They photograph almost identically and sit ten dollars apart. On paper they are not the same pan — and the differences run in both directions.
Ten dollars more buys you a modular steam-release lid, a nesting beechwood spatula and a steamer basket that doubles as a colander. Caraway's $125 buys a pan.
Rated to 550°F against Our Place's 450°F — a hundred degrees of headroom that matters if you finish dishes under a broiler.
These two pans are the reason the phrase non-toxic cookware entered ordinary conversation. Both are ceramic-coated aluminium, both cost around a hundred and thirty dollars, and both are photographed in the same sunlit kitchen on the same pale worktop.
The differences are real but they are not the ones most comparison posts lead with. Neither pan is safer than the other. What actually separates them is what arrives in the box, how hot you can take them, and what happens to the price when you buy more than one.
Sources: fromourplace.com and carawayhome.com product pages, plus Caraway's warranty page, all retrieved 25 August 2026. Both prices were confirmed against each store's own structured product data: the Always Pan is $135 in every colourway, and the Caraway fry pan is $125 in six colourways and $135 in White and Black. Figures either brand declines to publish are marked rather than estimated, and prices on both sites change without notice.
This is where most comparisons go wrong, so it is worth being blunt. Both brands publish the same exclusion list: no PFAS, no PTFE, no PFOA, no lead, no cadmium. Both use a ceramic sol-gel coating over an aluminium body. There is no meaningful safety gap between them.
If a review tells you one of these is toxic and the other is clean, it is selling you something. The genuine caveat applies equally to both: ceramic coatings degrade with heat and abrasion, and a scratched, overheated pan of either brand is worse than a well-kept one of the other.
Our Place asks ten dollars more and includes three things Caraway does not: the modular steam-release lid, the nesting beechwood spatula, and the steamer basket. Bought separately those are not ten-dollar items. On the single-pan purchase, Our Place is the better value and it is not close.
That inverts on sets. Caraway's multi-piece sets have historically undercut Our Place's, and they ship with storage. If you are furnishing a kitchen rather than buying one pan, price both configurations before you decide — the single-pan logic does not carry.
This is a specification and value comparison, and it is honest about being one. What it cannot answer is the question that decides most of these purchases: which coating is still releasing eggs cleanly in eighteen months.
Nobody publishes that reliably, including us. Owner reports on both brands describe performance falling off somewhere between year one and year two, which is normal for ceramic nonstick of any make. Treat any review claiming a definitive long-term winner without a documented long-term test with suspicion.
Buy the Our Place Always Pan if you are buying one pan. The lid, spatula and steamer basket are worth considerably more than the ten-dollar difference, and the three-year written warranty is more than Caraway details publicly.
Buy the Caraway Fry Pan if you finish dishes in a hot oven or under a broiler, where a hundred degrees of headroom is a real constraint rather than a spec-sheet detail, or if the wider colour range is part of what you are choosing.
And price the sets separately from the pans. The single-pan verdict here does not transfer to a four-piece purchase, and pretending it does would cost you money.
Both. Each brand publishes the same exclusion list — no PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead or cadmium. Neither has a safety advantage over the other.
Neither. Both brands specify hand washing only, and Caraway states directly that the dishwasher will damage the ceramic coating.
Both. Caraway states gas, electric and induction compatibility on its product page. Our Place states compatibility with all cooktops including induction — though on its Cookware Duo page rather than the standalone Always Pan listing, which is why this question keeps getting asked.
Our Place publishes 3.9 lb with the lid. Caraway does not publish a weight for the 10.5in fry pan, so a direct comparison is not possible from published figures.
Our Place includes its modular steam-release lid at the $135 base price. Caraway's $125 fry pan is the pan alone; lid and set configurations are priced separately.
Lid, beechwood spatula and steamer basket included. Oven safe to 450°F. Three-year limited warranty.
Price checked 25 August 2026.
Tri-ply with a coating-free titanium surface, rated to 1000°F and covered by a limited lifetime warranty — which solves the constraint that sends people to Caraway. $135 to $179 depending on finish and spatula; $169 as most commonly configured.
Price checked 25 August 2026.
We earn a commission if you buy through our links, at no extra cost to you. It has not shaped the verdict — this page recommends the cheaper configuration in two places and tells you outright that neither pan is safer than the other.
This is a comparison of published specifications and value, not a hands-on test, and it says so above rather than implying otherwise. Product photography is Our Place's own. Figures were verified on 25 August 2026 and are re-checked when either brand changes pricing.
1919 Cookware is an independent comparison site. We earn a commission when you buy through our links, at no extra cost to you, and it does not decide our verdicts — we name a competitor as the better buy on more than half of these pages. Every comparison is built from published manufacturer specifications, verified against each store's own product data where such data exists, and each page states plainly what it could not establish. We do not accept press samples and no brand reviews our pages before publication. Figures last verified 25 August 2026.