With so many kitchen utensils and cooking methods presenting a serious health risk, it can be extremely difficult to find a solution that is both convenient and easy to use while preventing food from burning and free from dangerous chemicals.
A new upcoming Kickstarter project, however, is providing consumers with a healthy new cast iron skillet that uses a unique and innovative design to promote healthier and tastier cooking practices.
The Flagship Grill Pan is a product that is currently under development and is slated for a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign beginning on April 4, 2017.
Offering a wide range of health benefits over traditional and non-stick PFOA pans, the Flagship Grill Pan delivers a unique design that solves most of the problems presented by modern cookware.
In this article, we’ll take a look at the design and construction of the Flagship Grill Pan and find out what makes it different and healthier than traditional cookware to help you decide whether it’s a crowdfunding project worth backing.
What Is The Flagship Grill Pan?
The Flagship Grill Pan is a contemporary designed skillet that promises to revolutionize the practice of pan frying food.
Incorporating high tech, patent-pending design features, the Flagship Grill Pan is intended to deliver superior convenience, taste, and health in food by incorporating a number of game-changing elements to create the ultimate skillet.
The team behind the Flagship Grill Pan are seeking $22,000 USD from their Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to facilitate the production and distribution of their groundbreaking solution.
While the campaign isn’t live yet, it’s already gathered a large amount of interest from health-conscious consumers and is set to be one of the biggest healthy cookware products of 2017.
The original idea for the Flagship Grill Pan was developed in early 2015, more than two years ago. Over the subsequent years, the team behind the Flagship Grill Pan has worked through more than 20 different prototypes and an exhaustive research and development program to finalize the design of their solution, extensively testing each iteration of their design until reaching the final design that will be available via Kickstarter.
The Flagship Grill Pan Advantage
The design and construction of the traditional kitchen skillet or pan hasn’t really changed for the last few centuries. The modern chef or cook is presented with a huge variety of different sized skillets, cooking pots, and cooking utensils that allow at-home culinary enthusiast to create an extremely broad spectrum of cuisines.
Not all of the pans and skillets that are available on the market today, however, are healthy choices for cooking foods. It’s no secret that eating large amounts of saturated fats is extremely bad for your overall health, contributing to high bad cholesterol levels that contribute to the buildup of plaque in the arteries, which can cause cardiovascular diseases, heart attacks, and strokes.
The greater part of the American population currently consumes far too much vegetable oil, which is used to oil pans while frying and cooking. Although vegetable oil is great for frying crispy, delicious meals, it’s also extremely high in saturated, unhealthy fats, which are part of the reason the United States has the highest death rate due to cardiovascular disease in the world.
According to recent statistics released by the Center for Disease Control, almost 25% of all deaths that occur annually in the US are due to heart and cardiovascular diseases.
Simply switching to a non-stick, oil-free pan isn’t necessarily the healthiest solution, either. Most non-stick cookware, such as Teflon pans, release a chemical called perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, into food when they are heated up.
More than 200 scientists have advised against using PFOA nonstick pans, as it has been linked to organ damage, infertility, thyroid diseases, reproductive issues, hormonal imbalances, and even cancer.
The Flagship Grill Pan is constructed entirely out of cast iron, and is completely free from PFOA or other non-stick chemicals, making it far safer than most of the cookware that is commonly available on the market today.
The pan itself is designed to emulate the experience of cooking on an open barbecue grill, but inside the convenience of a normal kitchen. We’ll proceed to break down the design, construction, and features of the Flagship Grill Pan to find out what makes it different than other cookware solutions.
Design & Construction
The design of the Flagship Grill pan is based around the most popular pan size, emulating the depth and scale of the #8 skillet pan used in most professional kitchens.
Large enough to cook enough food for a family, but small enough to fit on virtually any cooktop or stove, the Flagship Grill Pan has an inner pan frying surface diameter of 8.5 inches, with an outer diameter of 10.25 inches. The pan is 1 ⅞ inches deep, and weighs a little over 6 pounds.
A major advantage of the Flagship Grill Pan is that, unlike most cast iron cooking skillets, it comes pre-seasoned and ready to use, making it unnecessary to perform the time consuming and potentially dangerous seasoning process.
The handle of the Flagship Grill Pan is 6 inches in length and is ergonomically shaped, angled away from hot surfaces to deliver safety and ease of use. The most unique feature of the Flagship Grill Pan, however, is the ornamental stamped grilling area.
The Flagship Grill Pan is available in two different stamping patterns- Old Glory, which imprints cooked food with a grilling pattern that resembles the flag of the United States, or Mountain Springs, an abstract triangular design that resembles a mountain top.
The innovative sloped arrangement of the grill surface pulls fat and oil away from food, resulting in a healthier, tastier meal that is lower in cholesterol.
Flagship Grill Pan Verdict
The Flagship Grill Pan looks like one of the best cookware choices for healthy eating in 2017, and with a Kickstarter campaign just around the corner, health enthusiasts everywhere will be able to order their own unique cast-iron Flagship skillet.
If you’re looking for a healthy, chemical-free skillet or cooking pan, the Flagship Grill Pan is a project worth backing.
