Ina Garten's way of keeping her cookware new is Barefoot Contessa

Ina garden has a how easy is it? Method to keep your pots and pans looking like new. The Food Network star spends a lot of time in the kitchen. Try Barefoot Contessa cookbook and movie recipes in a "barn" next to her home in East Hampton, New York. But garden's cookware doesn't show it.

Which pots and pans does Ina Garten use?

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First, which cookware receives the cookbook author's seal of approval? There is an entire section on the Barefoot Contessa official website devoted to the cookware recommended by Garten.

The 73-year-old recommends a variety of products that she uses over and over again. There are half stoves, cast iron pans (mini and full size), white baking tins, cake tins, all-encased cookware and Dutch Le Creuset ovens.

This is what garden suggests that everyone has in their kitchen.

"Do you have a stove, a good set of knives," he once said to Food & Wine . "I love a Kitchenaid drummer, but a hand drummer does the same job, just stay there."

Also get "a nice set of glasses".

"If you can't afford good casseroles, you can go to a restaurant supply store," he says. "The simple and really good team that you can have forever is really the best."

Here are garden guidelines for cookware that shines like new. As part of the "Ask Ina" section on her Barefoot Contessa website, she shared her advice with a fan who asked her, "How do you keep your pans so clean and shiny?" Garten initially said he uses "good quality All-Clad and LeCreuset cookware".

Below, Garten gave the details on how to make his cookware look like new.

"I never put a dirty pot or pan in the dishwasher. The heat is always boiling, "he says. It should be noted that almost everything goes into the garden dishwasher .

"If there's food in a jar, I instead fill it with hotter tap water and dish soap and let it soak in the sink overnight," he explained. "In the morning, the glasses come out clean with a sponge or high-speed steel disk."

"My kitchen utensils are expensive, but I take good care of them," added Garten. "And so far most pans have lasted almost 40 years!"

Cookbook author and husband Jeffrey Garten does the dishes when they are busy

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The barefoot Contessa doesn't let anyone wash the dishes when she's having dinner. She told Kitchn in 2015 while promoting her cookbook Make It Ahead that she and her husband Jeffrey Garten are still doing the dishes .

"Everyone has the right to help with anything other than dishes," said Garten. "I'll do the dishes that evening. We have a system. Jeffrey clears the table, neatly piles them up, and I load the dishwasher with dishes and soak the pots overnight. ""

It is easy?

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