Truly healthy cooking means cooking food in such a way that all its nutrients remain intact and free of all kinds of toxins. To achieve this, the first step would obviously be to choose the right ingredients: all-natural, organic, unprocessed, and nutrient-dense. The second step is even more important: cooking these ingredients the right way.
Most people are good at choosing healthy ingredients, but not everyone uses the healthiest cookware, ones that are 100% non-toxic and lock in delicate nutrients by cooking with heat that doesn’t damage food. You must also block the steam that comes out of the food because this steam is water soluble nutrients.
Our ancestors used pure clay pots for cooking, no wonder they lived a life with far fewer health problems than we do. Nowadays, conventional metal and ceramic cookware are widely used for cooking, which is becoming extremely harmful to health. Metals and ceramics release chemical and metallic toxins during cooking that react with nutrients in food and form compounds that accumulate in the body. When this continues to happen over a long period of time, it affects the body at the cellular level and begins to damage organs. This contributes to common diseases such as diabetes, heart problems, blood pressure, and life-threatening diseases such as cancer. This is probably why the wealthiest people face the most health problems, as they have access to the most expensive cookware made of ceramic and non-stick with harmful coatings.
Fortunately, it is still possible to get cookware as healthy as the ones our ancestors used. Unglazed cookware made from pure, all-natural clay cooks food without contaminating it while retaining all its nutrients. ‘Unglazed’ because all kinds of icings and glazes are full of chemicals that poison food as it cooks.
Pure clay is the best quality of clay, also known as primary clay, which is harvested from uncultivated and non-industrialized land after testing samples for all kinds of toxins. After procuring the raw material, the next step is to make pots without using chemicals. Any mechanized process would require the use of chemicals, so the best way to make pots and pans from pure clay is to use the age-old method of throwing clay onto a potter’s wheel and using skillful hands to shape it into usable pots. The process is tedious but it is worth it because it is the only way to make the most healthy cookware.
The pot made like this is free of toxins and keeps the nutrients in the food intact so you get the healthiest and most nutritious food every time you cook in a pure clay pot!