Know the plastic behind the products you buy.

A PFAS-free mineral ceramic coating over aluminum with stainless steel handles, in a four-pan set. No plastic in the pans, but a coating is a layer that wears, which is why it scores a 2 and not a 1.

Bare cast iron machined smooth and seasoned with three coats of organic grapeseed oil, cast in the USA from recycled iron. Just iron and oil, nothing else.

Enameled cast iron with a porcelain enamel cooking surface and a stainless steel knob. No nonstick coating, no seasoning needed, and a lifetime warranty on a pot designed to outlive its owner.

Bare cast iron seasoned with 100% natural vegetable oil, made without PFAS since 1896 in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. The cheapest way into an inert pan.

Bare carbon steel pre-seasoned with shea nut and coconut oil, made in Sweden. Made without PFAS, PTFE, lead, cadmium, aluminum, and BPA, and it takes the high heat that stresses a coating.

Five bonded layers of metal with a 304-grade 18/10 stainless cooking surface and no coating anywhere. Food only ever touches inert stainless steel.

A bare, uncoated aluminum sheet pan with an encapsulated steel rim, made in the USA. No nonstick coating means no polymer layer to flake into food, ever.

A cast aluminum pan with a Thermakind ceramic nonstick coating that Our Place states is made without PFAS, PTFE, or PFOA. No plastic on the pan, but it is a coating over metal and the brand publishes no independent test results.

One piece of fired ceramic with no coating and no metal core. Nothing to scratch off and nothing to leach, which makes it the most inert pan we score.

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