Built from published specifications and prices verified against each store's own product data. No press samples, no brand approval, and a note on every page saying what we could not establish.
Cheapest pan we compared, and it still wins on oven rating, weight, dishwasher tolerance and warranty. Accept the softer PFAS wording and save $45.
Special price against a $114.99 list. Checked 25 August 2026.
The only pan here that arrives with a lid, a spatula and a steamer basket, alongside a flat exclusion list naming every chemical.
Price checked 25 August 2026.
We earn a commission if you buy through our links, at no extra cost to you. Across these ten comparisons we name a competitor as the better buy on six of them, including the two above where our top value pick is a brand we cover less closely than Our Place.
Every page here is a comparison of published specifications and value, not a hands-on test, and each one carries a panel stating what it could not establish. Prices were verified on 25 August 2026 against each store's own product data where such data exists, and are re-checked when a brand changes pricing.
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We read every product page, warranty page and FAQ for nine brands. Most of what we found was unremarkable. Three things were not.
In writing, on the product page: “This product contains PFAS for its non-stick properties.” Their Toughened Non-stick PRO is a better pan than most things here on construction and care — and they would rather say what is in it than let you assume. That is more honest than a lot of the ceramic marketing in this category.
No PFAS claim, no PTFE claim, no PFOA claim — not on the HA1 ceramic product page and not on the collection page. That is not evidence of a problem. It does mean the assurance you get from Our Place, Caraway and GreenPan simply is not offered, on a pan sold into the same aisle.
Our Place and Caraway both publish flat exclusion lists naming PFAS, PTFE, PFOA, lead and cadmium. GreenPan says “without intentionally added PFAS” — careful, standard, defensible language, and a materially weaker sentence. HexClad publishes narrower wording but backs it with third-party lab results. Four brands, four different levels of assurance, and none of it visible from a product photo.
These pages exist because the honest answer is sometimes a brand we do not cover. We named the winner on the specifications regardless of who we earn on.
Prices verified 25 August 2026 against each store's published product data where one exists. Le Creuset and All-Clad expose no structured endpoint, so those two are single-sourced from their product pages. Sizes differ between brands — HexClad's is a 12in and GreenPan's a 10in — so this table ranks by price, not by like-for-like value. Every figure is explained on the individual comparison page.