Wedding Gift Registry: Stocking Your South Carolina Kitchen

Your South Carolina wedding gift registry gives you and your fiancé a chance to stock up on kitchen utensils and replace hand-me-down or worn out kitchen utensils. Weddings.sc has complied an overview of everything a well stocked South Carolina Kitchen needs:

South Carolina Cookware Materials

South Carolina department stores stock a wide verity of cookware. Step one in choosing cookware, for your wedding gift registry, is to educate yourself on the various materials it is available in.

Copper: For cooking, copper is by far the best heat conductor. But it can take a lot of care to keep copper cookware shiny. Make sure the copper pans you choose are properly lined with stainless steel to prevent them from reacting with food. Good copper cookware can last for generations. The copper cookware at the Biltmore House, in Ashville, NC, is still useable after over 100 years.

Aluminum: Over 52% of the cookware sold in South Carolina contains aluminum. Aluminum cookware is second only to copper cookware in heat conductivity. Aluminum can react to acidic foods, so make sure all aluminum pots and pans on your wedding gift registry are coated with a nonstick surface or hard-anodized metal.

Cast Iron: Cast Iron cookware holds heat well, and helps evenly cook cakes and breads. But a South Carolina couple must take special care with cast iron, because it can rust and peel. There is a new trend of enamel coated cast iron cookware. Enamel coated cast iron cookware requires less maintenance than traditional cast iron; but it can be higher in price.

Glass: Glass cookware and bakeware are extremely popular choices with South Carolina brides. Glass cookware can be used in both the oven and microwave. Glass cookware is also dishwasher friendly making it a constant favorite with South Carolina brides and grooms.

Stainless Steel: Stainless Steel cookware is identifiable by it’s shiny finish and durability. Stainless Steel cookware is not as fast a conductor as aluminum or copper, but it also requires no special care and is dishwasher safe. Stainless Steel is the perfect choice for a South Carolina bride who doesn’t have time to hand wash and dry her cookware.

Nonstick: Nonstick is a coating on the inside of some cookware and bakeware. It helps prevent food from sticking to the bottom of your pots and pans, and nonstick cookware makes cleaning up after a hearty South Carolina dinner easier.

Pots and Pans 101: For A South Carolina Bride

Butter Warmer: A very small (usually .5 quart) saucepan that is used to melt butter and heat small amounts of sauces. Electric butter warmers are also available for the South Carolina bride that loves to cook. A butter warmer is great tool for making the South Carolina classic cornbread.

Dutch Oven: A dutch oven is a heavy pot that can be used both on the stovetop and in the oven. South Carolina brides love dutch ovens for mac and cheese and Frogmore Stew.

Paella pan: A paella pan is a wide, shallow pan with a cover and two handles. South Carolina brides use paella pans for to make traditional a Lowcountry Boil.

Pasta Insert: Make sure the large stock pot on your South Carolina wedding gift registry comes with a pasta insert. A pasta insert fits inside the stock pot and makes it easy for a South Carolina bride to drain her pasta.

Skillet: A skillet is key to a South Carolina kitchen. Countless dishes from scrambled eggs to fried fish are prepared in a skillet.

Saucepan: A saucepan is the deep pot that you heat liquids in. It’s great for making sausage gravy to go onto warm buttery South Carolina biscuits.

Frying Pan: Frying Pans aren’t just for hitting your husband. Who’d have thought South Carolina brides actually use frying pans for frying things, like juicy South Carolina Fried Chicken.

Stockpot: Stockpots are yet another great tool for the South Carolina kitchen. Stockpots make cooking large batches of stew and chili a snap. No South Carolina bridal registry is complete with out a good stockpot.

Wok: Is a Chinese pot that has been welcomed with open arms by South Carolina brides. A wok is the key to making the every popular Stir-fry.

A smart South Carolina bride will add high quality cookware to her South Carolina wedding gift registry. A good set of cookware will last the newlyweds for years to come.