4 Reasons Why Non Stick Is Better for Reheating Leftovers

While microwaves are excellent inventions for a late-night bowl of popcorn or heating up a frozen breakfast burrito, they're not the best tool for reheating previously cooked food.

Your non stick frying pan can do everything your microwave can for leftovers plus even more. Whether you’re controlling the heat of the pan, re-crisping your ingredients, or tossing everything together to form a cohesive meal, non stick cookware is the key to more enjoyable, re-heated, and always delicious meals.

Evenly Cooked and Crisped Proteins

Since microwaves are only able to heat at one temperature at a time, the result is often turning formerly crispy food into mushy, unappetizing messes.

Whether you’re reheating fish, steak, or chicken thighs, the key to a perfectly reheated, crispy piece of protein is re-searing it in a frying pan. Our 5-ply Stainless Clad construction provides even and consistent heating so the protein can re-crisp, while ensuring the rest of the protein is reheated all the way through.

Pasta as Good as the Night Before

When reheated in the microwave, leftover pasta can become dry and bland. To prevent this from happening, add it to a non stick pan along with a few tablespoons of water to help bring back heat and moisture into the sauce.  This provides a base for you to add cheese and a knob of butter to create a wonderful result—that might be even better than the original.

More Versatility in Your Meal

With a microwave, you’re relatively stuck with what you made the night before. With a non stick pan, you're able to spruce things up and improvise on the fly. Whether you’re frying leftover rice for fried rice, turning vegetables into a perfect omelette, or chucking it all together for a quick and easy stir fry, it's incredibly easy to add flavor and substance to your leftovers when reheating it in a pan vs. the microwave.

Easy Clean Up

A microwave may involve zero clean up (unless your sauce splatters), but our Non Stick Cookware is a close second. Thanks to its multiple layers of professional-grade non stick coating, it cleans up in seconds. This means you can have all of the benefits of cooking on the stovetop, with the same (or close to the same) clean up time as the microwave.

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While it's still perfectly okay to use it in a pinch, we highly recommend reheating your leftovers on the stovetop whenever you can—you're sure to notice the difference. And now that you know the secret to better-than-the-night-before leftovers, you'll never use your microwave the same way again.

Our Non Stick Cookware makes reheating and cleaning up a breeze, thanks to its 5-ply Stainless Clad base and multiple layers of professional-grade Non Stick coating. Beloved by home cooks and restaurant customers alike, it's the key to tasty meals (and even better leftovers).