The framing is misleading, and the reason is worth knowing before you compare prices. Our Place publishes the Titanium Always Pan Pro's construction as 3 mm fully-clad tri-ply: a stainless steel exterior, an aluminium core, and a titanium interior. It is a stainless steel pan. The titanium is the cooking surface bonded onto it.
The Titanium Always Pan Pro pairs a coating-free titanium cooking surface with 3mm tri-ply construction, runs $179 to $199 at 10.5″ depending on finish, and is rated to 1000°F, dishwasher safe and metal-utensil safe under a limited lifetime warranty.
Two pans of essentially the same construction — clad layers of stainless and aluminium — differing in what the food touches. One presents stainless steel to the food. The other presents titanium.
That means most of what people believe separates these categories does not. Heat distribution comes from the aluminium core, and both have one. Induction compatibility comes from the stainless exterior, and both have one. Oven safety, durability, dishwasher tolerance and the ability to take metal utensils are all properties of clad metal pans generally.
What genuinely differs is release, and how much you pay for it.
Release, somewhat. Our Place markets the titanium surface as non-stick. It is not a coating, so it does not release chemically the way ceramic or PTFE does — it still wants heat and fat. But it is marketed as better in this respect than bare stainless, which is notoriously sticky with eggs and fish until you have mastered the pan.
Price. This is the real cost. The Titanium Always Pan Pro is $155 at 8.5″, $179 at 10.5″ and $199 at 12.5″. Competent tri-ply stainless pans are widely available for less.
Nothing else, materially. Both are dishwasher safe, both take metal utensils, both survive high oven temperatures, both work on induction, and neither has a coating that can wear off. If you were hoping titanium buys you something structural over good stainless, the published specifications do not support that.
An affiliate site should not write this section either. Here it is.
If you already cook well on stainless, you are paying a premium for a release characteristic you have already solved with technique. Buy a good tri-ply stainless pan and spend the difference on something else.
If you want to build a fond and make pan sauces, stainless is the classic surface for exactly that reason. Browned residue sticking to the pan is the point when you are about to deglaze it.
If budget is the constraint, stainless is a mature, competitive category. Titanium cookware is new and priced accordingly.
Titanium is worth the premium if you want clad-metal durability but find bare stainless too punishing with eggs and fish. That is a real and common position — it is most of the market this category was built for.
If release is what you actually want, neither of these is the easiest answer. A ceramic pan releases food chemically, works from cold, and asks nothing of your technique — Our Place's own ceramic Always Pan is $135, $44 less than the titanium pan at the same 10.5″ size, and comes with a steamer basket and a beechwood spatula the titanium pan does not have.
The catch is that ceramic coatings wear out and titanium and stainless surfaces do not. That trade-off is set out here, and it is the one most people are really deciding.
If plain stainless already suits how you cook, the section above stands — buy the cheaper pan and keep the difference. The titanium layer is not a performance upgrade to clad stainless; it is a different surface bonded onto the same 3mm fully-clad tri-ply body, and everything else on the spec sheet is what good stainless already gives you.
What the layer buys is a release surface with no coating in it, which is why the care card permits metal utensils, steel wool and the dishwasher, and why the warranty is limited lifetime rather than a wear period. If that combination is the thing plain stainless cannot give you, the Pro is the pan to look at. Specifications are here, and the ceramic comparison is here if coating-free was never the point.
Stainless exterior, aluminium core, titanium cooking surface.
Check price at Our PlaceThe sensible way to find out whether the surface earns its premium over stainless for you.
Check price at Our PlaceConstruction, materials, temperature ratings, care instructions and warranty terms for the Titanium Always Pan Pro were read from Our Place's product page on 25 August 2026. Statements about stainless steel cookware generally are exactly that — general — and are not benchmarked against a specific competing pan on this page.
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