Five dollars separates these two pans. Le Creuset's own product page carries the sentence “This product contains PFAS for its non-stick properties.” Our Place publishes the opposite claim. If you are shopping this category at all, the comparison is already over.
PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead and cadmium named as excluded. A lid, spatula and steamer basket in the box. Hand wash only, 450°F, three-year warranty.
Better on every care and durability metric — dishwasher safe, metal-utensil safe, 500°F, lifetime warranty — and it states the pan contains PFAS.
Buy the Our Place Always Pan if avoiding PFAS is the reason you are shopping. That is the whole decision, and no amount of Le Creuset's undoubted quality changes it.
Buy the Le Creuset Toughened Non-stick PRO if PFAS is not your concern and you want the better pan. It is dishwasher safe, takes metal utensils, runs hotter, and is warranted for life by a company that has been doing this for a century — and it will tell you exactly what is in it.
The Toughened Non-stick PRO line does — Le Creuset states so on the product page: “This product contains PFAS for its non-stick properties.” Le Creuset's enamelled cast iron carries no such disclosure, because enamel requires no nonstick coating.
Not in normal use, on the current evidence. PTFE is stable at ordinary cooking temperatures, and PFOA has not been used in cookware manufacture for years. The stronger objections to PFAS concern manufacturing and environmental persistence rather than cooking an egg.
Le Creuset, on published specifications — forged hard-anodised construction, dishwasher and metal-utensil safe, 500°F, lifetime warranty. Our Place publishes cast aluminium, hand wash only, 450°F and three years.
Our Place. A modular steam-release lid, a beechwood spatula and a steamer basket, against a bare pan from Le Creuset.
PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead and cadmium named as excluded. Lid, spatula and steamer basket included, and five dollars less.
Price checked 25 August 2026.
Dishwasher safe, metal-utensil safe, tri-ply clad, 1000°F and a limited lifetime warranty — matching Le Creuset on care and durability while keeping the full exclusion list.
$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. This page states plainly that Le Creuset makes the better pan on every metric except the one most of our readers came for, and credits Le Creuset for publishing a disclosure most brands would have omitted.
This is a comparison of published specifications, not a hands-on test, and it is not toxicological advice. Le Creuset's PFAS sentence is quoted verbatim from its product page and was confirmed on two independent URLs. Figures verified 25 August 2026. Product photography is Our Place's own.
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Le Creuset has been making cookware in France since 1925 and the Toughened Non-stick PRO is a genuinely excellent pan. It is dishwasher safe, metal-utensil safe, rated fifty degrees hotter than the Always Pan and warranted for life instead of three years. On construction and tolerance it wins comfortably.
It also carries this sentence on its product page: “This product contains PFAS for its non-stick properties.” Le Creuset is not hiding it. They have published a disclosure and linked to more information. That is more transparency than most brands offer — and it is a straight answer to the only question a lot of people in this category are asking.
Sources: fromourplace.com and lecreuset.com product pages, retrieved 25 August 2026. The Our Place price was confirmed against the store's own structured product data; Le Creuset runs no equivalent endpoint, so its $140 is single-sourced from the product page and was corroborated against a second Le Creuset URL for the same pan, which returned the same price and the same PFAS sentence. Our Place's induction compatibility is stated on its Cookware Duo page rather than the standalone Always Pan page.
PFAS is a family of thousands of compounds. PTFE — the material behind Teflon — is one of them, and it has been used in nonstick cookware for seventy years. A pan containing PTFE is not dangerous in normal use: the material is inert at cooking temperatures and the health concerns historically attached to nonstick centred on PFOA, a processing chemical phased out of cookware manufacturing years ago.
So Le Creuset's disclosure is not an admission of danger. It is a statement that this is a conventional nonstick pan of the highest quality, and that Le Creuset would rather say so than let you assume otherwise. That is more honest than a great many ceramic brands are being.
But it does settle the comparison for one specific buyer: the person who came here because they want no PFAS in their kitchen at all. For that person Le Creuset has answered the question and the rest of the spec sheet is irrelevant.
Read the table again with that row removed and the Le Creuset is the better pan almost everywhere. Fifty degrees more oven headroom. Dishwasher safe. Metal utensils permitted. Forged hard-anodised aluminium rather than cast. A lifetime warranty against three years. Country of manufacture disclosed.
Our Place's answers are the accessories — a lid, a spatula and a steamer basket against Le Creuset's bare pan — five dollars less, and a wider cooking surface. Those are real, and they are not why anyone chooses between these two.
This page covers the Toughened Non-stick PRO line only. Le Creuset's enamelled cast iron — the Dutch ovens the brand is famous for — carries no PFAS disclosure, because enamel is glass and needs no nonstick coating at all. Do not read this page as a statement about Le Creuset as a whole.
We are not a toxicology resource and will not pretend to settle that. What is well established: PTFE is stable at normal cooking temperatures and degrades above roughly 500°F, and PFOA has not been used in cookware manufacturing for years. What remains genuinely contested is the environmental and manufacturing footprint of PFAS as a class. If that is what drives your decision, it is a legitimate reason to avoid the Le Creuset — and the reason has more to do with how the pan was made than with what happens when you cook an egg in it.