Nonstick Ceramic Medium Baking Sheet vs Dollar General Glad Square Cake Pan: which is safer?
Caraway Nonstick Ceramic Medium Baking Sheet is the clear pick. Dollar General Glad Square Cake Pan carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Our pick
Caraway
Nonstick Ceramic Medium Baking Sheet
PFAS grade
Excellent 100/100
Overall grade
Excellent 96/100
Verdict
Buy
Hazard flags
⚑ 1
Material
ceramic nonstick coating
Confidence
92%
PossibleCeramic coating degradation over time
Glad
Dollar General Glad Square Cake Pan
PFAS grade
Bad 15/100
Overall grade
Bad 7/100
Verdict
Skip
Hazard flags
⚑ 2
Material
steel cake pan with unspecified nonstick coating
Confidence
35%
PossibleTeflon-type coating fume risk (if Teflon-type coating-based coating)
PossibleCoating degradation and microflaking
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Ceramic coating degradation over time on the Caraway and not on the Glad.
- We flag PTFE fume risk (if PTFE-based coating) and Coating degradation and microflaking on the Glad and not on the Caraway.
- The Caraway is ceramic nonstick coating where the Glad is steel cake pan with unspecified nonstick coating, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
- The gap is 85 points, wide enough that this is not a close call, and the Caraway is the one to buy.
- We are less certain about the Glad grade, at 35% confidence against 92%, because it discloses less.
Both products run through the same public rubric: materials, coatings, brand disclosure, lab findings, and recalls, plus a beyond-PFAS hazard analysis. Grades are model-based estimates, not lab tests. How grades work →
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