Saturday, June 25, 2011

Use & Care


For a better experience with Flambo products, please read this manual in advance.
Thank you for purchasing the Flambo products.
Please carefully read the instruction to use and keep your new friends aways in a good shape!

Before first use:

Check the tightness of the lid knob. If loose, screw it tightly. Check it regularly for your own safety.
Wash the cookware with a sponge and neutral cleaner; rinse and dry thoroughly.
If you purchase the product with matte enamel cooking surface, the following three simple steps can help you to turn your cookware into a natural non-stick one:
1. Brush some oil on the cooking surface.
2. Heat the cookware until it reaches the smoking point. (Approximately 180ºC or 356ºF)
3. Turn off the heat when there's smoke emerging from the surface and wait until it cools down.

Just follow the same steps after 2~3 uses of the cookware, you now own a great performing, 100% natural non-stick cookware with no chemical coating!


During cooking:

Do not heat the cookware alone or it will hurt the enamel. If that happens, turn off the heat immediately and cool the cookware down to room temperature.
•Always use oven mitt to handle the cast iron cookware.
The porcelain enamel cooking surface is impervious to acid and alkaline, and is non-reactive to foods. The glass-based coating is worry-free of unknown chemicals.
In order to protect the inner enameled surface, do not use any sharp or metal utensils on it.
Phenolic knobs are oven-safe up to 190ºC/ 375ºF. You can select our stainless steel lid knob to handle the oven job.
We suggest you to use low to medium heat settings; matching the base size of the cookware to the heat zone. This will ensure a better cooking efficiency, proper heat dispersion, and also the saving of energy.
Never put the cast iron cookware in the microwave.
In order to protect the tabletop, please put the hot cookware on a heatproof mat or cloth.
For a better dispersion of heat in the cookware, we recommend to only fill the cookware 60%-70% full.
•Our cookware can be used on all kinds of heat sources and is dishwasher-friendly.



Clean & Care:

•Hand wash with sponge and neutral cleaner, rinse with warm water, and dry.
If food residue is still present, fill the cookware with warm water and leave for 15 to 20 minutes. Proceed to wash it with neutral cleaner and warm water.
Do not use metallic pads or harsh abrasive cleaning agents.
Dry products thoroughly after washing. Do not drain dry or store away while still wet.



About Us

We are flambo cookware--the sexiest cookware in the world! It's our greatest pleasure to meet you and hope you enjoy reading our posts! You can also visit our website at www.flamboinc.com


Here we will introduce our brand, our products, our culture, and our value. We wish to connect with people around the world and establish a special relationship with them.


After knowing us, if you are interested in our brand and would like to introduce it to your country, we are more than happy to talk to you with more details. Simply click the "contact us" button on the top and we can start our conversation!

The Logo

Our logo is a flame-like figure inspired by the French word "flambé", a dramatic cooking procedure in which alcohol is added to a hot pan to create a burst of flame. 


The three colors on the logo each represent an important brand value: red as "joy", green as "health", and blue as "design".

The Brand


Flambo is a brand of passion, creativity and style.
Our brand means more than just making cookware. It is a promise of consistently offering stylish, qualitied, and affordable products to our customers.
Our ambition is to create a brand for everyone, striving to establish a lasting relationship with, and to create an enjoyble experience for our customers.

Our Brand Spirits

Cooking is a journey to your heart.
When you’re cooking, everything seems irrelevant. 
You touch, you sweat, you feel, you smile...
You are the center of the universe, the magician spreading love and joy. 
You don’t need anything now, just you and Flambo can get the job done. 


You don’t need a greasy hamburger to make your day. A pinch of love, a clove of confidence, and a well seasoning of care, together you can make a wonderful meal called healthy !
Besides that, you can rely on us to keep you away from toxic chemicals.

Place your most stylish Flambo into the local art gallery called “home”. The fashion design will never be cold and distant anymore.


Wednesday, June 22, 2011

How to choose a safe cookware?


It's pretty hard to select a cookware that is easy to use, multi-functional, and most importantly, safe. To be honest, I don't think there's any single cookware can handle all the kitchen tasks (if any of you know any, please let me know!). Think about it, you want to do a pot stew on Monday, a stir fry beef on Tuesday, a perfectly sauteed medium steak on Wednesday...you need different type of cookware to get the job done. However, after the Teflon crisis people are lack of confident in cookware somehow and there are lots of cookware on the market made of all kinds of materials. I've done some research and here are my analysis on different types of cookware materials:


Stainless Steel Cookware
Stainless steel is actually a mixture of several different kinds of metals, including nickel, chromium and molybdenum, all of which may leak into foods. However, on the bright side, unless your stainless steel cookware is dinged and pitted, the amount of metals likely to get into your food is negligible. So don't panically throw away all of your stainless steel cookware, they are still a good choice in comparison with those non-stick cookware you even don't know what their coating are made of...

Anodized Aluminum Cookware
The electro-chemical anodizing process locks in the cookware's base metal, aluminum, so that the possibility it get into food is lower than traditional aluminum cookware. However, this type of cookware is not very durable so you might need to change it often to avoid the leak somehow. 

Cast Iron Cookware
Another good choice is that old standby, cast iron, which is known for its durability and even heat distribution. Cast iron cookware can also help ensure that eaters in your house get enough iron—which the body needs to produce red blood cells—as it seeps off the cookware into food in small amounts.
Unlike the metals that can come off of some other types of pots and pans, iron is considered a healthy food additive by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. But one thing everyone should beware, though, that most cast iron cookware needs to be seasoned after each use and as such is not as worry-free as other alternatives. Therefore, if you are not too lazy to season and to care the cast iron cookware, it should be your perfect choice in the world full of all kinds of chemicals that might potentially hurt our body in long term.

Enameled Cast Iron Cookware For those who like the feel and heat distribution properties of cast iron but dread the seasoning process, enameled cast iron cookware is a perfect choice. The smooth and colorful enamel is dishwasher-friendly and non-stick, and covers the entire surface of such cookware to minimize clean-up headaches.

Copper Cookware
One other surface favored by chefs for sauces and sautés is copper, which excels at quick warm-ups and even heat distribution. But beware, if you are using the full-copper cookware you need to be extra cautious to maintain and clean or the poisonous verdigris will be harmful. With proper care, copper cookware still be one of the best performing cookware of all.