Saladmaster Waterless Cookware Review
You can only get a new Saladmaster brand cookware set through an authorized dealer—you’re apt to catch up to them in conventions, county fairs, or home demonstration parties. You’re not likely to find any new sets for sale either on the internet or in a brick and mortar store. A quick check on e-bay showed 62 items for sale, but all appeared to be used, including the one full set listed.
Saladmaster is one of the most expensive waterless cookware sets you can buy. They offer sets of different sizes but the big sets can cost more than $3000.
Saladmaster boasts they are the only company with the 316Ti surgical stainless steel used in their cookware. 316 surgical stainless steel differs from the 304 in that it has Molybdenum added, and may have a higher content of nickel. Ti stands for the small amounts of Titanium that’s also been added. It makes stainless steel more resistant to very high temperatures—like over 600 degrees centigrade. These are not temperatures you cook food with.
Molybdenum gives the stainless steel a better overall corrosion resistance in chloride environments. It may make a difference in harsh conditions (like marine environments), but hey we are cooking a chicken here, not sailing to Bermuda! To be fair, though, I would not suggest storing highly acidic foods in your pot in any case.
The difference between the 304 and the 316 stainless steel types is not visible in comparing the pans side-by-side. You can’t taste a difference or cook faster. But 316 stainless steel costs more to product, and the titanium adds even a little more cost.
Another feature of Saladmaster is called the Versa Loc handles. This makes them removable, interchangeable between short and long handles, and maybe easier to clean. They also have a “Vapo Valve” that begins to click when it’s time to turn the heat down to medium.
Saladmaster gives a lifetime guarantee, but on their warranty they do say the handles, knobs and cords (on the electric appliances) are guaranteed for only a year.
Saladmaster waterless cookware comes with a high price tag. The mark-up on these sets is a lot, mainly because of their method of marketing with home demos, etc. Is it worth the extra cost? I can’t decide that for you. But the difference between Saladmaster and lower cost sets may not enough to justify the cost differential in my opinion.
Does anyone know where I can find Saladmaster Waterless Cookware?
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Go to saladmaster.com and click on the contact us category at the top of the page. They can help you find a dealer near you. Saladmaster is not sold except by their company representatives. Sometimes you can find used saladmaster cookware on ebay. The company does not allow it to be sold over the internet.
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wow - it is VERY expensive! so I am researching all waterless cookware to decide which is the best "value"..I posted under a different area that the Saladmaster rep did a home dinner demo & did a baking soda "pollution test" to show that chemicals leached out into all these over cookware but alas not the Saladmaster ( he tested 2 he brought, 1 saladmaster & my pretty new pampered chef DuPont nonstick piece) all the boiled water basically tasted like crap ( vinegar like, dirty, sour etc..) except the saladmaster one. I want to know if anyone else has seen this demo ? what is the "trick" if any? I have been in sales & I heard the slickest most exaggerated info ( " ie if you don't use this stuff you will basically die of cancer") I have ever heard..very emotional type selling. But having said that I just really want to know what is the best cookware for the "value" because I did like the way it cooked food fast, the taste of the food & how easily it cleaned up. I just need to find the "truth" in there . thanks!
Hi Nita,
Yes, the emotional selling techniques are designed to have you make an immediate decision--impulse buying. Also it plays on guilt--"if I don't buy I'm a bad person and don't care for my family"--right? You are right to research.
Here is a link to a USA-made waterless cookware page that you can find on the internet. It's rare to find, because you usually have to find it through a demo with big price mark-ups.
Here's the link http://www.cookwaresplus.com/site/1581661/page/3124256.
There are other sets from China under another page on the same site. Just study all the sets and find what's right for you. They are all stainless steel and are not going to leach "chemicals" into the food. Just be sure you buy from a site that has good customer support. That's important.
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thanks! -? what is the "truth" in that "pollution test" the rep performed ? He made it seem as if only 316Ti doesn't emit chemicals ?
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316Ti added to the stainless steel makes the stainless steel more stable at extreme temperatures 550 - 800 degrees centigrade, temperatures at which you don't cook. It may help your pans not to warp, but you are supposed to cook at lower heats with waterless cooking--start with medium heat and when the vapor seal forms, turn it to low heat.
Stainless steel in a nonporous substance, so it is not going to "leak" chemicals with or without titanium.
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thanks for this blog!!!
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