Nonstick Ceramic Medium Baking Sheet vs baking pan nonstick - oblong metal dish for cake and lasagna - heavy duty carbon steel bakeware, small, gold: which is safer?
Caraway Nonstick Ceramic Medium Baking Sheet is the clear pick. glad baking pan nonstick - oblong metal dish for cake and lasagna - heavy duty carbon steel bakeware, small, gold carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Our pick
Caraway
Nonstick Ceramic Medium Baking Sheet
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleCeramic coating degradation over time
Glad
baking pan nonstick - oblong metal dish for cake and lasagna - heavy duty carbon steel bakeware, small, gold
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleTeflon-type coating nonstick coating degradation and fume risk
ReportedCoating delamination over time
PossibleCarbon steel reactivity with acidic foods
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Ceramic coating degradation over time on the Caraway and not on the Glad.
- We flag PTFE nonstick coating degradation and fume risk, Coating delamination over time, Carbon steel reactivity with acidic foods and Thermal shock and coating cracking on the Glad and not on the Caraway.
- The Caraway is ceramic nonstick coating where the Glad is Carbon steel 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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