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Specifications compared · August 2026

Our Place vs Made In: a package against a pan body

Made In sells five-ply construction made in Italy and nothing else in the box. Our Place sells cast aluminium and three accessories. Fourteen dollars separates them, and they are not competing on the same thing.

1919 Cookware·Updated 25 August 2026·Our Place price verified in store data
What ships with the Always Pan · image: Our Place
Published specs
Every figure comes from the brand's own product page
One price verified
Our Place confirmed in store data; Made In has no such endpoint and is single-sourced
Comparable sizes
Our Place 10.5in against Made In 10in, both ceramic nonstick
No samples
Neither brand supplied product or approved this page

So which should you buy?

Buy the Made In if construction is what you care about. Five-ply fully clad is genuinely better engineering than cast aluminium with a stainless disc, it is lighter while being sturdier, and it is made somewhere the brand is willing to name.

Buy the Our Place Always Pan if you want a complete cooking setup for less money. Lid, spatula and steamer basket included, fourteen dollars cheaper, and a warranty you can actually read the terms of.

The mistake is treating this as one pan against another. It is a pan against a package, and which is better depends entirely on whether you already own a lid.

Questions people ask

Is Made In better quality than Our Place?

On construction, yes — five-ply fully clad is a step above cast aluminium with a stainless base, and that is a published specification rather than a marketing claim. On coating durability neither publishes data, so quality claims beyond construction are not verifiable.

Does the Made In pan come with a lid?

No. The $149 CeramiClad 2.0 10in is the pan alone. The Always Pan includes its modular steam-release lid at $135.

Which is lighter?

Made In, at 2.5 lb against 3.9 lb — though the Our Place figure includes the lid, so the gap between bare pans is narrower than it looks.

Are both non-toxic?

Both publish exclusion lists covering PFAS, PFOA, lead and cadmium. Our Place additionally names PTFE. Neither publishes third-party lab results on its product page.

Which works on induction?

Both. Made In 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.

Always Pan 10.5" · image: Our Place
Better complete purchase

Our Place Always Pan 10.5"

Fourteen dollars less with a lid, spatula and steamer basket included, and a stated three-year warranty.

$135
See it at Our PlaceCompare Made In

Price checked 25 August 2026.

Titanium Always Pan Pro · image: Our Place
If clad construction is the draw

Titanium Always Pan Pro

Our Place's own tri-ply clad pan, and the one that answers Made In on engineering rather than on accessories. Rated to 1000°F with a limited lifetime warranty.

From $135
See it at Our Place

$169 as most commonly configured. Price checked 25 August 2026.

How this page makes money, and what it is

We earn a commission if you buy through our links, at no extra cost to you. It has not shaped the verdict — this page states plainly that Made In has the better-engineered pan.

This is a comparison of published specifications, not a hands-on test. Our Place's price was verified against its own store data; Made In's was taken from its product page and could not be cross-checked. Product photography is Our Place's own. Figures verified 25 August 2026.

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Made In sells to restaurant kitchens and prices like it. Our Place sells to home cooks and photographs like it. Put their ceramic nonstick pans side by side and the fourteen-dollar gap between them turns out to be the least interesting number on the page.

Published specifications, side by side
Specification
Our Place Always Pan 10.5"
Made In CeramiClad 2.0 10"
Price
$135
$149
Diameter
10.7 in
10 in
Weight
3.9 lb with lid
2.5 lb, pan only
Oven safe to
450°F
550°F
Construction
Cast aluminium, stainless base
Five-ply fully clad, made in Italy
Coating
Thermakind ceramic
CeramiClad 2.0, four-layer
Induction
All cooktops including induction
Gas, electric and induction
Dishwasher
Hand wash only
Hand wash only
In the box
Lid, beechwood spatula, steamer basket
Pan only, no lid
Warranty
3-year limited, stated
Limited or lifetime, not specified per product
PFAS wording
Without PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead, cadmium
Without PFAS, PFOA, lead, cadmium

Sources: fromourplace.com and madeincookware.com product pages, retrieved 25 August 2026. The Our Place price was confirmed against the store's own structured product data. Made In does not expose an equivalent endpoint, so its $149 is taken from the product page and is single-sourced. Made In's published exclusion list does not name PTFE; we report that as stated rather than drawing a conclusion from it.

Made In sells you a better pan. Our Place sells you a better purchase.
Fourteen dollars, two philosophies

Five-ply is a real advantage

This is the one specification on the page that is not marketing. Made In publishes fully clad five-ply construction — alternating layers of stainless and aluminium through the entire pan, not just the base. Our Place publishes a cast aluminium body with a stainless base. Clad construction heats more evenly and warps less, and it is why the Made In pan weighs 2.5 lb while doing more.

It is also made in Italy, which Made In publishes and Our Place does not address. If provenance is part of what you are buying, only one of these tells you where it was made.

Our Place answers with everything else

Fourteen dollars cheaper. A wider pan. A modular lid, a beechwood spatula and a steamer basket, none of which Made In includes — and the Made In pan has no lid at all at that price. A stated three-year warranty rather than “limited or lifetime” with no per-product detail.

Add a lid to the Made In and the gap stops being fourteen dollars. Price the configuration you would actually cook with, not the two headline numbers.

On the PFAS wording

Both exclude PFAS, PFOA, lead and cadmium in writing. Our Place additionally names PTFE; Made In's published list does not. We are reporting what each brand states, not inferring what that omission means — PTFE is itself a PFAS compound, so a PFAS-free claim arguably covers it. If it matters to you, ask Made In directly rather than reading either way into a product page.

What this page cannot tell you

Whether five-ply actually makes the coating last longer

Clad construction demonstrably improves heat distribution. Whether that translates into a ceramic coating surviving longer is a reasonable hypothesis and an untested one — neither brand publishes durability data, and no independent long-term test of both exists. Made In claims its CeramiClad 2.0 is 43 percent more durable than its own previous version, which is a comparison with itself rather than with Our Place.