Kitchen Notes: My New Favorite Pot

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The days are getting shorter; the sweaters, chunkier; and the cooking, cozier and much fragrant. In LA, goop nutrient manager Caitlin O’Malley is cooking up brothy, rice-y one-pot meals, and successful Brooklyn, elder quality exertion Megan O’Neill is simmering warming stews and affluent veggie soups (recipes for each below). And they’ve each got a brand-new favourite (nontoxic, nonstick, dishwasher-safe, gorgeous-looking, goop-designed, and GreenPan-made) cookware to bash it in.

Caitlin’s Favorite Pot

goop Home 3QT Sauté Pan
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Megan’s Favorite Pot

goop Home 5QT Covered Casserole goop, $150
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Both pots are portion of goop Home’s caller postulation of cookware that’s some stunning design-wise and supremely functional recipe-wise. Unlike modular nonstick pots, which tin incorporate the toxic “forever chemicals” PFAS, PFOA, lead, and cadmium—so-called due to the fact that they ne'er interruption down and stay indefinitely successful the situation and successful our bodies—the full postulation is made with GreenPan’s nontoxic nonstick Thermalon Minerals Pro technology, derived from soil and attached without glue oregon different additives, truthful it’s heat-resistant up to 450°C. (PFAS, for example—synthetic chemicals utilized to marque products waterproof, long-lasting, and greaseproof—are linked to infertility, cancer, a suppressed immune system, and more, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, which conscionable announced a three-year inaugural to restrict the usage of them. Despite that move, PFAS are inactive prevalent successful nonstick cookware.)

Made of upcycled stainless alloy and aluminum, the cream-colored pans person gorgeous (and heat-resistant) golden handles that marque them spectacular serving pieces, too. “I emotion the full set,” says Caitlin.

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Caitlin O’Malley

food director

“I emotion one-pot meals for weeknights. I typically take atom for a basal due to the fact that it’s truthful versatile, past flip successful immoderate veggies and protein, and magically I person dinner. This four-quart skillet is the imagination one-pot-meal vessel: It’s got the champion nonstick surface, which not lone helps with cleanup; it besides easy releases crispy atom wholly intact (the champion part!). The wide aboveground means I tin sauté a generous magnitude of nutrient without overcrowding, and the solid lid allows maine to support an oculus connected what’s going connected without letting steam flight (a atom aficionado’s nightmare). Favorites I can’t halt making close now: brown atom with chicken, eggplant and chickpea rice, and classical arroz con pollo. I besides emotion throwing unneurotic a jambalaya–paella hybrid based connected what I person connected hand. This 1 has veggie sausages, onions, doorbell peppers, garlic, saffron, chickenhearted broth, greenish beans, peas, shrimp, and of people rice. I decorativeness it with chopped parsley, scallions, and a compression of citrus to brighten it each up. It’s surely not traditional, but this haphazard rendition is cozy, satisfying, and astir effortless—all I privation connected a Monday night.”

goop Home 3QT Sauté Pan
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Baroncini Import & Co. Sicilian Extra Virgin Olive Oil goop, $60
“Buttery, bright, and versatile—you’ll privation to determination generously with this one.”

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Our Place Knife Trio goop, $145
“No much weapon sets with a cardinal pieces, please! These are the lone 3 knives you’ll ever need.”

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Basbaas Variety Pack, Set of 2 goop, $22
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Mepra Dolce Vita 2-Piece Salad Set goop, $180
“Mepra ever nails simplicity, elegance, and functionality with its flatware and serveware. I particularly emotion these crockery servers.”

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R+D Design Lab Bilancia Large Plate, Set of 2 goop, $104
“I’m usually not 1 to fuss with fancy plating astatine home, but these wide, level ones are the cleanable canvas for swooshing, dolloping, and drizzling.”

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Megan O’Neill

senior quality editor

“I’m the coldest idiosyncratic connected earth, and cupping a large beauteous vessel of crockery oregon thing lukewarm and satiating fortifies maine (and my family) against the ever-burgeoning chill. I tin rustle up immoderate fig of nourishing meals successful this casserole pot: It’s arsenic fantabulous for preparing deliciously creamy mac ’n’ (goat!) cheese arsenic it is for stewing red lentil and caramelized bulb soup oregon a big-ass cookware of lemony olive-oil-drizzled kale. I’ve besides been whipping up savory almond beverage meal porridge topped with berries and a zigzag of honey, and connected peculiar occasions, I fry Jamaican cornmeal festivals—cracklingly golden-on-the-outside, luscious-on-the-inside dumplings made with a premix of cornmeal and accepted flour. The walls of the cookware are precocious capable to afloat incorporate adjacent the sputtering peanut lipid for the festivals. With its sleek golden handles (they’re astir jewelry-like), the cookware is truthful good-looking that I emotion to bring it to the array arsenic a serving dish. When it’s conscionable maine eating solo, the cookware close successful beforehand of maine (along with a flickering candle for ambiance and sometimes a chaste solid of my favourite natty reddish from Spain, Gulp Hablo) makes a casual repast consciousness a spot much momentous.”