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Frying pans · prices verified 16 October 2026

Our Place frying pans, reviewed

There are nine of them. Three materials, three sizes, and prices from $69 to $219. Almost everything written about them focuses on colour, which is the one variable that does not matter. The two that do are weight and whether the surface is a coating — and those are what decide whether the pan is still in your cupboard in three years.

Every price and weight below was read from Our Place's own product pages on 16 October 2026 — product weights, with the lid where Our Place lists one, never shipping weights. Where Our Place publishes no figure, this page says so rather than estimating one.

The price ladder

Set out side by side, the range is more orderly than the shop suggests. Ceramic runs $109 / $135 / $159 across the three sizes. Titanium runs $155 / $179 / $199. Titanium carries a flat premium of about $45 at every size — it is a single decision about surface, not a different decision at each size.

Size
Ceramic
Titanium Pro
Premium
8.5 inch (Mini)
$109
$155
+$46
10.5 inch (standard)
$135
$179
+$44
12.5 inch (Large)
$159
$199
+$40

Titanium prices are the Chrome and Brushed finishes. Chrome/Gold costs $20 more at every size: $175, $199 and $219. Cast iron sits outside this ladder at $135, and the two griddle plates at $69 and $119.

Ceramic — the original Always Pan

The pan the brand was built on. The surface is a ceramic nonstick coating, which is what makes it slick when new and what eventually wears out. Our Place backs all three sizes with a three-year limited warranty, rates them oven-safe to 450°F, and includes a nesting beechwood spatula with each.

Ceramic · 8.5 inch

Always Pan 8.5" (Mini)

$109
2.76 lb with lid · 12 colourways · lightest ceramic pan in the range

The one to buy for a one- or two-person kitchen. At 2.76 lb with its lid it is about 30% lighter than the 10.5" and easy one-handed. The trade is real cooking capacity: an 8.5-inch surface will not brown four chicken thighs without crowding them, so this is a one-or-two-person pan and no amount of 10-in-1 marketing changes that. Most colourways are $109; Cream was discounted to $98.99 when we checked.

Ceramic · 10.5 inch · the default

Always Pan 10.5"

$135
3.9 lb with lid · 8 colourways · the pan most people mean

This is "the Always Pan" in almost every review and video. The ceramic surface is slick when new, and it does replace a frying pan, a sauté pan and a steamer, so the cupboard-space argument holds. Two things to know before buying. First, at 3.9 lb with the lid it is a normal weight for a lidded 10.5-inch pan — this is not the heavy one in the range; the cast iron version is. Second, ceramic nonstick is a consumable: it degrades with heat and time in a way stainless and cast iron do not. Our Place covers the pan with a three-year limited warranty; whether gradual loss of nonstick counts as a defect under it is a question for the terms, not this page. It is a good pan that you should expect to replace eventually.

Ceramic · 12.5 inch · best value of the three

Always Pan 12.5" (Large)

$159
3.3 lb body, lid weight not listed · 5 colourways · the most pan per dollar

The most pan per dollar in the ceramic range. Our Place lists the 12.5" body at 3.3 lb without the lid and gives no lidded figure, so a like-for-like weight against the 10.5" (3.9 lb with lid) is not possible from the published numbers; it is likely a little heavier once the lid is on, and we will not guess by how much. What is certain: $24 more buys a substantially bigger cooking surface — four thighs without crowding, a family stir-fry — and the catch is choice: five colourways against eight. If you cook for more than two people, this, not the 10.5", is the one to default to.

Titanium Pro — no coating to wear out

The answer to the ceramic range's one real weakness. There is no nonstick layer to degrade, the pans are dishwasher-safe, and Our Place puts a limited lifetime warranty on them against three years for the ceramic versions. One clarification the name invites: this is a titanium-reinforced cooking surface, not a pan made of solid titanium. It is also not as slick as fresh ceramic. Eggs need fat. That is the trade being offered: less nonstick, far more durable.

Titanium · 8.5 inch

Titanium Always Pan Pro 8.5"

$155
Chrome or Brushed $155 · Chrome/Gold $175 · 3.26 lb with lid · limited lifetime warranty

Worth flagging a price change: this pan was $85 earlier in the year and is now $155. Older reviews that recommend it as the budget way into titanium — including an earlier version of our own page on it — were written against the old figure and no longer hold. At $155 it costs $46 more than the ceramic Mini rather than undercutting it. It is still the right pick if you want a small pan that will not wear out, but it is no longer the cheap option.

