Kitchen Essentials

The diaspora kitchen is not a weekend kitchen. It is the kitchen where large family meals happen on weeknights, where pressure-cooked legumes are made from scratch, where borek is assembled on a Tuesday and baklava is baked before Eid. The cookware that serves this kitchen needs to be built for daily, sustained, high-volume use — not for occasional cooking or for display.

At Rootsware, we carry kitchen essentials from Turkish manufacturers — primarily Korkmaz, the brand that has been equipping Turkish home kitchens for decades. Korkmaz builds for the Turkish domestic market, which means building for heavy daily use, large family cooking, and long product life. That standard maps directly onto diaspora household needs in America.

This collection covers the full range: stainless steel cookware sets, nonstick and granite-coated pans, casserole pots, baking trays (including the baklava tray and kunafa pan formats), skewers for grilling, and Pasabahce borosilicate glass bakeware for the household that prefers chemical-free oven cooking. Everything a Turkish, Middle Eastern, or Balkan kitchen needs, without having to search through products not designed for this kind of cooking.