Hestan Celebrates the Good Life

It started with wine. The Hestan sanction and logo archetypal graced the labels of Napa varietals made by renowned winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown. An amalgam of its founder’s names – Helen and Stanley Cheng – the Hestan moniker was a adjacent instant denotation of vinous prime and distinction. More recently, the Hestan sanction has go synonymous with culinary excellence. A starring visionary marque successful cookware and commercialized and residential kitchens, Hestan Culinary has been embraced by America’s top chefs, specified as Thomas Keller who serves arsenic a Hestan marque ambassador.

Chef Thomas Keller is simply a Hestan marque ambassador

The 7 Michelin-starred cook uses Hestan cookware wrong his lauded restaurants including The French Laundry, Bouchon Bistro, Bouchon Bakery, Per Se, Ad Hoc, Addendum, La Calenda, and The Surf Club. Within his famed The French Laundry, galore of the commercialized appliances are Hestan; helium worked with Cheng, an technologist by training, to pass the show and plan of Hestan Commercial, the customized suites and ranges of which are present recovered successful 1000+ edifice kitchens crossed the country, arsenic good arsenic astatine the legendary Culinary Institute of America, Johnson and Wales, and The White House kitchens. Celebrated chefs Tim Hollingsworth, Corey Lee, Matthew Accarrino, Mei Lin, Michael Tusk, Melissa Rodriguez, James Kent, Chris Shepherd, and Joey Ward among others, are each fans.

Keller collaborated with Cheng connected circumstantial details for a bespoke enactment of cookware, Thomas Keller Insignia, which features Keller-requested qualities specified arsenic vented cosmopolitan lids, stay-cool grip seamlessly fastened to the pan, and sealed stainless alloy rims that volition ne'er divided oregon deteriorate. “One of the fantastic things astir moving with Hestan was moving with Stanley, who is truly an bonzer engineer,” said Keller. 

Chef Thomas Keller worked with Hestan CEO Stanley Cheng to cleanable a bespoke enactment of cookware

Considered an innovator of cookware plan with his improvement of the Circulon and Anolon lines which joined non-stick surfaces to hard-anodized aluminum, Cheng is Chairman and  CEO of Meyer Corporation, Hestan’s genitor company. Originally from Hong Kong, helium attended Oregon State University, receiving a grade successful engineering. After returning to Hong Kong and the household business, helium released his archetypal enactment of cookware successful London, England successful 1972 portion continuing to revolutionize the manufacture with never-before-seen innovations. In 1996 helium moved the main bureau of Meyer Corporation to Vallejo, California. And past helium bought a vineyard.

The Cheng’s picturesque Hestan Vineyards estate, located connected Napa Valley’s quiescent eastbound slopes, is location to 110 cautiously and sustainably-tended acres of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Malbec, Sauvignon Blanc and Grenache, crafted into award-winning, limited-release wines nether the Hestan, Meyer, Stephanie and Vincent Christopher labels. The Hestan and Meyer labels are the merchandise of Thomas Rivers Brown, 1 of the industry’s astir lauded winemakers, who uses lone the finest grapes grown connected the property vineyards. Winemaker Jeff Gaffner crafts the Bordeaux varietal Stephanie wines, named for the Chengs’ daughter, and the Sonoma Coast-derived Vincent Christopher Pinot Noir, named for the Chengs’ 2 sons. Most of the Chengs’ wines person been awarded 90+ ratings by Wine Spectator and different vino critics, including the 2014 Meyer Cabernet Sauvignon which was selected arsenic the #8 vino successful the world. 

Stanley and Helen Cheng

All of these wines tin beryllium sampled successful the Hestan tasting room in Napa Valley’s charming municipality of Yountville, wherever a fig of Keller’s acclaimed restaurants are wrong walking distance. It was this proximity that brought Cheng and Keller unneurotic successful the pursuit of culinary excellence. When Keller bushed of his allegiance to different cookware brand, citing the company’s inability to innovate to his specifications, helium recovered Cheng acceptable and consenting to conscionable his exacting expectations. “Something that I was truly arrogant to spot is the craftsmanship and the prime of materials that spell into our cookware,” said Keller of Hestan’s Italian manufacturing processes. “The mill that makes them, their attraction to detail, their quality to execute precisely what we had engineered was thing abbreviated of truly amazing.”  

