Both go in the dishwasher. Both take metal utensils. Both carry a lifetime warranty. These are the ceramic pans built to be treated like stainless — and they get there by completely different means.
Rated to 1000°F against HexClad's 900°F, and the only one of the two that states cooktop compatibility on the product page itself. From $135, $169 as usually configured.
$143 against a $179 list, 3.4 lb, and the only one of the two publishing third-party PFAS lab results. A bigger pan for less money.
Most ceramic pans ask you to baby them. Hand wash only, wooden utensils, medium heat, replace in two years. These two are the exceptions — both are dishwasher safe, both are rated for metal utensils, and both carry lifetime warranties. If you have already killed one nonstick pan through ordinary use, this is the comparison that matters.
They arrive at that durability by opposite routes. Our Place removes the coating entirely: the Titanium Pro's cooking surface is titanium bonded into a tri-ply body, marketed as NoCo, coating-free. HexClad keeps a ceramic coating but protects it behind a laser-etched stainless steel hexagonal lattice that takes the abrasion instead.
Sources: fromourplace.com and hexclad.com product pages and HexClad's FAQ, retrieved 25 August 2026. Both prices were confirmed against each store's own structured product data. Note these are different sizes — Our Place 10.5in against HexClad 12in — so diameter and weight are not like-for-like, and Our Place's weight figure includes a lid while HexClad's does not. HexClad's $143 is a promotional price against a $179 list and may change.
HexClad sells this pan as a 12in and publishes an 11.4in flat-bottom diameter. Our Place's is a 10.5in with a 10.86in diameter. You are comparing a larger pan against a smaller one, and the larger one is cheaper right now. That is a real advantage to HexClad, not a rounding error — but it also means the 3.4 lb against 4.57 lb weight gap understates how much lighter HexClad is per square inch of cooking surface, and Our Place's figure includes a lid that HexClad's does not.
Both brands state their pans are PFAS-free. Our Place lists PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead and cadmium as excluded. HexClad goes a step further and publishes third-party laboratory results reporting non-detect across the PFAS compounds tested. That is a transparency difference rather than a safety difference — but if published lab data is what reassures you, only one of these two provides it.
The oven rating, by a hundred degrees, and the fact that induction compatibility is stated on the product page rather than buried in an FAQ. If you cook on induction, that difference is the difference between reading a spec and emailing a support team.
Our Place also includes a spatula at list price where HexClad's pan arrives alone and prices the lid as a separate purchase. On a straight pan-for-pan basis HexClad is cheaper; once you add a lid, price both configurations before deciding.
This is a specification comparison and it is honest about being one. The question it cannot answer is whether a coating-free titanium surface actually outlasts an armoured ceramic one over three years of real cooking, because no independent long-term test of both exists.
Both brands promise lifetime coverage, which tells you they are each confident — and tells you nothing about which is right. If you find a review declaring a durability winner without years of documented use behind it, that verdict was assumed rather than measured.
Buy the Titanium Always Pan Pro if you cook on induction and want that stated rather than inferred, if you finish dishes above 900°F, or if the idea of a pan with no nonstick coating at all is what you are actually paying for.
Buy the HexClad 12in if you want the larger pan for less money, if 3.4 lb versus 4.57 lb matters to your wrists, or if published third-party lab results are the reassurance you are looking for on PFAS.
On the thing they both promise — a ceramic-era pan you can put in the dishwasher and attack with metal — they deliver equally on paper, and neither has proved it over years in public.
HexClad's case is its laser-etched steel ridges, which sit proud of the ceramic and contact the food directly. Our Place's is a titanium surface with no coating to protect. Both publish searing claims; neither publishes comparative test data.
Both state so. HexClad additionally publishes third-party lab results reporting non-detect. Our Place lists PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead and cadmium as excluded but does not publish lab results on the product page.
Yes, and that is unusual for this category. HexClad's FAQ adds that repeated dishwasher use may dull or darken the finish over time.
Yes, but you have to go to the FAQ to learn it — the 12in product page does not state cooktop compatibility. HexClad's FAQ describes a magnetic stainless steel base.
Our Place, at current prices — $169 as usually configured against HexClad's $143. But HexClad's is a promotional price against a $179 list, and Our Place's range starts at $135 for other finish and spatula combinations.
Coating-free titanium over tri-ply, rated to 1000°F, dishwasher and metal-utensil safe, limited lifetime warranty. Spatula included.
$169 as most commonly configured. Price checked 25 August 2026.
The ceramic original at $135, with lid, spatula and steamer basket included. Hand wash only and rated to 450°F — but most people cook well below both limits.
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 rather than implying otherwise. Product photography belongs to Our Place and HexClad respectively. Figures were verified on 25 August 2026 against each store's own product data and are re-checked when either brand changes pricing.
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