Kitchenware Buying Guide | How to Choose Food Grade Flatware and Silicone Kitchen Utensils

Think about what you use about kitchenware frequently, this will influence your health. For example, the flatware you used for dinner everyday, the kitchen utensils you cooked every night, how do we choose them when we purchase? Is thers any tips for us? 

For a deeper dive, read about the kitchenware buying guide from our Garbo international | How to choose food grade flatware and silicone kitchen utensils.

-Stainless steel flatware buying guide

1. Try to buy from a big supermarket or shop. When buying stainless steel flateware you should carefully check whether the type and material composition of stainless steel used are marked on the outer packaging.

2. You should buy your favorite style on the basis of easy cleaning. Some tableware will have complex patterns due to appearance design and other reasons. The food remaining in these concave and convex patterns is not easy to clean and will produce bacteria.

3. Under normal circumstances, for stainless steel flatware of the same thickness and shape, high-grade flatware  will be heavier than low-grade flatware.

4.Try to purchase products whose main materials are austenitic stainless steel, austenitic ferritic stainless steel and ferritic stainless steel. The main material in stainless steel cutlery can also choose martensitic stainless steel.

-Stainless steel flatware daily use guide

1. Do not wash with strong alkaline or strong oxidizing chemicals such as baking soda, bleaching powder, sodium hypochlorite, etc. Because these substances are strong electrolytes, they will chemically react with stainless steel, thereby destroying the surface gloss of stainless steel tableware.

2. The thermal conductivity of stainless steel tableware is lower than that of iron and aluminum tableware, and the heat transfer time is slow, and empty burning will cause the surface of the cooker to age and fall off. Therefore, do not burn in empty.

3. Do not store salt, soy sauce, vinegar, vegetable soup, etc. for a long time, because these foods contain a lot of electrolytes. If they are stored for a long time, stainless steel will also chemically react with these electrolytes like other metals, causing harmful Metal elements are dissolved out.

4. After using stainless steel flatware, wash it with warm water immediately to prevent oil stains, soy sauce, vinegar, tomato juice and other substances from interacting with the surface of the tableware, causing the stainless steel surface to become dull and even dented. Do not scrub with hard objects such as sandpaper or metal wire, so as not to damage the surface luster.

-Silicone kitchen utensils buying guide

Silicone kitchen utensils are made of silicone rubber. It has the advantages of heat resistance, cold resistance, soft quality, easy cleaning, tear resistance, and good resilience. In the process of purchasing and using, we must also pay attention to the following issues

1. Read the product labels carefully, check whether the content of the label is complete, whether there is marked material information and compliance with national food safety standards.

2. Choose products that are suitable for your application, and pay attention to products that have a flat, smooth surface and are free of burrs and debris.

3. When purchasing, you can smell it with your nose, and do not choose products with peculiar smell.

4. Wipe the surface of the product with a white paper towel, do not choose a product that has faded after wiping.

-Silicone kitchen utensils daily use guide

1. Before use, it should be cleaned according to the requirements of the product label or instruction manual to ensure that the washing is clean, and if necessary, it can be sterilized by boiling in high temperature water.

2. When using, according to the requirements of the product's label or manual, use it under the specified conditions of use, and pay special attention to the safe use of the product. Keep a distance of 5-10cm and avoid direct contact with the four walls of the oven.

3. After use, clean it with a soft cloth and neutral detergent, and keep it dry. Do not use high-strength cleaning tools such as coarse cloth or steel wool, and do not use sharp utensils to touch the silicone kitchen utensils.

-Garbo Certificate

Our garbo products are all pasted the food grade test. You can definitely purchase in our company without any hesitation. 

If you don't know how to choose suppliers when you come to China, don't worry at all, just choose our products with confidence, all products are absolutely safe, environmentally friendly. 

We have passed the FDA AP LFGB test. With the safest products and the most competitive price, choose to cooperate with us, let us make success together in the future. 

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