The Titanium Always Pan Pro 8.5″ is $85 in Chrome. The ceramic Always Pan 8.5″ is $109. The cheaper pan is the one with no coating, a 1000°F rating, dishwasher and metal-utensil permission and a limited lifetime warranty. That is the wrong way round for a product ladder, and it is the most useful thing on this page.
Prices and finishes read from Our Place's product data, 25–26 August 2026. Line-wide specifications from the Titanium Always Pan Pro product pages.
Coating-free surfaces divide people. There is no chemical release layer, so the pan wants heat and fat and a little attention, and some cooks love that while others find it a nuisance they did not sign up for.
Spending $135 to $199 to discover which camp you are in is an expensive experiment. Spending $85 is not — and it is the same surface, the same tri-ply construction and the same limited lifetime warranty as the pans three times the price.
If you get on with it, buy the 10.5″ and keep this one for eggs. If you do not, you have spent $85 on a small pan rather than $199 on a large regret.
This is an eggs, one-portion, side-vegetable, toasted-nuts pan. At 1.48 qt it holds half of what the 10.5″ does. It will not cook dinner for three and it is not a substitute for a main pan.
Buy Chrome, not Brushed. Brushed is $155 at this size — $70 more than Chrome for the same pan in a different finish, and by far the widest finish premium anywhere in the titanium range. At $155 you are close to the 10.5″ pan's entry price, which makes it a strange thing to spend money on.
Chrome/Gold at $99 is only $14 more than Chrome, but note that across this range Our Place rates the Gold finish to 750°F rather than 1000°F. If the temperature is the point, stay on Chrome.
We have not cooked in it, so nothing here tells you how an egg behaves on the surface — which is the whole reason to buy a small pan. Our Place does not publish a weight for this size, so this page does not state one. The $109 ceramic comparison is Our Place's own list price; the Cream colourway was $98.99 when we checked, which narrows the gap to $14 rather than $24 if that is the colour you wanted.
Cheaper than the ceramic pan of the same size, and the better surface.
Check price at Our PlaceTwice the capacity, same surface and warranty.
Check price at Our PlacePrices and finishes read from Our Place's own structured product data on 25–26 August 2026; the 1.48 qt capacity from the Titanium Pro Cookware Set listing, which itemises both pan sizes. 1919 Cookware earns a commission on these links at no cost to you — and this page recommends the cheapest pan in the range. Full titanium range and pricing here.
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