Cheng built his Hestan cookware factories successful the magnificent Bergamo and Bologna regions of Italy. Every portion of Hestan cookware is handcrafted to the highest standards of prime and proudly stamped ‘Made successful Italy,’ reflecting adjacent parts show and elegance. 'Hestan offers the astir responsive, durable and beauteous cookware seamless plan and superior quality,” said Keller. “These are the room essentials you volition privation to adhd to your collection.”

The Hestan Thomas Keller Insignia collection

Consumers person a prime of Keller’s own Insignia line, arsenic good arsenic 4 different groundbreaking collections, including the revolutionary NanoBond line of patented titanium based nano-technology that produces thousands of titanium-based nano layers bonded straight to stainless steel. It is simply a process ne'er earlier seen successful nonrecreational cookware. The CopperBond collection uses five-layer bonded operation with a heavy 100% axenic copper halfway for speedy heating, exceptional temp power and adjacent vigor distribution. The ProBond collection features a revolutionary cold-forging process that optimizes the metallic to make a thicker basal for adjacent vigor distribution. ProBond with TITUM™ Nonstick is not lone the astir durable nonstick successful the satellite compared to modular nonstick, its diamond and titanium reinforced cooking aboveground delivers chef-grade searing and browning. All Hestan cookware is optimized for induction. And erstwhile user questions originate astir which acceptable is astir due for peculiar lifestyles, Michael Kane, Hestan’s Cookware Concierge (the archetypal successful the business) is disposable by phone, Zoom, oregon SMS, for consultation. 

The Hestan CopperBond Collection

Hestan holds the rubric of astir awarded cookware, with much than a twelve honors and fourteen patents crossed the collections, including the Red Dot Design Award for Thomas Keller Insignia, CopperBond, ProBond collections, the Good Design Award for CopperBond and ProBond collections, the Kitchen Gear Award for NanoBond skillets, and galore awards from Good Housekeeping, Reviewed.com, and Bon Appetit for Best Stainless Steel Cookware, Best Copper Cookware, and Best Nonstick Cookware. A caller grant included an invitation from Bloomingdales to articulation different iconic brands (i.e. Dior, Valentino, Tod’s etc.) successful creating a constricted variation point successful solemnisation of the beloved section store’s 150th anniversary celebration. Hestan crafted 250 11” gold NanoBond skillets embossed with the Bloomingdale’s logo and a circumstantial serial fig connected each pan. 

Hestan’s cookware and commercialized appliance occurrence initiated the brand’s enlargement to Hestan Outdoor (high-performance, outdoor surviving suites, refrigeration, and complementary products), and Hestan Indoor, a enactment of expertly-engineered ranges, refrigerators, dishwashers, partition ovens, ventilation, astute products and more. Additionally, the marque makes the Hestan Campania Pizza Oven and conscionable launched the Hestan Smart Gas Range, the archetypal to power the state occurrence to a circumstantial temperature, and a Hestan Cue Smart Cooking System, the world’s archetypal cooktop method that delivers precise somesthesia power and 800+ cook guided, step-by-step recipes and immoderate with video.

Chef Tyler Florence prepares Tomahawk steaks connected his Hestan outdoor grill. Photo by Jason Perry Photography

Celebrity cook Tyler Florence is yet different Hestan fan. One of the Food Network’s earliest break-out stars, Florence is successful the process of converting his 2 San Francisco edifice kitchens to each Hestan. “Once you get to the apical of the enactment successful cookware, determination is truly thing else,” said Florence, who besides uses Hestan cookware successful his Marin County home. He often uses the brand’s Provisions OvenBond line of chef-inspired and purpose-built brushed stainless alloy roasters and expanse pans arsenic serving pieces. “Hestan is genuinely the best.” 

All photos courtesy of Hestan, unless different noted.