These oddly-shaped pots and pans heat food faster, save energy

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The secret to the Flare Pan’s energy-saving efficiency is a series of vertical fins that jut out along the outer surface in a circular pattern. The aerodynamic fins prevents heat from escaping by channeling it from the bottom and up along the side, where heat can evenly distributed across more surface area, allowing foods and liquids to warm up much faster.

And while there’s already a popular alternative called the portable Jetboil system, which captures and evenly distributes heat through a similar fin-like “heat exchanger,” Povey points out that the product simply isn’t suitable for kitchen-style meal preparation. “Jetboil and other outdoor units are built for different functions, like boiling water mostly,” Povey says. “Optimizing something for domestic use is different because people are expecting a different quality of cooking and cookware that looks like it belongs in the kitchen and can be cleaned easily.”

To finalize a production version, Povey later teamed up with Lakeland, a collaboration that allowed his team to overcome a series of manufacturing challenges, which included identifying a partner capable of forging the casting of the shape.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/07/17/these-oddly-shaped-pots-and-pans-heat-food-faster-save-energy

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Anything that saves a little energy is good by me