Titanium · 10.5 inch · the one to buy to keep

Titanium Always Pan Pro 10.5"

$179
Chrome or Brushed $179 · Chrome/Gold $199 · dishwasher safe

The clearest value proposition in the range. $44 more than the ceramic 10.5" buys a surface with nothing on it to wear through, dishwasher safety, oven safety to 1000°F against 450°F, and a limited lifetime warranty against the ceramic pan's three years. If you expect to replace a ceramic pan every few years, the titanium pays for itself on the second one. Judge it as a durable pan rather than a nonstick one and it is the strongest thing Our Place sells.

Titanium · 12.5 inch

Titanium Always Pan Pro 12.5"

$199
Chrome or Brushed $199 · Chrome/Gold $219 · largest pan in the range

The biggest and most expensive pan here, and the premium over ceramic is at its narrowest — $40 against $159. If you have already decided on the large size, the titanium version is close to a straight upgrade for the price of a decent weeknight takeaway. The honest caveat is that a 12.5-inch pan that is not reliably nonstick asks more of your technique over a large surface; preheat it properly and use enough fat, or you will be scrubbing a large pan.

Cast iron and the griddle plates

Three pans that sit outside the ceramic-versus-titanium decision. One is much heavier than it looks, and one is the cheapest way into the range by a wide margin.

Cast iron · 10.5 inch · read the weight first

Cast Iron Always Pan 10.5"

$135
8.75 lb with lid · 7 colourways · pre-seasoned · limited lifetime warranty

Same $135 as the ceramic 10.5" and more than twice the weight at 8.75 lb with the lid. That is the single most important fact about this pan and it is easy to miss when shopping by photograph. Pre-seasoned cast iron will outlast everything else on this page and gets better with use, and Our Place backs it with a limited lifetime warranty, which is a real argument for it. It is oven-safe to 500°F without its lid, against 450°F for the ceramic pans. But 8.75 lb is more than many people want to lift one-handed off a hob, let alone tip a full pan of food from, and anyone who finds the 3.9 lb ceramic pan heavy should treat this as a different category of object rather than a sideways swap.

Ceramic · flat plate

Griddle Pan

$119
4.52 lb · 6 colourways · oven safe to 450°F

A flat plate rather than a frying pan, and it should be judged as an addition rather than an alternative. It earns its place for pancakes, toasted sandwiches, bacon and anything else where a sloped wall gets in the way of a spatula. It does not replace the Always Pan and cannot hold liquid. At $119 that is a lot of money for a specialist surface unless you genuinely cook flat things often — if you are buying one pan, this is not it.

Ceramic · flat plate · cheapest way in

Mini Griddle Pan

$69
2.4 lb · 6 colourways · lightest item in the range

At $69 and 2.4 lb this is both the cheapest and the lightest thing Our Place makes in this category, and that gives it a use the marketing does not mention: it is the low-risk way to find out whether you like their ceramic surface before committing $135 to the full-size pan. For one or two eggs, a grilled cheese or reheating, it is perfectly good on its own terms.

So which one

Five recommendations, each tied to a reason rather than a star rating.

Most people
The 12.5" Large at $159, not the 10.5" at $135. The extra $24 buys a substantially bigger cooking surface; Our Place does not publish the Large's lidded weight, so expect to carry a little more. The reason to prefer the 10.5" is that it comes in eight colours instead of five.
Cooking for one or two
The 8.5" Mini at $109. At 2.76 lb with the lid it is the lightest ceramic pan here and the easiest one-handed. Accept that it cooks for two.
If you want it to last
The Titanium Always Pan Pro 10.5" at $179. The $44 premium removes the coating that wears out, adds dishwasher safety, and comes with a limited lifetime warranty against the ceramic pan's three years. On a second purchase it has already paid for itself.
To try the range cheaply
The Mini Griddle at $69. Same ceramic surface, a third of the outlay, and you will know within a fortnight whether you like cooking on it.
Probably skip
The Cast Iron at $135 unless you specifically want cast iron and have handled 8.75 lb of it before, and the Griddle Pan at $119 unless flat-surface cooking is already a habit.

Where these numbers came from

Every price, weight and colourway count on this page was read from Our Place's own product pages on 16 October 2026, one product at a time. Weights are the product weights Our Place lists on each page, with the lid where it gives one — not the shipping weights in its shop data feed, which run roughly 40–70% higher. Nothing here is taken from another review site, and nothing is estimated: where Our Place publishes no figure, such as the lidded weight of the 12.5" pan, this page says so rather than filling the gap.

Prices move, and they move more than you would expect: the titanium range repriced substantially in the seven weeks before this check, which is why the 8.5" entry above carries a correction rather than a quiet edit. If you are reading this well after the date above, treat the figures as a starting point and check the current price before buying.

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