but 316 is far superior to all others in terms of corrosion resistance and ease of cleaning. All of the components, after 18 years of heavy use, look like the day we bought them. The oil-filled skillet is great for making ossobuco, chicken parm, and lots of other things, and even though we use the processor constantly for making salads, shredding vegetables, and grating hard cheeses (we haven't bought grated cheese in years — we buy it by the block—shred it, and freeze it) the cones for the processor have not lost their edge at all. We'll be cooking with our set for many more years. There are knock-off products out there, but we would never consider recommending anything but Saladmaster to anyone.

Ed