Cookware and cooking utensils tend to be anything but green and sustainable; they can break down, releasing toxins into food so diners end up with secret ingredients like phthalates (yum) in their eggs and they rarely last longer than a handful of months or years if you’re lucky. High end cooking utensils sometimes claim to have less terrible effects than their cheaper counterparts, but often they just use misleading marketing tactics to claim that they are eco-friendly, such as using recycled packing to sell the fact that they’ve gone green.

We won’t call out the liars in particular, but we will put you onto a new brand of cooking utensils that are actually as green as they promise; so much so that their competition is green with envy, even if not with sustainability. Lamson and Goodnow has been a major manufacturer in leading cookware for decades (or so I’m told, because let’s be honest here, I really don’t cook), so it’s not too surprising that they would be the first to offer true green cookware that would pass the tests of even the most discerning top chefs. The steel used to create the cooking utensils is 90% recycled; a big step up from the other items on the market which contain only 30% to 50% of recycled materials. Plus the handles are made entirely from 100% post-consumer recycled paper.

Sometimes learning that important household cycled products don’t leave people with a good taste in their mouths, but compared to the taste and potential cardiac arrest left by cheap cookware that dispenses toxins into food, the Lamson and Goodnow cookware that’s heat resistant, dishwasher safe and water resistant is doing pretty well for itself. Currently, Lamson and Goodnow’s, Goodnow “Green” Kitchen Tools has 6 items for purchase in their line; but in the near future foodies and chefs can expect to find a wider variety of cooking utensils in fun and funky colors that will fit in with any green kitchen!

Via: The Daily Green