BEKA Frying Pan: A Must Have Mother’s Day Wish List

~To facilitate this review, I received a product sample of the BEKA frying pan. The views expressed here are entirely my own.

For the past couple of years I have attended the International Housewares Show in Chicago, searching out trends when it comes to our homes as well as best in show innovations. At the show, hundreds of different types of frying pans hang on brightly colored walls or set out in gleaming displays, and they all sort of blend together by the time you’ve spent hours visiting all the booths. But Belgium-based Beka has come out with an exceptional frying pan that totally stood out from the crowd for me: the Beka Clean Cooking Fry Pan.

The Beka pan is made with high quality stainless steel with an encapsulated aluminum base, and you can really feel the heftiness when you lift the pan. Definitely a rare moment when some extra weight feels right! I love this pan for one dish family meals with its high curved edges, as it enables bulking ingredients together and melding flavors to make for a delicious meal. Yesterday, I used the Beka pan to crisp fry fresh salmon, still rare on the inside, then added in spring onions and vegetables for a final stir fry. Although producing tasty results, what I found most frustrating in the past from cooking style the usual clean up required from the messy splatter.

Which brings me to my favorite feature: The Beka Clean Cooking Non-Stick Fry Pan eliminates this problem by a patented curve of the fry pan body and a special lid prevents oil and butter from spoiling your cooking surface. Beka designed the lip and lid based on research that grease particles released when frying always go in a straight line. The curved side of the pan directs those particles back to the center.

The pan has a see-through glass anti-splatter lip and six small feet around the lid’s rim leaving the top elevated enough to allow for steam to escape and air to circulate, but serving as a splatter guard to keep the mess contained. Plus the steam escaping allows your food to crisp up beautifully. So when you use this pan for frying or roasting, you save major time in clean up from splatter that otherwise seems to manage to land on every inch of your cooktop. Any extra time I can save from unnecessary clean up, the better.

 

 

As if the splatter guard wasn’t enough of a differentiator to spice up your frying pan, the Beka pan also comes with easily removable handles. This changes the game in terms of offering options with cooking and allowing for a true “one dish meal.” As I’m cooking, I often find the perfect touch to my dishes includes a quick trip in the pre-heated oven to round out the protein cooking and let all the flavors enhance. So, if your dish needs to pop in the oven to round out the cooking process, you won’t need to dirty another baking dish or pan.

The Beka frying pan lastly offers up a key way to consolidate kitchen space. Removable handles also prove a big deal in the storage department. If you are always having trouble finding that extra bit of storage space like I am, you can just click off the handles right off and stack your pan.

Thus the Beka frying pan stands out: eliminating extra hassles with cooking and adding customizable aspects that cater to each cook. Available in both 9.5 inch and 11 inch diameter sizes (I prefer the larger size when cooking for my family), you can choose the pan that fits your lifestyle. The pan works on all cooktops, including induction, and comes with a manufacturer’s recommended price of $130.

Simply put: Beka Cookware Clean Cooking Fry Pan with Anti-Splatter Lid and Removable Long Handle proves a perfect high quality pan addition to your kitchen for cooking up years of delicious meals. I’m loving cooking with mine!

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