These are the two mainstream answers to the same question — how do you get a durable pan that still releases food, without a coating you have to baby?
They answer it differently. Our Place removes the coating entirely. HexClad keeps one, and protects it behind a laser-etched steel lattice so utensils ride on the metal peaks rather than the coating in the valleys. Both carry lifetime warranties. Both are dishwasher and metal-utensil safe.
Our Place figures from fromourplace.com; HexClad figures from hexclad.com. Both read 25 August 2026. HexClad's $143 was the price at the time of reading against a $179 list.
It publishes laboratory results. This is the one that should carry the most weight. HexClad puts third-party lab testing reporting non-detect on the record. Our Place makes a categorical claim — no PTFE, PFOA, PFAS, lead, cadmium — but a claim and a test are different classes of evidence, and very few brands in this category publish the latter.
More pan, less weight. 12 inches against 10.86, at 3.4 lb against 4.57 lb with the lid. That is a meaningful difference in the hand over a long session.
There is still a coating doing the work. That sounds like a criticism and for many buyers it is the opposite — a coating releases food chemically, so HexClad forgives a cold pan in a way bare titanium does not.
Nothing to wear through. HexClad's lattice protects its coating; it does not eliminate it. A protected coating still has a life. A pan with no coating has no equivalent failure mode, and that is the entire premise of the titanium line.
Abrasive cleaning. Our Place permits steel wool. HexClad permits metal utensils but we found no equivalent steel-wool permission published — which is what you would expect of a pan that still has a coating to protect.
A cheaper entry. $135 for the 10.5″ in its cheapest configuration, and $85 for the 8.5″. HexClad's 12″ was $143 on promotion against a $179 list.
A marginally higher ceiling — 1000°F against 900°F on the Chrome and Brushed finishes. Both are far beyond what a home kitchen asks.
HexClad if published testing is what reassures you, if you want the bigger lighter pan, or if you want a surface that releases food without depending on your technique. For a lot of people that last point decides it.
Our Place titanium if the thing you actually want is a pan with nothing on it — no coating, no lattice, no wear surface — or if you want in at $85 rather than $143.
Both are unusually strong on the rows that normally separate good pans from disposable ones: dishwasher, metal utensils, lifetime warranty, high oven ratings. Whichever you choose you are buying a pan designed to be kept, which is not true of most of this category.
We have not cooked in either pan. This compares published specifications and cannot tell you which releases an egg more reliably, how HexClad's lattice looks after years of use, or whether bare titanium develops character the way carbon steel does.
One asymmetry worth naming: HexClad's promotional price moves. The $143 figure was accurate on 25 August 2026 against a $179 list, and if you are reading later it may be either number. Our Place's prices have been stable across our checks.
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1919 Cookware is an independent comparison site. We earn a commission when you buy through our links, at no extra cost to you, and it does not decide our verdicts — we name a competitor as the better buy on more than half of these pages. Every comparison is built from published manufacturer specifications, verified against each store's own product data where such data exists, and each page states plainly what it could not establish. We do not accept press samples and no brand reviews our pages before publication. Figures last verified 25 August 2026.