All about labeling dishes

Buying a frying pan or other dishes, you can see the marks on its surface. These incomprehensible, at first glance, hieroglyphs, indicate how and for what this dish can be used. Read about the subtleties and meanings in the article.

Marking on the dishes indicates how functional the dishes are. Remember your grandmothers. They, as a rule, had few dishes. One or two cast iron pans, pots of clay, and everything was cooked in the same oven.

Modern kitchens are equipped with ovens, stoves, microwave ovens. Each model has its own temperature regime and method of cooking. Cookware is also different - grill, non-stick, with the support of induction. All this requires a lot of attention when choosing. After all, from ignorance, you can harm yourself and technology.

This is due to the fact that a damaged surface will release substances that can harm health.

And for induction cookers, pots and pans are suitable, having a special alloy of material that forms a magnetic layer. Due to this magnetic layer is cooking.

When choosing dishes, the icons depicted on the surface can be misleading. To avoid the trouble of cooking, you need to know what the icon indicates.

So, marking of dishes can tell about which cooker is suitable for a plate. After all, now there are so many types of stoves - glass ceramics, induction cookers, electric and gas. A tableware materials ten times more.

Marking is a guarantee of safety. If you choose low-quality dishes or use it for other purposes, you can get unpleasant consequences, such as health problems. Also, an incorrectly chosen pan or pan can cause irreparable harm to the stove and oven. Repair the equipment will not be easy, and financially costly.

A variety of types of plates has led to the fact that not every pan or pan is suitable for use on it.

Now it is necessary to figure out what the markers are, depending on the method of cooking.

• The icon with the pattern of the oven, with the words electric. This icon indicates that the utensils can be used in an electric oven. For example, such dishes are not suitable for the oven, which is powered by gas.
• Marking patterned oven. This icon is applied to dishes that can be used in the oven of any kind. Accordingly, if such an icon is crossed out, then the use in the oven is not allowed.
• Figure oven with lights. This icon says that you can cook in a gas oven.
• The image of the oven with the figure. This icon is used in the oven, but only up to a certain temperature. What is the maximum temperature you can follow - indicated on the icon.
• Flame painted in a square. Such badges are indicated on dishes that are suitable for gas stoves.
• Marking with the letters microwave or waves. Decryption of this icon says that the dishes are suitable for a microwave. If the icon is crossed out, then it cannot be used in the microwave oven.
• Circle in the form of a spiral. This sign on the surface of pots and pans says that it can be used on an electric stove.
• Circle with a point in the center. Kits with this marking are suitable for cooking on ceramic hobs and hobs.
• Four vertical loops and the word induction. And this designation indicates the possibility of use on an induction cooker. The principle of operation of induction is that the surfaces in an electric discharge form a magnetic field. This field heats up and the cooking process is much faster.

These are simple, but very important signs can be on your dishes.

Cooking rules are important, but it is equally important to know how to care for dishes. This will help to maintain its original appearance and quality of the material. For this there are a number of markings that should also be studied.

• In the square painted dishes. This icon says that it can be washed in the dishwasher, because this unit has long been settled in every second apartment. If the badge has a red diagonal strip, then washing in the dishwasher is strictly prohibited.

• There is a thermometer in the square and a plate next to it.. Such a badge can be indicated on glassware and says that the kit material can withstand temperature changes.

• The presence of snowflakes. This symbol says that the dishes can be used in the refrigerator. And if three snowflakes, then even in the freezer. This dish is good for freezing semi-finished and finished products.

These are the main marks that appear on pots and pans.

After all, not every metal dish can be used in a dishwasher. And not every plastic is suitable for freezing.

But the most important factor is the presence of the "glass-fork" icon, which says that the dishes are absolutely safe for food. Also often such a sign is indicated on glassware and symbolizes the fragility of the material.

Many people accept the icon "glass-fork", as permission to use the dishes in the microwave oven. However, it is not. For microwave uses a different label.

Disposable tableware is popular among consumers. But not everyone thinks about what marking on surfaces means. But she can tell a lot.

The advantages of such dishes very much:

• Setting the table for a large number of guests is easy and much cheaper than using standard earthenware or ceramics;
• not fighting, you can take with you on the road, on vacation, on the nature;
• such dishes are very popular at children's parties, eliminating the risk of beating and wounds;
• no need to wash after use - you can just throw out and not worry.

On disposable dishes necessarily placed logo, which is similar to a triangle of three arrows. These three arrows say that the processing system is used for production. That is, the process is closed: production - use - processing - production.

Inside, a number is written from 1 to 7. There may also be an inscription under the icon. Below are the figures.

1. The presence of this figure means that the material is very cheap. Most often used for the production of containers for mineral water. Reuse can be dangerous as plastic begins to release toxic substances. Additionally, PET (PET) may be added. Remember that using containers from under bottled water is not worth it, it is dangerous.
2. Safe plastic that is recyclable. Under the icon is the inscription HDPE (LDPE). From this plastic food containers are made, which are now in every home. It is convenient to store food in them, to take it with you to work.
3. This plastic can not be subjected to heating and burning. When heated, dangerous toxins are released. Supplemented with the words PCV (PVC). But you can still store food. The only condition is the time of interaction.
4. This plastic is used for packaging materials, bags. Can safely be reused. It has the inscription LDPE (HDPE). Maybe different density.
5. Safe plastic that can be reused. Most often used for the production of food containers. It is equated to plastic number 2. The inscription under the PP icon (PP). It's easy to remember, because the letters PP also denote proper nutrition.
6. Such plastic is used not only for the production of food containers and containers, but also acts as a derivative in the preparation of foam plastic. It has the inscription PS (PS).
7. The most dangerous group of plastic and its derivatives. Substances and toxins that may emanate from this plastic are dangerous and poisonous. Such material becomes most toxic when heated or in contact with hot water. The inscription under the logo OTHER (OTHERS). Such materials are best not to use for food.

In the article we figured out what markings can be encountered when choosing dishes. The important point here is for what you will use the dishes.

Particular attention should be paid to the choice of dishes for children. After all, the child's body does not yet have enough protective functions and is most vulnerable to environmental influences. All plastic is designed with the possibility of further processing.

Choose dishes for cooking and storing food properly and stay healthy.

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