Stainless Clad Fry Pan vs Essentials 8-Piece Pan Set: which is safer?
Made In Stainless Clad Fry Pan is our pick: better on PFAS and on the overall hazard picture.
Our pick
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
Our Place
Essentials 8-Piece Pan Set
PFAS grade
Good 70/100
Overall grade
Poor 34/100
Verdict
Skip
Hazard flags
⚑ 4
Material
nonstick coating, composition unspecified
Confidence
42%
PossibleTeflon-type coating fume risk (thermal decomposition)
ReportedCoating degradation and microparticle shedding
PossibleAluminum leaching from substrate
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Clad separation or delamination over time on the Made In and not on the Our Place.
- We flag PTFE fume risk (thermal decomposition), Coating degradation and microparticle shedding, Aluminum leaching from substrate and Lack of labeling on safe temperature limits on the Our Place and not on the Made In.
- The Made In is Stainless steel clad construction, no nonstick coating where the Our Place is nonstick coating, composition unspecified, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
- The gap is 30 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 Our Place grade, at 42% 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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