GreenPan's Valencia Pro undercuts the Always Pan by fifty-five dollars, runs a hundred and fifty degrees hotter, and goes in the dishwasher. Our Place answers with what is in the box — and with how it words its PFAS claim.
Buy the GreenPan Valencia Pro if price, weight, oven headroom or dishwasher tolerance matter to you. On the specification sheet it wins four categories outright and costs $55 less.
Buy the Our Place Always Pan if you want the lid, spatula and steamer basket without sourcing them separately, or if you want the most categorical PFAS wording in writing. Both are legitimate reasons; neither is about performance.
And if the aesthetic is why you are here — that is allowed. The Always Pan is a better-looking object and Our Place has never pretended otherwise. Just buy it knowing what the fifty-five dollars is actually for.
Neither is safer on published evidence. Both are PFAS-free by their own statements, though Our Place's wording is more categorical and covers PTFE, PFOA, lead and cadmium explicitly where GreenPan's product page does not.
GreenPan states dishwasher safe with hand washing recommended. Our Place states hand wash only. In practice, hand washing extends the life of any ceramic coating regardless of what the label permits.
GreenPan, by 150°F — 600°F against 450°F. That said, ceramic nonstick of any brand degrades faster the hotter you run it, so the rating is a ceiling rather than a recommendation.
Both do. GreenPan states it on the product page and names a Magneto induction base. Our Place states compatibility with all cooktops including induction, though on its Cookware Duo page rather than the standalone Always Pan listing.
Lid, beechwood spatula and steamer basket included. The most categorical PFAS statement of the two. 450°F, hand wash only, three-year warranty.
Price checked 25 August 2026.
The Our Place pan that answers GreenPan on specifications: 1000°F, dishwasher safe, metal utensil safe, induction stated, lifetime warranty. It costs more than both.
$169 as most commonly configured. Price checked 25 August 2026.
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This is a comparison of published specifications, not a hands-on test, and it says so above. Product photography belongs to Our Place and GreenPan respectively. Figures were verified on 25 August 2026 against each store's own product data.
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GreenPan invented this category. Thermolon launched in 2007, years before ceramic nonstick became a lifestyle purchase, and the company has been iterating on the same sol-gel chemistry ever since. Our Place arrived later and won the aesthetic. On specifications, the older company is quietly ahead almost everywhere — with one exception that matters.
Sources: fromourplace.com and greenpan.us product pages, retrieved 25 August 2026. Both prices were confirmed against each store's own structured product data. The GreenPan figure is for the 10in Valencia Pro frypan sold without a lid; GreenPan's lidded configuration is priced higher, so compare like with like before buying.
Our Place states its products are made without PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead and cadmium. A flat list. GreenPan's product page states its nonstick is made without intentionally added PFAS, and does not carry PFOA, lead or cadmium claims on that page at all.
Those are different claims. “Intentionally added” is standard, defensible industry language that acknowledges trace presence is possible without deliberate use. It is not evidence of a problem. But if the reason you are shopping this category at all is that you want the strongest possible assurance in writing, Our Place gives you the more categorical sentence and that is worth knowing before you save fifty-five dollars.
Cheaper by $55. Lighter by more than a pound and a half. A hundred and fifty degrees more oven headroom. Dishwasher safe where Our Place is hand wash only. A lifetime warranty against Our Place's three years. Both run on induction, so that one is a draw.
The Always Pan's answer is the box: a modular lid, a beechwood spatula and a steamer basket, none of which GreenPan includes. That closes some of the gap and not all of it. On pure value the Valencia Pro is the better buy, and anyone telling you otherwise has not compared the spec sheets.
Thermolon and Thermakind are both sol-gel ceramics and neither company publishes comparative durability data. GreenPan has nearly two decades of iteration behind its formulation, which is suggestive and is not proof. Owner reports on both describe performance falling away somewhere in year two, which is normal for the category and tells you little about the difference between them.