Color-Finished Stainless Steel 3-Ply Base Ceramic Nonstick Frying Pan vs Stainless Clad Fry Pan: which is safer?

Made In Stainless Clad Fry Pan is the clear pick. KitchenAid Color-Finished Stainless Steel 3-Ply Base Ceramic Nonstick Frying Pan carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.

KitchenAid Color-Finished Stainless Steel 3-Ply Base Ceramic Nonstick Frying Pan

Kitchenaid

Color-Finished Stainless Steel 3-Ply Base Ceramic Nonstick Frying Pan

PFAS grade

Bad 15/100

Overall grade

Bad 7/100

Verdict

Skip

Hazard flags

⚑ 2

Material

Ceramic nonstick coating, stainless steel base

Confidence

58%

PossibleCeramic coating degradation and delamination

PossibleThermal stability of coating at high heat

Our pick

Made In Stainless Clad Fry Pan

Made In

Stainless Clad Fry Pan

PFAS grade

Excellent 100/100

Overall grade

Excellent 96/100

Verdict

Buy

Hazard flags

⚑ 1

Material

Stainless steel clad construction, no nonstick coating

Confidence

90%

PossibleClad separation or delamination over time

Where these two actually differ

  • We flag Ceramic coating degradation and delamination and Thermal stability of coating at high heat on the Kitchenaid and not on the Made In.
  • We flag Clad separation or delamination over time on the Made In and not on the Kitchenaid.
  • The Kitchenaid is Ceramic nonstick coating, stainless steel base where the Made In is Stainless steel clad construction, no 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 Made In is the one to buy.
  • We are less certain about the Kitchenaid grade, at 58% confidence against 90%, 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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