Kitchencraft Cookware And Waterless Cooking

Q: For God's sake, make sure it's an architect that can cook! The previous kitchen here was a professional kitchen designer/architect job. Very good quality units, bugger all use fer cooking in! Well, you could boil an egg, or make a cuppa tea... When I redesigned it, I was rather stuck for space - the 'room' is 17 ft long and about 5'11" wide, but has no walls! well, a bit of an exaggeration, but: Far end wall complete: 5'11" wide, floor to ceiling. I have to have the hob here on the wall between us and the house next door (we are mid terrace) or it's too close to the windows for the regulations... I do now have space BOTH sides of the hob, so turning pot handles to safe, cool positions is easy. Left wall: outside wall, two windows, with the central heating/hot water (gas) boiler on the wall between the windows, so we have a little available full height wall in the corner, but the rest is only waist high... The upper cupboards wrap round the corner from the cooker hood to the window. Right wall: full size door to glory Hole (cupboard under stairs for storing wine, root veggies, vacuum cleaner, wine racks, ironing board, etc. 3' wall: full height. Archway to dining room... If I put a cupboard unit against that little bit of wall, I bump into it all the time as it makes the gap between the wall and the units on the other side too narrow. I have what's called a 'Galley L' layout - down the right hand wall under the windows and boiler, round the end, and round the arch into the dining room, where I have a double door 1m unit. The cooker (hob and oven built in under it) are in the end wall with an extractor fan venting outside over it. I have a small cupboard to the left of the oven, and the corner base unit to the right. I can't open the corner cupboard and the oven at the same time, but this is a minor inconvenience. I did fit a small larder fridge in the living room end of the kitchen - not an ideal place, but better than not having one at all. The design is great, the look is lovely (stainless steel sink, hob top and oven door, fridge behind decor panel, dark blue marble look mirror finish work tops, pale beech effect doors), but the hassles have been horrific. It's a very long and involved saga, but basically, for anyone UK based, I'd eschew anything fitted by Moben/Kitchens Direct (or Dolphin Bathrooms - all the same pile of odure) if I were you. A year and a bit from initial fitting I'm still waiting for them to sort out a problem they caused, and I persuaded them to give me a nice cheque in compensation for the crappy after sales disservice they mete out to customers. I still do not dare put the tiles up, as they have a cupboard and drawer unit to see to, having disturbed the pipe work behind it going from the water inlet point to the conservatory, and caused a leak that has at the very least, destroyed the cupboard unit under the sink, meaning they will have to remove the sink AGAIN and fit it for the third time! If anything else goes wrong with it, they can come and take the whole lot away, give me my ?6000 back, and I'll go spend it somewhere like MFI or John Lewis, or even B&Q! 'Scuse me while I run away and scream!

A: The price is only one issue here. I have looked at a number of sites of manufacturers of this stuff. It is basically multi-ply cookware like All-Clad. There is nothing that I can see that would make it any more waterless or oil-less than other SS cookware. In fact, nearly every person who complains about it says that food sticks to it. That would be consistent with trying to cook in a SS pan without any oil or water. The way that the pans are sold is not only expensive but it relies on making false and deceptive claims to coerce people into buying the stuff and justify the exorbitant price. I disagree that the product isn't part of the problem. Apparently it doesn't perform as advertised. It may be as good as cookware that costs less and doesn't claim that it saves energy, improves your heath, cleans better than other cookware, and can be use without water or oil. The problem is that it is faulty with respect to the claims made about its features and benefits. That is costs a small fortune due to the method of distribution only adds insult to injury.

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