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    Cookware That Keeps You Healthier

    6 tips for choosing and maintaining your pots and pans

    You probably rely on your pots and pans on a daily basis for boiling, steaming, frying, and more.

    More on a cooking and health

    To ensure that they do their jobs well, and for a handful of health-related reasons, it’s important to pick, use, and care for them the right way. To that end, Consumer Reports tests a wide variety of cookware to find the most durable and best-performing items. Here’s what to know about keeping these important tools in great shape.

    To view each tip, click or hover your cursor over (or tap on a mobile device) each dot on the illustration below.

    Click dots to learn more.

    Illustration: Chris Philpot

    All Access members can see our top-rated cast-iron frying pans and carbon-steel frying pans, as well as our other top-rated cookware.

    Editor’s Note: This article also appeared in the November 2021 issue of Consumer Reports On Health.  


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