SmartSpace pots and pans

Cooking in a caravan, motorhome or boat can be a challenge at the best of times. A small cooking surface and lack of storage space conspires to turn even a budding Masterchef into a mere Master’s Apprentice.

So while cooktops are invariably square or rectangular, have you ever wondered why pots and frying pans are round?

Is it because they are designed for a round gas hob or electric hot plate, or was it the other way around?

Perhaps you have better things to occupy your mind, but the people who in 2011 designed the SmartSpace pot set and matching square frying pan obviously didn’t.

The idea was simple: a stackable nest of square saucepans and a matching square frying pan, all with clever removable handles that clamp safely into indentations in the pot or pans’ rim.

Each pot has a die cast heat-resistant body, a stainless steel lid and a cast stainless steel core for extra strength, while the pan has heavy-duty 3mm aluminium walls with an impact bonded heat transfer and induction base. All have silicone non-stick surfaces – also important for cleaning with those rounded corners.

Each also comes with a matching silicon mat designed to minimise scratching on benchtops and to protect the Teflon surface when stacked for storage.
The other great thing about the SmartSpace pots is that they can be used to store food in your (equally space-challenged) caravan fridge by simply closing the steam vent on the pot lid to create an airtight seal.

Of course there’s a downside – they’re not cheap compared with the sort of cookware you’ll find on the bargain shelves at Coles or Bunnings. However at just under $100 RRP for the frypan and $250 for a set of saucepans, they stack up well (pun intended) with other quality cookware.

And if space is at a premium in your caravan or motorhome – whether for cooking, or storage on the fly – they are priceless!??

More: smartspace-cookware.com