Tramontina Cookware Review (+ Buying Guide)

​Getting the right cookware can be quite difficult, especially in a market filled with cheap and cloned products. However, Tramontina, known for its high-quality cookware, provides a wide array of genuine and affordable cookware to suit your every cooking occasion.

The first thing to notice when looking at this cooking set is the beautiful dark grey outward appearance. Pieces in this set are made of hard anodized aluminum which gives the pans and pots the dark grey color.

Apart from beauty, hard anodized aluminum is corrosion resistant and can withstand friction from constant contact with cooking spoons without wearing out.

This is because the special treatment that anodizes aluminum strengthens the metal and makes it durable enough to withstand constant scratches to heavy abuse. This treatment also prevents aluminum based chemicals from leaking out to the food, enabling you to make prepare healthier meals.

The pieces have nonstick surfaces and this is particularly advantageous because it reduces the cleanup time and stress associated with continuous scrubbing. Hard anodized aluminum is less porous, making it naturally have nonstick properties but Tramontina has gone a step further to layer a PFOA-free Teflon platinum on the set’s interior parts. This improves its nonstick properties and reduces your oil and fat usage when you cook, giving you healthier, oil reduced foods.

In terms of use, the pieces have glass lids that make it easier to monitor the cooking process, without uncovering the food.

These glass lids are heatproof and shatter resistant meaning that they cannot burn you and also cannot break easily into small pieces when dropped.

Additionally, the pieces and their lids have ergonomically designed handles, making them very easy to use while the wide variety of pans and pots give you something to use to prepare any kind of food.

​This set’s pieces are made from a cold forged, high gauge aluminum metal material which distributes heat evenly along the pan’s surface, making your food to cook evenly on all sides.

This form of aluminum is also long lasting and gives your pan quite a long lifespan. The pieces have a strong porcelain enamel coating on the outside and a ceramic inner coating which sandwiches the aluminum inside, protecting it from corrosion.

Additionally, these coatings are easy to clean. The ceramic interior has nonstick properties which makes it even easier to clean. This interior is PFOA, PTFE, lead and cadmium free. Being nonstick, it also reduces your fat and oil usage, enabling you to prepare healthier meals.

The pieces’ handles and lids have a riveted silicone rubber coating over their ergonomically designed handles which makes them comfortable to use and gives you more grip to avoid dropping when cooking or washing.

This set has a good number of varied pieces that enable you to prepare almost everything and they can be used on gas, electric and ceramic glass countertops.

​This set gives you a visual satisfaction like no other. It has 9 pieces which have a red rhubarb exterior color that resembles that red wine looks when poured on a transparent glass.

This deep red color is actually durable porcelain that is scratch resistant. Coupled with the pieces’ nonstick PFOA free interior, they are quite easy to wash and clean. The inner layer of the pan is made from a high gauge aluminum metal that is very durable and does the important task of distributing heat evenly across the nonstick inner surface, making cooking easy and fast.

On top of the nonstick interior is a reinforced Teflon platinum coating that further increases the nonstick properties, making it easier to clean while also reducing the amount of oil required when preparing food.

The pieces and their lids have ergonomically designed handles with stay cool handles which are soft to touch and comfortable to hold. The lids are made of a shatterproof glass which will not break easily into small pieces while their heat resistant properties make them easier to handle. Their glass material also makes it easier to monitor the cooking process without opening up the lid.

The pieces are dishwasher safe, giving you an easier time after preparing your favorite meal.

​This set gives you as many pieces as you would like which include pans, ovens, and steamers.

The pans can be comfortably used over electric, gas and ceramic gas cooktop without any damages while their stay cool handles keep your hands free from burning. Their lids also have heatproof handles while their glass material is shatterproof which prevents them from disintegrating into thousands of pieces in case they break.

The pans and ovens are built from aluminum, making them conduct heat easily towards the inner surface. Aluminum has very good heat conduction properties, making these pieces very efficient. This also makes them ideal for oven use.

The light body construction and removable rubber handles give you more options as you decide on what to prepare for yourself or the family every day.

​Before selecting the best cookware, there are some important things to consider. These things or characteristics differentiate the different types of cookware, giving everyone a type that he/she would want. They are:

​The type of material affects almost all of the cookware’s properties. For instance, aluminum cookware is usually lightweight and conducts heat easily. However, it is soft and dents easily. It also reacts with acidic foods giving you a metallic tasting meal which is very unhealthy.

Stainless steel cookware is durable, scratch resistant, does not react with foods and maintains its shiny, new look appearance for a long time. Steel is also magnetic and this makes it ideal for induction cookers. However, it does not conduct heat very well and might lead to inefficiencies by requiring more heat to cook the same amount of food.

Ceramic cookware usually consists of an aluminum inner core coated with ceramic. Therefore, these can be said to have properties similar to aluminum cookware.

Other types of cookware materials include cast iron and copper but these are rarely used. Instead, modified versions of aluminum and stainless steel are used. For instance, anodized aluminum is commonly used to eliminate the disadvantage of reacting with acidic foods while stainless steel cookware is cladded with aluminum and steel layers to give them good heat conduction properties.

​This is also directly associated with the cookware material. Stainless steel is more durable because it is tough. Aluminum and copper cookware are usually weaker and therefore less durable. However, they conduct heat very quickly.

The option you chose is down to personal preference. If you mishandle cookware, it would be wise to go for the stainless steel option, otherwise, pick aluminum cookware.

​Stainless steel cookware has a polished look. The pieces usually have shiny, mirror-like surfaces. Aluminum cookware is usually anodized and coated to have dull surfaces. Ceramic cookware, however, can have almost any color. This is because ceramic is just a coating which covers the actual metal and can have been made to have almost any color. Copper has a reddish brown color, making copper cookware have a golden accent.

Apart from the color, different designs might interest you and the preferred choice in terms of appearance is down to personal preference.

​Although aluminum is more expensive than steel, aluminum made cookware has a lower endurance to stress and therefore not very durable.

This reason, sometimes, makes stainless steel cookware more expensive but in the end, they last for a longer period of time.

Generally, cheap is expensive so when buying cookware, make a balance between price and quality.

​Anodized aluminum surfaces are very easy to clean. An additional Teflon platinum layer increases the cookware’s nonstick property making it much easier to clean. However, anodized aluminum is very easily eroded by machine washing. Such cookware requires hand washing which might make it harder to maintain.

Ceramic cookware is the easiest to maintain. The pieces have nonstick surfaces and can be machine washed. Stainless steel is also dishwasher safe but is not nonstick. Browning food might stick to the surface, requiring more scrubbing, especially if the machine fails to remove these spots. Copper and cast iron are the hardest to maintain because they require more scrubbing to keep clean.

​Cooking is not a one-time process. You will need to prepare food again and again, whether you do it for fun, as work or for the family. Therefore, selecting the best cookware is very important. However, because of the different advantages and disadvantages of each set, the most practical thing to do is to acquire different sets of cookware.

This way, you will have easy to clean pans and pots for the times you prepare a lot of food so that cleaning afterward will not be an issue. You will also have durable cookware that can serve you for long periods of time and act as backups in case the other ones spoil while in the middle of preparing your family’s dinner.

​I hope you can find a Tramontina cookware set that fits your need in the kitchen!